Queenstown NZ - Social Media Trends

Posted 27th June 2017 to the Advocate South Newspaper Winton / Te Anau

Hot Topic:
It is interesting to study populations by their online Community, Southland I think generally has a helpful healthy bunch of Facebook moderators who
can handle community discussions..

Queenstown is interesting though as they only had one community site and it was like the lord of the files in there, ask a simple question and you get some
Intelligent conversation but also slings and arrows by what appears to be spoilt kids armed with i-phones and curse words.
Post anything they find controversial in that town and they all go up like a tinder box.

Sad to think that nice people don’t actually like to visit Queenstown like they use too.  Perhaps they checked out the online community!
It WAS a well loved place full of history and charm, Today nobody can afford to live there except for outsiders with bags of cash and trust fund kids
With little or no feeling of community or history.

Perhaps some Southland Facebook moderator might want to go in and fix this but It would be a hard road indeed. 

Steve Almond on Politics on the Internet 2016

Posted 19th May 2016 to Radio New Zealand Afternoons Show & S F Chronicle Face Book Page

 (In Response to left Wing Manipulation of Face Book Comments / Steve Almond Interview)

Sometimes there are things we don’t ever want to know.. One is How many Vicious Angry Stupid American White men there are .
Donald Trump has now drove them out into the open for all to see..

On the other Side there are the Tech Savvy Young Liberals who are tired of the old guard of narcissists and hypocrites who think God is there
Social Media Provider.

These new young players are not taking this lunacy lying down.  They know this planet will be passed down to them and they don’t want it
to be trashed.

The Conservative forces still have the money and money buys Lawyers and those Lawyers can block material on youtube . I have noticed myself that liberal Comedy and Drama
have taken a hit to public access in that medium and Youtube supplies Video to Facebook..

The upshot is the USA is Clearly in need of Proportional Representation as having a two party system where one side is barking mad means no choice at all.
The Real Election Battle should be between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders who are more representative of the way the political divide use to be Last Century.
Hawkes vs Doves, not Hawkes vs Godzilla