The social media gurus have been up in front of the Oireachtas this week, but the limelight was certainly stolen by Fidelma Healy Eames.
In case you missed it this week, the big cheeses at all our favourite social media outlets were up in front of an Oireachtas committee this week to answer a load of questions about how the young people do be using them there inter-webs these days.
What resulted was a massive waste of everyone’s time, and probably money, as it seemed that all the politicians gathered in one room had managed to somehow avoid knowing anything at all about how social media actually works.
Fidelma Healy Eames had one of the best contributions to the whole charade, when she gave a very informative speech about ‘fraping’, which is of course, being raped on Facebook (not literally).
Now we’ve all been fraped at least once, mostly through carelessness or the fact that our friends aren’t as trustworthy as we thought they were when we leave them in charge of our laptop, but we think Fidelma might be going a bit far on the dramatic consequences of a frape here.
Eamon Coughlan also got involved, as he chimed in with his ideas to cut down on how much stuff people post online so that we could cut out offensive posts.
His best suggestions were to get people to hand over their credit card details and passports when they were signing up to an internet provider, or else, and this is our favourite bit, start paying to post things online.
While we’re sure that having people fork over their cash to send out a tweet would cut down on the amount of messages about who ate what for breakfast, it would also completely destroy all social media channels, so we hardly think that one is going to happen.
We really, really hope that absolutely no tax money went in to having this event, and we feel extremely sorry for the tech heads from Facebook and Twitter who must have realised about two minutes into proceedings that they might as well have been speaking Japanese to these lads.
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