Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email As usual I was listening to the radio in the morning. Was alternating between THR and Minnal. Around 7.45am or so, I heard the female DJ in Minnal (Buvana?) mentioning that SK Devamany urges the community to take up courses related to agriculture. She gave the website as agrolink.moa.com . I had my doubts, so I check the URL and its non-existent. So, I put a message on their Facebook presence “Kaalai Kathir” at about 8.45am or so. Another guy named Sashi also posted after me, regarding wrong URL for something called e-press. Anyway, a short while later, I found that both Sashi’s and my comments have disappeared.
the comment which was deleted went something like this (I couldn’t screen capture it because I never expected this, so this is from memory):
I heard you mentioning that SK Devamany was asking the public to take up courses related to agriculture, and you gave the website address as agrolink.moa.com , but the Ministry of Agriculture’s website is www.moa.gov.my because all government websites end with .gov.my . I hope you will correct this because already few times the websites mentioned by Minnal have errors. In this case, the public may think Devamany is IT-illiterate or the deejays not well prepared.
So, i posted any comment, to ask why my earlier comment was deleted:
I waited till today (24 hours), but no reply from them. Instead, my comment above was also deleted!:
Now, I would have accepted if they replied saying that the comment was not related to the initial wall posting (or even any other reason), but not even that. (If you read their wall posting, it says “…any comm..pls drop by…”, what irony!)
I find it disturbing that these very young people can act in such manner, without respect to their viewers. When listener give comment or point out their mistakes, they delete the comments. I wonder what they will grow up into in another 5-6 years down the lane. Are these the people who are going to lead the organisation later?
Anyway, I’m going to send this posting to SK Devamany, PCB’s Murugiah, all the Minnal staff, their bosses at RTM and Information Ministry, and also the yahoo groups by end of the day if no response in Facebook from the persons involved. I would love to know if the Ministry has any policy on their agencies/departments running a Facebook site, and if the department itself has any guidelines on this matter.
Note: Being frequent Minnal FM listener, I can say that they do make mistakes when mentioning URLs of websites. Perhaps they should go for basic Internet courses – can liaise with those guys that give IT talks on Wed afternoons.
