One of the blog entries here in New Media Philippines is currently being swarmed by comments directed to President Noynoy Aquino. If you guys noticed, the blog entry entitled “President Noynoy Aquino’s New Website (www.president.gov.ph)” is one of the most active articles. If you read through the comments you’ll see that they’re all directed towards the President. Though this really wasn’t intentional it looks like Google has semi-transformed this blog into a satellite site of the President.
Filipinos have a habit of typing in the entire URL on the search bar of Google instead of typing the URL on the address section of the browser. This is evident in this case. The said blog entry ranks high on Google for several keywords pertaining to President Aquino’s website like “President Noynoy Website” and “www.president.gov.ph”.
The article currently has 97 comments and climbing. I already disapproved more than 20 comments and I’m thinking of just shutting down the comments section of that post. Some examples of the comments:
melissa maningo / August 19, 2010
helow po sir president sana nasa mbuti kayong klgayan gusto ko lang po sana ipaabot sa inyo na sana po magkaroon kayo ng scholarships lalong lalo na sa aming gusto tlaga mag aral para mkapag trbho ng maganda..lalo na po dito sa mindanao dito sa dvao at sna po sa inyong panunungklan eh magkroon ng maganda at maayos na trabho ang lhat at mataas na sahod
edz / August 19, 2010
PRESIDENT NOY , GUSTO KO LANG PO SANANG IREKLAMO ANG MGA TINDERA DITO SA IMUS CAVITE.SOBRA PO ANG MAHAL NG MGA BILIHIN DITO MAS MAHAL PA NGA PO SA PRESYO NG MGA PANINDA SA METRO MANILA.LALO NA PO ANG PRESYO NG ISDA ,KARNE AT GULAY.SANA PO AY BIGYAN NYO NG PANSIN ANG AKING KAHILINGAN …SALAMAT PO AT GUD LUCK
ms. capricorn of Lipa Batangas / August 19, 2010
dear president Noy,
Pnoy, pkisilip naman po d2 sa amin sa Lipa Batangas, Grabe pong pahirap ang ginagawa sa amin ng bagong upong mayor. Bukod sa walang alam ay kung ano ano pang experiment ang knyang gnagwa. Panay ang salita sa aming flag ceremony ng walang naman kasaysayan. Anong klaseng namumuno yan.
Anyway, click here to go to the website of the President.
ang masasabi ko lang… bakit lahat ng problema nla sa presidente agad ang tuloy? bakit di nila kausapin yung mga opisyales na nirereklamo nila?
Weird for your site to be swarmed with comments like that. Nagkamali ang mga tao to think that your site is the official site of the president.
That goes to show that many people still do not check the webpage before commenting. Medyo ignorant pa ang marami sa Internet.
You said it.
Totally agree.