Let's hear from the ground....

[Asterix]

Here's article from South China Morning Post
Think about the Old Fart's ten tarzen "likes"
Could they have come from Bangladesh?

Just ignore the number of likes on a Ministar’s or any Goberment linked personality’s facebook. Those likes are probably fake and paid for with your taxpayers’ money.

Here’s why:

How firms buy fake 'likes' for Facebook at 'click farms'
Low-paid workers at 'click farms' create an appearance of online popularity

How much do you like courgettes? According to one Facebook page devoted to the vegetable, hundreds of people find them delightful enough to click the "like" button - even with dozens of other pages about courgettes to choose from.

There's just one problem: the liking was fake, done by a team of low-paid workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, whose boss demanded just US$15 per thousand "likes" at his "click farm". Workers punching the keys might be on a three-shift system, and be paid as little as US$120 a year.

The ease with which a humble vegetable could win approval calls into question the basis on which many modern companies measure success online - through Facebook likes, YouTube video views and Twitter followers.

British Channel 4 television's Dispatches programme will today reveal the extent to which click farms risk eroding user confidence in what had looked like an objective measure of social online approval. The disclosures could hurt Facebook as it tries to persuade firms away from advertising on Google and to use its own targeted advertising, and to chase likes as a measure of approval.

That particular Facebook page on courgettes was set up by Dispatches to demonstrate how click farms can give web properties spurious popularity.

"There's a real desire amongst many companies to boost their profile on social media, and find other customers as well as a result," said Graham Cluley, an independent security consultant.

The importance of likes is considerable when it comes to consumers: 31 per cent will check ratings and reviews, including likes and Twitter followers, before they choose to buy something, research suggests. That means click farms could play a significant role in potentially misleading consumers.

Dispatches found one boss in Bangladesh who boasted of being "king of Facebook" for his ability to create accounts and then use them to create hundreds or thousands of fake likes.

Click farms have become a growing challenge for companies which rely on social media measurements - meant to indicate approval by real users - to estimate the popularity of their products.

For the workers, though, it is miserable work, sitting at screens in dingy rooms facing a blank wall - with windows covered by bars - and sometimes working through the night. For that, they could have to generate 1,000 likes or follow 1,000 people on Twitter to earn a single US dollar.

Sam DeSilva, a lawyer specialising in IT and outsourcing at law firm Manches in Oxford, says of the fake clicks: "Potentially, a number of laws are being breached - the consumer protection and unfair trading regulations. Effectively it's misleading the individual consumers."

Faked internet use has been a bugbear of the burgeoning advertising industry ever since the web went commercial in the mid-1990s and the first banner ad was rolled out in 1996.

And it is still a problem. In February, Microsoft and Symantec shut down a "botnet" of up to 1.8 million PCs that were being used to create an average of three million clicks per day.

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1294282/fake-likes-prove-challenge-online-marketers

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[jw5]

Here's article from South China Morning Post
Think about the Old Fart's ten tarzen "likes"
Could they have come from Bangladesh?

My preferred HK English newspaper is The Standard.

 

[Asterix]

My preferred HK English newspaper is The Standard.

Free newspaper like Standard is not for the discerning
Heavy reliance on advertising leads to drop in standards
Most importantly I keep an open mind on Bangla click farms
Ten thousand likes in such short period is cause for concern

 

[Kopisai]

Kopisai is me...I am not kopiuncle...

 

[zeddy]

Did LKY went for any surgery to pin his ears back?

If you observe the photos, his ears looked large and ugly from the time he was a toddler and right up till the year 1988..

 

[jw5]

Free newspaper like Standard is not for the discerning
Heavy reliance on advertising leads to drop in standards
Most importantly I keep an open mind on Bangla click farms
Ten thousand likes in such short period is cause for concern

Sometimes, the adverts are the best part and likes are meaningless.

 

[kopiuncle]

i think all of you are jealous and envious of The Likes
the popularity of our great leader is well established
many people adore him,embrace his philosophy,admire him
many New Citizens and Old Citizens worship him with great admiration
without our great leader, Singapore will still be a second rate or even third rate country
so The Likes are understandable
we should give our utter most respect to our great leader as he settles down in his diamond years
there is no need to cast aspersions,scorn and contempt
for his great achievements will outlive any of you here
majulah singapura!!!

 

[bakkuttay]

i think all of you are jealous and envious of the likes
the popularity of our great leader is well established
many people adore him,embrace his philosophy,admire him
many new citizens and old citizens worship him with great admiration
without our great leader, singapore will still be a second rate or even third rate country
so the likes are understandable
we should give our utter most respect to our great leader as he settles down in his diamond years
there is no need to cast aspersions,scorn and contempt
for his great achievements will outlive any of you here
majulah singapura!!!

huh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[PhuaCheeBye]

i think all of you are jealous and envious of The Likes
the popularity of our great leader is well established
many people adore him,embrace his philosophy,admire him
many New Citizens and Old Citizens worship him with great admiration
without our great leader, Singapore will still be a second rate or even third rate country
so The Likes are understandable
we should give our utter most respect to our great leader as he settles down in his diamond years
there is no need to cast aspersions,scorn and contempt
for his great achievements will outlive any of you here
majulah singapura!!!

Kopi is my IDOL!

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Come to think of it, Kopi has given me a new purpose in life, when PAP is overthrown, the new gahmen will start to imprison and execute all traitors, Kopi will be one of them, Hanged and body strung up on merdeka bridge as a warning to all traitors,,,

Traitors beware,,

Kopi is my IDOL!

 

[kopiuncle]

this is the most hypocritical comment i've ever read
great post! up you!!!!

 

[chonburifc]

Thanks kopisai. For posting pics of world greatest dictator cum liar. Good reference for future generations what a crook look like.

 

[kopiuncle]

the one with the loudest mouth
is the one who will run the fastest mile
when the curtains are down
he will scoot and get drown

 

[kopiuncle]

Come to think of it, Kopi has given me a new purpose in life, when PAP is overthrown, the new gahmen will start to imprison and execute all traitors, Kopi will be one of them, Hanged and body strung up on merdeka bridge as a warning to all traitors,,,

Traitors beware,,

you Kempeitai.....

 

[palden]

1988 his hair start to fall off liao
Too much stress

Too much money.