Your profile has broken rules of use

choongyong.koh July 8th, 2008

Was surfing the web this morning and came across this New Paper article Your profile has broken rules of use.  So it is confirmed that the change in Reach Singapore’s Facebook presence was prompted by my earlier post.

Just would like to say this is good because it closes a loop:

  • Government does something wrong (although not a big crime in this case, but still something that is not right)
  • Someone points out (acts as a check)
  • Government takes action based on evaluation of feedback
  • The right thing is done

This might be a small thing, but it truly reflects that kind of Singapore I would like to live in.  Some comments in my earlier blog postings accuse me of nit-picking on small things.  However, if we don’t even feedback and check on the small things, what happens when something really big goes wrong?  There is definitely a need for checks and balances in our system, from the smallest thing like a Facebook profile, to the “big things” like government policies.

There was others who says I am criticizing from a moral high ground instead of feeding back to Reach on this.  I say this is what the Internet is about: someone says something, if it is complete nonsense, it will be forgotten and left to rot on its on; if it makes sense, someone else will pick it up and more people will read about it.  In this case, I am grateful that someone thought my original posting was worthy enough and recommended it to Tomorrow.sg (although a few days after I first posted it), and the editors of Tomorrow.sg decided to publish it, and from there the attention grew.  Eventually enough people got to know about this, and eventually the right people made the corrections.

Isn’t this a wonderful closure of loop that many would like to see in so many of our other suggestions in day-to-day life?

Definitely, the Internet is not an arena where ‘more heat than light is generated’.