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Only posting this beacause it's too humorous in a petty way not to.  Can we get a thread for the most funny/obnoxious news articles for humor? 

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/06/turkey-diplomat-twitter-like-035865

 

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Turkey summoned a top American diplomat Sunday after the U.S. Embassy’s official Twitter account “liked” a tweet that said the people of Turkey should prepare for a political era without the leader of Turkey’s national party, who is reportedly ill.

 

.gnihtyna yas t'nseod ti tuo dnif uoy ,syas yllautca siht tahw ezilaer uoy emit eht yB

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Yes, that is because Turkey is going through its hardest period in its relations with the US, which it suspects of orchestrating the 2016 failed coup. The Turkish leadership is very sensitive to any kind of seemingly unfriendly gesture on the US part. So I would not call the reaction to the tweet "petty". 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Bek said:

Yes, that is because Turkey is going through its hardest period in its relations with the US, which it suspects of orchestrating the 2016 failed coup. The Turkish leadership is very sensitive to any kind of seemingly unfriendly gesture on the US part. So I would not call the reaction to the tweet "petty". 

 

 

The communication problem is the Ambiguity of the “ Like “ button. It can mean too many things. 

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I personally use like so I can find things again later on FB and Twitter, like if I didn’t have time to read them at the time. I know others do that sometimes too. Like can also mean you react that you saw it.


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.gnihtyna yas t'nseod ti tuo dnif uoy ,syas yllautca siht tahw ezilaer uoy emit eht yB

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21 hours ago, BenJepthah said:

It can mean too many things. 

3 minutes ago, Shawnster said:

I like the story

I appreciate that you shared the story

Or as Regina said, a bookmark to find the story again

Thank you, Br. Shawn. That is not "too many" though. I thought may be Br. David would come up with something else. :) 

 

Interestingly, researchers, especially marketers and psychologists, study "likes" on social media to determine what a particular person or age group etc is like. This kind of data helps them to predict behaviour for marketing purposes. 

 

 

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Sometimes a “ Like” is just to let the person know your paying attention to what they post and nothing more. It can be very neutral. Or it can be supportive or even against the poster position depending upon context. That’s the problem with the “ Like” emblem. Their needs to be an “ acknowledge “ emblem. Maybe Leonard  Nemoys face.

   In any event with Turkey invading Syria and potentially causing 10’s of thousands of ISIS fighters to be looked upon the world I should’ve be surprised they took that “ Like” in the way they did. 


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