Just discovered this through the news.
The Philippine National Police is suspending a female police officer. It was said that she was dirtying the image of the Philippine Police by posting pictures of her wearing only a bra in her Friendster profile and sending messages to a 9-year old.
Yes. Annoying much. Considering the fact that it was just a profile photo and a few messages. I mean, why don’t you guys spend your time hunting down kotong cops instead? But yeah, exchanging messages with a 9 year old? Priceless.
But what annoyed me more was the “concerned parent” of the kid. Apparently, upon discovering the exchange of messages between her kid and the cop, she sent an e-mail to the PNP officers (tama ba?), reporting the incident.
Somewhere in her e-mail she said something like children were more frequent users of Friendster, and must be protected from such malicious stuff. (correct me if I’m wrong. My memory might be failing me).
The protecting their children bit, fine with me. Who wants their sons and daughters to see bras or boobs in the internet? What ticked me off was the comment about children and Friendster.
I mean, is Friendster really for kids? The first time I registered in Friendster (it was around 2002), I had to lie about my birth date since people under 18 supposedly weren’t allowed to register in the site (these recent days, they lowered the limit to 16).
And what did they say her son’s age was? 9?
He shouldn’t be creating a Friendster account, in the first place!
Oh well. Better stop writing about this, concerned parents might begin storming my precious blog (”you are a disgrace to the Filipino people!” Lol).
Anyways.
There’s this another issue that majorly annoys me. According to a few Miriam College students, people from the Miriam faculty/administration have been Googling for hate blogs that concern Miriam, its administration, its faculty, its rules, its whatever.
First it was the extortion exaggerated collection of fees (P3500 computer fee, anoyone??), and now, this.
What’s been going on in that school?
I was chatting with a friend earlier when I brought this issue up to her. She said that Miriam was “filtering” their blogs. According to her, blogging about something you didn’t like about Miriam and it’s administration was considered an offense.
Hm. Very much like the anti-terror bill here in the Philippines. Saying/doing something against the government and its actions are grounds enough for you to be called a terrorist.
Blogging against Miriam = offense. WTF?!
Anyways. With all this filtering thing going on, I feel that the faculty and administration of Miriam see these blogs as threats, rather than rooms for improvement.
Rather than saying, “ahh okay. I won’t do that again next time,” it seems like what they’re saying is, “shut up. I’m the boss and I’m never wrong. YOU’RE the one who’s wrong.”
Argh. I hate close-minded people.
Sheesh.
If you ever, ever give offenses to my sisters just because a brother of theirs wrote this entry, you’ll just be proving that there is something wrong with you guys, and that you are indeed close-minded.
UPDATE: A friend just confirmed: It’s also happening in Saint Theresa’s College, my older sister’s alma mater.
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07 29th, 2007| 
