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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

 

oh and the spelling police have arrived.........how petty

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It's not the spelling police, your spelling was correct.  I have a strong objection to Australia hurtling towards the adoption of USA language.  Don't you?

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ok sorry then.

yes i hate most things american

He's pulling a Vladamir Putin and the sheep are eating it up.

Look its Putin chopping wood with his shirt off......

Now Putin has rescued a bear......

Stunts made to make him likeable, now being used by the Liberal  party and spread by people like OP.

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@red_wolfey wrote:

He's pulling a Vladamir Putin and the sheep are eating it up.

 

Look its Putin chopping wood with his shirt off......

 

Now Putin has rescued a bear......

 

Stunts made to make him likeable, now being used by the Liberal  party and spread by people like OP.

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 Putin likes to wrestle bears......does he save them too?  That's so cool

Bush flies a fighter jet and won the Iraq war!

OK  

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@lakeland27 wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

social media is the newsroom nowadays. i'd like to know the difference.

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While, as far as I am concerned, there is an obvious distinction between social media and social networking, I can appreciate that it can be confusing to many people.  I believe the photos in question appeared on social networking sites.  Not social media.

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i'd like to understand the difference, because i don't find that explaination very clear

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Social Media is the platform and social networking is the act of using them to share information.

Twitter, facebook, pinterest, reddit, blogs are all described as social media sites. 

They're intrinsically linked, imo.

Social media as well as social networking only reflects the attitudes of those who use them and bears no resemblance to the rest of society.

Even though they are a part of society they are only a small percentage of the whole

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@poddster wrote:

Social media as well as social networking only reflects the attitudes of those who use them and bears no resemblance to the rest of society.

Even though they are a part of society they are only a small percentage of the whole

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They're a means of communication for whatever purpose people use them for at the time. 

They're used for a vast array of purposes by large sections of society, as an extension of tradional forms of communications. 

What are you talking about with your "bears no resemblance to society" comment? It makes no sense.

Perhaps you might like to consider quoting me correctly if you feel that you need to quote me at all

What I said was " bears no resemblance to the rest of society." 🙂

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@cherples wrote:

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@punch*drunk wrote:

I might be reading different news reports, but I'm pretty sure he didnt go around publicising this. There were photos taken by someone else and shared on social media.

 

 

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It's a shame he doesn't take his full time job more seriously and leave the fires to others while he is PM.

 

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Piers Akerman Thursday, August 19, 2010 (10:38pm)........

The brigade at Davidson showed their high opinion of Abbott’s service by electing him deputy fire captain, a position he regretfully resigned in April as the pressures of his responsibilities as Opposition Leader mounted.

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/light_on_the_...