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Anger greets Dutch queen's Christmas message
Radio Netherlands Worldwide ^ | 12/27/09

Posted on 12/27/2009 6:27:05 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Anger greets Dutch queen's Christmas message

Published on 27 December 2009 - 12:08pm

Many media experts and internet users have fiercely criticised Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands following her 2009 Christmas message.

The queen tackled subjects including virtual communication which she said actually divided people rather than bringing them closer together. Although no names were given, she was taken to be referring to social networks such as Hyves, Facebook, Twitter and to text messaging in general.

Internet expert Vincent Everts has told Radio Netherlands Worldwide that the queen doesn't know what she's talking about. He argues the opposite of what she said is true.

Media academic Professor Mark Deuze agrees, believing the queen is in denial about the way society has changed. He thinks people have been drawn closer together, but on a global level rather than just locally.

One of the founders of the Hyves social network, Raymond Spanjer, has offered to open an account for the queen so she can report her experiences of the results.

Many columnists and Twitter users have complained that they were treated with contempt in the Christmas message. An estimated nine million people in the Netherlands make use of the Hyves network and a further 500,000 use Twitter.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christmas; europeanchristians; facebook; internet; netherlands; queenbeatrix; royals
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1 posted on 12/27/2009 6:27:06 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Who cares?


2 posted on 12/27/2009 6:30:19 AM PST by Ditter
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To: TigerLikesRooster

God Save the Queen!

I agree with her 100%.


3 posted on 12/27/2009 6:31:02 AM PST by P.O.E. (- End road work.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

They actually took the time to be angry about somebody’s opinion of social networking?


4 posted on 12/27/2009 6:32:14 AM PST by Wage Slave (Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost)
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To: P.O.E.

LOL..

I agree with her too. But here I am posting about it on FR...


5 posted on 12/27/2009 6:33:42 AM PST by green pastures (Cynicism-- it's not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: P.O.E.

Me, too.


6 posted on 12/27/2009 6:35:49 AM PST by FourPeas (Why does Professor Presbury's wolfhound, Roy, endeavour to bite him?)
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To: green pastures

(BIG GRIN!) I was going to say exactly what you just said, in slightly different words.


7 posted on 12/27/2009 6:37:17 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: P.O.E.
I agree with her 100%.”

I don't.
Without the internet ad places like FreeRepublic, Tea Party blogs etc, conservatives and the Tea Parties would find it a heck of a lot more difficult to get together, organize and hit back at 0bozo and the Democrats, and organize effectively and swiftly.
If you live in liberal enclaves like San Francisco for example, and you were a conservative, you'd feel you were living on Mars, if not for conservative sites on the Internet where you can bond with similar minded, like thinking people. The Queens needs to get off her high horse, get out of her palace m,ore often, and get with the program.

8 posted on 12/27/2009 6:38:53 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I wonder what it’s like to have nothing better than that to be pi55ed off about?


9 posted on 12/27/2009 6:39:52 AM PST by RC one
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To: TigerLikesRooster

So, 4chan is a good thing? Well, nothing against Anonymous, personally, but I don’t think I’m going to be inviting them over to the house for jalapeno shooters and fig bars anytime soon. The would probably duct tape my dachshund to the ceiling fan and scratch my Wayne Newton CDs.


10 posted on 12/27/2009 6:43:07 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: SmokingJoe

Sharing news and activist activities is different than putting your life on a blog, and the internet being ones only social interaction. There are some who have carried it to an extreme.


11 posted on 12/27/2009 6:43:48 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

When St. Maartens got clobbered by a hurricane 10 years ago the Queen’s message to her island subjects was suck it up and stop whining.


12 posted on 12/27/2009 6:49:10 AM PST by AU72
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To: DJ MacWoW
There are some who have carried it to an extreme.”

True.
But then the Dutch Queens is a making a sweeping generalization.
Teenagers use the social networks more than anyone else, and they socialize in real life more than anyone else as well. The social networks merely add another element to their social lives, rather than replace their social lives.

13 posted on 12/27/2009 6:50:56 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Queenie, you are just wrong. Thank God for cell phones and text messaging, and social networks. It fosters closeness.


14 posted on 12/27/2009 6:54:15 AM PST by SnarlinCubBear (Sarcasma - Comforting relief from the use of irony, mocking and conveying contempt)
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To: green pastures

LOL! My daughter set up a facebook page for me about six months ago. I could care less and never go there. One interesting note, an old boyfriend looked me up and has been trying to establish contact. I just ignore him, he’s a cheater who has been married at least twice. I’ve been married to the same man for 28 years.


15 posted on 12/27/2009 6:55:21 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: SmokingJoe

It’s the younger generation that live on camera on the internet and plaster their personal lives all over. It takes the place of real interaction and replaces it with exhibitionism. It also reinforces a selfcentered outlook.


16 posted on 12/27/2009 7:03:40 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Anger greets Dutch queen’s Christmas message.”

Ah, what Christmas message??? ;-)


17 posted on 12/27/2009 7:05:44 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I don’t use Twitter. I use FRitter.

I use it to tell the world what I’m doing at random points in time.

Right now, I’m lying on a couch with my laptop on my belly. I’m typing. I have a slight headache. I hear the washing machine. It sounds like it’s pumping out the wash water; I expect that in 30 seconds or so, it’ll go into a spin cycle, after which it will start letting in pure water for the rinse cycle.

The lights are low. I hear people talking upstairs.

All in all, I feel pretty good.


18 posted on 12/27/2009 7:09:06 AM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Why didn’t she deliver the message personally to everyone she wanted to communicate it to? /sarc


19 posted on 12/27/2009 7:14:54 AM PST by ReagansShinyHair
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To: DJ MacWoW
It takes the place of real interaction and replaces it with exhibitionism”

Not true.
The younger generation have as much real social interaction as ever. They just blend it/enhance it with internet and other kinds of interaction. It's just the march of technology used to enhance life. It's been going on for eons. Back in the stone age, people could only "socialize" with the neighbors in the nearby caves, because they couldn't easily physically reach those that were only say 10/20 miles away. Transport and communication technologies changed all that. Nothing new here.

20 posted on 12/27/2009 7:16:06 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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