YOU'D THINK THAT most Thais would be social-media-literate by now, given their gratuitous indulgence in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. But if the rest of the country knows how to behave in virtual public, there are still embarrassing knuckleheads living among us.
Several of these "nakleng keyboard", as they're known in the hybrid vernacular, caused upset during a global educational session hosted on Tuesday afternoon by Nasa, the American space agency. People around the world were excited to be participating live in the YouTube webcast that featured images of Pluto just beaming in from the New Horizons probe whirling past the ex-planet, and it fell to a posse of idiot Thais to spoil the online scientific chat and a truly historical moment.
Plenty of Thais were taking the session seriously. On Twitter, #plutoflyby was the second-most used hashtag that day, with almost 360,000 tweets, while the Thai transliteration of #pluto surpassed 180,000 tweets. Unfortunately, a lot of their countrymen thought the discussion wasn't "fun" enough and started tossing in all sorts of nonsense, knowing their ill intent was safely hidden behind their faux user names and ISPs.
So Nasa administrator Charles Bolden, being "interviewed" by the fans live on the social networks, had to put up with inane questions from Thailand like "Is there any weed on Pluto?" and "When's the Liverpool match again?", as well as the ancient and deliberately disturbing curse "Your father's dead.
YOU'D THINK THAT most Thais would be social-media-literate by now, given their gratuitous indulgence in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. But if the rest of the country knows how to behave in virtual public, there are still embarrassing knuckleheads living among us.Several of these "nakleng keyboard", as they're known in the hybrid vernacular, caused upset during a global educational session hosted on Tuesday afternoon by Nasa, the American space agency. People around the world were excited to be participating live in the YouTube webcast that featured images of Pluto just beaming in from the New Horizons probe whirling past the ex-planet, and it fell to a posse of idiot Thais to spoil the online scientific chat and a truly historical moment.Plenty of Thais were taking the session seriously. On Twitter, #plutoflyby was the second-most used hashtag that day, with almost 360,000 tweets, while the Thai transliteration of #pluto surpassed 180,000 tweets. Unfortunately, a lot of their countrymen thought the discussion wasn't "fun" enough and started tossing in all sorts of nonsense, knowing their ill intent was safely hidden behind their faux user names and ISPs.So Nasa administrator Charles Bolden, being "interviewed" by the fans live on the social networks, had to put up with inane questions from Thailand like "Is there any weed on Pluto?" and "When's the Liverpool match again?", as well as the ancient and deliberately disturbing curse "Your father's dead.
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