I think people blaming GEJ for being on Facebook are missing the point. Most world leaders are now on Facebook or Twitter or both. In fact, CNN recently commended GEJ for having a large friend base on Facebook (more than 280K).

The question should be "Why is GEJ not on Nairaland?". He should practice what he preaches by joining a Nigerian forum instead of a foreign one like Facebook. The same goes for every Nigerian politician on Facebook. If GEJ joins NL, most of those 280K friends will follow him.

Hi_Tek:

@ Had_One,

If GEJ is on NL secretly, that does not count. I'm talking about him appearing as himself with his picture and other details on his profile. That's how he registered on Facebook.

LouisThoru:

You must be in dreamland comparing facebook to nairaland.

bk.babe97y = Beaf =chosen04  =seun osewa= Obinna alomah=Ileke-IdI

You are the same person. You must be the same person that bomb abuja , and also behind the kidnap. EFCC should arrest you and charge you, you are also the one calling jonathan, obasanjo and others name. You should be in jail by now.

nex:

Nairaland was created about half a decade ago, almost the same time as Facebook. Some years back, I wrote to the owner of Nairaland telling him how he can increase the mailing list of this site by a million annually, but he's done nothing.

Goodluck Jonathan has no business publicly displaying himself on Facebook when he's not on Nairaland. It's such a shame.

An independent country that depends on a foreign kid for its president to communicate with citizens?

The President shouldn't only be on Nairaland, he should ask the administrators to create a special page for him.

I'm really upset with the President's presence of Facebook and neglect for Nairaland, that I have to go on his Facebook fanpage everyday to condemn everything he does there. The man is not patriotic at all, and for the president not to be a patriot, that's very dangerous for any nation.

Beaf:

Nairaland does not have the sort of depth and quality that will convince any top politician or leader to join with their real name and photo. It isn't a fault of the members, but more a fault of some of the moderators who can be very partial, vindictive and so narrowminded that they cannot see the incalculable damage they do to the brand. Without this sad state of affairs, Nairaland would have been the biggest beast in social networking on the African landscape.

Nigeria Village Square is too intellectual for most of the younger NL members (and they don't have romance and sexuality sections ), otherwise it would have left NL in the dust long, long ago. However, the clout the Nigeria Village Square possesses is several leagues ahead of NL; they are very professionally run and can attract top shots for one on one interviews. No top shot would easily consider an NL interview where they might be subjected to tribalistic comments, the occasional idiotic one liner that is irrelevant to the topic and tonnes of foolish statements by a loud few who take pride in ignorance and equate verbal abuse with logic.

In this political season, NL's politics section should have been able to host a few interviews with political bigwigs, rather we have violently foolish topics like "Jonathan Snubs Ojukwu" culled from dubious sources.

This is Nigeria Village Squares Buhari interview;
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/nvs/politicians-would-be-the-first-victims-of-sharia-if-properly-implemented-buhari.html
And here's their Ribadu interview;
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/nvs/candidate-interviews-2-mallam-nuhu-ribadu-unfiltered-full-text-and-audio.html

Nigeria Village Square also attracts articles from the best writing and social analyctic talent, such as Reno Omokri, Joe Igbokwe, Reuben Abati etc.
Isn't there a clear difference?

Abagworo:

Nigeria Village Square does not represent the youths but people of over 35 years who are lower in population and therefore have less say when it comes to votes.Nairaland is the largest blog in Africa.

Beaf:

Its funny that people over 35 are the most likely to vote, while Worldwide figures show that young adults hardly ever vote; they make a lot of noise, but they will not vote.

Nigeria Village Square is more relevant to politics than NL's politics section will ever be without changes. I can bet you that, before this season is over GEJ would have done an interview there. It is also more likely that Jonathan would be a member of NVS, they've got gravitas and clout as far as online politics goes.

LouisThoru:

^^^^

Thats what i am saying. Nairaland's capability is so enormous that sensible people run away from it.

chyz:

Goodluck Jonathan was on NL a couple months ago. Seun banned him off of some stoopid shyt!

redsun:

Nairaland is too good for filthy and immoral politicians like jonathan.Thieves and traitors like him haue no honour and for one to think that his presence and contributions are relevant,that person must be mistaking evolution to retrogression. Sad.

redsun:

What could be worse than crimes against humanity that nigerian politicians like jonathan commit everyday.All thier actions are evil against d peeps-sheep

houvest:

You underestimate NL. Many big folks visit here. Some are registered and do contribute while others just read and go. [s]I really suspect that folks like GEJ, OBJ, IBB, OUK, Chukwumerije, Reuben Abati and many journalists, politicians,academics[/s] and there advisers and proxies do visit here to spy out opinions.