Radio One Lebanon

LiveIsLife

So every day on Facebook I see my friends liking pages off Radio One Lebanon. Any reason why its popular over here or am I missing something? Seems odd

Awkward Badger

Do you have a lot of friends from Lebanon ?

kneemos

Is it in English?

LiveIsLife

Awkward Badger wrote: »

Do you have a lot of friends from Lebanon ?

Not one, nor do I have any army friends that have been there. Its random unconnected people liking stuff off the page

kneemos wrote: »

Is it in English?

Yeah, has half a million likes

fleet_admiral

Is it as good as radio Luxembourg?

They just rob content from other places like Reddit and 4chan so when facebook changed the home page content from you just seeing your mates chatting to you seeing pages that are liked/popular their posts just snowballed in popularity. I've rarely seen any original content.

LiveIsLife

cisk wrote: »

They just rob content from other places like Reddit and 4chan so when facebook changed the home page content from you just seeing your mates chatting to you seeing pages that are liked/popular their posts just snowballed in popularity. I've rarely seen any original content.

Yeah but how has it gotten popular is what I want to know, it seems fairly random

LiveIsLife

So I'm still none the wiser, there's also Virgin Radio Lebanon that has people liking their posts everyday

wretcheddomain

Trying to find out the latest updates on Israel-Gaza.

marketty

They just repost lots of pics from reddit etc and seem to be particularly good at getting their name around on Facebook.
As a side note, its a gas station to listen too, celeb gossip and yank accents, you would swear they were in LA or Miami not bleedin Beirut. Very 'aspirational'

Guy:Incognito

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Trying to find out the latest updates on Israel-Gaza.

Well using the medium of cat memes and videos of people falling over seems to be the best way to keep up

LiveIsLife

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Trying to find out the latest updates on Israel-Gaza.

Nah they've been popular before the current conflict and the stuff they seem to post is a world away from Gaza

marketty wrote: »

They just repost lots of pics from reddit etc and seem to be particularly good at getting their name around on Facebook.
As a side note, its a gas station to listen too, celeb gossip and yank accents, you would swear they were in LA or Miami not bleedin Beirut. Very 'aspirational'

Very random that two radio stations from the Lebanon would get so popular

The Backwards Man

LiveIsLife wrote: »

Nah they've been popular before the current conflict and the stuff they seem to post is a world away from Gaza



Very random that two radio stations from the Lebanon would get so popular

You're average Facebook user probably doesn't realise that it isn't the actual London counterpart.

I live close to a town that has a namesake in the states, you wouldn't believe the amount of local people that have the one in Iowa as their location.:pac:

Hotfail.com

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You're average Facebook user probably doesn't realise that it isn't the actual London counterpart.

I live close to a town that has a namesake in the states, you wouldn't believe the amount of local people that have the one in Iowa as their location.:pac:

How do people make that mistake? :pac: A lot of people I live near went to school at CBS television according to their Facebook pages. :rolleyes:

For Forks Sake

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You're average Facebook user probably doesn't realise that it isn't the actual London counterpart.

I live close to a town that has a namesake in the states, you wouldn't believe the amount of local people that have the one in Iowa as their location.:pac:

There's a Coon Rapids in Donegal as well? :eek:

LiveIsLife

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You're average Facebook user probably doesn't realise that it isn't the actual London counterpart.

I live close to a town that has a namesake in the states, you wouldn't believe the amount of local people that have the one in Iowa as their location.:pac:

Did Facebook always have the location associated with the actual place? I know my facebook school is listed as in some random town in Ireland that I never heard of, same with about half my friends on it. But I'm nearly sure when I put in my school when I signed up for facebook that there wasn't an area associated with the school, and facebook has since associated it with that town.

Minjor

Anyone know how to block these from showing in your newsfeed? I've noticed them coming up at least 3-5 times a day recently. It's a weird coincidence that they're all from Lebanese radio stations.

Sunglasses Ron

Minjor wrote: »

Anyone know how to block these from showing in your newsfeed? I've noticed them coming up at least 3-5 times a day recently. It's a weird coincidence that they're all from Lebanese radio stations.

I've seen this as well, for whatever reason it is nothing more than friends of friends of friends all liking/ sharing the same thing. As to who is the root promoter of two Arab radio stations to half of Ireland is, and why, I have no idea.

A similar thing happens with the fan page for Cleveland Brown (he of that appalling Cleveland Show), nobody I know likes the page yet memes and various other stuff from it keeps getting liked by dozens of friends.

Hotfail.com

Minjor wrote: »

Anyone know how to block these from showing in your newsfeed? I've noticed them coming up at least 3-5 times a day recently. It's a weird coincidence that they're all from Lebanese radio stations.

Can you not just click the block button and it will stop them showing up?

Hotfail.com

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

I've seen this as well, for whatever reason it is nothing more than friends of friends of friends all liking/ sharing the same thing. As to who is the root promoter of two Arab radio stations to half of Ireland is, and why, I have no idea.

A similar thing happens with the fan page for Cleveland Brown (he of that appalling Cleveland Show), nobody I know likes the page yet memes and various other stuff from it keeps getting liked by dozens of friends.

AFAIK you can pay Facebook now to show more of your posts/show them more often.

LiveIsLife

Minjor wrote: »

Anyone know how to block these from showing in your newsfeed? I've noticed them coming up at least 3-5 times a day recently. It's a weird coincidence that they're all from Lebanese radio stations.

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

I've seen this as well, for whatever reason it is nothing more than friends of friends of friends all liking/ sharing the same thing. As to who is the root promoter of two Arab radio stations to half of Ireland is, and why, I have no idea.

A similar thing happens with the fan page for Cleveland Brown (he of that appalling Cleveland Show), nobody I know likes the page yet memes and various other stuff from it keeps getting liked by dozens of friends.

Facebook in general has just got cluttered with inane rubbish lately. It used to just show your friends posts and photos and what not, now its full of stuff by third party sites

ScumLord

Maybe they thought it said "radio one lesbians"?

My name is URL

There's 200 Irish soldiers currently in Lebanon. Perhaps those 'liking' the page are friends or family members of those soldiers and use it to keep abreast of what's going on over there?

Minjor

I blocked all the pages, seems to have stopped the pictures appearing.

LiveIsLife

Minjor wrote: »

I blocked all the pages, seems to have stopped the pictures appearing.

I've just deactivated facebook altogether

Minjor

LiveIsLife wrote: »

I've just deactivated facebook altogether

Good man.