Netizens #prayforVISAYAS, say down with 'Ahcee Flores'

 Ahcee Flores Comment on Yahoo

-By ABS-CBNnews.com

MANILA, Philippines -- Just like in last year’s Sendong disaster, a person wishing ill on others over a social networking site is trending locally on Twitter. However, higher up on the trend list is the hashtag #prayforVISAYAS, showing that for Filipinos, negativity is definitely not the “in” thing at this point.

A certain Ahcee Flores commented on a story on Yahoo! Philippines, “let us all pray….na matuloy ang tsunami para maraming bisaya ang mamatay, para mabawasan ang mga baduy sa pilipinas.”

The user, who specified her location as “Manila, National Capital Region,” also posted other negative comments about Visayas, further angering others.

A screen capture of the post has gone viral over social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Flores now has several hate pages on Facebook, and haters have flooded @ahcee_flores with mentions on Twitter, which she has stopped replying to since last night. @ahcee flores has not denied that she posted the viral comment, and her posts are still currently open to the public.

Ahcee Flores Comment on Yahoo

In late 2011, Pinoys were angered by Facebook posts against victims of typhoon “Sendong.”

The posts were supposedly written by a certain Celine Acut, a Filipino living in France, and a certain Van Carumba, a Cebu native living in the United Arab Emirates.

Turning to social media

Social media has played a large role in keeping Filipinos up to date on yesterday’s magnitude 6.9 earthquake, making it highly likely for anything related to the earthquake to trend on social networking sites.

Photos and videos of the quake as it happened, as well as of its aftermath, were posted on Facebook and Twitter and are still being posted today.

News updates were shared several times over on Twitter and Facebook, and government agencies and officials spread information via their social media accounts.

Netizens also warned others to be wary of what they believed about the earthquake, posting videos of people panicked by false reports of a tsunami coming to sweep them away.

As of posting time, three earthquake-related topics are trending on Twitter: #prayforVISAYAS, Ahcee Flores, and Negros Oriental.