The China Post
Date: September 21, 2017
By: The China Post

It happens to all of us. Your friend sends a group text message to everyone but just seems to have forgotten you. But what if you are left out of a group message sent to the entire nation?

It happens to all of us. Your friend sends a group text message to everyone but just seems to have forgotten you.

But what if you are left out of a group message sent to the nation?

You feel like “national outsider”, according to one who complained of not getting such a group SMS on President Tsai Ing-wen’s Facebook. The comment was a response to the president’s question — “Have you received the disaster prevention SMS?” — that started her post about the Sept. 21 National Disaster Prevention Day set to coincide with the anniversary of the 1999 Earthquake.

Tsai said the disaster prevention drill SMS was sent to every user of a 4G cellphone in Taiwan by the Central Weather Bureau at 9:21 a.m. All cable TVs in Taiwan main island were switched to the Public Television Channel 13 at 9:59 a.m. when a 2-minute drill video was broadcast. Her post ended with the hashtags “921 National Prevention Day” and “the nation will not forget you” in Chinese.   [FULL  STORY]