Have you ever clicked on your friend's social media page with a link to a cool story?
I betcha you have! Well sometimes that link could be a trigger for malware and it's been a frequent thing that happens to come across the world's largest social media network.
And the social media giant is taking a stand. It's about to put the brakes on it.
Facebook is taking down the "OMG" clicks. In laymen's terms, the end is coming for clickbait stories.
It says it has built a technology that scans for tell-tale signs of clickbait headlines on its news feed section - phrases such as "you'll never guess why" and "his response was priceless".
Facebook faces a slew of conservative outrage over its viral content.
Conservatives are totally pissed that the world's largest social media website decided to play politics in the trending section. Many stories that favor conservatives aren't trending and an ex-Facebook worker is "exposing" the shadiness of the social media.
Of course, these are the very same conservatives who want to the private sector to thrive. Well the last time I've checked, Facebook is a private company.
Gizmodo, the technology news agitator broke the news and conservatives are none too happy that Mark Zuckerberg isn't being "friends" with them.
According to the ex-worker, Facebook would routinely suppress news stories of interest of conservative readers from the social network's "trending" news section.
Stories about the CPAC gathering, perennial loser Mitt Romney, Rand Paul and other conservative topics weren't trending. It had to passed around by the site's users.
Conservatives are now crying that Facebook has liberal bias.
Facebook denies any political bias.
Topics that conservative constantly bring up are: Benghazi, Clinton in jail, Lois Lerner (former IRS official), Obamacare, radical Islam, Obama's not American, Obama's a Muslim, Ted Cruz, and Chris Kyle. They were shoved aside.
Given how social media has helped Barack Obama become the president, conservatives have long whined that the media is against them. It helps them win votes.
Regardless, Facebook can do whatever it wants. It's not in the business of pandering to hateful rhetoric from the likes of Breitbart News or The Drudge Report. It doesn't need to read racial slurs or groups devoted to hating on someone's race, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, political, economic and social standings. It's not in the business of allowing trolls dictate content.
Conservatives are blowing steam. Because if they really wanted to end their Facebook accounts, they wouldn't even touch Freedombook, formerly known as Reaganbook: The Facebook for Patriots.
Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones are the Ghostbusters.
Who ya gonna call?
Iconic words of a great movie from the 1980s.
The characters Peter Venkman, Egon Spangler, Ray Stantz and Winston Zeddmore fight the supernatural in the movie Ghostbusters.
Columbia Pictures rebooted the franchise and it features Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig.
Erin Gilbert (Wiig) and Abby Yates (McCarthy) are a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. A few years later, Gilbert lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia University, but her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia. When ghosts invade Manhattan, Gilbert reunites with Yates, teaming up with a nuclear engineer, Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon), and a subway worker, Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones), to save the world from a mysterious evil and powerful demon known as Rowan (Neil Casey) who can exercise control over human forms.
The trailer is out and the fans are anticipating it being a successful movie. But then there's the critics.
The critics are so brutal towards the movie. I've read some of the most offensive comments aimed at McCarthy and Wiig for ruining the franchise.
So far over 6 million people viewed the trailer and they voted it down. Over 100,000 people voted down on the trailer. It seems like the "originalists" are most brutal critics.
Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray and Dan Akaroyd are the Ghostbusters.
These people live in their basement with all their collectibles and VHS tapes. They're probably still complaining about how ABC ruined the animated series with too much exposure to Slimer and Dave Coulier playing a role that made a successful voice actor.
The Ghostbusters was an extremely popular comedy/horror film that featured three paranormal scientists investigating unusual activity in New York.
The idea was created by the late Harold Ramis and Dan Akroyd. They teamed up with Ivan Reitman to create this movie success. It featured Ramis as Egon Spangler, Akroyd as Ray Stantz and Bill Murray as Peter Venkman. Other characters included Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddmore, Annie Potts as Jeanie Melnitz, Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett and Rick Moranis as Louis Tully.
The Ghostbusters were fired out the cannon at a New York college. They decided that their investigative work would be better done independently. They decided to open up a ghost busting business. The movie was huge success it launched The Real Ghostbusters animated series, Ghostbusters II, Slimer! and the Extreme Ghostbusters.
Dan Akroyd gave his blessing to the movie and said that he, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson and semi-retired Rick Moranis might make a cameo appearance.
Facebook CEO doesn't like trolling. He laid the hammer on trolls working at his company.
The CEO of the largest social media network lays the hammer on employees. He warned the workers that if you have bias towards civil rights, you have no place with Facebook.
In Menlo Park, California, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg told his employees on Wednesday to stop crossing out #BlackLivesMatter with #alllivesmatter.
An internal memo was sent across the company from Zuckerberg acknowledging that employees have in fact crossed out the slogan and replaced it with another.
The memo was posted on a private company announcement page on Facebook and obtained by technology blog Gizmodo.
In the memo, Zuckerberg made it clear that he found the practice unacceptable in another meeting and that he is disappointed that this has continued to happen since then.
There have been several recent instances of people crossing out 'black lives matter' and writing 'all lives matter on the walls at MPK.
"Despite my clear communication at Q&A last week that this was unacceptable, and messages from several other leaders from across the company, this has happened again.I was already very disappointed by this disrespectful behavior before, but after my communication I now consider this malicious as well.
"There are specific issues affecting the black community in the United States, coming from a history of oppression and racism. 'Black lives matter' doesn't mean that other lives don't -- it's simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve.
Mark Zuckerberg warns workers not to stifle people posting on the company's wall.
"We've never had rules around what people can write on our walls -- we expect everybody to treat each other with respect. Regardless of the content or location, crossing out something means silencing speech, or that one person's speech is more important than another's. Facebook should be a service and a community where everyone is treated with respect.
"This has been a deeply hurtful and tiresome experience for the black community and really the the entire Facebook community, and we are now investigating the current incidents.
"I hope and encourage people to participate in the 'Black@' town hall on 3/4 to educate themselves about what the Black Lives Matter movement is about."
Two percent of Facebook's employees are black, according to the latest data released by the company. Fifty five percent are white, 36 percent are Asian and 4 percent are Hispanic.
Time reported that the company began an anti-bias course for employees last August to promote diversity.
Cop in the freezer after he made snide comments about a Black man committing suicide.
This shit happens in my own backyard. The law isn't immune from social media. The death of a BlackLivesMatter activist has Fairborn, Ohio officer in the freezer after someone outed him when he made a snide comment about the man's death.
MarShawn McCarrel committed suicide on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse on Monday. His death opened up a flood of sympathy and BlackLivesMatter objective to address suicide among youth.
This cop named Lee Cyr did some real trolling on the sympathy page. He posted on the social page that MarShawn's death was a celebration. He actually said in this tragedy he'd "Love a happy ending".
Cyr claimed that he was off duty when the comment was posted.
The BlackLivesMatter Movement mourn a member who fought to the bitter end.
Cyr, who served on a school board in a nearby suburb left it to move to Fairborn. There's an investigation of his conduct. If he's found responsible for the post, he will also certainly get freezer burn for the incident. He clearly violated the social media conduct rules.
But what could happen?
He might end up getting fired out the cannon for this incident.
Cyr shut down his social media pages. He also might get a handful of death threats from the crazy ones. But so far, he's in hiding pending a national backlash against him.
Trolling on the internet proved to be a mistake for Ohio cop.
The Fairborn Police released a statement.
"An internal affairs complaint was initiated and the department will be investigating further into the origin of the media post. The Fairborn Police Department takes these type of issues very seriously and will ensure that the professional standards of the department are upheld."
Cyr's actions assures that while on duty, he may have pulled over a Black or Hispanic motorist in Fairborn. He may have claimed that they failed to signal at 100 feet. He'll ask why you were in a neighborhood he claims that has drug activity. He may ask to search your car. He'll get a county sheriff or a supervisor with a dog to search your vehicle without your consent. He'll ticket you for a violation and send you to the Fairborn Municipal Court. Then you'll plead not guilty and have a trial. When the trial comes up, you're there but the cop isn't. He came down with a cold.
This shit happens.
Cyr's social media posting gave Black America an understanding of Dayton and its law enforcement of its many surrounding communities. Cyr's actions give me reason to justify that many in law enforcement engage in profiling. This doesn't just affect Fairborn, but Dayton, Beavercreek, Kettering, Oakwood, Riverside, Englewood, Huber Heights, Vandalia, Trotwood, Moraine, the Greene County sheriff, the Montgomery County sheriff and the Ohio State Patrol.
It's ironic. What Cyr said on social media kind of feels like a moment of zen.
"One down, many more to go."
"Good one down".
If you want to find other incidents of ignorant behavior, visit RacistsGetFired on Tumblr. It covers incidents such as this one.
Priscilla changed him. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook announced he will donate his most of his fortune to charity. He and his wife are proud parents.
The CEO of social media titan Facebook announced that he and his wife are proud parents of a baby daughter. He also announced that he's giving away 99% of his fortune to charity.
Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan announced the birth of their first child, they also announced they'd be giving away 99% of their Facebook stock—worth nearly $45 billion, CNN reports. Zuckerberg and Chan posted an extremely lengthy open letter to their daughter Max on Facebook Tuesday.
Read it below....
Dear Max,
Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You've already given us a reason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.
Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ours today.
While headlines often focus on what's wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving. Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramatically better than ours today.
President Barack Obama holds a townhall with Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
We will do our part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation.
We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the many more people who will live in future generations than live today. Our society has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.
But right now, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.
Consider disease. Today we spend about 50 times more as a society treating people who are sick than we invest in research so you won't get sick in the first place.
Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others. As technology accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curing or managing all or most of the rest in the next 100 years.
Today, most people die from five things -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases -- and we can make faster progress on these and other problems.
Once we recognize that your generation and your children's generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part.
Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we're making much of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children will see what we can only imagine: a world without suffering from disease.
There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world.
• • •
Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.
Advancing human potential is about pushing the boundaries on how great a human life can be.
Can you learn and experience 100 times more than we do today?
Can our generation cure disease so you live much longer and healthier lives?
Can we connect the world so you have access to every idea, person and opportunity?
Can we harness more clean energy so you can invent things we can't conceive of today while protecting the environment?
Can we cultivate entrepreneurship so you can build any business and solve any challenge to grow peace and prosperity?
Oprah Winfrey with New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mark Zuckerberg.
Promoting equality is about making sure everyone has access to these opportunities -- regardless of the nation, families or circumstances they are born into.
Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.
Today we are robbed of the potential so many have to offer. The only way to achieve our full potential is to channel the talents, ideas and contributions of every person in the world.
Can our generation eliminate poverty and hunger?
Can we provide everyone with basic healthcare?
Can we build inclusive and welcoming communities?
Can we nurture peaceful and understanding relationships between people of all nations?
Can we truly empower everyone -- women, children, underrepresented minorities, immigrants and the unconnected?
If our generation makes the right investments, the answer to each of these questions can be yes -- and hopefully within your lifetime.
• • •
This mission -- advancing human potential and promoting equality -- will require a new approach for all working towards these goals.
We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking.
We must engage directly with the people we serve. We can't empower people if we don't understand the needs and desires of their communities.
We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challenges, but most progress comes from productivity gains through innovation.
We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates. Many institutions are unwilling to do this, but progress must be supported by movements to be sustainable.
We must back the strongest and most independent leaders in each field. Partnering with experts is more effective for the mission than trying to lead efforts ourselves.
We must take risks today to learn lessons for tomorrow. We're early in our learning and many things we try won't work, but we'll listen and learn and keep improving.
• • •
Our experience with personalized learning, internet access, and community education and health has shaped our philosophy.
Our generation grew up in classrooms where we all learned the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs.
Your generation will set goals for what you want to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. You'll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. You'll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. You'll explore topics that aren't even offered in schools today.
Your teachers will also have better tools and data to help you achieve your goals.
Even better, students around the world will be able to use personalized learning tools over the internet, even if they don't live near good schools. Of course it will take more than technology to give everyone a fair start in life, but personalized learning can be one scalable way to give all children a better education and more equal opportunity.
We're starting to build this technology now, and the results are already promising. Not only do students perform better on tests, but they gain the skills and confidence to learn anything they want. And this journey is just beginning. The technology and teaching will rapidly improve every year you're in school.
The Zuckerbergs with their daughter Max.
Your mother and I have both taught students and we've seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working with the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why we're starting in our San Francisco Bay Area community. It will take building new technology and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes and learning many lessons before achieving these goals.
But once we understand the world we can create for your generation, we have a responsibility as a society to focus our investments on the future to make this reality.
Together, we can do this. And when we do, personalized learning will not only help students in good schools, it will help provide more equal opportunity to anyone with an internet connection.
• • •
Many of the greatest opportunities for your generation will come from giving everyone access to the internet.
People often think of the internet as just for entertainment or communication. But for the majority of people in the world, the internet can be a lifeline.
It provides education if you don't live near a good school. It provides health information on how to avoid diseases or raise healthy children if you don't live near a doctor. It provides financial services if you don't live near a bank. It provides access to jobs and opportunities if you don't live in a good economy.
The internet is so important that for every 10 people who gain internet access, about one person is lifted out of poverty and about one new job is created.
Yet still more than half of the world's population -- more than 4 billion people -- don't have access to the internet.
If our generation connects them, we can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. We can also help hundreds of millions of children get an education and save millions of lives by helping people avoid disease.
This is another long term effort that can be advanced by technology and partnership. It will take inventing new technology to make the internet more affordable and bring access to unconnected areas. It will take partnering with governments, non-profits and companies. It will take engaging with communities to understand what they need. Good people will have different views on the best path forward, and we will try many efforts before we succeed.
But together we can succeed and create a more equal world.
• • •
Technology can't solve problems by itself. Building a better world starts with building strong and healthy communities.
Children have the best opportunities when they can learn. And they learn best when they're healthy.
Health starts early -- with loving family, good nutrition and a safe, stable environment.
Children who face traumatic experiences early in life often develop less healthy minds and bodies. Studies show physical changes in brain development leading to lower cognitive ability.
Your mother is a doctor and educator, and she has seen this firsthand.
If you have an unhealthy childhood, it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you have to wonder whether you'll have food or rent, or worry about abuse or crime, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you fear you'll go to prison rather than college because of the color of your skin, or that your family will be deported because of your legal status, or that you may be a victim of violence because of your religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
We need institutions that understand these issues are all connected. That's the philosophy of the new type of school your mother is building.
By partnering with schools, health centers, parent groups and local governments, and by ensuring all children are well fed and cared for starting young, we can start to treat these inequities as connected.
Only then can we collectively start to give everyone an equal opportunity.
It will take many years to fully develop this model. But it's another example of how advancing human potential and promoting equality are tightly linked. If we want either, we must first build inclusive and healthy communities.
• • •
For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much more our generation can do.
Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.
As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all
children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.
We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.
We'll share more details in the coming months once we settle into our new family rhythm and return from our maternity and paternity leaves. We understand you'll have many questions about why and how we're doing this.
As we become parents and enter this next chapter of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible.
We can do this work only because we have a strong global community behind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for the next generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part in this work.
We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts -- our mentors, partners and many incredible people whose contributions built these fields.
And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.
Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can't wait to see what you bring to this world.
Love,
Mom and Dad
Zuckerberg believes that his fortune could help people in need. And I applaud him and his wife for being generous. They feel that they can make a difference to those who are in need.
Of course, many conservatives and selfish rich folks bitch about how liberals want to take money to redistribute wealth.
They want liberal rich folks to shut the fuck up. The conservatives were bitching about Warren Buffet and Bill Gates giving away their fortunes to charity. They believe that liberals are destroying America by asking for the rich to pay a little more in taxes.
Conservatives don't see that the middle class is being wiped away. They too focus on trying to the rich even more richer and the poor even more dependent on the safety net. They will not give a leg up to those who struggled for a piece of the American pie.
Woman got death threats for putting tape over her dog's mouth.
You gotta wonder how far is too far when it comes to posting shit on the internet!
When people want to make others laugh, they post funny pictures or jokes. But sometimes, they cross the line between funny and absolutely stupid.
A Florida woman got shook after she posted on social media her dog's mouth being taped shut with duct tape.
Katie Brown is hiding somewhere in the country waiting for the heat to die down. She got a ton of death threats for her Facebook posting.
Not funny. Just plain stupid.
It was shared more than 300,000 times within 36 hours and police were overwhelmed with outraged phone calls from dog lovers around the world demanding they take action, reports the Orlando Sentinel. On Facebook, Brown says she's a South Daytona resident, but police there say she was out of state, possibly in Avon, Conn., when the dog was abused, NBC News reports. The department promised on its Facebook page that it was in contact with her family members and other state agencies as part of its investigation and pleaded with the public to stop "flooding our emergency phone numbers."
Cops in Avon say they were also overwhelmed with calls, while a spokesman for the sheriff's office in Volusia County, which includes South Daytona, tells the Daytona Beach News-Journal that while it is "great that everybody's concerned for the animals and for dogs," the deluge of calls and emails has "literally shut our police department down." Police in South Daytona say they've been told the dog is OK and add they're still trying to locate Brown, whose duct-tape photo had the caption, "This is what happens when you dont [sic] shut up!!!" The original post has now been deleted, but a follow-up one tells people not to "panic" because "it was only for a minute," NBC reports.
The world's largest social media website faces criticism for selective sympathy.
The social media juggernaut is facing harsh criticism for being selective in how they cover tragedies.
The attacks in Paris attracted global attention. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Friday night attacks leaving over 130 dead. Now the law is searching for the ringleaders involved. They zeroed in on Belgium and are targeting sites in Syria which were strongholds for the extremist group.
Facebook showed solidarity to the victims by activating the "I'm Safe" function. The function activates whenever an emergency happens in the world.
What got people pissed at the social media giant, the tragedy in Beirut, Lebanon. There are people active on Facebook in Lebanon.
Earlier this month the Islamic State struck a marketplace in Beirut killing 43 people Thursday. Of course, we ignored that tragedy. The junk food media focused on Paris.
Mark Zuckerberg responds to the controversy. He at first was shocked that people were upset over the function. But he soon realized that Facebook screwed up.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has to backtrack on the "I'm Safe" function.
"Many people have rightfully asked why we turned on Safety Check for Paris but not for bombings in Beirut and other places," he wrote on his Facebook page.
"Until yesterday, our policy was only to activate Safety Check for natural disasters. We just changed this and now plan to activate Safety Check for more human disasters going forward as well."
"Thank you to everyone who has reached out with questions and concerns about this. You are right that there are many other important conflicts in the world. We care about all people equally, and we will work hard to help people suffering in as many of these situations as we can."
"We care about all people equally, and we will work hard to help people suffering in as many of these situations as we can," said Zuckerberg.
Paris is a global city and considered an Alpha+ city.
The cities that the junk food media often see as potential targets of terrorism are New York, London, Paris, Washington, DC, Tokyo, Sydney, Berlin, Beijing, Moscow, Madrid, Mumbai, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Beirut has experienced numerous massacres in the past two years. No mentions by the junk food media here in the United States.
We send our condolences to the victims of Paris, Beirut and Russian Jet tragedies.
We will cover the Paris tragedies as best as we can.
It's about time for me to put an end to my social media fixation. I am taking a long break from Facebook.
It's time to end my reign on the world's most popular social media website.
I am not canceling my account for now. But I will eventually. I am getting tired of viewing everyone and anyone. I admit that I am jealous. I am jealous of everyone and everything.
I wanted to be with the "IT" crowd. I wanted to be "friends" with anyone and anybody!
My family, friends, ex-girlfriends, co-workers, and even my boss were friends on Facebook. I kept in touch with them through birthdays, anniversaries, new children, deaths and celebrations. I've posted on their walls about my life and how I'm doing! The more friends I've gotten, the better I felt. It's was one of the greatest feelings to be wanted.
Then I realized that I wasn't moving as fast as my friends and family. They're celebrating weddings, births, and new achievements. I haven't experienced any in the past four years. So I seen myself at a peak of jealous and depression.
Longing for the days of success, I seen myself as a failure!
Facebook can cause couples to break up.
The whole situation with that woman Jessica has finally woke me up to the ugly reality of life.
I am angry with myself over this. I put so much into a huge waste of time. I felt that looking at others being happy kind of makes me sad. So I don't want to be sad. I will admit this. This social media can make me jealous.
So therefore, I am on a hiatus.
I want to thank my friends, family, co-workers and formers. I wish them well.
I am taking a long (and I mean long) break from Facebook.
I am too damn nice and willing to accept or take anything. I am not mad at her for lying and deceiving me during our time, I am too embarrassed to the tell someone how I feel about it.
I don't want to share my business with everyone on social media anymore.
Maybe here on this blog. But I have to generate enough people to view it.
Anyway, I have posted some time ago about the Facebook decline. The social media titian has over 1.4 billion subscribers.
The social network was founded by four Harvard students who wanted to keep in touch with classmates at the prestigious university. Who would of thought that this little experiment would become the world's most popular way to connect to people.
Now it's over 10 years and the social media website is still reigning on top. But it's on the downslide. Predicted in less than 5 years, the social media website will lose over 80% of active users.
Are you addicted to Facebook?
Do you get jealous of people when they share their relationships, new achievements and successes?
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I've taken a break from Facebook. I am not ashamed or worried about people "dropping me".
The past month has been miserable. I've been coping with a lot of things. Some are self-inflicted and others are just consequences of my naive trust for users and abusers.
I am tired of looking at Facebook. All that crap from my "friends" and family, has gotten out of hand. I am tired of looking at their walls or updates.
I've told the good readers of Journal de la Reyna in 2013, that Facebook is destined for a downfall.
It's a matter of time before you will log out and find the next social media sensation.
I mean c'mon. Seriously, how many friends do you really know online?
I know "thousands" of people. But I am close to only one person. ME!
I am reclusive and often times a social outcast. I don't hide my feelings towards certain people and feel that being the dreaded "nice guy" spurns me with nothing but failure and resent towards others.
I've been hurt too many times by people and some of the women I've dated. I've kicked my best friends to the curb. They were useless.
I will continue to associate with people but at a close distance.
Yeah, the social media is getting boring. I spend way too much time online. I got to find ways to break myself of the social media obsession. The social media includes the video streaming, the online dating and blogs.
I am a part of the social media. Me and S. Baldwin have done it for years. I don't think I'll stop blogging online. But maybe I will keep my social media intake to a low.
Stay focus to Journal de la Reyna and help push us into the mainstream.
So I'll post occasionally on Facebook. I will "like" some of my friends postings.
I will tweet some things online. I mean Twitter isn't one of the most frequent places I go to.
I will share a photo or two on Instagram. But I am going to stop following Snoop Dogg. He's posting so much stuff, it's kind of annoying at times. And I am a big fan of the hip-hop icon....
I will cautiously respond to some request on POF, OKCupid, Badoo, and Tinder. Not every woman is truthful on their profiles. About a majority of these profiles are fake. The online dating websites are trying their best to make money off the lonely and desperate. They'll bait you and rope you into a monthly subscription and you'll still be single looking for love.
"I am not a second choice..." to quote my lovely friend name Jordan.
Now back to the subject matter here. Facebook becomes the center of controversy. A group of teens were threatening each other online and wanted to make this brawl into a viral sensation. It didn't go out like they've planned.
Kierra'onna Rice. The price of fame kills this teen.
The victims brought their fists. The suspect brought a gun. And some paid the price for fame.
In Birmingham, Kierra'onna Rice paid the price. The Alabama teen was accompanied with a bunch of ignorant teens. They were witnessing the fight in a park. They wanted to film it but it quickly turned awry when
This feud started with a fight three weeks ago that ended with Rice and several other girls agreeing to meet in a local park for a physical fight. They tipped off others through Facebook to meet up and wanted to settle business.
"Fights on the street are not fair and are extremely unpredictable," he said. "You're agreeing to accepting the harm that may take place to you and others."
Two male suspects began shooting soon after the girls arrived at the park.
"They took it upon themselves to fire recklessly into a crowd," he said.
According to Edwards, there is nothing so far to indicate that the shooting was planned.
Two suspects ages 17 and 19 have been arrested and were identified by witnesses as the shooters. Police will release their names once formal charges have been filed.
Rice is the second 14-year-old homicide victim in Birmingham in the last few weeks.
Edwards said that police are seeing a connection between teenagers and guns, causing "big concerns" among officers.
"We're starting to see a lot of teens armed and extremely dangerous," he said. "We are starting to see them become more violent. They're using guns to solve their issues.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Kierra'onna Rice.
While the president pardons turkeys Mac and Cheese, a Republican staffer bitches about the attire Malia and Sasha wore.
When Republicans and conservatives gloat!
A Republican staffer fired herself out the cannon after she was trading some not so nice comments about President Barack Obama's daughters. Last week, the staffer was bitching about the president pardoning two turkeys. The pardoning of turkeys is a common tradition for presidents when they want to honor Americans during the Thanksgiving weekend.
Elizabeth Lauten was the director of communications for Congressman Stephen Fincher (R-TN).
This white turkey went to the social networks to vent off about the attire that Malia and Sasha wore while they were in the presence of the media. This turkey had the nerve to say that these "girls need to show class". Of course digging at the president and First Lady Michelle Obama while on the rant.
White turkey heated up on the social media.
The president's daughters are growing up. They're becoming beautiful teenagers. Unfortunately, Republicans don't see that. They see them as free loading NIGGERS. They hate the president and First Lady Michelle Obama so much, even a secrete tradition to avoid criticizing first children under 18 years old falls flat among the Republicans and even the Democrats.
She saw the junk food media react to this. So she would make a media sanctioned apology.
"I reacted to an article and quickly judged the two young ladies in a way that I would never have wanted to be judged myself as a teenager," Lauten wrote. "After many hours of prayer, talking to my parents and re-reading my words online, I can see more clearly how hurtful my words were. Please know that these judgmental feelings truly have no place in my heart."
Yeah, it took hours! You remember that you work for a federal worker. That Republican lawmaker is now forced to apologize to the president for your behavior. Congressman Stephen Fincher (R-TN) would had rather this staffer aimed at the president, not the family.
Lauten's apology came after many on Twitter and Facebook accused her of cyberbullying the Obama daughters. Lauten acknowledged those who were angered by her statements in her apology.
This turkey from Newsbusters defends GOP staffer's offensive comments.
"Furthermore, I'd like to apologize to all of those who I have hurt and offended with my words, and pledge to learn and grow (and I assure you I have) from this experience."
You know that as a member of federal government, you know that your actions are monitored by the media attack dogs such as Media Matters for America, Newsbusters, and Buzzfeed.
If you step on the landmine of improper (i.e. racist, undignified, and malicious) behavior on the social networks, expect this. Expect this to cost your job, a potential for death threats, and the shaming of Americans who believe you're a racist.
Crawl into the oven Elizabeth Lauten. You're being served with stuffing!
Hey, Newsbusters is defending this turkey. Okay so if someone who works for the federal government embarrass her employer, everyone is a LEFIST. Okay?
So I guess Melissa Mullins needs a lesson in social media and her employer. After all, her boss is a plagiarizing right wing fundamentalist who criticized the very things those so-called LEFISTS are complaining about! He was sacked from many newspapers for his outrageous behavior.
Social network got heat after it tried to make people jealous for no reason.
Just today, I seen some of my former friends (yeah, I said it) profiles appear at the top of my Facebook feed page.
One of them was this nasty woman I regretted I ever dated. I won't say her name, but she wasn't one of the most pleasant women I've dated. I see her profile pop up on my page. And I went right to the function, "DO NOT SHOW".
Facebook is the world's most popular social networking website. It's also the most controversial website ever to be created. It's like HIGH SCHOOL all over again! Seriously, it's like I've went back to my old high school and see these bozos once again but through their profiles.
I mean I don't give a rat's ass about these former friends, former girlfriends and people I've worked with before. Whenever I see pictures of women I used to date, I sometimes sigh! I see them with children who aren't mine. I see them with boyfriends or husbands who aren't me! I see friends and associates who know me but would never accept "my invites".
I am certainly glad they've move on pass me. But for me personally, I don't give a care about them or their personal lives.
I am guessing there's a huge controversy going over in Menlo Park. Facebook is doing some damage control after it was revealed that it was deliberately trying to make some users jealous of their friends for a social experiment.
I seen it. And I am none too thrill about it.
Another reason why the social networking website is on the downward slide. I mean has Facebook reached it peak?
YEAH.
And it's going down. Give it six years and people will be saying "What's Facebook?"
Nerdy. Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg.
Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook came out with a huge apology. She stopped short of issuing a heartfelt apology. She called this experiment a "success".
“This was part of ongoing research companies do to test different products, and that was what it was; it was poorly communicated,” Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, told the Wall Street Journal while travelling in New Delhi. “And for that communication we apologize. We never meant to upset you.”
I must have been one of those 700,000 idiots who Facebook used as a target for social depression.
They often would tweak the most active users profiles to top feed. They would put their feeds on the non-active users (such as myself). They would often show the profiles of braggers. People who are addicted to the social networking. Putting their business out there so the world knows. People would often get jealous and it would lead to depression.
The Washington Post reports that Sandberg’s statement was the first public comment by a Facebook executive on the controversy since it erupted over the weekend, prompting anger from many Facebook users and criticism from some academics who said it was unethical to manipulate users’ emotions without informed consent.
In the study, researchers at Facebook tweaked what hundreds of thousands of users saw in their news feeds, skewing content to be more positive or negative than normal in an attempt to manipulate their moods. Then they checked users’ status updates to see if the content affected what they wrote. They found that, yes, Facebook users’ moods are affected by what they see in their news feeds. Users who saw more negative posts would write more negative things on their own walls, and likewise for positive posts.
Sandberg’s apology is not likely to appease some, such as Robert Klitzman, a psychiatrist and ethics professor critical of the study, who said in a column for CNN that “the problem is not only how the study was described, but how it was conducted.”
Facebook has since implemented stricter guidelines, the Journal reported. Research other than routine product testing is reviewed by a panel of 50 internal experts in fields such as privacy and data security. Company research intended for publication in academic journals goes through a second round of review, again by in-house experts.
The upset over Facebook’s mood study is “a glimpse into a wide-ranging practice,” Kate Crawford, a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Civic Media and a principal researcher at Microsoft Research told the Journal. Companies “really do see users as a willing experimental test bed” to be used at the companies’ discretion.
See my honest opinion about Facebook. I offer my honest take on how the world's most popular website has taken me down the path to despair and how I overcame my addiction to Facebook.
The first woman who became the Speaker of the House is photoshopped to the body of controversial pop star Miley Cyrus. And who's the ones that are so disrespectful towards Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic lawmaker from California?
Take one guess?
The people over at Breitfart News have pushed the bar even lower when it comes to yellow journalism.
They disgrace the name of the racial agitator who made it his life mission to expose the institutional left.
Matter of fact, he should be proud.
ABC News reports The conservative-leaning website Breitfart News took some heat on Monday for a new ad campaign featuring a bizarre depiction of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
The ad features an altered image of the California Democrat over the famous picture of Miley Cyrus “twerking” at MTV’s Video Music Awards last year. Above Pelosi is another picture of Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, made to look like a bodybuilder.
ABC News’ John Parkinson asked Pelosi what she thought of the image.
“It’s so tasteless that I mean, is it even worthy of a question?” Pelosi said. “It’s so undignified.”
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz also released a statement Monday condemning it.
“To say the least, the Breitfart News ad is foul, offensive, and disrespectful to all women,” Wasserman Schultz said. “It is a disgusting new low and would be reprehensible against any woman – regardless of party.”
The website shows the posters being put up all around California. They are part of a campaign to promote the launch of Breitfart California, a new wing of the website devoted to covering the state’s news and politics.
The push features other altered images, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with a female’s body and TV personality Piers Morgan jumping a border.
Just last week, Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., praised the website’s launch, saying it would fill a “void of conservative activism” that was left after the death of Breitfart founder Andrew Breitfart.
“This weekend’s launch of Breitfart California is a testament to his legacy of holding our public officials accountable for their actions,” McCarthy said in a statement. “I look forward to the voice of reform-minded Californians being represented without bias as Breitfart California launches.”
But today, McCarthy was clearly miffed by the photoshopped images.
“The images are inappropriate,” Mike Long, McCarthy’s spokesman, said. “We requested that Whip McCarthy’s piece be taken down.”
Wasserman Schultz urged GOP leaders to “condemn this outrageous behavior, call on Breitfart News to immediately remove the ad, and not continue to use this website as a forum for their views.”
Breitfart News did not respond to an ABC News request for a comment.
Some liberal agitators didn't find humor in this.
Breitbart California’s misogynistic depiction of Nancy Pelosi is disgusting. @GOP should condemn it immediately http://t.co/i82Hr0leTE
— D Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) April 7, 2014
Kevin McCarthy pulls Breitbart column after the site launched a version with a lewd photoshop image of Nancy Pelosi http://t.co/8q3f1O5JZ1
— POLITICO (@politico) April 8, 2014
Right Wing Journalism Watch: Breitbart "News" Photoshops Nancy Pelosi's Head on Miley Cyrus http://t.co/5t5x1ycHIr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 8, 2014
Even some on the racist right argue that Miley Cyrus done it to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)
Democrats 'outraged' by Pelosi as Miley loved it when it was done to Bachmann and Boehner. And how could you not? http://t.co/EaEAx90l0A
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) April 7, 2014
In suburban Tampa, a young woman whips out the camera on an aggressive driver. The aggressive driver closes in on her bumper. She speeds up to avoid him. As he cuts her off, he gives her the finger.
When he recaptures the lane, he jumps the divider and crashes into a streetlight.
"That's what you get," the woman says, laughing loudly. "All on video, buddy."
The video is called Redneck Road Rage Instant Karma. The young woman who refused to be named was going to share this with her friends on YouTube.
Who know it would have went viral?
On top of that, her video helped identify the driver who apparently left the scene of the accident.
Florida State Patrol and Hillsborough County Sheriff will throw the book at this guy.
Not so fast, Mr. White. The guy who got nationally shamed after he got into an accident after starting a road rage event.
The YouTube video has garnered millions of views since it was posted March 26 and now, WTSP reports, the man in the video, who police said is 33-year-old Jeffrey White, was arrested.
Cops said they used footage to get White's license plate number. He was charged with reckless driving, leaving the scene, and failure to wear a seatbelt.
Authorities didn't reprimand her for filming the incident instead of keeping all her attention on the road. Instead, she said to WTSP, they were thankful that the footage helped them collar the culprit.
The smirk of an unapologetic young woman who failed the breathalyzer test. The woman posted on the social networks that she deliberately cheated the court ordered test.
You can't win......
You can't fix stupid!
Or both?
Who knows?
Anyway, as I click on The Huffington Post today, I look at their Weird News section. It was labeled the most dumbest crime to ever happen.
A young woman from Michigan goes to county lock up for doing something that professionals see as the death of a working career. She posts on Facebook her actions unbeknownst of a judge.
Part of a court order probation, Colleen Cudney was to stay away from the booze. She was required to take a breathalyzer test on order of the court.
She passed the test with flying colors.
She would later post on Facebook that she made an "achievement".
Unfortunately, she added a few extra things to the posting and of course confessed that she deliberately sabotaged the test.
For you see, Ms. Cudney, 22 did have a good St. Patrick's Day. She got wasted and must of seek advice from people who have no business telling her to beat a rap.
Investigators say she posted this: “Buzz killer for me, I had to breathalyze (sic) this morning and I drank yesterday but I passed thank god lol my dumba@@."
Anita Brown, a resident of Oak Park, says she didn't find Cudney's post humorous at all.
"I hope they throw the book at you young lady because it's sad that you did something like that because you could hurt someone or kill someone," Brown said.
A Westland police officer saw her post that morning and notified the probation office. When a probation officer called Cudney to return to the office for an urine test, she hung up the phone.
Probation officials say that was a violation of her probation. It was set to end in a few weeks.
An urine test would have detected if Cudney had anything to drink in the 80 hours prior to taking it, probation officials said.
Local 4 went by her house Thursday afternoon and were told no comment. Her Facebook post is sparking a lot of comments on the streets.
"People post some crazy things. They don't even think before they do anything," said Thomas Boyce, of Inkster.
Cudney is due in court on April 1st for a probation hearing. She could be sentenced to 93 days in jail.
She will also get a lifetime of shaming because the story went viral.
On top of that, she may get death threats, the possibility of losing her job, and/or the possibility of never driving again. Cause when you get behind a wheel while intoxicated, you put your life and others at risk for death.
So here's a lesson in American culture.
DON'T POST SOMETHING THAT MAY LAND YOU IN THE IRON COLLEGE! DON'T POST SOMETHING THAT MAY ATTRACT UNWANTED ATTENTION! DON'T POST SOMETHING THAT YOU MAY REGRET IF YOUR FAMILY OR FRIENDS SEE IT! DON'T POST ALL YOUR BUSINESS OUT THERE! SOMEONE IS ALWAYS LOOKING! WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME FOR YOU TO MAKE A MISTAKE! IF YOU POST SOMETHING ONLINE AND IT'S EMBARRASSING! IT'S THERE FOREVER!
Newark mayor Cory Booker is addressing gay rumors.
The candidate for the open U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey may have stepped one foot out the door and may eventually come out the closet.
The Newark mayor Cory Booker is one of the rising stars in politics. He declared his interest in running for senate a few years back to take on ailing Frank Lautenberg.
The ailing senator died this year and now it streamlined Booker's intent to run.
Now as he's now the Democratic nominee, he's getting flack from the left and the right. The left thinks that Booker is too inexperienced and they think his business intentions along with his cozy relationships with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and the Republican governor Chris Christie are too controversial.
What got the news buzzing about the Super Mayor is his love life.
The Washington Post interviews the Newark mayor and they get to talking about why he hasn't settled down with a woman.
After that, Booker says, he started dating more — although, he clarifies, not with Arianna Huffington, with whom he was rumored to have been involved. But he has kept that part of his life private because he says he needs some sacred spaces. Huffington is the president of AOL News and founder of The Huffington Post.
“Because how unfair is it to a young lady to put them in the spotlight if they haven’t signed up for that yet?” he says. “And people who think I’m gay, some part of me thinks it’s wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I’m gay, and I say, ‘So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I’m straight.’ ”
The right openly hates this guy. They think he's another Barack Obama. They think of the president as a "Socialist", "Marxist", "racist", "anti-American", "ineffective leader". That's what Booker will be facing if he should intent on running for president in 2016.
Now if he would win the U.S. Senate special election, he will serve out the remaining term. He will join Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina). Scott is the only Black senator. Mo Cowan, the first Black man to served as a Massachusetts senator. He served the term for eight months. Scott has signaled intention to run for a full term in 2014.
Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is the current senator. He won the special election and took office this month.
The Washington Post stated that during Saturday’s events for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Cory Booker dabbed his dome with a white handkerchief on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and bellowed, “We still have work to do.” The next morning, the mayor of Newark appeared as a guest on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and bemoaned “too much division going on in our politics.”
Booker is no stranger to Washington. His parents met here. He was born here. He spent his Christmas breaks from Oxford here. Now a political sensation and media darling with nearly 1.5 million Twitter followers, the 44-year-old seems to have been engineered in a political lab to walk the halls of Congress.
He has gained a reputation for his personal involvement in public service, including going on a ten-day hunger strike outdoors to draw attention to the dangers of open-air drug dealing, living on a "food stamp" budget to raise awareness of food insecurity, shoveling the driveway of a constituent upon request, allowing Hurricane Sandy victims into his home, helping a constituent propose to his girlfriend, rescuing a dog from freezing temperatures, saving a woman from a house fire at his own risk and rescuing a dog that had been locked in a crate.
Considered one of the most prominent Democrats in New Jersey, he formally declared his candidacy for the United States Senate in the 2013 special election to succeed Frank Lautenberg, who died in office. Prior to announcing his decision to run for the Senate, Booker had been considering a run in 2014, and following this announcement Lautenberg had announced (prior to his death) that he would not seek reelection in 2014. On August 13, he won the Senate Democratic primary, and will face Steve Lonegan in the October 16 general election.
Wonder why The South lost? Beats me! But I know they're still relishing on being losers!
A town outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina had it's Fourth of July parade in which a farmer brought some unwanted attention to his float. He used his First Amendment speech to promote his float.
On his float is regards to WHITE HISTORY MONTH. And asking the public to have sympathy for a White person by giving them a hug.
In the Fayetteville Observer reports that the tractor was a feature at the parade and it's attracted controversy.
Several spectators at the Hope Mills Fourth of July parade have complained to town officials that they're offended by a float that appeared in the parade Thursday.
The incident is prompting officials to review the town's parade application process later this month.
In the parade that went through downtown Hope Mills, a float carrying a bed full of watermelons was attached to a John Deere tractor. A Confederate flag was attached to the back. On each side, there were two small white signs. They said "White History Month" and "hug wht ppl."
Town officials have received about a dozen phone calls or emails about the float. Others have voiced concerns on the Facebook page of the town's Parks and Recreation Department as well as on social media.
The float was one of eight entered by Donnie Spell in Thursday's parade, said Kenny Bullock, director of the Parks and Recreation Department.
Spell could not be reached for comment Friday.
Bullock said Friday he had asked a member of Spell's family to take the signs down before the parade started Thursday morning. He said he does not know why they did not comply with the request.
He learned the signs were still on the tractor midway through the parade when people started calling his cell phone, he said.
Hope Mills Mayor Jackie Warner said she received a few phone calls and an email about the float. She did not see the float during Thursday's festivities because she was part of the parade. She later saw a photo of the float.
Conservatives believe Blacks are "racist" because they have Black History Month. Conservatives don't understand why Blacks have a month devoted to them, but not to White people.
"I believe we've got to make sure we're sensitive to all people's feelings," she said.
The spectator who sent her the email said the float is not representative of the Hope Mills community. She agreed and said residents should not have to see a float they find offensive in the parade.
"Our town has become more diverse," she said Friday.
All floats in town parades are entered through the Parks and Recreation Department, Bullock said. He said the application process includes a brief description of what a float will include. Those signs were not included in Spell's application, he said.
Bullock said Spell has entered tractors in the town's parades, which also includes a Christmas parade, for years.
The board plans to review the application process to ensure it does not happen again, Warner and Bullock said.
Warner said the discussion will be added to the commissioners' July 15 meeting.
Bullock said recreation officials will make recommendations to the commissioners about how to better screen floats in the future.
"I feel like, in my opinion, I feel like there's a time and a place for everything," Bullock said. "Was the parade the place? I don't think so."
