If Historical Events had Facebook Statuses

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How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships

via online.wsj.com

Here's where you and I went wrong: We took our friendship online. First we began communicating more by email than by phone. Then we switched to "instant messaging" or "texting." We "friended" each other on Facebook, and began communicating by "tweeting" our thoughts—in 140 characters or less—via Twitter.

All this online social networking was supposed to make us closer. And in some ways it has. Thanks to the Internet, many of us have gotten back in touch with friends from high school and college, shared old and new photos, and become better acquainted with some people we might never have grown close to offline.

Blah Blah Blah.... You can guess what is coming next....

Facebook changed for me when my mum joined.

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This Couldn't Be True, Surely?

True? You Betcha.

Thanks for that ugly dose of reality Where's My Jetpack via @Simon Small

Human Resources 101

Don't post your hangover sickie on Facebook. Duh!

Facebook Quibbles

On balance I like Facebook, just not this stuff so much. I like some intermittent interaction, but not too much daily poking and inviting.

Zemanta is interesting. My suggested tags for this post were Digital Camera, Olympus, Economic, Jim Flaherty, Photography, Economic Club of Toronto, Arts, United States

Huh?

Thanks from No More Poking Ever! Cellobella

Facebook as Big Brother

I quite like Facebook for its shallowness and irreverent fun. I am certain that I am unimportant enough to worry about being bookmarked and socially indexed. Tom Hodgkinson in the Guardian thinks otherwise.

I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?

And does Facebook really connect people? Doesn't it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk. What a gloomy image. Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations.

Fair enough, but some of the heavier stuff later on is a bit chilling. Apparently some of the venture capital money is funded by the CIA venture capital fund and one of the current boare members is associated with that group. Interesting.

Seems that we all just need to lay back and smell the roses as Big Brother rolls down the hill (gathering moss?)

Or is it a snowball?

Enjoy it while you can, before you are unwillingly dragged into a battle that you had no idea you were part of.

Thanks Peter Black from Freedom to Differ.

Facebook Takes Over Sex and Porn Market

Facebook has overtaken Porn as internet destination of choice for Generation Y.

Currently, for web users over the age of 25, Adult Entertainment still ranks high in popularity, coming in second, after search engines. Not so for 18- to 24-year-olds, for whom social networks rank first, followed by search engines, then web-based e-mail — with porn sites lagging behind in fourth. If you chart the rate of visits to social-networking sites against those to adult sites over the last two years, there appears to be a strong negative correlation (i.e., visits to social networks go up as visits to adult sites go down). It's a leap to say there's a real correlation there, but if there is one, then I'd bet it has everything to do with Gen Y's changing habits: they're too busy chatting with friends to look at online skin. Imagine.

Pass the virtual condoms.

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Facebook Gets Rid of International Verification

Allelujah

No more annoying number letter identification quizzes on Facebook for non US users. You can authenticate using an international mobile phone, which I just did in less than a minute.

Facebook just continues to get better.

Howard Government to Dissolve States

The Howard Government today announced plans to use their constitutional power to dissolve the states and to amalgamate all their functions into the Commonwealth Government. Treasurer Peter Costello, announcing the plan said that "We pay for all this stuff, so we want to run it." The states are single handedly driving interest rates through the roof and all the Premiers are closet muslim homosexual drug addicts." Mr Costello later denied that he had said the last part.

A national programme of town meetings similar to those used in Australias great friend, the United States will be used to decide local priorities. Local communities will be given the opportunity to propose vote buying public works and Commonwealth Pollsters will evaluate their likely electoral impact prior to the programmes being funded.

Communities will have to pledge allegience to the Coalition Government, in order to have their projects funded immediately.

Prime Minister and President Elect for Life, John Howard said that "the Australian people didn't want communists running the country and the way the polls were going it was incumbent on the government to make this radical move to protect individual rights in Australia. The states are bloody useless and we have to be sure that we support our cricket team in preparing for the defense of the Ashes in Blighty in two years time" Captain Sporty went on to say.

John Howard is 123 years old. Kevin Rudd was too busy fiddling with his Facebook Account and looking at his brand new spiffy web site to comment. Julia Gillard was also unavailable due to a hair appointment.