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Why You should stop trying to be Baller on Facebook

Buy a new phone, shoes or car and what’s the first thing you do after you purchase it? Obviously put it on Facebook to see how many envious “Likes” and comments you can elicit from your pleasant friends. Now besides the obvious snobbery, there’s the issue of safety. Is it really that smart to tell everyone you’re rich on a site that shows everyone including possible strangers the city you live in, the school you go to, what you look like and even when you were born? Well the answer is obviously no but none of us really care since we’re too comfortable basking in the wake of our self-glory.

This is exactly what happened to a smart 17 year old Australian girl who posted a picture of a massive pile of cash on her Facebook account only to have her house ransacked a few hours later.

Apparantly, she was helping her Grandmother count up her savings and had never seen such a big pile of money before. I’m wondering why doesn’t her mother just put that money in a bank and invest it but I’m going to guess she was born during the Great Depression. Besides that, the girl was lucky that no one was home when two men broke into her house and only made out with a small amount of savings and personal items. I hope she learns her lesson as well as everyone else who likes to show off their belongings online.

 

Facebook Camera App [UPDATED]

Facebook just announced a camera app, Facebook Camera, with the intention to make sharing photos easier.

According to Dirk Stoop, a Facebook product manager for photos, the app is much faster than the current Facebook app for iPhones, (Obviously. the Facebook iPhone app couldn’t be any slower…) and photo sharing is the centre focus.

Stoop, “We can basically show you more photos on the app, so we can make a more immersive experience around your photos…On the side of publishing these photos, Facebook Camera lets you load much higher resolutions photos at up to 2048X2048 pixels wide.”

On top of that, Facebook will implement some of Instagram’s context to Facebook Camera as well. It will offer 15 filters, including tools for cropping, straightening, and a variety of photo editing tools.

Derick Mains, a spokesman for Facebook, “As you can imagine, people love to share and view photos on Facebook, so giving people a great photo experience has been a really big priority for us…We spent a lot of time making the app very fast. The whole viewing experience is faster. The app launches really fast and it scrolls like butter.”

Time to try it out!

Speaking of speed, Facebook should really fix their iOS Facebook app. It seriously couldn’t be any slower. It felt like we are back in the 90s.

Let us know how you like the Facebook Camera app after you try it!

[UPDATE:] I tried to download the app on my iPhone, and I couldn’t even find the app. For those who really want to try out the app right now, they can install the app in iTunes, and then sync it to their iPhone.

The app is actually really well done! Fantastic.

Facebook vs A Mother’s Unconditional Love

Have you ever had Facebook admins remove anything you posted because it was deemed inappropriate? I haven’t, but I imagine you would have to post something truly inappropriate to get it removed since Facebook is such a chill website. This has happened to Heather Walker; a mother who gave birth to Grayson James Walker, a baby boy who only lived for eight hours. Grayson was born with a rare neural tube defect called Anencephaly which causes him to be born with parts of his brain and skull missing. Before any of you look up images of Anencephaly, I am going to warn you that the images are NSFW and include images of babies and fetuses with their brain tissue exposed.

 

Perhaps this is what happened to Heather Walker who contacted the non-profit organization “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep” who had a photographer come in to record the day’s events. She then posted the pictures on her Facebook, some of which include little Grayson James Walker with his hat off. Shortly after she posted the pictures, they were removed by an admin and when she posted them again; her account was deleted off the site. After reading Facebook’s page on community standards I find it very hard to find where an album of a couple’s unconditional love for their dying child fits in the following list.

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Facebook Changes Again.

A majority of Facebook’s users like the previous version of Facebook much more than Timeline. They HATED the timeline. Facebook doesn’t give a damn how much we hate their changes, and now more changes are on the way.

Now that most of us got “TIMELINED”, Facebook decides to make more changes.

Current Version

New Version

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What doesn’t change? The fact that facebook will constantly be changing.

Get Spanked By Parents or Online Public Humiliation on Facebook?


It must be hard for parents to look after their kids these days.

We’ve all heard about the old news, when a dad shot her daughter’s laptop,and the girl who created a public house party event on Facebook when her parents were away for a trip. Now, we got one more.

A 12-year-old girl posted a photo on Instagram of herself holding an unopened bottle of vodka, with the caption, “I sure wish I could drink this.”

Obviously, her mom, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, found out and got her daughter to post a new picture of herself holding a sign that says, “Since I want to post photos of me holding liquor, I am obviously not ready for social media and will be taking a hiatus until I learn what I should (and) should not post. Bye-Bye.”


Billingsley had previous warned her daughter(who doesn’t have her own facebook account), to be careful of what she post on photo-sharing sites.Billingsley said, “I thought she knew better, but in her mind, she thought, ‘I am not drinking, what’s the problem?’ “

She added, “Because she had been warned, I felt I needed to hit her where it hurt most.”

After the punishment was done, Billingsley said, “She actually asked for a spanking instead; she begged for a spanking,”

Some criticizes on the way Billingsley dealt with it, indicating that it is too harsh.

Do you think it is too harsh? How would you deal with situations like this?

You want to get spanked by parents or public humiliation on Facebook?