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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?

Facebook Acquired Instagram App For $1 Billion

Photo-sharing app “Instagram”, has just been acquired by Facebook for an enormous $1 billion price tag.

Instagram was started only 17 months ago, and has a total employee of 13 members.
It is absolutely amazing how an app could grow in such a rapid growth rate.

 

Here is the official announcement from Facebook:

I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.

For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests.

We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.

That’s why we’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people.

We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience. We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook.

These and many other features are important parts of the Instagram experience and we understand that. We will try to learn from Instagram’s experience to build similar features into our other products. At the same time, we will try to help Instagram continue to grow by using Facebook’s strong engineering team and infrastructure.

This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don’t plan on doing many more of these, if any at all. But providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.

We’re looking forward to working with the Instagram team and to all of the great new experiences we’re going to be able to build together.