My dear... the humanity! The utter utter horror...
Tsk Tsk
Vests, foreheads, boxes and GARs.......
My dear... the humanity! The utter utter horror...
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The Facebook Blog:
http://blog.facebook.com
Facebook blog post apologizing for the big woops they made with the beacon
program:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7584397130
Inside Facebook
http://www.insidefacebook.com
Site that contains a link to the privacy preference allowing users to opt out of
beacons:
Facebook adds universal opt-out to Beacon; this time, the PR comes ...
By Justin Smith
This morning, in response to the complaints from privacy advocates that
have been well-documented in recent weeks, Facebook added a Beacon
preference to allow users to universally opt-out of Beacon. Now, if
users globally opt-out, ...
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2007/12/05/facebook-adds-universal-opt-out-to-beacon-this-time-the-pr-comes-from-zuckerberg/
All Facebook
http://www.allfacebook.com
Post on allfacebook:
Facebook Listens to the Blogosphere
By Nick O'Neill
Last night I briefly ranted about Facebook not responding to the noise.
Initially, they may have perceived it as only being chatter among
bloggers. As soon as I heard that brands were beginning to become
hesitant about advertising on ...
http://www.allfacebook.com/2007/12/facebook-listens-to-the-blogosphere/
Facebook and Relationships:
If it's Facebook, it's love
Reuters - USA
By Joanne Kenen With profiles on the Facebook social networking site almost
de rigueur on college campuses, students can define their relationship
status ...
http://features.us.reuters.com/techlife/news/A582F772-A2BF-11DC-BE5C-A0488271.html
More over the Facebook Beacon Frackus
Facebook's foolish foes [Media]
By Owen Thomas
I remember, distinctly, when former Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner's
love affair with Facebook began this spring. He couldn't stop talking
about it, and I could hardly avoid hearing about it,... [[ This is a
content summary only. ...
http://valleywag.com/tech/media/facebooks-foolish-foes-330424.php
And if you know me and are familiar with my online handles and rp/creative
writing characters, this might give you a chuckle as well. My result:
Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Clever and highly intelligent, you are the paradox of the typical classroom
sort. You represent Harrison Ford as Dr. Jones, the most famous adventurer in
American cinematic history. Your quick wit, disarming charm, and unexpected
bravery are easily hidden in your daily rabble and revealed in the quest for the
incredible.
"Indy" of all people! Lol! Absolute coolness, but lololol!
--
Originally found at:
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2007/11/01/1A_BLUN01.ART_ART_11-01-07_D1_M08AL6T.html?sid=101
SO TO SPEAK
Listen up, spammers: Your e-mail is stale
Thursday, November 1, 2007 4:06 AM
By JOE BLUNDO
Welcome to the School for Spammers.
Through the years, I've noticed that e-mail spam, while impressive in volume,
keeps getting worse in quality. Even the Nigerian fraud letters no longer ring
with the false sincerity they once did.
So I've decided to offer a remedial course for spammers who might be wondering
why no one orders their fake Rolexes or falls for their bogus European Lottery
messages.
Here are answers to your elementary questions, spammers:
• Is e-mail in Russian an effective way to communicate with an English-speaking
audience?
No -- or, because you seem stubbornly wedded to the language, nyet.
Judging from my e-mail in-box, which resembles the Moscow phone book on any
given morning, you have not quite caught on to the fact that Americans don't use
the Cyrillic alphabet. You might as well be writing in Chinese. Oh, wait, you're
already doing that, too.
So here's tip No. 1: If you want to improve your communication skills, start by
writing in a language that your audience understands. Details matter, people.
• I get poor response to my hoax e-mail informing people they've won $75 million
in an obscure foreign lottery. Should I increase the phony prize money to $100
million?
No, because the next crook will falsely award $150 million and then you'll have
to up your phony jackpot to $200 million. Things could get out of control.
You might have better luck telling people that, for the low price of 49 cents,
you will never e-mail them about a fake lottery prize again.
• If I write "You will love this, Shaun" in the subject line, will you love it?
No. Especially if my name isn't Shaun.
• How effective is bad grammar in making my e-mail more believable?
It definitely beats those spam messages that consist of random numbers and
symbols. Other than that, I don't see it as a winning strategy.
If I'm literate enough to read e-mail, I'm probably literate enough to know that
great stock-market tips rarely come from people who write, "You're next
oppurtunity are now!"
Also, remember that it's difficult to simultaneously defraud people and amuse
them.
That's why this kind of message might not prove convincing: "Notice of Closing
Your Account: To protect your private, we have locked Account # 76245. Please to
reply us urgent."
• When trying to evade spam filters, is it better to write "p*nis" or "p#nis"?
You could spell it "p*#@$" and most guys would get your drift -- because it is
the official body part of the spam world. In other words, they're onto you.
If you decide to forge ahead anyway, watch your syntax. You might imagine that a
subject line reading "We're here for your p*nis" conveys caring and concern
about a man's well-being. But it could also be interpreted as a threat of
confiscation.
Guys are generally put off by that idea.
• Would you like to buy some herbal V1agr@ for only 99 cents a bottle?
Nyet.
Joe Blundo is a Dispatch columnist.
jblundo@dispatch.com
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http://www.canada.com/vancouverisland/nanaimo/story.html?id=4f7749de-8e18-487b-948e-8b30bf42b78a
Furthermore, it's also a rip-off of the Evan Trembley hoax.
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/evantrembley.html which was started as a
sick joke on Myspace by the real and not missing Evan Trembley himself.
It borrows content from the Ashley Flores hoax
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/ashleyflores.html
which was started by one of the real and not missing Ashley's friends on Myspace
as a sick joke, and borrows heavily from the Penny Brown hoax
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/pennybrown.html
which is a mutation of the Kelsey Brook Jones chain, which was true for the two
hours that kelsey was thought missing. Kelsey was found playing, and unharmed
two hours after her mother's initial panic.
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/kelsey.html
http://www.breakthechain.org/missing.html
People who start hoaxes like that should be penalized, because they are getting
very sick kicks at others' expense!
It's manipulative, attention-seeking behavior on a level that is so low and
disgusting because people are getting jerked around just so a few childish teens
can get their haw-haws.
Ignorance or lack of forethought as no excuse.
Playing pranks on your friends in a social network like Myspace is bad enough,
but when it's in the form of a chain letter, it's not going to stay just among
the friends of the hoaxter. This is because your circle of friends also has
their own circles of friends, which in turn, have their own circle of friends,
so, you start a hoax about yourself as missing or dying or whatever, and your
friends might think it's funny, but somebody else who is listed as one of their
friends but not listed as your friend, looks at this friend's profile and
bulletins, and this stranger looking at your friend's profile, sees your
missing/dying hoax and assumes it's for real, and compulsively passes it along
to their friends, who pass it on to theirs.
So, yet more reasons chain letters really stink, and why starting a hoax might
get you the controll over the masses and the attention you desire, but it could
also land you and those associated with you in a pile of inconvenience if not
trouble.
I'm very sorry for anyone these hoaxes have hurt, from those who were taken in
by them, (hopefully they'll know better than pass on chain email from now on) to
those who are friends of or related to the hoaxter and suffering fallout because
of the hoax.
But as for the hoaxters themselves, I wish they would get a lot more than just a
slap on the wrist for their self-serving, inconsiderate and just plain sick
actions.
Evan Trembley was exceedingly stupid to start a hoax about himself, as was the
friend of Ashley Flores. The guy who mooched off the Trembley hoax and made it
about himself as a missing kid in Nanaimo is just as guilty. Shame on them!
Full article about the Nanaimo prank:
http://www.canada.com/vancouverisland/nanaimo/story.html?id=4f7749de-8e18-487b-948e-8b30bf42b78a
Missing Nanaimo Teen Email is a Big Hoax
Nanaimo Daily News Missing teen e-mail is a big hoax
Plea urging people to look out for Nanaimo boy is a prank that first began in
Texas
Derek Spalding , Daily News
Published: Thursday, October 11, 2007
Nanaimo RCMP say its unfortunate that someone is circulating a fake missing
person notice through e-mail accounts.
Thousands of Harbour City residents have recently received a message in their
inbox about a missing teenager from Nanaimo, but the chain mail is nothing but a
hoax. The message asks recipients to please "pass this to everyone in your
address book" in hopes that someone will have seen 15-year-old Evan Trembley.
After a simple Internet search, however, the real story behind the prank is
revealed.
Evan Trembley of Wichita, Falls, Tex, created a fake Amber Alert with himself as
the missing person. He then sent it out to his friends on MySpace.com. Then a
few people who didn't know it was a joke, sent the e-mail out to everyone on
their list. Police exposed Trembley who said he thought his "friends would
recognize it, get a laugh out of it" and delete it, he told reporters in
Wichita.
****But then people who weren't his friends took it seriously and continued to
e-mail all their friends. Trembley and his mother Tammy said they do not expect
any criminal charges.
It appears someone in Nanaimo decided to localize Trembley's prank and
distributed it throughout the city. Using the same photo and similar
information, Trembley now appears to be a missing Nanaimo boy. This week, the
e-mail reached Robin Dutton, owner of Arrowsmith Bikes, who then forwarded it to
more than 300 people on his mailing list.
"I just thought, if somebody's missing, it doesn't take a whole lot for me to
send it out to everyone in my address book," he said before expressing his
disappointment in the hoax. "I just think it's really unfortunate. I'd like to
think that people have a bit more to do rather than waste people's time."
DSpalding@nanaimodailynews.com
250-729-4231
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