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  • FAKEBOOK USERS: Many admit making lives seem more exciting on socials

    FAKEBOOK USERS: Many admit making lives seem more exciting on socials

    FAKEBOOK USERS: Many admit making lives seem more exciting on socials

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    A survey by smartphone maker HTC found that more than three quarters of those asked (76%) said they judged their peers based on what they saw on their Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook profiles.

    In order to make our own pages and lives appear more exciting, 6% also said they had borrowed items to include in the images in order to pass them off as their own and make others jealous.

    More than half of those surveyed said they posted images of items and places purely to cause jealousy among friends and family.

    Behavioural psychologist Jo Hemmings said the trend was unsurprising given the rise of social media.

    I think we have seen our friends, family, and maybe if you look in the mirror hard enough, yourself as well do this very thing..

    Try you best to make things seem fine.. Seem okay..
    But all the while, the darkness of sad and fear creep in. You don’t want to express the real you on FACEBOOK though.. people may not ‘like’ .. 

  • The Social-Network Illusion That Tricks Your Mind: Network scientists have discovered how social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare.

    The Social-Network Illusion That Tricks Your Mind: Network scientists have discovered how social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare.

    The Social-Network Illusion That Tricks Your Mind: Network scientists have discovered how social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare.

  • Little did you know the rainbow Facebook profile picture fad would create such controversy

    Little did you know the rainbow Facebook profile picture fad would create such controversy

    By now if you’re on Facebook, WordPress, Tumblr, or any other social med service, your header or banner image was already made into a rainbow..perhaps you went one step further and did it yourself, all in the celebration of the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling allowing gay marriage to take place in all 50 states. But a group called the Radical Faeries has a problem with it. 

    Rory Carroll in San Francisco and Amanda Holpuch in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the UK GUARDIAN report this about the rainbow colored social media trend: 

    Within hours of the supreme court’s Friday decision on same-sex marriage, people with a certain number of progressively minded friends found their Facebook news feeds dominated by rainbow-colored profile pictures created by a special link on the website.

    The gambit successfully put Facebook’s equality credentials in the spotlight. But it was challenged on Saturday at San Francisco Pride, an event the company sponsored.

    The Radical Faeries, one of the more idiosyncratic groups at San Francisco’s Pride, said the festival should dump Facebook as a sponsor because of the company’s ban on adopted names.

    The policy was unfair to LGBT people who use adopted names to avoid homophobia or to express their true identity, they said.

    “I don’t like anybody telling me who I am or have to be,” said Storm Arcana, 42, seated on a rug in the Faerie Freedom Village, a colourful camp near city hall.

    People paying attention to things of this sort may recall this argument brewing for some time–this has been a long standing issue some have had with Facebook. 

    I don’t hold any overall anti or pro opinion on this matter. A  part of me believes that Facebook as a private company that steals everyone’s information, invades their personal lives, tracks their every move, and sells every piece of information to the lowest bidder–not to mention being the easiest and free-est way for law enforcement to track down virtually any person they want–can do what it wants. And people clamoring for the right to have Facebook abuse them even more? They need to probably think twice.

    There are other social media services out there.. 
    I get the point, believe me. But I also think those making the point are missing the point.. There aren’t many nice things about Facebook.. It’s ease of use is one of the few, along with the ability people have to connect. Minus those two things, the policies and privacy issues with the social media service are a little more than atrocious. 
    So..
    That being said, if a person wants an entire life to be monitored, tracked, and traced, I suppose the nicest thing the violating party could do is at least call the person the name the person wishes to be called..

  • SCOTUS rules in favor of man convicted of posting threatening messages on Facebook

    SCOTUS rules in favor of man convicted of posting threatening messages on Facebook

    SCOTUS rules in favor of man convicted of posting threatening messages on Facebook

    FROM CNN:

    “The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Pennsylvania man who posted several violent messages on Facebook and was convicted under a federal threat statute – the first time the Court raised the implications of free speech on social media.

    The Court said that it wasn’t enough to convict the man based solely on the idea that a reasonable person would regard his communications as a threat.

    "Our holding makes clear that negligence is not sufficient to support a conviction,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts.“

  • Facebook now: Breast feeding bad. Calling for the killing of people.. maybe alright?

    Facebook now: Breast feeding bad. Calling for the killing of people.. maybe alright?

    Navigating the social networking rules can be tough. And rough.. your blog can be suspended for things you don’t find offensive. Your Facebook page can be taken down if you choose to post a photo that may have ‘nudity’ ..

    That’s why, in a world where breast feeding causes controversy with Facebook because they classify it as obscene, it’s deplorable to think that the same social networking service can allow open calls for death of an entire population of people.. But they are doing just that.

    While the NSA monitoring tool named Facebook is busy suspending accounts that show partial nipples dripping with milk, they are also said that the open calls for the death of Jews don’t violate the community standards of the site.. Of course things changed once national news media attention was placed on the page. Facebook did remove it. The WASHINGTON EXAMINER posted this photo of a message from Facebook:

    While freedom of speech is a fundemanetal right for Americans, the right exists in the sense that governments cannot take you away to a death camp for speaking. But social networking services–private companies after all–have every right to suspend you. After all, the page is free. The only thing you surrender for its use is 100% of your privacy. Nonetheless, the sad fact is that Facebook is quick to suspend accounts that feature something showing a natural motherly love–breast feeding–but waited until an outcry occurred before scratching out a page that was promoting a new Holocaust.

    Mark! what’s the matter with you?