Tag: Facebook

Dear Mark Zuckerberg: You need to fix this and quick…

These are your people after all.

Need more evidence that progressive political correctness only extends to favored groups? Look no further than Facebook.

Amidst a mounting Israeli campaign against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, Facebook has become a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment. While Facebook’s official community standards forbid hate speech and threats of violence, the social media site has so far failed to remove repeated insults and vicious threats against Israel and Jews in general.

Users have been allowed to blanket Israeli pages with rants like “F****** YOU ISRAEL F***** YOU ISRAEL,” “I wish Hitler wiped you off the map your time is coming again” and “Oh, Allah, destroy the Jews around the world.”

Many of the comments on Israel’s Facebook page or the Israeli military’s profile endorsed terrorism and called on Hamas and other Muslim terrorists to massacre Jews.

via Facebook Allows Neo-Nazi, Pro-Terrorist Threats Against Israel | NewsBusters.

Whoa: Facebook CEO reaped $2.3 Billion gain on stock options

It is quite painfully obvious that I am in the wrong business.

The Story:

SAN FRANCISCO AP — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reaped a gain of nearly $2.3 billion last year when he exercised 60 million stock options just before the online social networking leaders initial public offering.The windfall detailed in regulatory documents filed Friday saddled Zuckerberg, 28, with a massive tax bill. He raised the money to pay it by selling 30.2 million Facebook Inc. shares for $38 apiece, or $1.1 billion, in the IPO.Facebooks stock hasnt closed above $38 since the IPO was completed last May. The shares gained 71 cents Friday to close at $26.85.The 29 percent decline from Facebooks IPO price has cost Zuckerberg nearly $7 billion on paper, based on the 609.5 million shares of company stock that he owned as of March 31, according to the regulatory filing. His current stake is still worth $16.4 billion.

via Facebook CEO reaped $2.3B gain on stock options – Yahoo! Finance.

Being a protected minority has its perks, I suppose. Must be nice to be born into the right bloodline.

No, Facebook is not MySpace

This is a good article, but the insinuation is totally off base.

The media business eats itself. General-interest magazines, national television networks and all-purpose portals are always succeeded by an ever-narrower special-interest approach.This has tended to happen over a reasonably long span of time, a generation or two, but in an ever-quickening world, the term du jour is the “disassembling” of Facebook, which, arguably to its detriment, has just added its billionth monthly user.

Not only is Facebook challenged by its inability to grow advertising revenue fast enough — the primary culprit in its 50% share-price plunge — but now it’s facing a carve-up of the social experience.

via Michael Wolff: Facebook is . . . MySpace?.

Mr. Wolff goes on to explain that there are newer and somewhat cooler apps and social media sites out there and that is a very valid point. However, to compare a social media site that was mostly geared towards teens in the beginning, that later on tried to reinvent itself to appeal to a broader base — to a site like facebook is totally unfair. Facebook is a much more broader appealing social networking site. Heck, my Mother is on the silly site, as is my Father; heck, my Dad has two accounts there! Why? Farming. He is on Farmtown and has like 16 farms on that silly game, between the two accounts!  Yes, my Mother is a farmer as well. I did that for a while myself, but I found it to be much too time consuming to bother with it. I had more important things to waste my time on; like blogging! 😉

I think the point that Mr. Wolff is missing, seeing that he is looking at it from a money standpoint, is this; Social media, as with technology, is always evolving. In other words, someone out there, driven by a desire to succeed is always going to figure out a way to something better than the old way of doing it. This happens in capitalistic society and it is not really a bad thing; it is called progress and yes, it is of the good kind. 😀 Heck, if we did not have that, we would all still be listening to reel to reel tape and getting our news off black and white TV’s. Not mention that Computers and Internet,  blogging and even social media would not exist.

However, I will this; I see Mr. Wolff’s point on Facebook’s ROI. I thought it to be a bit premature to introduce Facebook to the stock market. I thought that to be quite presumptuous and a bit bold. I was right, it was and that is why the stock dropped like a rock. I think also too, that the stock was overhyped and there are some people that remembered the dot com bubble that burst. Some investors were just not willing to gamble on a website again. Big as facebook is, and as big of a company that Facebook has become; it is still just a social media website and not a brick and mortar business.

Still, it is a excellent way to keep up with old friends, family members and yes, a good way to play farmtown.

 

One of them bitter-clingers from Tennessee posts his love for Guns on facebook, Liberals pee themselves

Yes, that title is supposed to be ironic and kind of funny too.

It seems that a young man running for Congress for the State of Tennessee is in hot water with the liberal left.

The Video:

WKRN, Nashville News, Nashville Weather and Sports

The story via WKRN in Nashville:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. –
Republican U.S. Congressional candidate Brad Staats continues to defend a controversial Facebook post.

Brad Staats posted a picture of a handgun along with the statement, “Many people keep asking me about my opinion on Second Amendment rights. Apparently Tennesseans are part of that crazy crowd that Obama says cling to their religion and guns. Well then I must be part of that crazy crowd. Here is something that I usually have with me. Welcome to Tennessee Mr. Obama where we appreciate our [Second] Amendment rights and the constitution that was wisely given to us by our founding fathers.”

At a Lipscomb University event on Monday night, Staats told Nashville’s News 2, “I’m going to say what I mean and mean what I say and I want Tennesseans and Americans to know that I’m not going to back up on what I say.”

Staats said the Facebook post was never meant to be an attack on the president but it is in reference to the recently passed U.N. Small Arms Treaty.

“I do want President Obama to know as well as the rest of Congress and everyone else regarding our constitutional, rights don’t tread on America’s constitution,” said Staats. “I think that your liberties, your life can be defended by the proper instructed use of a handgun.”

Staats said his strong stance on handguns stems from his mother’s own personal experience.

He said, “She would have either been raped or murdered had she not had a handgun in her car she actually got ran off a road and it was obvious she was getting ready to be assailed.”

It is a fair defense and I would have done the same damned thing. There was no threat implied at all; this is a tactic of the liberal left and yes, the Neoconservative right (AKA FAKE!) does the same damned thing too. They call threat, anytime someone posts a pic of a gun or other related matter and the name Obama. It is a disgrace and when this stuff happens the first amendment is being trampled upon. How many times did people have signs saying “Kill Bush?” Plenty.

So, this whole thing is a bad joke and the liberal left knows it. They say “But, oh! He’s black!” I got one thing to say about all that: Big ‘effin’ deal. The truth is, the President has more security around him, than Bush ever did, so the chances of him being shot and killed is slim to none. Unless someone seriously screws up at the secret service, which will never happen.

For your reading pleasure: Here is a roundup of idiot liberals who are saying that this evil bitter-clinger ought to be in prison for blaspheming the might “one” who came in the name of progressivism:

The Raw Story, Tennessean.com, theGrio, Alan Colmes’ Liberaland,Crooks and Liars and Gawker

Police State?: Military Vet Detained For Psych Evaluation Over Anti-Government Facebook Posts

Looks that way…:

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights.

Brandon J. Raub, 26, has been in custody since FBI and Secret Service agents and Chesterfield County police questioned him Thursday evening about what they considered ominous posts talking of a coming revolution. In one message earlier this month, Raub wrote: “Sharpen my axe; I’m here to sever heads.”

Police — acting under a state law that allows emergency, temporary psychiatric commitments upon the recommendation of a mental health professional — took Raub to the John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell. He was not charged with any crime.

The Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville-based civil liberties group, sent one of its attorneys to the hospital to represent Raub at a hearing Monday. A judge ordered Raub detained for another month, Rutherford executive director John Whitehead said.

“For government officials to not only arrest Brandon Raub for doing nothing more than exercising his First Amendment rights but to actually force him to undergo psychological evaluations and detain him against his will goes against every constitutional principle this country was founded upon,” Whitehead said. “This should be a wake-up call to Americans that the police state is here.”

via Military Vet Detained For Psych Evaluation Over Anti-Government Facebook Posts « CBS DC.

I find it pretty ironic that this guy was a former Military man and that he also is a libertarian. I also would like to know just what the criteria that was used to determine that this was some sort of a public threat. The FBI said there was no snooping; I believe that, like I believe in Santa Claus. I admit, what he said would startle me as well; but that is no cause to call the police or anything like that, unless he actually does something.

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Warning to all Facebook users: “HotAir.com free speech zone” is a troll den

Just a quick FYI to my readers who are on facebook.

There is a group on facebook, that calls themselves the “HotAir.com” free speech zone. (Formerly the AllahPundit Fan Club)

They are a group of people, who were booted off of HotAir.com for violating the terms of service over at HotAir.com in the comments section. I joined prior to even knowing about this being the case, about this group. I thought it was actually a “fan club” for AllahPundit. Turns out, it’s not. It is a troll den, where some of HotAir’s banned folk ended up.

Apparently, they did not like my posting about well known Conservative Blogger here from Michigan. I was called a Paul-Bot; despite the fact that I have repeatedly said on this blog that I am not a fan of Ron Paul at all.   None of that matters, just the fact that I said that I was not keeping the Israeli flag here, as long as people like this woman continue to act like she does towards Conservative American bloggers.

So, there you go. Some info, stay away from the troll groups on facebook.