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How to be the first with the new iPhone4

Bob — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:11:07 +0000

He’s suuuurrre looks ready. yessir!

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Funny Facebook

Bob — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:15:17 +0000

Mark Suckerberg must be having a chuckle or two, emailing me these, AFTER my account was disabled by him.

Jerk.

*Names of friends were erased.

Official iPhone 4 Video Review

Bob — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:03:17 +0000

Every time I think Apple can’t improve their products, and I don’t need to upgrade – they make me start saving money to buy their new stuff. The iPhone 4 looks awesome.

IronMan 2 Review

Fuck Facebook

Bob — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:52:13 +0000

A post by Jason made me realize that being banned by Facebook isn’t such a bad thing after all. I won’t be appealing to get my account back, and I won’t create a new account either. (Although I would like all my contacts and photos back from Suckerberg).

Facebook is a monster.

Watch Holland vs Hungary Football Live

Bob — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:59:27 +0000

Friendly Soccer Match between The Netherlands and Hungary.

*Update – Game finished: Netherlands 6 – Hungary 1

*Update Arjen Robben has most likely torn his hamstring 2 minute before the whistle. Hopefully he’ll be fit to play in South-Africa. What was the Dutch coach thinking? Risking the best player of the Dutch squad in a friendly match with 6-1 on the board…

Should Facebook be allowed to play God?

Bob — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:38:36 +0000

So Facebook disabled my account a few days ago for no apparent reason, and without warning or explanation. Obviously I emailed them to see what was up, and a ‘Marissa” from Facebook ‘User Operations’ replied with a short standard copy/paste template email:

Guilty until proven innocent? Is Facebook’s HQ based in North Korea somewhere? Does Mark Zuckerberg run a holiday camp in Guantanamo Bay? Strike one, you’re out?

Facebook has become an important communication tool for over 450 million people worldwide. Pushing it’s Open Graph, Facebook connect, around the web. Within several years Facebook will probably have a say in 75% of all websites, applications, tools and online communities.

So what happens to all of those people that got banned by Facebook? What are the social consequences for people that are not allowed to be part of the Open Graph anymore? Will they become irrelevant to the rest of the world?

With a user-base larger than the entire population of the United States, should Facebook be allowed to dictate their ‘laws’ and play God online? I think not. Facebook is owned by the users. Without users, there is no Facebook.

I’m all for rules and regulations to keep Facebook an open place for everyone. Privacy and safety are obviously big things. But surely there are other ways than to completely wipeout a persons online existence?

One simple solution would be to have some sort of system in place – Limit a users account if you think they are breaking Facebook Terms and responsibilities. Sandbox a persons profile. Take away those abilities that make breaking the rules possible. But you do need to keep people in the loop, one way or the other. That is the responsibility Facebook needs to take on, if they make public statements like these:

Facebook Principles
We are building Facebook to make the world more open and transparent , which we believe will create greater understanding and connection. Facebook promotes openness and transparency by giving individuals greater power to share and connect, and certain principles guide Facebook in pursuing these goals. Achieving these principles should be constrained only by limitations of law, technology, and evolving social norms. We therefore establish these Principles as the foundation of the rights and responsibilities of those within the Facebook Service.

Anyway, I was wondering who I need to contact within Facebook to get my stuff back (which is impossible since there are no contact details for Facebook anywhere). I went over the Terms and Responsibilities again, and according to those, you still have my stuff Mark.

Should you decide to keep me cut-off from all my Facebook friends and family, effectively making me a social outcast, I would like my photos, messages and pokes back please.

Thanks!

Funny Fact: Mark Zuckerberg was born in the same year as the title of George Orwell’s “1984” book.

Anyway, what do you guys think? How big of an impact will Facebook and it’s Open Graph have on people’s online identities in the (near) future?

Ok, I’ll Admit. I can’t wait for the new Twilight Eclipse movie

Bob — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:59:12 +0000

Not long now. The new Twilight movie – Eclipse – will be released at the end of the month. Two new trailers hit YouTube just now.

Watch All Seasons of Lost in 8 Minutes

I Quit Facebook

Bob — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:00:26 +0000

Well, actually Facebook quit me. I tried to login today and found myself staring at this screen…

Uhhhh, what? I didn’t receive the memo to let me know that the last 4 years of my facebook life have been eradicated by one of the facebook support drones.

Suddenly for the online world I have ceased to exist. My wife is no longer married to me according to her profile. All my Facebook friends think I deleted them from my friends list. My 110,000 members fanpage has been deleted. My family and friends who literally live on the other side of the world have no way to get in touch with me anymore.

Guess they’ll all have to miss out on the baby photos I was going to post in a few days, when my firstborn is scheduled to login to the world.

It’s kinda scary how dependent people become on 3rd party services. Facebook has quietly taken mass control of a whole lot of people’s online identities. And they can do with it as they please. Why do we call it a “social network” if they can so easily put someone in social isolation? I have no idea what most of my friends are up to now.

Like this morning, I got an update from a family member, who needed some emotional support. As soon as I found out about her situation, I gave her a call. She felt a lot better afterwards. Well tough titties for anyone else from now on. If you’re having a cry on Facebook, don’t expect me to know about it. I’m not allowed to play with the other kids anymore.

We really should take a step back and make sure we see the big picture – don’t take ANYTHING online for granted. What’s here today might easily be gone tomorrow. And it doesn’t take a hurricane or a war to blast you back into the middle-ages. All it takes is the click of a mouse, or the touch of a button of one of Mark Zuckerberg’s minions.

The bright side of a situation like this, is that I did some research and found a lot of troublesome information regarding Facebook. We’ve all heard about the privacy issues with Facebook, but did you know for example, that Mark Zuckerberg stumbled upon the creation of facebook, because he was trying to create a site where he could judge and compare people, based on the way they looked?

I’m a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it’s not even 10 p.m. and it’s a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland [dorm] facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.
—9:48 pm
Yea, it’s on. I’m not exactly sure how the farm animals are going to fit into this whole thing (you can’t really ever be sure with farm animals…), but I like the idea of comparing two people together.
—11:09 pm
Let the hacking begin.
—12:58 am

He managed to get some sort of system going, by hacking into the Harvard University Network, and copying PRIVATE dormitory ID images. (identity theft anyone?) Soon after that, he and three other students started working on a site called HarvardConnection.com, but just a week into the project, Zuckerberg’s intentions turned out to be the opposite of a cooperation – He used their ideas to build a competing product; Facebook.

Zuckerberg then abused his website, by going through the logs, retrieving users passwords, and accessing their private emails. What a great guy eh? I guess the dumb fucks deserved it.

There’s a big ‘ol list of questions and doubts regarding Facebook as a company. But, what can we do? Facebook is MASSIVE. There’s no stopping it. Zuckerberg will own the world one day, and there is nobody that can stop him.

(PS I do have a slight suspicion as to why my Facebook account was disabled – I added some advertising on my 110K+ fanpage two days ago. Perhaps they didn’t like that).

Watch All Seasons of Lost in 8 Minutes

Bob — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:19:02 +0000

If you actually wanna see the show in a normal speed, check out lost online here.

Facebook Fanpage Fiasco

Bob — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:30:13 +0000

uh-oh. Someone needs to tell Mark ‘Dumb Fucks’ Zuckerberg that enough is enough.

After all the walking on thin ice with the current privacy blah-blah, Facebook decided it was a good idea to kill fanpages off – unless you’re a big company with deep pockets.

The main reason for this is probably the amount of ’step 1 become a fan – step 2 tell all your friends – step 3 make me money by clicking my ads’ aka 3-step facebook code viral pages. I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of those around. Quite annoying, but if this was a decision purely based on stopping the spam, and increasing the user-experience; why tell developers and businesses that they need to get in touch with a Facebook Ads Account Manager to enable static FBML? And that they have to have at least 10,000 people that like the page in the first place? Can we still spam Facebook, as long as we pay for it?

So basically you can setup an extremely limited fanpage profile for your business. This will make it a lot harder to get people to like your fanpage. Then after reaching 10K ‘fans’, Facebook will let you make a nice landingpage will most likely attract a whole lot more ‘likes’. I can’t believe that Facebook would think a spammer would have a problem getting 10K likes from all their fake account networks. They only people that are getting hurt are small businesses.

What what it boils down to is that thousands of small businesses are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars. They used the tools Facebook provided for them to build a business, and now they have to take it up the ass from Mark ‘ Dumb Fucks’ Zuckerberg. All their hard work is down the drain + they’re getting a lot of shit from their clients who paid for customised fanpages.

Sure, Facebook is it’s own product, and if it decides to change things, they’re obviously entitled to. But it seems that they’re starting to think that they are the market, instead of the product.

No wonder sites like Quit Facebook are popping up left and right. I think MySpace slowly bled to death, but Facebook is rapidly committing digital suicide by the looks of it.