Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Catch me if you can......



When a U.K. police station posted a fugitive's mugshot on its Facebook page, the cheeky lad wrote in from his personal account: "Catch me if u can."

"In the past it's taken us several weeks to get a hold of him," Inspector Umer Khan, who runs the department's Facebook page, told NBC News.

But the very next day, the runner, 19-year-old Sam Greenwood, was spotted and arrested by a squad car out on patrol.

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Friday, May 17, 2013

The dog with 1.5 million followers on Facebook


His name is Beast. His owner is also the owner (or, more precise founder) of Fabook, Mark Zuckerberg

Non-humans crowd Facebook


Facebook loves to talk about its ridiculously high number of users. Yes, Facebook has a whole lot of accounts, but many of them aren't humans. eMarketer released an analysis of Facebook's audience, and it turns out more than 10 percent of Facebook's reported monthly users are not human. Over 100 million active Facebook users are pets, objects or brands.

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Hmm


Thursday, January 10, 2013

And now a Facebook for cats


If Facebook and Twitter are not enough to show how cute and adorable your fluffy cat is, it’s time to check out Catmoji. Malaysian developers have launched a special social network for cat lovers.

People with a feline fixation now have their own separate place to display love for their pets and post gigabytes of cat pictures without distressing their ailurophobic friends.

This new website will spare you of news, politics and relationship statuses focusing solely on the cats.

The website was thought-up and developed in Malaysia. The closed cat-loving community can be joined if you leave your request on the website.

The site also offers to find you cute cat pictures according to your mood.

You want girls, try "JB Compensated Dating Girls"

It appears that some Malaysian Internet users are using Facebook for more than just catching up with old friends.


A new Facebook group, said to be based in Johor Baru, appears to be offering sexual services.

Said to be run by a woman, the Facebook group, in Chinese and loosely translated as "JB Compensated Dating Girls", was created on Sept 9 last year and now has more than 2,400 "likes" or thumbs up from people.

The women involved, some of whom are only 16, apparently provide sexual favours and act as mistresses to any man who can keep them in a lifestyle they are accustomed to, reported Malaysian news website, The Daily Chilli.

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Don't want to go to jail, don't tweet and don't facebook


One teenager made offensive comments about a murdered child on Twitter. Another young man wrote on Facebook that British soldiers should "go to hell." A third posted a picture of a burning paper poppy, symbol of remembrance of war dead.

All were arrested, two convicted, and one jailed — and they're not the only ones. In Britain, hundreds of people are prosecuted each year for posts, tweets, texts and emails deemed menacing, indecent, offensive or obscene, and the number is growing as our online lives expand.

Lawyers say the mounting tally shows the problems of a legal system trying to regulate 21st century communications with 20th century laws. Civil libertarians say it is a threat to free speech in an age when the Internet gives everyone the power to be heard around the world.

Figures obtained by The Associated Press through a freedom of information request show a steadily rising tally of prosecutions in Britain for electronic communications — phone calls, emails and social media posts — that are "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character — from 1,263 in 2009 to 1,843 in 2011. The number of convictions grew from 873 in 2009 to 1,286 last year.

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