Tag Archives: Facebook

Anonymous has hacked the Facebook page of Westboro Baptist Church and replaced most of the posts with photos of cats and pro-gay graphics. (Tipped by JMG reader Birdie) UPDATE: Some suspect that the hacking is just a parody page, but WBC’s main website appears to be down also at the moment, so who knows?

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has posted the above mockery of the most famous profile avatar in Facebook history.  The scriptural reference does seem apt:  “Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division.”  At this writing over 200 angry comments have been posted under the photo.  It doesn’t appear that …

Buzzfeed reports an interesting stat: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tells BuzzFeed it has seen more than 10 million views of an image it posted on its Facebook page of the Supreme Court and a rainbow flag Tuesday. That makes the online effort the most-viewed in DCCC history. The image also garnered nearly half a million Facebook likes. Though not …

John Aravosis wonders how well-known gay blogs would be portrayed in this style. (Via AmericaBlog)

The Wall Street Journal reports: Facebook is testing whether to follow Twitter’s lead and allow users to click on a hashtag to pull up all posts about similar topics or events so it can quickly index conversations around trending topics and build those conversations up, giving users more reason to stay logged in and see more ads. Instagram, which Facebook …

According to Forbes Magazine, there are presently 1342 billionaires in the world. Other notables on the list: Michael Bloomberg (#13, $27B), Jeff Bezos (#19, $25B), Sergey Brin (#21, $23B), George Soros (#30, $19B), Mark Zuckerberg (#66, $13B), Rupert Murdoch (#91, $11B), Giorgio Armani (#131, $8B),  Donald Trump (#423, $3B),  Oprah Winfrey (#503, $3B), and Peter Thiel (#931, $1.6B).

Visit the pro-gay March 4 Marriage page on Facebook.

Dan Savage call this “another attempt at Grindr for straights.” By definition the guys a woman meets through Bang With Friends aren’t strangers. These are guys that the women on the site know. (In theory at least—some people are Facebook friends with strangers.) And while a woman can certainly be victimized, infected, sexually assaulted, or knocked up by a guy …

“I, for one, have a lot of questions about Chris Christie, particularly because less than a year ago he vetoed a marriage equality bill in the New Jersey state legislature. Which for me personally, I got married to my husband last June, [it] was just really personally frustrating. I mean, there are tens of thousands of couples in New Jersey …

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will host a fundraiser for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in his California mansion. A Facebook spokeswoman said Zuckerberg appreciates education reform efforts made in New Jersey. “Mark and (his wife) Priscilla have worked closely with Governor Christie on education reform in the Newark school system,” Sarah Feinberg said. “They admire his leadership on education reform …

Over the weekend Facebook-owned Instragram pulled the photos that its users had posted to Twitter. In a company blog post, Twitter said that Instagram has “disabled photo integration with Twitter,” though tweeting links to Instagram photos is still possible. Photos from Instagram no longer appear in Twitter user photo galleries. In an interview at a Paris tech show last week, …

Towleroad tips us to this new Facebook group. The top entry at this writing: I met Brian in 2010 at an event in Allentown. We got to talking and he said he would like to take me to a Central Catholic boy’s wrestling match. I didn’t think much of it and said I would love to join him. At the …

There’s now a Christians-only take on Facebook: Our primary business model is based on memberships, not advertising. Our goal is to provide an online environment with few distractions. And while some ad-driven networks may be designed to consume your time, we design to conserve it. We don’t track “friends” on Faithbuddy, and we’ve made social following anonymous. That removes social …

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(Tipped by JMG reader Nathan)

Posted today to Sarah Palin’s Facebook page. Sample comment: “Is it Democrat season already?” Also: “Get out a Pelosi target to practice.”

NOM’s Minnesota branch is super upset that people are using Facebook to try to convince their supporters not to be horrible bigots. What nerve! “Minnesota United For All Families is encouraging its own supporters to use a new Facebook tool, the ‘kNOw tool,’ to stalk Minnesotans who plan to vote YES on the Marriage Amendment,” said Autumn Leva, Spokesperson for …

A Facebook page titled “Support Prince Harry With A Naked Salute” already has thousands of posted photos. Many are from soldiers, most are not.