Tag Archives: Facebook

Facebook Adds Civil Unions & Domestic Partnerships To Relationship Status

Facebook users in America, Canada, Australia, Britain and several other countries now have two more options when announcing their relationship status: civil unions and domestic partnerships. The changes were made in consultation with Facebook’s Network of Support, a group that includes LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] organizations such as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the Gay, Lesbian, and …

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Photo Of The Day

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Tweet Of The Day – Robert Gibbs

As we saw last year in Iran, the roles of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube cannot be underestimated in these things.

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Facebook Vs. Wikileaks

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The Bermuda Triangle

JMG should be in there for some of you, I bet. Also, do the kids today even know about the Bermuda Triangle? (Source)

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Twitter Vs. Facebook

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Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Named TIME Magazine’s Person Of The Year

The two runners-up were WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Tea Party. TIME says about Zuckerberg: At 26, Zuckerberg is a year older than our first Person of the Year, Charles Lindbergh — another young man who used technology to bridge continents. He is the same age as Queen Elizabeth when she was Person of the Year, for 1952. But …

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Facebook To Reimburse Gay Staffers For Partner Benefit Tax Inequities

Facebook is joining the small but growing list of companies who are reimbursing their gay employees for the tax inequities incurred by carrying their partners on their insurance. The new policies follow similar announcements by Barclays, and also this year, Google. A handful of other large organizations, including Cisco, Kimpton Hotels and the Gates Foundation also cover these costs. Under …

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Kim Kardashian Is Dead

In one of the strangest World AIDS Day campaigns ever seen, Kim Kardashian (who is famous for something, apparently) and artists such as Lady Gaga, Ryan Seacrest, and Justin Timberlake are declaring their “digital deaths” and refusing to use Twitter or Facebook until they’ve raised a million dollars. The money goes to Alicia Keys’ Keep A Child Alive Foundation.

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Facebook To Trademark “Face”

Facebook has received notice that they are about to own the trademark on the word “face” whenever it is used in a social media context. There goes your idea for GayFace.com. The trademark covers the word face only in the context of “telecommunication services, namely, providing online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users …

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GOProud: The HRC Shouldn’t Care About “Faggot” Because Gays Are Dying In Iraq

“The irony here is stunning. The adults who run HRC are participating in a morally-reprehensible organized political hatchet job on a teenager all in the name of defending the victims of bigotry. Nothing is sacred to these liberal foot soldiers, no one is seen as off limits — not even a 16-year-old girl, and even an issue as serious as …

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NOM Thinks You’re Mentally Ill

Good As You points out the above diatribe from NOM’s Facebook moderator Louis Marinelli. So much for NOM’s incessant protestations that they aren’t anti-gay, that they totally respect LGBT people, etc etc.

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GOProud’s Tammy Bruce: Willow Palin Isn’t A Homophobe Because Gay Men In WeHo Call Each Other “Faggot” Too

CORRECTION: The below quote is from GOProud board member Tammy Bruce, not their chairman Chris Barron as I first posted. This is first time I’ve seen Bruce speak on their behalf, hence my error. TMZ went to GOProud for their opinion on homophobic language. That in itself is hilarious. At least TMZ put them in their place. GOProud just told …

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Willow Palin: Homophobic On Facebook

Willow Palin’s Facebook page erupted into a flame war on Sunday after one of her friends criticized Sarah Palin’s Alaska, prompting Willow to fire back with a slew of homophobic slurs. TMZ reports: Sarah Palin’s 16-year-old daughter Willow used multiple homophobic slurs — including the word f**got — to attack a Facebook user who criticized her mom’s new reality show …

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FEDS: Even If You Friend Your Boss, He Can’t Fire You For Facebook Dissings

A federal labor agency has ruled that social media postings are protected speech that employers cannot use against staffers. In what labor officials and lawyers view as a ground-breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page. This is …

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Nov. 17th Is National Unfriend Day

IRONICALLY RELATED: I’m at the “friend limit” on Facebook and while I do totally care what you had for lunch, you’ll have to join the JMG fan page to tell me.

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Facebook Knows When You’ll Break Up

By tracking the changes in relationship statuses, Facebook can predict when you’ll be more likely to break up. The peak times to find yourself suddenly single is during spring break (duh) and right before Christmas (no presents!).

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I See What You Did There

Step 1: Change your Facebook profile photo to a letter of the alphabet. Step 2: Enlist your friends to do the same. Step 3: Comment on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page in a certain order. Result: Hilarity. (Source)

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Deep Jury Doody

If you’re going to alter a jury duty summons with your dad’s name on it so you can tell your boss you’re on a vehicular homicide trial, you probably shouldn’t leave the doctored summons on your office desk. And then brag about your vacation to fabulous Baltimore on Facebook. A Staten Island human-resources manager with a history of financial scams …

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FRC’s Tony Perkins: Facebook Is Cowardly For Deleting Bullying & Anti-Gay Pages

“If there were a status update for Facebook’s entire site, it might say something like, ‘Jumping on the politically correct bandwagon.’ Last week, the social media giant officially friended the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to ‘end hate speech and anti-gay bullying’ on the Internet. The new partnership, which made a splash in the mainstream news, is significant …

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