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Gmail Goes Social
Today Google is expected to announce a new Gmail feature that will mimic many of the features of Facebook and Twitter. Via Mashable: Gmail users can already update their statuses — sort of — through Gmail’s chat feature. Currently, this feature is more akin to the traditional IM “away message.” However, with this new social push, Gmail will offer a …
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Read More »Daily Grumble
A dozen or so times this week, wingnut lackeys have attempted to friend me on Facebook, thinking that I won’t just look at their friend list and see their connections to Tony Perkins, “Bishop” Harry Jackson, Matt Barber, etc. Dumbasses. Even though my Facebook page has tons of strangers on it, it’s very rare that I get a request from …
Read More »Sorry About That, Bill
I have a friend or two that have pulled this and gotten the response they feared.
Read More »The Digital Will
Every other time I log into YouTube, I get asked if I would like to subscribe to the channel of my lifelong friend Jorge Rodriquez, who died six months ago of a heart attack. The request doesn’t particularly trouble me, mostly because of how Jorge would have thought it was funny. But for many folks, such a daily online reminder …
Read More »Insurance Companies Paying Facebookers To Oppose Health Care Reform
Insurance companies have been busted paying Facebook members in virtual currency in return for sending their Congress members an email opposing health care reform. Facebook users play a social game, like “FarmVille” or “Friends For Sale.” They get addicted to it. Eager to accelerate their progress inside the game, the gamers buy “virtual goods” such as a machine gun for …
Read More »Today In Deadly Products…
If you thought the Laptop Steering Wheel Desk was stupid, check this out. It’s the perfect accessory for the BlackBerry-meets-Bugaboo crowd. A gizmo called Texthook lets parents strap phones to the bars of their strollers so they can text and e-mail without missing a step. The company that makes them said about 100 of the $30 devices have been bought …
Read More »Quote Of The Day – Russell Wisemen
“Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about …
Read More »NOM Included For Chase Bank’s Charity Donations Contest
Chase Bank is running a holiday contest on Facebook in which readers can vote for which charities should get a chunk of Chase’s $5M donation fund. Among the list of anti-gay (and gay-friendly) groups is NOM. Queerty notes that the drop-down menu of charities probably came from a “standard non-profit database provider, without much editing on Chase’s part.” But also …
Read More »Word Of The Year: Unfriend
The Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year for 2009 is “unfriend.” unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook. As in, “I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.” “It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US …
Read More »Quote Of The Day – Anonymous
A friend of mine wrote to angrily demand why I and a mutual friend had both become a “fan” of Carrie Prejean on Facebook. I responded that one must be a fan in order to post comments. Our mutual friend, who prefers to remain anonymous, had a much, much better response. I guess it was the first time I ever …
Read More »Definitely A Glenn Beck Follower
JMG reader Clark points out this bit of Facebook assholery, which Clark says has been up “for some time” despite many hits on the “report as offensive” button. You guys have an excellent track record on getting stuff like this pulled, so have at it. And let’s hope Facebook recorded the IP of the author. UPDATE: The poll’s been pulled …
Read More »Gay Bashers Unite On Facebook
How does crap like this survive more than a day on Facebook? Interestingly, they are using an image from from a book of homoerotic photos by noted gay lensman Michael Alago.
Read More »How To Get Fired Via Facebook
Audra Sigler Shay Elected Chairman Of Young Republicans
Despite last week’s flap that she’d encouraged racist language on her Facebook page, this weekend Audra Sigler Shay was elected the new chairman of the Young Republicans. Hundreds of delegates from across the country spurned the controversy in voting for leaders at the group’s convention at Downtown’s Hyatt Regency Indianapolis. Calling the posting political mudslinging, delegates selected Audra Shay, 38, …
Read More »Young Republicans Leader Audra Sigler Shay Accused Of Racism
The Daily Beast is following a growing rift among the Young Republicans after their vice president Audra Sigler Shay appeared to respond positively to a racist comment left on her Facebook page. On Wednesday, Shay—a 38-year-old Army veteran, mother, and event planner from Louisiana who has been endorsed by her governor, Bobby Jindal—was holding court on her Facebook page, initiating …
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Read More »Rep. Foxx Says She’s Getting Death Threats Over Matthew Shepard Remarks
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) says she has gotten death threats since yesterday’s House hate crimes debate during which she called the murder of Matthew Shepard a hoax. Foxx is now backing off her statement. A spokesperson for the congresswoman said Foxx’s office has received hate mail over the past 24 hours, including death threats. Foxx later said her comments didn’t …
Read More »Daily Grumble
OK, I gave it a few days. Really not liking the new Facebook. Really a lot. Upside: wasting much less time there!
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