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When Tommy Jordan came across a Facebook post written by his teenage daughter complaining about how she had to do chores, he decided to film his response and upload it to YouTube:
This dramatic situation started when Jordan discovered a Facebook post from Hannah, complaining about her daily life at home. The note, which Jordan read and analyzed in his sit-down chat with the camera, takes issue with the slew of chores she’s forced to do each day. “To my parents: I’m not your damn slave,” the note begins. The teenage angst bleeds from the note, as Hannah proposes that her parents pay her for the chores that she does. This point, in particular, sets off Jordan, an IT worker from Albemarle, N.C., who proceeds to delineate how entitled Hannah sounds in the note. But that wasn’t the only punishment he planned for his daughter’s supposedly “hard” life.
“That right there is your laptop,” he explains, filming the newly-upgraded computer perched vulnerably in the grass. “This right here is my .45.” A quick cock of the gun, and Hannah’s laptop takes a shot through the screen. In the next 30 seconds, he proceeds to empty his gun, and the bullets shatter the computer’s plastic shell.
What do you think Neatoramanauts? A justified or over-the-top reaction? Link | The YouTube video clip
Poke! Happy Birthday, Facebook! Not only is today Facebook's birthday, but no doubt that you've also heard that Facebook is going to go public soon. The $5 billion IPO will surely be a spectacle to watch - but you know what's missing? A Facebook theme song.
That's where Daniel Koren steps in. The New York-based musician and his 10 closest buddies (all clones of himself) called the Koren Ensemble, has created a little something to celebrate the social media giant's growth through the years.
Eleven floating heads? What's not to ... um, like? Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Daniel!
Previously on Neatorama: Daniel's Eleven Heads on 11/11/11
So is this better or worse than having a Cloud Girlfriend? Will the position of girlfriend, once a local affair, become an outsourced industry?
I’m Cathy, a 23 year old student and I live in New York city. There’s a second option by the way: If you want a few messages (3 max.) on your profile to make somone jealous that’s also possible, just send me the message(s) and the facebook-link!
Link -via Glenn Reynolds
This Facebook themed shower curtain isn’t creepy because of the graphics or text printed on it, but rather because it assumes you’ll have people spying on you while you take a shower!
And, while it may be meant for couples or roommates comfortable with sharing their shower time with others, I’m sure even in those situations it would get old quickly, prompting them to wonder “where did you put the plain old shower curtain I used to know and love?”
Link –via Geekosystem
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Got someone who lives and breathes Facebook? Well, now you can help 'em sleep on Facebook, too!
Behold the Facebook bed by Tomislav Zvonaric of DevianTom. It's only a concept, but I know you're all liking it, am I right or am I right?
A woman in Sandy, Utah, was held against her will, along with her 17-month-old son, for almost five days by the father of her child. He had taken her cell phone and refused to let her leave, but she eventually found a laptop and was able to access Facebook.
Police Sgt. Jon Arnold said the woman hid in a closet with a laptop to post her plea for help on the social networking website, saying she and her son would be “dead by morning” if they were not rescued.
The post prompted someone to call police, who went to the home to check on the woman’s welfare.
“Facebook was her only outlet that she had at the home,” Arnold said. “It just happened that she was able to use it.”
Police arrested Troy Reed Critchfield, 33, and booked him into jail Saturday for investigation of aggravated kidnapping, forcible sodomy, aggravated assault, domestic violence, child abuse, animal cruelty and other charges.
Critchfield was on probation for charges related to a domestic violence incident. Link -via The Daily What
(Image credit: Salt Lake County Jail)
Got
an embarassing drunk photo of yourself posted on Facebook? You're in good
company:
On average, adult users of the social networking website said they were under the influence of alcohol in 76 per cent of the pictures in which they were "tagged".
With Christmas party season in full swing, more than half of those surveyed said that there were photographs of them on Facebook they would not want colleagues or employers to see, and 8 per cent admitted to appearing in pictures that could get them into "serious trouble" at work.
Despite such fears fears for their own image online, the poll also found that two thirds of Britons had intentionally tagged friends in embarrassing photos so other friends would be alerted.
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You are now that much closer to Kevin Bacon. A recent study showed that Facebook has reduced the "Six Degrees of Separation" - the distance between you and any other person on Earth - down to four:
Using state-of-the-art algorithms developed at the Laboratory for Web Algorithmics of the Università degli Studi di Milano, we were able to approximate the number of hops between all pairs of individuals on Facebook. We found that six degrees actually overstates the number of links between typical pairs of users: While 99.6% of all pairs of users are connected by paths with 5 degrees (6 hops), 92% are connected by only four degrees (5 hops). And as Facebook has grown over the years, representing an ever larger fraction of the global population, it has become steadily more connected. The average distance in 2008 was 5.28 hops, while now it is 4.74.
Thus, when considering even the most distant Facebook user in the Siberian tundra or the Peruvian rainforest, a friend of your friend probably knows a friend of their friend. When we limit our analysis to a single country, be it the US, Sweden, Italy, or any other, we find that the world gets even smaller, and most pairs of people are only separated by 3 degrees (4 hops).
Dividing
homes, cars, and kids in a divorce is oh-so-last year. The new trend in
divorce today is handing over each other's Facebook passwords.
That's what a judge in Connecticut has ordered:
At the end of September, Judge Kenneth Shluger ordered that the attorneys for Stephen and Courtney Gallion exchange “their client’s Facebook and dating website passwords.”
Everyone knows that evidence from social networking sites comes in handy for lawsuits and divorces. Attorneys usually get that material by visiting someone’s page or asking that they turn over evidence from their page, not by signing into their accounts. But judges are sometimes forcing litigants to hand over the passwords to their Facebook accounts.
Link - via TIME (Photo: Ahmad Faizal Wahya/Shutterstock)
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Artist Aakash Nihalani was commissioned to produce art specifically for Facebook’s offices in New York City. The wall mural shown is called Domino. See the other works at his site. Link
Previously: Aakash Nihalani’s Street Art
See something you like on the NeatoShop's Zombie Shop? I imagine a zombie fan would "like" our gory products such as the Zombie Door Stop, My Zombie Family Car Stickers and Zombie Back Scratcher with this dismembered thumbs up hand, and post 'em on Zombiebook!
Actually, that's a clever bit of gory advertising by DraftFCB in Lisbon, Portugal for the Fantasporto International Horror Film Festival. Via AdFreak
Maybe. Parts of your brain, anyhow.
According to new research, those who are most active in social media have
larger brain parts than others (even when compared to those who are social
in real life):
How social you are on social networks may depend on the size of your brain, according to new research. Or, at least, the size of your superior temporal sulcus, middle temporal gyrus, entorhinal cortex and amygdalae.
The research, from University College in London, discovered that those who are more social in general tend to have larger amygdalae than their peers, but that those who are more social online also have increased sizes of the right superior temporal sulcus, the left middle temporal gyrus and the right entorhinal cortex. For those curious: The superior temporal sulcus is known to give cues about others' emotions, while the middle temporal gyrus helps us react to said social cues. The entorhinal cortex, meanwhile, has been linked to our memory.
Researchers are uncertain what this information means or, more interestingly, whether the larger brain sections are the cause or the result of the size of the subjects' social networks.
Graeme McMillan of TIME's Techland reports: Link
If you love geeky (and raunchy) webcomic, look no further than Fredo & Pidjin by Eugen Erhan and Tudor Muscalu. The weekly comic features the adventures of two mischevious, nay make that evil, pigeons.
Check 'em out: Link
We've also teamed up with the artists to bring you the official Fredo & Pidjin T-Shirts:
Your purchase helps support Fredo & Pid'jin artists, who get royalties with every purchase. See: Fredo & Pidjin T-shirts at the NeatoShop
The Facebook bra is a great way to boost your self confidence or a great way to show your lady that you like what she’s packing.
If
you find Facebook's facial recognition and photo tagging kind of creepy,
the police may find it downright dangerous.
Mike Keelty, a former Australian Federal Police commissioner, said that Facebook may make undercover policing "impossible" in the future:
“The thinking we had with this result means that the 16-year-olds of today who might become officers in the future have already been exposed.
"It’s too late [for them to take it down] because once it’s uploaded, it’s there forever.”
Of the people surveyed, 85 per cent had their photos uploaded on to the internet by another person.
Keelty said that until recently this has been a real problem because Facebook refused to remove photographs, but because of competition from Google+ it had started to remove photos at people’s request.
Alarmingly, 42 percent of respondents said it would be possible to identify their relationship with other people, including family and friends.
"If you have someone in the service who is trying to remain anonymous for whatever reason, it is still possible through other relationships to find them," Keelty said.
Link - via Schneier on Security
The image above is from the undisputed best movie of the century, Undercover Brother.
Does your ego need a cheap boost? Make one of these portable and wear it around your neck!
My prediction: the future of augmented reality includes upvote and downvote buttons for individual people. In the meantime, we’ll have to be satisfied with this interactive object built by Mario Klingemann and displayed at the UAMO festival in Munich.
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Call
the court system old and stodgy all you want, but they do tend to frown
upon jurors interacting with the defendants, much less friending them
on Facebook.
Here's what a young juror in Texas learned the hard way about how not to mix social media and jury duty:
Hudson was a juror on a Tarrant County civil case last month when he tried to "friend" the defendant and discussed the case on his Facebook page, according to court records. The woman notified her lawyer who, in turn, told the presiding judge, Wade Birdwell.
Last week, Hudson, 22, pleaded guilty to four counts of contempt of court related to the matter. He was sentenced to two days of community service, which will be chores assigned to him by the jury bailiff next month.
Officials in the Tarrant County district attorney's office said this is the first instance they are aware of in which a juror used social media to contact a person involved in an ongoing case.
"I've never seen this before," prosecutor Chris Ponder said. "But I'm afraid this is a new reality as the technology is so ubiquitous that we'll have these types of things occur."
Link - via Mashable (Photo: Shutterstock)
If you love silly historical Facebook posts like the one above, then you’ll love Oddee’s collection of them. Don’t miss the reader contributions at the bottom for even more funny fake posts.
Is Facebook’s “like” button violating German privacy laws by providing the social network with information on state websites? According to government officials they are and have removed them from all state websites. Facebook says nein!
Last Friday, Thilo Weichert, head of the data protection agency in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, ordered that all state institutions remove Facebook “Like” functionality from their websites. Embedded Facebook “Like” widgets apparently pass information from the website where they live to Facebook headquarters back in the states. This, according to Weichert, is in violation of German and European privacy law. Facebook, of course, disagrees.
A Facebook spokesperson, who remained unnamed by company policy, admitted that Facebook headquarters does receive information, such as IP addresses, from users on pages with the Like widget. He also pointed out that the information is deleted within 90 days, a time period that matches up with industry standards.
One of my high school teachers once told our class, “if you’re going to be stupid enough to do something illegal, at least don’t be stupid enough to put it on camera.” That was before the days of Facebook and YouTube, but it seems like the best advice you can give people these days is what my teacher said, followed by “and if you’re stupid enough to put it on camera, for the love of God, don’t be stupid enough to upload it on to the internet.”
Vanessa Starr Palm and Alexander Daniel Rust certainly wish they got this advice and heeded it before they visited the Bahamas, killed an endangered lizard, ate it, documented the whole thing with photos and then uploaded the images onto Facebook.
The couple has been charged with violating an animal protection act and may also face additional charges for breaking a U.S. law that bans committing a crime in a country with a relationship to the U.S.
If you enjoy these sorts of stories, be sure to check out more funny Facebook crime stories over at Oddee.
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You may or may not have seen some warnings on your friends Facebook posts the past few days warning of the social network’s importation of all your cell phone contacts. While this is true if you use the Facebook application for your smart phone, the company denies that is publishing all of your contact info without your consent. What has your experience been with Facebook phone book tool? Find out if your numbers have been saved by Facebook:
To see the phonebook that’s causing all the fuss, click on Account in Facebook’s top right corner, then click on Edit Friends, and click Contacts at the left side. Indeed, Facebook does store a list of phone numbers, both contacts you have imported from your phone as well as information your Facebook friends have themselves added.
Looks like Domino’s is capitalizing on the trend of revitalizing ’80s and ’90s ad campaigns and programming, because the Noid is back! (Remember when he had his own video game?) If you like Domino’s on Facebook, you can play their Noid shootout game and receive a coupon for a free pizza if you’re the high scorer that round. I played once and didn’t even come close to winning, but you’re probably much more talented than I am. Good luck.
Aaron Wood created three propaganda posters featuring social media giants Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Excuse me while I head on over to Facebook to help out my friends' farms (I hear that there's also a war against mafia brewing. My help is needed!): Link - via +PeteCashmore
Comments Off Remember Mel Gibson’s movie The Man Without A Face? This is what that tale of a isolated and introverted man would be about if it were made today, courtesy of Dan De Lorenzo & Ben Stumpf. -via The Daily What
Steven Zezulak developed an application that will create the impression that you’ve updated your Facebook status from a variety of different technologies, food products, or dubious anatomical locations. See if you can trip up your friends. Link and reddit Thread -via Geekosystem
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Chase Mitchell has pretty much nailed it in this piece, right down to the appropriate profile pictures. Read the rest at the link. Link -via QA Hates You
“Two Boys”, a new opera at the ENO London Coliseum, highlights the profoundly weird behavior we engage in online. Watch as this guy takes his Facebook and Twitter activity to the streets. “Do you want to be my friend? Can I poke you? What’s your comment?” If you’re going to be London-bound sometime between June 24 and July 8, you can pick up tickets to the show on the Two Boys website.
via Gizmodo
Facebook lets me keep in touch with colleagues, friends and my grandma. But one pair of divorcees used everyone’s (least?) favorite social media site to destroy one another from afar in what turned out to be a pretty sneaky double-cross.
Angela Voelkert, 29, set up her ex by creating a false Facebook identity, 17-year-old “Jessica Studebaker.” (By the way, that’s a big no-no with Facebook’s terms of service.) She used the profile to exchange messages with the ex, David Voelkert, 38 of South Bend, Ind. On June 1, Angela Voelkert used the information to apply for a restraining order against her ex-husband, who spent four days in custody until a judge dismissed charges yesterday.
The charges against David Voelkert focused on him allegedly placing a GPS device on his ex-wife’s car to track her, for purposes of finding someone to “take care of” and “put a cap in her ass” for $10,000 — as revealed by these Facebook messages.
But, it seems Voelkert was onto his ex-wife, and knew she embroiled him in a sting operation. And just as she was trying to use the information against him in the fight for custody of their kids, he did the same by feeding the faker with an elaborate plan.
Federal prosecutors were prompted to drop the charges after an affidavit emerged filed by David Voelkert days earlier, on May 25, that revealed he knew “Jessica” wasn’t a real person.
“I am lying to this person,” he stated, “to gain positive proof that it is indeed my ex-wife trying to again tamper in my life. Anything said in the chat to her from me cannot be held as the truth and I am chatting to this person in attempts to prove to my court that my ex-wife will not leave my personal life alone … In no way do I have plans to leave with my children or do any harm to Angela Dawn Voelkert or anyone else.”
He, in turn, wanted to use this as evidence in their ongoing custody case. His ex-wife used exchanges between him and “Jessica” dated May 31 as her evidence in obtaining the restraining order.
The charges were dropped and Voelkert no longer lists a “Jessica Studebaker” as a friend on Facebook.
Link | Image: iconfactory
So it seems Susyj87′s briefly infamous Facebook friends tattoo was a hoax. Not only was the tattoo a fake (a transfer that only lasted a few days), but the video itself was a promo piece for a company called Pretty Social that makes custom gift items using your Facebook photos. As much as I hated the idea of a woman walking around with 152 faces permanently stamped on her arm, I hate this even more.
Sigh. Why are people so weird? This woman got a massive tattoo of 152 of her nearest and dearest Facebook BFFs’ faces tattooed on her arm. As in, permanently etched onto her body. I hope none of these people are fair-weather friends; how does one unfollow a face inked into their skin?
