( One has to sure that he adds ‘for children,adults hire people for them,I have posted on this)
A Pizza Waitress is spreading the message through her customers!
Story:
A breastfeeding mother at a pizza restaurant got the surprise of her life when she received a free pizza and a kind note on her receipt from a waitress.
So Johnson-Smith threw on a nursing cover and began discreetly breastfeeding her 12-month-old. “I usually don’t like to breastfeed in public because people can be judgmental,” she says.
This is where they got hooked: what the user actually did by entering his/her number was to subscribe to a ‘premium messaging service.’ In short, they would pay to receive a series of advertisements with costs ranging from $2 to $10 a message. Of course, a percentage of the money collected went to the conman behind ‘WhatsAppSpy’ for ‘referring’ the users to the ‘service.’
Smartphones come with a lot of Applications.
It has become trendy to buy a Smartphone with Applications galore, whether one uses it or not, it has become a Status(?) symbol
Knowing this, a scamster sent in advertising SMS to about 11,000 people and cashed in $50,000 in just two months!
Story:
Scam artist ‘robbed’ more than 11,000 users by sending them over eight million advertising messages – which they paid to receive.
A fictitious smartphone application dubbed ‘WhatsAppSpy’ was too tempting to resist for thousands of people who got stung in one of the latest Internet scams. Thanks to their gullibility, a 23year-old in Murcia, Spain pocketed more than $53,000 in only two months.
According to Spanish language news service EFE, the bait was a fictitious application that purportedly let users view messages that others sent via WhatsApp, one of the most popular instant messaging services around. Once the bait was prepared, the fraudster went fishing for fools on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. He managed to reel in over 11,000 subscribers who wanted to spy on the private messages of friends, co-workers, family, lovers, etc. – all ‘in real time, without any problems’ and ‘absolutely free!’
To begin using the supposed spy app, the suckers who swallowed the bait were told to visit the ‘WhatsAppSpy’ webpage to sign-up. Once they did that, they were redirected to another site which asked for their phone number in order to send them a code to download the application directly onto their device. This is where they got hooked: what the user actually did by entering his/her number was to subscribe to a ‘premium messaging service.’ In short, they would pay to receive a series of advertisements with costs ranging from $2 to $10 a message. Of course, a percentage of the money collected went to the conman behind ‘WhatsAppSpy’ for ‘referring’ the users to the ‘service.’
Facebook is used to share anything, let alone personal information..
It also comes as a time when France is facing a teen “binge-drinking” crisis they previously thought confined to the loutish shores of the UK and Scandinavia.
Recently I posted how Facebook comments were insulting to women and Facebook found that it had no objection!
Now a French Court has rued that Alcohol based Recipe in Facebook is banned.
Good move.
Story:
Judges from the Cour de Cassation ruled that the smartphone application, which allowed users to post a cocktail recipe directly to their walls with the message “You can get Ricard Mix recipes too on the Ricard Mix Codes app,” was ‘inopportune’.
They considered Facebook users logging on to find an advertisement from a friend would 1) Not recognise it as an advert because it was posted by someone they trust; 2) Be an unsuspecting recipient of advertising because all they thought they would find on Facebook was the usual fare you get on Facebook (boastful statements, endless photos of a pug/newborn baby/ holiday in Ibiza etc. etc.).
It’s not massively surprising that the July 3 ruling has gone unnoticed in France. The powers that be have a history of wrapping their public in cotton wool when it comes to advertising. What might be considered patronising and unnecessary in other countries is deemed basic protection here.
The most obvious example is television advertising, which has to be clearly labelled as such, meaning that each time programming cuts to a commercial break, an “advertising” jingle is played. Just in case you thought you were watching a one-minute “documentary” about why driving a BMW makes you feel like a real man… followed by a very short film about a really fascinating cleaning product.
I think it’s fair to say this attitude – which, strangely, hails back to the days when advertising was so forthright it would seem entirely unnecessary – is pretty outdated. Especially in a case when teenagers are the concern – which is what the judges insisted was their priority in their verdict against Pernod Ricard.
I often wonder and aghast at the stupidity of the US Institutions, CIA,NSA.
Facebook Likes By US State Department.
Last year, I corrected a stupid mistake of CIA on India-this information is known to any one with common intelligence, even a foreigner)
With NSA they eavesdrop assiduously but miss the terrorists and other criminals.
Now you find some jokers in the State Department had spent % 6,30,000 for getting ‘Likes’ in Facebook!
As I had written earlier, Facebook likes are frivolous, and are marked in fun, with no seriousness, there are exceptions.
But to the State department this does not matter.
Story:
State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook “likes,” prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was “buying fans” in social media, the agency’s inspector general says.
“Many in the bureau criticize the advertising campaigns as ‘buying fans’ who may have once clicked on an ad or ‘liked’ a photo but have no real interest in the topic and have never engaged further,” the inspector general reported.
The spending increased the bureau’s English-language Facebook page likes from 100,000 to more than 2 million and to 450,000 on Facebook’s foreign-language pages.
Despite the surge in likes, the IG said the effort failed to reach the bureau’s target audience, which is largely older and more influential than the people liking its pages. Only about 2 percent of fans actually engage with the pages by liking, sharing or commenting.
In September 2012 Facebook also changed its approach to users’ news feeds, and the expensive “fan” campaigns became much less valuable. The bureau now must constantly pay for sponsored ads to keep its content visible even to people who have already liked its pages.
Another problem with the bureau’s social media outreach is a lack of strategy for reaching the right audience, the report said.
“The absence of a Department wide PD [public diplomacy] strategy tying resources to priorities directly affects IIP’s work. Fundamental questions remain unresolved. What is the proper balance between engaging young people and marginalized groups versus elites and opinion leaders?” the IG said.
The Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) is the State Department’s foreign-facing public diplomacy communications bureau. It provides and supports the places, content, and infrastructure needed for sustained conversations with foreign audiences to build America’s reputation abroad. IIP is led by Acting Coordinator Maureen Cormack.
IIP supports both physical and virtual places, including approximately 820 American Spaces around the world, as well as a growing social media community that numbers over 22 million followers. Content includes publications, video, and U.S. expert speakers, who engage foreign audiences both in person and through virtual programs. IIP manages the infrastructure for all embassy and consulate websites, translations of public remarks by the President and Secretary, and internal websites serving field public diplomacy officers.
Many get elated if they get Likes. especially if some one does it in Facebook.
I fail to understand the elation when some one likes your Spouse’s Photo!
If your writing is voted up, your joy knows no bounds,
If it is featured in the Front Page , Home Page ot the dash Board, well, ecstasy.
I still remain a Simpleton and distribute and forget about except for replying comments.
In fact I have been using Facebook, a micro-blogging site, but use it to provide Links to my posts, I do not even post it to Page, though my son insists that Facebook community is stronger and drives visitors in.
But I consider Facebook as basically non serious and frivolous,there are exceptions.
In a curious case Redditors have brought a Meme Company Down by sleuthing.
( I do share in Reddit and promptly forget it, do not even know whether it is voted up or buried.
Curiously I receive traffic from Reddit, to ana extent that in 2102 Reddit drove the maximum traffic to my site.
Now about the present story.
It has the ingredients of Greed,manipulations, Bribery,wrong promises and Sleuthing by the vigilant.
Read On.
In June 2011, the biggest meme-generating forum on the Internet held elections. The community’s moderators had become overwhelmed with its runaway popularity. Reddit’s r/AdviceAnimals needed help.
They got it in the form of redditor gtw08, the eventual winner.
Looking back, all the moderators remember thinking about gtw08 was that he was quiet. They’d barely ever communicated with him, and they certainly didn’t know his real name. His history on Reddit amounted to little more than link submissions to a relatively new site calledQuickmeme, where users type bold-faced captions on popular memes like Scumbag Steve and Success Kid…
These are known as image macros. They’re the bread and butter of r/AdviceAnimals, a community that would soon grow to more than 2.5 million users and dominate a certain part of Web culture, proliferating memes that bled into mainstream culture, from Ridiculously Photogenic Guy to Grumpy Cat.
And all along, gtw08 sat on the moderator rolls, holding immense power over which links survived and died in the subreddit.
This is the story how three redditors eventually brought him down, along with the biggest image macro site in the world…
Launched in July 2010, their meme-making site was soon seeing massive traffic. It simplified what had traditionally been a laborious process for one of the Internet’s favorite pastimes: putting funny captions on popular images. By the summer of 2012, Quickmeme was seeing 70 million unique visitors and a half-billion pageviews,according to Wayne Miltz…
Quickmeme was now netting the brothers around $1.6 million a month, according to independent analytics site Worth Of Web. The traffic came largely thanks to referral traffic from Reddit’s homepage—the self proclaimed “front page” of the Internet, which collects more than 71 million monthly visitors. Quickmeme was a fundamental part of the Reddit ecosystem.
You could even call the Miltzes Reddit-made millionaires…
In April 2012, a new competitor emerged in the meme-making landscape. Livememe looked like an outright Quickmeme clone, except for two crucial differences: It supported GIF animations and special effects…
The trail went cold.
Aware that other AdviceAnimals moderators were watching him closely, gtw08 began covering his tracks. He’d remove an unpopular Quickmeme post here and there, some Imgur posts, and then a popular Livememe link.
But at the same time, gtw08 was also hashing out conspiracy theories about Livememe to the other mods. The site was using bots to get its posts voted up to the frontpage, gtw08 claimed. And in a bid to get Livememe banned, he compiled data of this alleged botting scheme. The moderators didn’t see enough evidence, however, and voted against the ban.
You must be logged in to post a comment.