Tag: Social Networking

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“She Announced Her Suicide Via Facebook”

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And not one of her over 1,000 Facebook friends reached out to her to help.

Forty-two year-old Simone Back announced her intention to commit suicide in a status update on her Facebook page.

According to the Daily Mail, Back, who committed suicide on Christmas Day, wrote in her Facebook status, “Took all my pills be dead soon bye-bye everyone.”

What followed was a series of callous posts from some of Back’s Facebook friends “Some of the Facebook friends posted messages calling her a liar and one said it was ‘her choice’.

Seventeen hours later, police broke down the door of Back’s flat on Montague Street, in Brighton, and found her dead.

Back’s mother told the Daily Mail that none of her daughter’s online friends attempted to help her in person.

Back is not the first to announce her intention to commit suicide via Facebook. In 2010, a Rutgers University student, Tyler Clementi, who posted a status update on Facebook that read “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry” and his body was found soon after in the Hudson River.

Are all of your Facebook contacts really friends?

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“Did This Heifer Raise Her 1 Million For AIDS?”

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The singer was highly criticized by her followers on Twitter.com Wednesday, after she broke her own vow not to tweet until she had raised $1 million for AIDS research.

Alicia Keys rocked a tight black dress at an event for The Cinema Society on Wednesday night, displaying a remarkable post-baby body less than two months after giving birth.

Keys tweeted a number that her followers could text to “buy” her life back. But apparently, her followers didn’t care if she came back to life or not.

Therefore, she deleted her tweets once her followers protested.

So is she really serious about her cause? 

The poorly received ‘Dead Celebrities’ campaign, featuring stars such as Serena Williams and Ryan Seacrest lying in open caskets, has raised less than $100,000 so far.

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“Alicia Keys Boycotts Facebook & Twitter”

The ReadyWriter

For a greater good!

Celebrities have joined a new campaign called Digital Life Sacrifice on behalf of Alicia Keys’ charity, Keep a Child Alive.

The entertainers plan to sign off of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday, which is World AIDS Day. The participants will sign back on when the charity raises $1 million.

“It’s really important and super-cool to use mediums that we naturally are on,” Keys said in a phone interview from New York last week.

For the campaign – which also includes Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams, Janelle Monae and Keys’ husband, Swizz Beatz – celebrities have filmed “last tweet and testament” videos and will appear in ads showing them lying in coffins to represent what the campaign calls their digital deaths.

“It’s so important to shock you to the point of waking up,” Keys said. “It’s not that people don’t care or it’s not that people don’t want to do something, it’s that they never thought of it quite like that.”

Keys who has 2.6 million followers on twitter said, the foundation, which began in 2003, will accept donations through text messages and bar-code technology, which is featured in the charity’s Buy Life campaign and will raise efforts to support families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.

Of course media whore, Kootie/Kim Kardasian (pictured below) is the first to leak her ad for the cause.

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“NJ Pastor Tell Married Members… To Ditch”

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Facebook!

Thou shalt not commit adultery. And thou also shalt not use Facebook.!!!

The Rev. Cedric Miller said 20 couples among the 1,100 members of his Living Word Christian Fellowship Church have run into marital trouble over the last six months after a spouse connected with an ex-flame over Facebook.

The Neptune, NJ pastor, is ordering about 50 married church officials to delete their accounts with the social-networking site or resign from their leadership positions.

At first he had asked, his married congregants to share their login information with their spouses, and now plans to suggest they give up Facebook altogether.

“I’ve been in extended counseling with couples with marital problems because of Facebook for the last year and a half,” he said. “What happens is someone from yesterday surfaces, it leads to conversations and there have been physical meet-ups. The temptation is just too great.”

On Sunday, he plans to “strongly suggest” that all married people stop using Facebook, lest they endanger their marriages.

“The advice will go to the entire church,” he said. “They’ll hear what I’m asking of my church leadership. I won’t mandate it for the entire congregation, but I hope people will follow my advice.”

Sorry people but I agree with Pastor Miller, people use Facebook as an opportunity to invite others to social gatherings, to share Scripture or talk about what went on at church, for businesses., etc. and those are all positive and worthwhile things but the downside can be just too great.

It’s an individual’s choice and an individual’s decision but a useful tool can become a trick of the enemy.

Oh and the picture represents what the Bible says: “if something causes you to sin, whether it’s your eye, hand or foot, you should cut it off, because it’s better to be blind or lame and going to Heaven than to have all your parts and end up going to Hell”

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“8 Reasons To Date & Marry A White Man”

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I received an email from a loyal reader who wanted to share with me, eight reasons why I should marry a white man, instead of holding out for an African-American brotha.

Warning: his reasons may piss you off, but everyone is clearly entitled to their own opinion (s).

Hey Tracy,

Have you ever considered dating outside of your race? Black men are doing it and seeing in other women what they don’t see in their own.

I just wanna ask you baby, what are you waiting for? A solid committment and the ring?

Let me give you eight reasons IMO, why you should set your sights on Mr. white, in order to make it right!

  1. If he’s gay he’s going to tell you, not be on the down low and have you trying to figure that shit out.
  2. White men have a stronger family structure, they’ll take care of you, not look for you to take care of them. They come from a 2 parents household (like you and me).
  3. Your education will be respected not intimidating.
  4. White men don’t have illegitimate children all over the globe with 2, and 3 baby mammas.
  5. White men understand what defines manhood and that’s minus a thug life.
  6. They spend money they have, and are not going broke trying to impress you.
  7. White men don’t live in your past but will embrace you as their future
  8. and lastly Ms. Bell, white men are secure by a women’s strong ambitions, not threatened.

Stop waiting for a black prince charming because he’s never going to come. It’s time to taste the unknown baby.

Ok CEO family, I’m looking for you to sound off!! I wanna know what you think about hooking up outside of one’s race?