Here is a great Onion spoof on stalking your children. Not only does it crack me up, I know too many parents that would watch this and think it is a great idea! Some of my friends should be REALLY happy they didn’t have all of these social websites when they were in school. You know what I mean Travis?

Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

(Via Gizmodo)

I haven’t laughed this hard in awhile. This is some great posting on Facebook that makes you scramble for the little delete button. Have a few laughs:

Tracy talks about sex

Husband in Heaven?

Brian in the KKK

Fat Chick Lane

Steve pulls hit and run

Ok, now that you have had your laugh I will sadly ruin it for you. Those were actually from hacked accounts. Normally we would probably look down on the hacks, but you have to admit, this stuff is funny. All thanks to 4chan.

(Via Geekologie and 4chan)

This is just too funny, I am just going to post the Slashdot story since someone went through all the work of having several stories.

“Apparently the police like to spend their time trawling our private information on Facebook looking for criminals. ‘Riot police stormed a man’s 30th birthday barbecue for 15 guests because it was advertised as an “all-night” party on Facebook. Four police cars, a riot van, and a force helicopter were dispatched to a privately-owned field in a small village near Sowton, Devon in the UK on Saturday, ordering the party shut down or everyone would be arrested. The birthday barbecue was busted up before they even had a chance to plug the music in, reports the BBC. It was about 4pm when eight officers with camouflage pants and body armor jumped out of their vehicles and ordered everyone out about an hour into the party.’ The event’s organizer, Andrew Poole, said, ‘The police had full-on camouflage trousers on and body-armour, it was ridiculous. There were also several plain-clothes officers as well … they kept on insisting it has been advertised it as an all-night rave on the internet. The times on it were put as “overnight” in case people wanted to sleep-over, but after being explained this they were still banging on saying it was advertised on the internet. They wouldn’t accept it wasn’t a rave. It was in a completely isolated field.

How funny, can you even imagine. I wonder what other tags are being monitored . . .

(Via Slashdot)

When MySpace came out of the gate I made fun of it. A scaling social network site, running Cold Fusion, it was a disaster from the beginning. But it captured the world by storm, mostly because the only other true threat was Facebook. At the time Facebook was only open to those with a valid college email address, greatly limiting it’s base.

We all know what happened from there. What is really unknown is why the switch from MySpace to Facebook is occurring. I still can’t figure out where to find half the crap I am looking for in Facebook. And the contestant barrage of invites to crappy applications. But with the daily friend requests, you can see the service growing. Personally I feel MySpace was aiming at too young of a market. Facebook seems to be more accepting of all age ranges.

What the above graph shows is the vast change from MySpace to Facebook. And with MySpace only having one more big influx of funds coming, it is time to win back the audience or wither slowly away.

(Via TechCrunch)

Facebook Friend Lists can be utilized for a variety of purposes, but
the biggest draw for the average user is that they can label their
friends for easy adjustment of Profile Privacy Settings. Creating
Friend Lists may sound harsh or judgmental, but this categorization
happens every day in real life; Facebook just allows you to put it to
good use.

via mashable

(Via The West Australian.)