Posted on 03 June 2013
Tags: alexandra lenas, facebook, napster, sean parker, wedding
Sean Parker released the first picture of his fairy-tale wedding. The former Facebook president and Napster co-founder is now hitched to singer-songwriter Alexandra Lenas. The $2 billion man is pictured with his new bride in the Big Sur forest outside San Jose, California. The couple tied the knot in front of 300 guests. The Daily Mail [...]
Posted on 05 May 2013
Tags: dzokhar tsarnaev, facebook, qiwi wallet, russia, vkontakte
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, online support for the surviving suspect is growing in his home country of Chechnya and in Kazakhstan. Police have launched an investigation after posters in support of 19-year-old suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev appeared on the wall of underpasses in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, and in Kazakhstan. The posters are [...]
Posted on 08 April 2013
Tags: facebook, mark zuckerberg, message
Facebook has begun to charge users who send messages to people they aren’t friends. The social networking site is charging a fee of up to £10 ($15) to send a message to a person’s inbox. Users of the social networking site will have to pay higher fees based on the followers a person has. Sending a message [...]
Posted on 28 March 2013
Tags: activism, amina, facebook, femen, tunisia
A Tunisian FEMEN activist who posted a topless photo of herself on Facebook has been accused by a Tunisian Salfi preacher of committing a crime that should be punished with death. Alami Adel was quoted by a Tunisian paper – Assabah News – as saying that 19-year-old Amina “must be quarantined” for what she did. [...]
Posted on 15 March 2013
Tags: facebook, misty vanhorn, mother, sons
Misty Van Horn, a 22-year-old mother, was arrested for allegedly trying to sell her two children on Facebook. Van Horn tried to sell her two-year-old and 10-month-old sons for $4,000 to get her husband out of jail. As Newsok.com reports, she wanted to sell her offspring to an unidentified woman in Fort Smith, Ark. Van Horn [...]
Posted on 25 February 2013
Tags: account, facebook, instagram, madonna
NEW YORK – Instagram threatened to close Madonna’s Instagram account because she is posting unappropiate material. This is what the letter sent to Madonna by Instagram reads: “Hello Madonna, It has come to our attention that your account on Instagram has violated our community guidelines..” Amongst other rules, the Facebook-owned social network says: “Don’t share [...]
Posted on 22 February 2013
Tags: facebook, Marguerite Joseph, user
MIAMI, FLORIDA – 104 year-old Marguerite Joseph has to lie about her age on Facebook pretending to be 99. The family of Marguerite tried to enter her year of birth but it was rejected by Facebook. This is what her granddaughter Gail Marlow said: ‘All of our family members always asked how grandma was doing [...]
Posted on 07 February 2013
Tags: facebook, hiatus, rachel baier
A high-school student from Wellesly, Mass., found that staying away from Facebook can be rewarding. Rachel Baier, 14, has struck a deal that will giver her $200 at the end of a five-month Facebook hiatus. According to the deal signed with her father, Rachel will get $50 in April and $150 in June. To make sure the promise [...]
Posted on 31 January 2013
Tags: birth mother, facebook, search, woman
NEW YORK – An American woman managed to find her birth mother in just 3 days using Facebook. Jessica Simons, 21, posted a photo of her holding a sign with information about her mother. She was born at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo on Nov. 17, 1991. Her parents were both 16. They [...]
Posted on 18 January 2013
Tags: facebook, norway, sex
Peter Kreevneg is desperately trying to get laid with his friend Christine and posted a photo on Facebook to convince her. The sign says that he will get laid if the photo he uploaded less than 24 hours ago is liked more than 1 million times. Petter is close to achieving his goal. The photo [...]