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Not everything is hacking

There’s just so many hackers these days, you know?

“Somebody hacked into my Facebook account”

“My ex hacked into my email”

“I hacked her MySpace”

“Hackers stole my bike”

Just because you are stupid and don’t know shit about Internet security, that doesn’t mean everybody else is a hacker. No, it’s not hacking if you are a dumbass and leave your Facebook logged in on a public computer. No, it’s not hacking if somebody breaks into your account if your password is your first name or “dog” or “sex”. No, you’re not a hacker if your ex girlfriend uses the same password for every goddamn thing on the Internet.

It’s NOT hacking. Hacking is a skill. If breaking into your account takes 30 seconds and a simple guess, then it’s not a skill, it’s just YOU BEING STUPID.

Don’t tell your password to anyone, don’t leave your accounts logged in, don’t pick one syllable passwords, pick a proper security question\answer combination and stop dating psychotic maniacs - and guess what - not that many “hackers” around you anymore. Problem solved. NEXT

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Things you should(n’t) post on Facebook

Sometimes I wish I could print articles like these and nail them to some people’s foreheads. I know they wouldn’t be able to read them like that. It would be purely for fun and/or anger management.

7 things you should be posting on Facebook

5 things you need to stop posting on Facebook

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Creatures of habit

Humans like habits, that’s for sure. For example, I have a habit of pointing out how ridiculous constant whining about website changes is.

Why? Because things change, usually for the better. Whenever Facebook implements a new feature or moves some button a couple inches to the right, all hell breaks loose. Whine whine whine. Whining does stack, unlike poison damage in some games. AND IT’S IRRITATING. SO STOP IT.

Maybe you have a legit pesonal reason for hating a design or new features, but you have to realize that not everyone hates them. What do you think - where would the Internet be today if everything somebody complained about got scrapped? Remember the times when you couldn’t tag people in Facebook comments? Or when notifications popped out in the bottom right part of the screen, next to chat options (and it didn’t have any sense since other requests popped up in the top left)? Every single of these got pissed on and got people pissed off. For no reason except your own, selfish habits.



Shockingly, your personal preferences aren’t that important to the big picture. Designers put a lot of hard work in designing these features and designs and (in most cases) know what they are doing better than you. It’s their job.

And then, at the end of the complaining cycle, you realize that this indeed IS BETTER, but you will probably say something like “I got used to it.” Yeah you did, because it’s better. Maybe you’d realize it much sooner if you hadn’t cried like a little girl because your favorite option is now left instead of right. BIG DEAL. Apologies to little girls out there, you have every right to cry about layouts. Go ahead, CRY.

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mashable:


The Internet’s love affair with Facebook might hit a rough patch from time to time, but there’s no denying that it’s the social networking giant…
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mashable:

Update: the domain from which the attack originates, fbhole.com, is now offline, which means the attack is over.

A new malware attack is spreading via Facebook’s news feed,…

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International Monty Python Facebook Status Day 

On May 10th, quote Monty Python in a status!

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Say hello to some new Facebook privacy issues. And say hello to Mark.

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Facebook updated their search box not only to include contacts and\or groups you already added\joined, but to instantly offer other related search results. It’s a small update, but very convenient. Also, the thumbnails are a bit bigger which is nice.

Facebook updated their search box not only to include contacts and\or groups you already added\joined, but to instantly offer other related search results. It’s a small update, but very convenient. Also, the thumbnails are a bit bigger which is nice.

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The secret to Farmville’s popularity is neither gameplay nor aesthetics.  Farmville is popular because in entangles users in a web of social obligations.   When users log into Facebook, they are reminded that their neighbors have sent them gifts, posted bonuses on their walls, and helped with each others’ farms.  In turn, they are obligated to return the courtesies.  As the French sociologist Marcel Mauss tells us, gifts are never free: they bind the giver and receiver in a loop of reciprocity.  It is rude to refuse a gift, and ruder still to not return the kindness. We play Farmville, then, because we are trying to be good to one another.  We play Farmville because we are polite, cultivated people.

Interesting thinking on why Farmville is so popular and such a bad idea.

Great article. It took me a while to stop playing completely, even when I didn’t harvest anymore I used to visit other people’s farms and help out. It’s a disease.