Not that there's a particularly intelligent reason to get the face of a person you've never met tattooed on your butt, but even as crappy reasons go, this one is truly asinine.
Last Friday, an assistant manager at a Hamburg, New York Wal-Mart posted the above image to Facebook: a photo of two Muslim women customers shopping in his upstate store, along with the caption, “Halloween came early this year ... do they really have to fuckin dress like that ... your in my country ... get that fuckin shit off!!!!!.”
Early Wednesday morning, someone claiming to be Hafez Assad, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's 11-year-old son, wrote a Facebook post daring Americans to attack Syria. "I just want them to attack sooo much, because I want them to make this huge mistake of beginning something that they don't know the end of it,” part of the post reads. But is the profile real? There's strong evidence that it is.
It's not every day that someone actually buys Domino's Pizza on purpose and then proceeds to enjoy what they bought.
Last week, The Brewer's Cabinet, a restaurant in Reno, Nevada, filed a police report after a patron left without paying his bill. Not satisfied with the police report, the restaurant also posted a picture of the man to the company's Facebook page, hoping to warn other local businesses. The post went viral, gathering hundreds of shares and likes, and at least three other local restaurants confirmed that the same man owed them money.
Cameron D'Ambrosio spent more than 30 days in jail for a Facebook post. On May 1, the high-school senior from Methuen, Massachusetts was playing hooky when he posted rap lyrics that referenced the Boston Marathon bombing and called the White House a "federal house of horror." His school contacted the local cops, who arrested the kid and charged him with "terroristic threats," a felony punishable for up to 20 years in prison.
A Texas teen has been jailed since late March for what his father says was just a dumb joke he posted on Facebook.
An Atlanta-area teen is suing her former school district for using a Facebook photo of her in a bikini as part of a student seminar on the importance of exercising caution when uploading photos to the web.
The National Security Agency and Silicon Valley are both after the same thing: You.
Late last week, Facebook announced that it would be reworking the set of various formats it offers to advertisers, to "simplify" its ad offerings. Among the changes, Ad Age reported, will be the end of a product called "sponsored stories" (although a Facebook executive said the stories would survive "as an idea"). Wired wrote that the changes will make it so that "every ad is automatically retrofitted with a social component."
