Tamerlan, who was 26 when he was killed overnight in a shootout, dropped out after studying accounting at Bunker Hill Community College for just three semesters. He identified himself then as a Muslim and said he did not drink or smoke: “God said no alcohol.” He said he hoped to fight for the U.S. Olympic team and become a naturalized American.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev says no to drinking and smoking to concentrate on Facebook and killing.
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You have until April 15th to file a return – and the IRS will be collecting a lot more than just taxes this year. According to several reports, the agency will also be collecting personal information from sites like Facebook and Twitter. It says the effort is to catch people trying to beat the system, but some say it goes too far. Attorney Kristen Mathews warns to be careful with what you say on social media platforms. She has concerns the government is pushing the limits of what has historically been considered private.
IRS using Facebook to be your Facebook friend with no benefits..
Facebook has made the startling admission that teenagers are becoming bored with the social networking giant. Facing competition from younger, more agile and ‘cooler’ apps such as Snapchat and Instagram, Facebook fears its long-term business could be harmed. And as Facebook approaches its tenth anniversary the firm published its annual 10-K report last month revealing that its younger users are increasingly turning away from the multi-billion dollar business.
Though Facebook and Myspace are in discussions to create “Myoldfacespace” the site for people who don’t want to go to their 30 year class reunion.
Hillary Clinton has downplayed emails that suggest the White House knew an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11 just two hours after it took place.
The dismissal comes after three internal emails sent by her State Department staff surfaced in which officials specifically mention that Libyan group Ansar al-Sharia had claimed responsibility.
The Secretary of State said that the group’s claims of responsibility on Facebook and Twitter were not ‘evidence’ – and that they had also denied carrying out the attacks in the same time.
Clinton wants us to believe a video on Youtube intiated the attack in Libya, but disregard Facebook posts where terrorists take credit for attack.. Weak
Facebook (FB) already has 2,000 employees at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. But it’s preparing for a major expansion. Eventually, its current location—the East Campus—will hold 6,600 employees. Another 2,800 will occupy a second site, the West Campus, across the Bayfront Expressway.
Facebook has hired Frank Gehry’s architecture firm, Gehry Partners, to design a new, sprawling office building which will house those engineers in a big, open space, with walls cleverly angled so the insides don’t feel oppressive.
New Facebook campus all green, investors oppressed waiting on their green, as stock price plummets.
Dear Eye View
About six months ago my doctor gave me two more years to live. I started using that time to make peace with my family, especially my wife, as we’ve had a turbulent marriage. Things have been going well so far and our marriage is probably the best it’s ever been. What I am wondering now is if I should tell my wife that I’ve had an affair for eight years with another woman. It ended a couple of years ago and we’re not even in contact anymore. But there is always a chance that my wife will find out. I don’t want her besieged with unanswered questions or anger she can’t express after I’m gone. I am also worried that if she were to discover the affair after my demise, she will feel as though the last good years of our marriage were a sham. But on the other hand, I don’t want to spend the last year or two we have together dealing with this revelation. What is your take on all this? And yes, I know I’m a total jerk, among other things you can’t publish publicly. Please spare me the judgment and give me some advice here.
Ashamed
Dear A
I understand your concern. I would suggest breaking the news to your wife like everyone else. Post it on Facebook and redefine your immortality . In terms of your immorality.. You’re on your own..Hope this helps.
EV
By my calculation, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, owes me about $50.
Without me, and the other 844,999,999 people poking, liking and sharing on the site, Facebook would look like a scene from the postapocalyptic movie “The Day After Tomorrow”: bleak, desolate and really quite sad. Facebook surely would never be valued at anything close to $100 billion, which it very well could be in its coming initial public offering.
In the company’s S-1 filing, submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission this week, Facebook boasts about its statistics: annually, people “like” one trillion things; 91 billion photos are uploaded; half a billion people use Facebook on mobile phones; and hundreds of millions are annoyingly “poked.”
So all this leaves me with a question: Where’s my cut? I helped build this thing, too. Facebook laid the foundation of the house and put in the plumbing, but we put up the walls, picked out the furniture, painted and hung photos, and invited everyone over for dinner parties.
If you use a service for free you are not the customer but part of the product..
Tyson Balcomb quit Facebook after a chance encounter on an elevator. He found himself standing next to a woman he had never met — yet through Facebook he knew what her older brother looked like, that she was from a tiny island off the coast of Washington and that she had recently visited the Space Needle in Seattle.
“I knew all these things about her, but I’d never even talked to her,” said Mr. Balcomb, a pre-med student in Oregon who had some real-life friends in common with the woman. “At that point I thought, maybe this is a little unhealthy.”
As Facebook prepares for a much-anticipated public offering, the company is eager to show off its momentum by building on its huge membership: more than 800 million active users around the world, Facebook says, and roughly 200 million in the United States, or two-thirds of the population.
“People always raise an eyebrow,” said Chris Munns, 29, who works as a systems administrator in New York. “But my life has gone on just fine without it. I’m not a shut-in. I have friends and quite an enjoyable life in Manhattan, so I can’t say it makes me feel like I’m missing out on life at all.”
This kind of thinking cuts both ways for the Facebook holdouts. Mr. Munns said his dating life had benefited from his lack of an online dossier: “They haven’t had a chance to dig up your entire life on Facebook before you meet.”
Mr Munns keeping dating profile photos on the down low..
A woman in the Netherlands has had pictures of all of her Facebook friends tattooed onto her arm. All 152 of them.
A 90-second video posted on YouTube titled “My Social Tattoo” appears to show the woman having all of her Facebook friends tattooed onto her right arm. By the end of the process, her entire arm is covered with tightly packed tattoos of her friends’ faces.
The identity of the woman is not shown in her video, though the user name of the person who posted the video on YouTube is given as “susyj87â€.
Tattoo artists on standby for Facebook Doppleganger Day…
Log in to Facebook these days and you can catch up on what a friend on the other side of the country did last night, go shopping, or, if you get bored, stir up some trouble in a mafia game or two.
And if the last one leaves you feeling a little guilty, there’s a new Facebook application: church.
Central Christian Church in Henderson has launched a new branch of its online campus on the popular social networking site, where it streams recent sermons eight times a week. It allows those who watch to log in with their Facebook accounts and interact with one another via Facebook’s chat function.
Facebook chatting up Jesus.
