Did Houston Police Throw Away Donation

Posted on2016/12/242016/12/24AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

There is an image being shared by a lady on Facebook. It shows a garbage truck and a couple police cruisers under an overpass in Houston.
The image description says that the police showed up to a spot where someone was giving out food and “other gifts” with a garbage truck to throw away these items.
Here’s the exact quoted text (minus the hash-tags)

I was just informed that a group of people came to pass out free food and other gifts to the homeless in downtown Houston. Not only were the police called, but they brought a large waste management truck and are forcing the homeless to throw away their food, pillows and other items.

What this suggest is that the police have a guy in the garbage industry that can man up and fuel up a garbage truck quickly and without hesitation, and get to that location before the items scatter into different directions. As if there is a garbageman police sting set up at every intersection just waiting to pounce. Or, if the garbage truck and police cruisers are following this person around the city taking things from everyone they donate to.

I don’t know about every single spot in Houston, but most overpasses have a maximum of about 4 people under them and, when they see police, they just kind of scatter. Because, if they don’t, the police will break them up. If there is an overpass that has so many homeless and hungry people under it that it would require a garbage truck to show up, then the police have a huge issue and someone has been slacking.

Nowhere in the picture do you see any homeless people.

Nowhere in the image do you see a vehicle large enough to carry the amount of food that would require a garbage truck to be able to dispose of it.

The police would not take the items. They would fine the donor; unless, the food was in such poor quality it had to be destroyed.

Where are the videos? Where are the photos of this? There is just this one and it looks like it is coming from someone driving past the location and later making up a story.
Where is the union complaining about the Houston Police forcing people to work after hours? Waste management unions will not put up with such things.

So, is this picture and story for real?
There are too many logical holes in this story. It has nothing to support it other than this one picture that shows less than the story says.

False until proven otherwise

How to disable LIVE VIDEO notifications on facebook

Posted on2016/05/302016/10/22AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

Do we care? Do we care that someone has their iPhone on shooting some useless shaky footage of them at the dmv giving a play-by-play?
No we do not.
If you are at the white house and asking good questions, then yes, we all want to see it (you might get arrested using the camera. not sure. never tried so.. ask first). but if you are just running the live video for the sake of streaming live on Facebook (which you can do with Ustream and have been able to do since Facebook started). Please don’t send out mass notifications
Dear Facebook, please quit opting me in for that crap. I don’t care is someone is streaming a live video of how to call a library and ask for an extension.

Okay.
That’s out of the way.
Let’s get rid of the “Live video” notifications.

Open Facebook on your computer. Click the globe in the top right corner. the one that is for notifications.
When the list of notifications drops down, look at the top right of that. Click on “settings”
Scroll all of the way down to the bottom of the “settings” page, and there it is.Says “Live videos”.
Look to the right hand side.
There will be a small drop down menu.Likely says on or all on.
Click that and make your choice. I selected “ALL OFF!!!!” .
That simple. You’re done

Dasani Water and Parasites

Posted on2016/05/162016/05/16AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

So we’ve ll seen the picture of the hand holding the translucent skinny fish looking thing with the caption saying something along the line of Coca~cola recalling Dasani bottled water due to contaminants.

You want to know if it is true or not.

Well it is false.

There are several known “false-news” websites promoting this rumor and several websites out there dedicated to busting lies that state many facts that destroy this rumor.

but you know facebook. “If I keep seeing it, then it must be true”.
Hoax-Alaert
Hoax-Slayer
Snopes

All say this rumor about a parasite in dasani water is false.
Simple fact is you would see that eye in the water and the fish would die long before it gets to you because there is no new fresh to mix in the water.
This one comes up about as often as the “butt spider“.

Same thing with the butt spirder rumor. If you see a post on Facebook about the dasani water parasite, share this link in the comments.. At least you will know you did your part.

Meme Battles, yep it’s a thing

Posted on2016/03/162016/03/16AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

I found myself in what is called a “meme battle” on Facebook last night.
Considering it was Facebook, the whole battle thing was some dude and all of his stock piled memes. None had anything to do with the conversation. None of the memes had any consistency, other than name calling and cussing. There was no flow to his posts. Just cussing and posting about how bad he burned me.
I on the other-hand took a slower approach and told a story with the memes.
He never understood it. Probably because he is a Facebook user at the peak of his computer knowledge and meme understanding. In his crowd I am sure he is “Hax0r”. or some mislabeled glorified pointless identification for his blatant a.d.d. stream of turrets memes.
I never got around to posting an old article I wrote about having consistency and or originality to your meme usage. One of those “Woulda Shoulda Coulda” things. Random image guy on facebook
folks, if you intend to post memes on Facebook, be consistent, have a story and relate to the topic. Not just random onslaught of pictures that you think “burn someone”.

Facebook Issues

Posted on2015/03/13AuthorTruXter

Let’s go straight into this in bitterness about facebook.

No I will not sign your petition.
How many polls can we get about 80s,90s movies and what was better and who was better?
Quit Geo-tagging our images.
That stuff is not safe at all.
Can we post more pictures in a day?
I know people who post only pictures. All dang day long.
Comments section of popular posts, nothing but dudes posting poorly used memes. The exact same memes all day every day 10000 times.

How do you disable Facebook tagging?

Posted on2015/03/042015/07/05AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

Since Facebook does nothing to stop the sunglasses spammers from tagging you in pictures,let’s help you prevent getting tagged in things you don’t want to be tagged in. Because really, you can get tagged in other things that are really popular and your phone starts buzzing all day long over something you don’t care about. Neat…. a picture of a cheeto that looks like a belly button….

On right side of your screen click the padlock. a menu will pop up (see next image)

At the bottom of the menu click that spot that looks like a disclaimer but says “See more settings”

On left side of the screen click on “Timeline and tagging”

Next you will see “How can I manage tags people add and tagging suggestions?” look to the right and you will also see these three things:
Review tags people add to your own posts before the tags appear on Facebook?
When you’re tagged in a post, who do you want to add to the audience if they aren’t already in it?
Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?

Change those to what you feel comfortable with.
To allow no one to see what you are tagged in turn the first option on. That will prevent people from posting tags to your timeline. The next one if it is set to “only me”. Doesn’t allow it to get any further.
The last one set to “no one”, allows no one to get suggestions to tag you in pictures. This forces the tagger to have to type your name and purposely mean to tag you in a picture. Even though they see that you clearly do not want to be tagged.

Years ago you could tell Facebook to not allow people to tag you in pictures. That was removed when Facebook was working on perfecting their facial recognition software back in 2008 or so.
So don’t count on Facebook allowing you to block tagging.

Facebook has gone too far

Posted on2014/10/132015/04/23AuthorTruXter3 Comments

*UPDATE* Facebook is definitely asking every single person for their identification, and making changes to your profile to match what you sent them
If you have a friend who had theirs changed but says they never sent their i.d., they are likely ashamed they sent it.
*end update*

Facebook is now asking me to upload a copy of my Driver’s License to unlock my facebook page that I have kept for about 8 years now. Don’t they know that this is what killed Google Plus from the get go? Is the over intrusive nosy bodied “all up in yours” mentality that “This is my site you will not use my site without blah blah blah” Yeah I get that. You have your rules and you have your ways. but there is no way, ever on a rainy day in hell that I will upload my driver’s license to anyone on the internet. I value my privacy. Hence the use of the name I use. This name is well over 20 years. and I am known for this name with many people. I will not use my personal real name on a website. If the website requires I use my real name and verify myself by sending them a copy of my identification, then I am done with that website.

You will not get my driver’s license . You will not get my real name on a social media site.. It’s a fricken spam site. There is no damn way you will ever see me uploading that information to this random dude/female just so I can chat.

Until they release my account with an apology I will not be back and I will take my posts about their intrusiveness behavior to better social site. Such as Reddit and Twitter and wherever my friends from there will share them.

And if there is some weird way you see some other form of identification that I should use, no I will not. It’s just a chat site. Nothing more. No reason to verify myself other than by originating email.

and here is a screenshot of the first computer I saw this come up on.

http://i.imgur.com/Om2zHWO.jpg

Here is what I get when I type in my password, the page I get redirected to

https://www.facebook.com/checkpoint/?next

If that page does not do the same for you as it does for me, it looks like this

http://i.imgur.com/M1TVSOB.jpg

Here is the facebook page explaining why and what form of i.d. is acceptable
https://www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185

I saw this at work, I am seeing this at home. No I am not hijacked. No I am not honey potted.

This is really happening. This intrusive High risk step to make sure we all “know who we are connecting with”.

Facebook is way too vulnerable for me to give my information to them. There is no way in blue hell that I will send a copy of my identification to them. No damn way. Maybe if you sent me the I.D. of every person looking at my personal information, maybe. but that isn’t likely. So … Nope. Screw that.

And here is the email notification from Facebook

and my response to facebook asking for a copy of my I.D.

I will be waiting for their response.

My only guess is the spammers I busted in this post all banned together and reported me as spam in retaliation. and since I am easier to beat than actual spammers, Facebook has pulled this crap.

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The Truth about What You Share on Facebook – but wait till you see what happens next

Posted on2014/07/052014/07/05AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

There is a current gullibility in Facebook that is an old media tactic to get readers and viewers. Usually this tactic delivers an uneventful outcome and often is someone who embeds a video from YouTube into their page where they just talk about what is in the video. Instead of just linking you to the video it’s self. Instead they are trying to get their page shared to share the content of the YouTube video so the website owner can cash in on the hard work of the video maker.

Some people with good videos on YouTube, have advertisements in their video so they can be credit for their work in a manor that does not harm the viewers nor does it cost the viewers anything except a few seconds of their time as the advertisements load.

What you can do as a respecting person, is click the title of the video at the top left and that will take you to the YouTube page. share and like that. This gives more credit to the person who actually made the video. Not the leeches.

Let’s be honest, you really have no idea if the site with the video embedded in it, is trustworthy or not.

To many unfair people out there.
Only the internet should determine what is distasteful and disrespectful. So now that power is in your hands.

and yes I titled this like they do “wait till you see what’s inside”.

Be sure and pass this on when you can.

Woman calls her ex 77000 times in a week

Posted on2014/07/022014/07/03AuthorTruXter2 Comments

There is a photo circling Facebook that has a woman’s arrest mugshot, and she is crying. The photo’s text says she is a woman who called her ex in excess of 77,000 times. and sends him over 41,000 text messages and 647 letters in 7 days. and somehow gets arrested by police.

Image text goes as:

USA: WOMAN ARRESTED FOR CALLING HER EX-BOYFRIEND 77000 TIMES IN A WEEK
(picture of crying woman here)
Albuquerque| A New Mexico woman was finally arrested this morning by officers of the Albuquerque Police Department in what could be the most extreme case of stalking ever recorded in the history of the country. The 28-year old woman allegedly not only called her ex-lover a formidable 77639 times in a week, but also sent him 1937 emails, 41229 text messages, 217 sung messages and 647 letters in the same period.

This is fake. She would be calling every 7.7 seconds with zero time for sleep in a week, then in the same time texting him every 12 seconds. While writing an email every 20 seconds. It is humanly impossible.Who she is. she is the lady in the mcdonalds video that flipped out in the drive through back in 2010. The woman in the picture is named “Ciera Steed” . Feel free to search her name. My best results come when typing “Ciera Steed arrested” .

Let’s do the math. In seven days there are only 10,080 minutes. and there are only 60 seconds per each minute. This woman be hitting redial every seven seconds, and some time sthat isn’t even enough time for the phone on the other end of the line to start ringing. and she would be sending out a text message every 12 seconds. Meanwhile writing 600 letters, we can assume would be 9 letters a day, and somehow finding a break in her calls every seven seconds to leave a voicemail. Even if she was three people using three phones with the exact same phone number, it would still be impossible. Someone has to sleep eventually. and eat. and wipe after using the restroom.

There is currently no sign if this her ex-lover making this fake post, or the people in the McDonalds where she flipped out, or just some random troll on the internet who found a picture and went to town with it making a fake post. but this Facebook image post is false.

and after doing my handful of searches to get the information about this stalker photo I am sharing here, I have got to say… There are a ton of stupid people on the internet running websites.
There are greater than 5 pages full of people who think this image is real. 5 Google results pages (before I gave up) of people who really think that a woman can call her ex 77000 times in seven days.

Please share this link on the page where someone is sharing that image.

Woman calls her ex 77000 times in a week is false