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”.
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Mashable Trust Issue
The Mashable Trust Issue.
So I lit up the pho ne and kicked back in bed and started surfing around in Facebook. Scrolled down the page to see all of the stuff I have been missing, and what do I see?
I see that Mashable and I shared a topic, 23 minutes ago. Wait.. 23 minutes ago I was cleaning the litterbox and sweeping the floor. Hadn’t been on Facebook for hours.
So I scroll a little further to see what the topic was and was shocked.
It’s content I don’t like to get involved in. Not against anyone’s rights or freedoms. in fact I am for everyone’s rights and freedoms to be the same. This was specifically about gay rights. I never read the article. why would I agree with the article and share it if I haven’t read it? The article could totally messed up and bring up views that I don’t even know that I am for or against until I read the way it is presented.
What this does is send a false impression to my friends. and anyone else who got used like this. If I am not the only one that used like this to push this agenda, then there is a huge mass of people who just got used to press this impression that lots of people agree with the content. Without their direct consent on the content.
This content needs to be supported by people who agree with it, not falsely promoted.
This is gaming votes and manipulating the views of the public.
SO I went off on Mashable on their page.
Imagine the potential of this type of move. If Mashable can post this propaganda, what can a politician do? what can some agenda based media source do to make it look like you agree with something you haven’t even read yet. It’s like they are sneakishly using you for peer pressure upon your friends. Though the movement was for a good cause to some, it was a bad ethics move.
How to stop this.. Start with unliking the page of the offender. in the case, it’s Mashable.
Go to App Settings
Locate Offender in the list. In this case, Mashable.
Click the X on the right hand side, and never go back to their webpage again.
If you have to go to their page but don’t want them to “post on your behalf” find that in the options under their name and disable it. Then locate “Visibility of app and posts:” and select “Only me”
now your freinds won’t get spammed with junk you allowed to have access to your Facebook.
I will never trust a single article from Mashable ever again.
The scummiest tactics to date.
Facebook Hashtags
If you haven’t noticed yet. Facebook finally launched their hashtag experiment
What is the function of hashtags in Facebook?
Well. Pretty much the same as on twitter. You make a post, and then put a hashtag next to the word that best describes the #post. This allows people to share content and have it in a specific category for everyone else in the world.
Really this is the very first time I ever saw Facebook actually be a SOCIAL network. because now, you can find people who talk about like minded content.
Where this becomes an issue
People will exploit the hashtags. just as they have done in the past when they hack an account, the hackers will soon start making posts with links and a million and one hashtags in the post covering zillions of topics. Reaching more and more people. Along with tagging friends in the friends list of each victim that falls for the scam. Further reaching more and more people.
#NOW #none #OF #the #POSTS #will #make #SENSE #ONFACEBOOK #despressedblogger
My Reddit Experiment
My Reddit Experiment will last for about a month or so. Since this is my last year to be on the internet, I will go out, pushing a few envelopes.
My Reddit Experiment will be me testing the theory that positive thinking is the end result to an upvote society. No matter how wrong or right the positive thinking is.
I will just speak my mind in threads. I will not troll, I will not agitate I will not taunt. My goal is to show that Reddit does not take free thinking, though the members of reddit tend to call their selves free thinkers.
I will not use cliche statements that you see in every single thread such as “your logic has no meaning here” . I will not repost anything. I will be as original as I can think I am being. My end goal is to see what happens to my Karma, by just being me. Posting what I think. and responding with my true opinion. I do have a lot of opinions.
I am about to start an experiment to see if Reddit really is as open minded as it claims. by just having original thought in all responses and posts, to see if the public Karma focus keeps people from being realistic.
I have suspicions as to what will happen. Here are the odds I see of each.
Will get called a troll and treated as one – Most likely
Will be called a wise person – it could happen, but odds are pretty bad.
Will go unnoticed – it’s a 50/50 shot for that.
My account could get banned – It could happen, but I will not be rude enough for that. I will just post my opinions, go with the group or against it as the topic leads me.
What do you think will happen ?
Facebook Virus FARM
The Real Post about the Face Book Spider Bite scam video
The Virus is called “Koobface”
These are the koobface facebook virus files you need to kill
fbtre6.exe , mstre6.exe
These are the registry entries you have to remove from registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\”systray” = “c:\windows\mstre6.exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\”systray” = “C:\Windows\fbtre6.exe”
People.. Please. The same stupid virus that has been getting you people since back in the first days of Myspace, is now getting you guys again on Facebook. The virus says ” Wow I can’t believe I can really see who looks at my profile” maybe an exclamation point or two.
How to fix the Facebook virus issue.
Please start with running a virus scan. Any of a good selection of virus scanners will do. If one virus scanner does not find the Facebook virus, try another. There are many listed on that page.
If you can access another computer, please change your Facebook password from another computer while the scanning goes on.
and delete any posts that link to the virus. GO TO YOUR PROFILE TO SEE ALL THE POSTS YOU MADE. You have to delete them to do your part in containing the issue.
I have been fighting the whole facebook hack junk since the end of 2010
Please people, you have to look at the links, look at the Facebook Status posts before you just go wildly clicking.
So in this order: scan your computer for a virus, change your password, delete bad posts. done.
How did you get hacked so fast?
You clicked the link, it used some of the Facebook authentication certificate and fooled your computer into trusting it, it gave up your password that you have saved (to make it easier to log in next time). BAM.
The bad ones are from you downloading something that was titled funny so you just had to see what it was.
Also if you are not into the free software that I link on the next page… Look to the right, there are legit ads from Google. Any of them will do. Google only recommends the good stuff. I can assure you that your virus will be removed using Norton or Macafee or any of the big name paid real virus scanners.
Please hit the share button below for your friends on facebook.
Uselessness Of Social Media
Social Media has slaughtered it’s self . Basically consumed it’s self by putting up it’s own defense.
The world is full of spammers. We as writers do not like spam on our sites. So we no longer allow people to put up links in their responses to posts. No link in their signature. Even if the person wrote a great related content reply on our site, we do not allow him/her to link back to their website. I myself think that if the guy is on topic and his writing brought light on a subject, he deserves to allow people to read more of his content. As long as it’s tasteful stuff.
It’s not like you can’t tell a spam link in your screening directory. they typically look like this
How this kills it is, well if a website does not allow me to link to my website where I have written a 4500 word article on the subject, I am sure not linking back to them where they talk about the subject. So you read my page and never know there is another that is on the same subject, and possibly conflicting my opinion and making good or bad sense.
These sites get either larger and bought out by bigger news/media sites or just completely crushed incredibility.
This is what social media is facing right now. They are attacking themself inward meanwhile are under fire by the chronicles/posts/abc/cbs and other news media .
You have to link up the little guy, the little guy has to link you up.
It’s what works
It’s what keeps the little guy concerned about your next statement.
I.P. List of Spammers
Maybe not all of these are spammers, but Akismet seems to think that all of these are spammers. I use “WP-Ban” to ban these ip addresses simply because I am sick of the types of spam they send.
I see a list of failed attempts to come back to my sites and post again.
208.115.111.244 5,438
Total Attempts: 10,125 Reset all IP ban stats and total ban stat?
I reset the count back in April .
I don’t have the heart in me to call them all spammers. I am sure some of these i.p. addresses are Hijacked computers from some botnet spamming group. but I have to ban them because they just do not stop attacking my comments area with spam.
98.142.212.112
189.85.30.106
58.185.166.243
217.170.97.242
61.213.158.124
87.126.247.51
139.132.12.19
187.49.174.245
190.8.32.47
209.62.26.82
69.163.39.233
213.208.139.2
189.85.30.106
188.92.75.148
61.67.7.140
173.234.11.92
67.22.99.211
212.65.244.147
69.147.240.193
174.140.172.7
80.86.201.83
173.234.19.228
217.10.246.2
173.234.54.50
173.234.38.21
212.160.130.217
64.120.248.211
173.224.218.156
203.92.211.166
69.147.240.178
210.89.91.45
41.190.16.17
222.165.130.214
173.208.124.235
69.45.74.253
82.143.255.135
122.146.153.135
208.115.111.244
178.49.12.75
202.229.99.154
200.192.89.231
212.154.216.50
77.240.81.20
217.6.171.194
74.115.6.56
173.234.46.63
91.212.226.41
72.37.244.20
81.191.229.167
125.168.56.240
81.9.62.213
200.101.66.123
144.71.169.20
74.206.98.195
61.192.219.190
192.239.84.73
163.15.183.29
85.25.86.215
195.127.150.117
204.236.254.16
77.233.4.138
213.134.176.111
69.69.215.196
203.216.220.11
115.42.158.18
188.168.85.131
I just really do not see how some of the big websites can deal with spam on the levels they must be dealing with it. We have a very low Google rank at TruXterTech. I mean our name is “Budget Tech Review” not ” The hot spot for everything tech” even though we try to be. We just cover the simple cheap products, hardware and software. This by no means should be an invite to spammers. We do however request human comments on TruXterTech.com . We like to see other people’s opinions.
Is there a way to just stop this entirely? A couple years ago they created some law that nailed spammers for email spam. Why is there not someway of nailing these people who run spam bots across everyone’s website continually hitting the sites with spam ?
The search engine that creates a linking system that filters out spam programs (by crashing their computer) Will be the search engine of my choice.
if we could only still write scripts that crash bots in our websites, that would be a favorable idea. but in crashing spam bots, you stand a chance of crashing Google bot or some other webspider.
I do however have a redirect page for spammers that make the list. In the redirect there is a link to “add comment” and that link sends the spammer to some website that logs spammers and ads them to a list.
if anyone has a better method. Let me know. and yes I weed out the spam.
Akismet Issue – Banning People
Did they close the servers?
Well something is wrong. My site and a few other people’s sites are banning people. it’s almost as if akismet is banning huge i.p. ranges or internet service providers. I had an issue a few months back. It seems it is happening again. I am not mad at anyone. I completely appreciate everything they have done. It does though seem like I should just turn it off in my plug-ins and all of my posts might have to have the comments turned off . Really it seems like I never used the thing anyway. I personally have decided to not accept probably 200 times the amount of messages that Akismet did not block. No i do not ban them, I just decide to not accept spammy ones.
Here is a quote from the Forums I posted my request in
all of my powweb accounts are showing this again
“Akismet has detected a problem. A server or network problem is preventing Akismet from working correctly. Click here for more information about how to fix the problem.”
Last time that was showing, there was an issue . It took a few days for people to come together and note it was not each of our individual fault/issue.
I didnt log into any of my sites for like 3 days, i logged in and saw that.. It has now been three days since I first saw it. So I am assuming no one has caught it again.
Just a heads up to the techies. if it turns out to be something on my end. Let me know.
http://www.truxter.org
http://www.truxtertech.com
http://www.truxtertech.com/news
Not to say it is actually teh same issue, but I could suggest that something else happened when they updated to accommodate the issue I WAS having. It all seemed to start with the latest WordPress update.
There is a link in “Is Akismet down?” that shows how to resolve some of the issue. Maybe it will help you.
Akismet VS WordPress 2.8.5
Seems I am the only person who get this information out, because I did not update every single wordpress script on all of my websites.. This one is the one to get the message out. I have not yet found the solution to akismet crashing my rss feeds on all of my sites but this post is my original post about akismet being down and not working well with wordpress 2.8.5.
Maybe I am totally wrong and someone knows the fix for my issue. If so please post it on the site, in case someone else thinks the same as myself.
So much writing has gone to waste over the past 4 days.
WordPress 2.8 Is out
WordPress of course developed another fine version of WordPress.
Of course the auto update did not work well for me so I had of course tomanually install it. just download and walk-through the instructions, nothing more, nothing less.
http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.zip