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Saw this on Yahoo! Finance today. Here's the link to the full article.

This is so true. :)

From the Inquirer . About 60,000 strangers helped Lola Aurelia find her missing husband. In return, the 78-year-old woman taught them a lesson about love. Aurelia Matias’ poignant quest to find her beloved Luis, 78, who had been missing for weeks in the streets of Manila, captured the imagination of thousands after a street photographer snapped her picture and posted it on Facebook (FB). It quickly went viral as more than 60,000 Facebook users shared, reposted and retweeted the black-and-white photo showing a bespectacled Lola Aurelia, her back facing the camera with the missing person poster pinned to her dress. With the help of big TV networks covering the unfolding story, a search was launched. Finally, on Tuesday evening, Lola Aurelia found Lolo Luis in a dramatic reunion near the Quirino station of the Light Railway Transit on Taft Avenue. “Many thanks to the many people helping me. They did not let me down,” she said in an interview aired over “24 Oras,” the evening ne...

Here's a news report on CIA Deputy Director Christopher Sartinsky's Congressional testimony on how Facebook is helping the CIA. Of course I don't have to tell you that this news is from parody site " The Onion ".

What if Joseph and Mary had Facebook during the birth of Jesus?

Have you heard about the faux pas created by Mai Mislang's Tweet when she was part of the delagation of PNoy in Vietnam? After Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet hosted a state banquet, Mai Tweeted "The wine sucks" and "Sorry pero walang pogi rito sa Vietnam". I don't know about you, but as part of the official delegation, I would think that these people would be more careful about what they say in public. Facebook, Twitter and all these other social networking sites is both a boon and a bane depending on how you use them. It's great that the public gets to know right away what's happening first hand. On the other hand, without proper protocol or control it can lead to a diplomatic incident. Based on what's been happening since P-Noy became President is that the people surrounding him are the ones that causing a lot of harm. And you know what's the worst part about this? She's P-Noy's speechwriter! There's now even a Facebook ...

This is why you shouldn't trust the profile pictures you see on Facebook or other social networking sites.

On any given day 500,000 tractors are sold on the Internet. But don't start buying stock in John Deere or Caterpillar just yet. These are $20 "virtual" tractors that belong to the 50 million players of FarmVille, the largest and fastest-growing social game on the Internet. Social games are free online applications accessed through sites such as MySpace and Facebook. If you've spent any time on either site you're probably familiar with titles such as FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and Caf World. All three games, which rank among the top five games played daily on Facebook, were developed by San Francisco-based Zynga, one of the tech sector's most talked-about companies these days. Read the full article at Fortune/CNN Money .

A friend forwarded this e-mail to me. ===================== EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE CHILDREN READ IT TOO! After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message: ByAngel213: Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird! GoTo123: LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you? Don't you live in a safe neighborhood? ByAngel213: Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out. GoTo123: Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you? ByAngel213: Of course not. I'm not stupid you know. GoTo123: Did you have a softball game after school today? ByAngel213: Yes and we won!! GoTo123: That's great! Who did you play? ByAngel213: We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uni...

Very practical advice from President Obama.

You've probably read my previous post about the boy that climbed into a helium filled balloon that floated away by accident. Turns out he was just hiding in the garage. Well, a couple of people on Facebook made a rhyme out of it. Here's the post. Original source http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodenboxes/4014736881/

Found these superhero Facebook status updates and I thought I'd share it with you guys. More at Comics Alliance .

Here's a Facebook wall post on Richard Gutierrez's rescue of Cristine Reyes during the flood caused by Typhoon Ondoy. I guess it's true that he left everyone else after rescuing Cristine Reyes. What a douchebag.

After Mikey Arroyo responded to the media to have Facebook and the Internet regulated and was posted in several blogs. Several readers had very harsh comment about it. The problem with Mikey is that he can't keep his mouth shut. We have a saying in Filipino. "Ang pikon talo". Here are some that I saw. ========== Depressing September 30, 2009 at 11:11 am “My picture posted at Facebook with a caption saying I was busy shopping for wine at the height of Typhoon Ondoy is another malicious attack at my personality. It is so depressing,” he said. Mikey Arroyo you sanctimonious twat–you know what’s depressing? What’s depressing is that you have a million-dollar house in California that was funded by obviously stolen taxpayer funds. What’s depressing is that I fork over 30 pesos out of every 100 pesos I make TO YOU and all your friends in Congress like you who use my hard-earned money to buy houses and get range rovers with police escorts and sirens who push me off EDSA in traffi...

This was circulating on the Facebook and a ton of people reacted. Jacque Bermejo's insensitive post about the victims of Typhoon Ondoy obviously drew a lot of ire. She posted an official statement in The Gossiper and apparently her account was hacked by someone who had something against her. This e-mail was sent to The Gossiper by one of her sister's friend. I can understand the anger of people especially those who've been affected directly by the flood. But let's give her the benefit of the doubt. Let's leave her alone and just get on with our lives. If she didn't do it, would you be able to live with yourself knowing you destroyed a person's reputation for something they didn't do? If she did say that, so what? Some people are just idiots. Whatever you say, it won't help anyway.

During the massive flood happening in Metro Manila that was caused by Typhoon Ondoy, there was very little updates on major news organizations like The Philippine Daily Inquirer. I found out about how bad the typhoon was from conversations with my friends through Yahoo Messenger. As I logged on to Facebook, I was getting continuous updates on friend's wall on details of the flood. I checked Inquirer.net and other sites but there was hardly any mention. There were reports of the flood, but there wasn't any photos or videos. As the situation got worst, he was telling me their parking lot is flooded and it's still rising. He had to move his car out to higher ground to save it. I asked him to take some photos because he said that it never floods in Ongpin. I couldn't believe it either since the 20 years I've been there, I've never seen it flood higher than one inch. Here he was telling me it's up to his knees. So he took some photos with his iPhone and e-mailed ...

Some people are outraged at the insensitivity of some people by posting some stupid messages on Facebook regarding the flood that happened in Metro Manila. Here are some reactions. Here's another one on actor Richard Gutierrez looking for Christine Reyes. Here are some twitter tweets saying that the account of Jacque Bermejo was hacked and she didn't actually post anything insensitive. She has been harassed on the phone and online.

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