Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
Did the Washington Post Censor the Boning?
Today’s inevitable Washington Post feature on people who aren’t on Facebook actually got a little bit interesting when it turned its attentions to Ricardo Thomas, 23. Thomas “hates typing and computers,” but he does rely on more connected friends to help him Facebook stalk his ex-girlfriend. Thomas doesn’t call her is ex-girlfriend, however. This is what Thomas says to reporter Ian Shapira:
“Last week, I was over at a friend’s house, and he showed me a picture on Facebook of a girl I used to” date, Thomas said.
Woah! Isn’t it interesting how expertly Shapira snipped that quote juuuust before Thomas was about to describe, in his own words, what he “used to” do with that girl on Facebook?
Bacardi’s Massive Internet Fail
It would be difficult for any advertising campaign to convince me to drink a Bacardi Breezer anywhere—much less in a shopping mall. Unfortunately, Bacardi’s “Get An Ugly Girlfriend” campaign has managed to produce the same feeling of nausea in me, but without the 4 percent alcoholic buzz!
Is the Facebook Avatar a Dude?
Sociological Images accuses Facebook of sexism and ethnocentricsm for using a “white and male” image as its default avatar to represent a typical user, while opting for “orange avatars of both sexes” to represent its “global connection” capabilities.
So why does this shadowy male figure look just like me?
The Morning After: English Pill Edition
* Feministe reports on England’s nonprescription birth control pilot program, which would allow Londoners to obtain contraception without a doctor’s prescription. The program, however, would place more power over women’s health decisions in the hands of the pharmacist:
Under the program, women seeking nonprescription oral contraception will undergo an interview with a qualified pharmacist. Strategic health authorities—which manage local health services under NHS—will be required to provide pharmacists with sets of instructions known as patient group directions, including special directions for girls younger than age 16.
* Via Daily Intel—deb balls, Arianna Huffington’s daughter, thrive during a recession.
* Scarleteen will debate you against the “abortion debate.” “Abortion: for or against it? Who came up with this question, Eagle Forum? Perhaps the Heritage Foundation? Sarah Palin? It’s a terrible way to frame the issue of abortion.”
* As Slate’s XX Factor debates the Herman Rosenblat manufactured Holocaust memoir flare-up, Noreen Malone asks, what about his wife’s role in the lie?
* Elsewhere in Slate, Abby Collard informs would-be politicos how to avoid future embarrassment on Facebook. “Clearly, the safest way to protect yourself is not to have a Facebook account in the first place—or, alternatively, not to do stupid things. But neither of these pieces of advice is very practical. The whole point of being young, after all, is to do stupid things, and the whole point of Facebook is to record these acts for posterity.”
Photo via trialsanderrors.
Podcast: Five Minutes You’ll Never Get Back
Welcome to another edition of “Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back,” wherein Mike Riggs and I evade the gotcha media to provide you our highly-edited, barely-rehearsed talking points on sex, media, and politics (but mostly sex). Today, presidential debate celebrity Sam “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher inspired us to spend five minutes* on the subject of plumbin’ in America. With us, as always, is plucky City Paper intern Bobby Allyn.
Topics discussed: William F. Buckley Jr., murder, Facebook relationship status, real Americans, exploitation, boredom.
Catch up on last week’s podcast here.
* not actually five minutes
Sarah Palin Facebook Page
Here’s Sarah Palin’s official page. And here’s . . . not the official one. Funny? Sexist? One thing is clear: I am always a sucker for a good wolf joke.
