My Follow Friday Picks

Usually #FollowFriday or #FF is done on – but of late I’ve found it hard to get everyone listed within the 140 character limit.  I was also thinking about WHY people should follow the people you list… there’s no reasons given, just a list of names along with the ‘follow friday’ hash tag.  This week I decided not to do my list on , but to blog it (and then tweet the link) that way you can see why I choose to acknowledge these people on a #FollowFriday.

So, in no particular order:-

@mattmecham – Matt is the Lead Developer of Invision Power Board – most who read my blog will know what that is, but for some it’ll have no meaning at all, so click on the link and find out!   But even though Matt is the Lead Dev at IPB, his tweets are not always business related.  In fact I’d say more are off-topic than are on.  My reason for picking Matt is because he’s such a funny guy to follow – his tweets range from informative to hilarious and extremely random.

@Mike_Ermel – Mike is an all-round nice guy (and those are few and far between these days!)  He’s also a linux nut, but I’ll forgive him that ;)

@citalan – Alan is an awesome coder and very patient with me hehehe

@AstonJ – he’s a troublemaker – I don’t think I need to say more than that!

@MadMikey – the clue’s in the name I think ;)

@CharlesWarner – Charles claims to not like Twitter much, but he’s like a bad smell – he always turns up when you least expect him!

There are many other people I enjoy sharing the twitterverse with but this week, these are the ones I’m recommending :D

A friend put it as their Facebook Status. . . so it must be true!

I just don’t understand the sheep mentality of .  I’ve found that the most intelligent people forget the basic rules of the internet when dealing with statuses and claims made on – don’t believe everything you read!  The amount of people who copy and paste everything fed to them on the platform astounds me.  They do so without question (or any real reason) believing entire statements no matter how ludicrous the sound.

Because it’s a social network, Facebook is the perfect platform for spreading – about people you know, celebrities, and paedophile perverts who want to befriend you because you have a cartoon picture . . .

Scams and hoaxes perform extremely well on facebook because it seems that it’s compulsory to switch your brain off before logging into the site.

I mean seriously, take a look at what we’ve put up with so far:-

You will Nvr Txt Again After Seeing This! (Scientific Article)

OH MY GOD!…Justin BIEBER hits Girl for NO Reason!

This American GUY must be Stoned to Death for doing this to a GIRL

These are just silly links using eyecatching titles to bait the user into clicking.  Once you click, you are hit with a load of surveys – nothing exciting to see hear at all!

Some of you will probably have seen this one:-

Christmas Tree App

WARNING!!!!!!…..If you are using the Christmas tree app. please be advised it will crash your computer. Geek squad says its one of the WORST there is and it is spreading quickly. Re-postand let your friends know!

But guess what – Geek Squad ( who apparently say it’s one of the worst viruses out there) have absolutely nothing on their website about it.  Yeah, you got it.. it’s a hoax!

And then there’s all the paedophile hoaxes.. here’s two of the most recent ones.

Next Baby Competition on Facebook run by Pedophiles?

Police have advised ALL PARENTS, Please dont enter your baby into the NEXT Baby competition on facebook or any other networking site. It has nothing to do with NEXT it has been set up by a peodophile ring!! please copy and paste! It aint a joke or a random broadcast

and

Facebook Profile Pics Being Changed to Cartoons

ATTENTION! Just reported that the group that started the post about changing your profile picture to a cartoon character is actually a pedophiles group that is doing this because its easier to get accepted friend requests! Please re-post.

Come on, seriously?    Do people honestly believe that having a cartoon character as your profile pic is going to make it easier for a friend request to be accepted?  Look deep inside, open your mind.. think!

Or do everyone a favour and share these stupid things via the message system and give those of us who have brains a break from the constant rumours and hoaxes.

Thank you for listening ;)