One reason I lost interest in Facebook was having hundreds of Facebook application invitations on my board. Although I must admit that at first I received invitations for interesting applications, but now it just pisses me off. Eventually my homepage was being flooded of useless, boring and repeated applications. I sincerely prefered Facebook when these types of applications were not present. Even though it was a great idea, but now Facebook probably has an interface problem that they don’t know how to solve. Today surfing the web, I have found a solution - a simple ignore all bookmark for Facebook.

Really it’s just a simple Javascript code, and when running it, it selects the ignore options on every request, apart from friend requests, group invites and event notifications. You can access this at http://www.ignoreall.com/.

I can’t believe it. A 28-year-old french guy called Arash Derambarsh has been elected for President of Facebook by a non-official third party application. The story started when Derambarsh ran the application and started to invite his friends creating an official program for his campaign. When the elections were finished, Derambarsh received more than 9,000 votes and it converted him in the “first president of Facebook”. At the beginning, using this information Derambarsh got coverage with some French media. But the story raised up when it was covered by big TV channels and traditionnal media like TF1, Le Point, L’express, …
Derambarsh has become a star in France, being invited to talk about his presidency in some programs and gettings his own page in Wikipedia. We can check out his electoral program in FacebookPresident. He pledges to promote goodwill and tolerance among the three world monotheistic Faiths (Christian, Jewish and Muslim), to fight against illiteracy and analphabetism and to promote the French culture around the world.

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Hace unos días saltó una disputa entre lactivistas y la política interna de Facebook, a causa de la eliminación de fotografías donde aparecían bebés mamando de sus madres. Facebook ha eliminado por completo todas las fotografías de usuarias dando de mamar (sí, el término usuaria es correcto) considerando el material como contenido obsceno, además de banear temporalmente las cuentas de las usuarias en cuestión.

Ante tal situación, algunos lactivistas han mostrado sus quejas apelando que sus imágenes fueron eliminadas a pesar de que en ellas no contenían pezones, cuestionando la lógica de las acusaciones de obscenidad por parte de Facebook. Varias madres han creado un grupo llamado Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene! (Hey, Facebook, ¡dar de mamar no es obsceno!), el cual está a punto de llegar a los 9000 miembros. Un miembro de susodicho grupo (no, no existe el término miembra) llamado Sally Millwood apeló: “Se de primera mano que la experiencia de amamantar puede ser un duro camino a venirse abajo y, si tienes éxito al final, es un importante logro para compartir”.

Meredith Chin, la portavoz de la red social, declaró que Facebook no impide la subida de fotografías de lactivistas dando de mamar, pero dijo que las fotografías que contengan explícitamente pechos serán eliminadas, ya que viola los términos establecidos.

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