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Australian Woman Sacked For Comment on Facebook
An Australian woman has been sacked from her job after she posted a “heat-of-the-moment” comment about a co-worker on social networking site Facebook, a media report said Sunday.
Twentytwo-year-old Caz Marshall from Adelaide was dismissed last month from her checkout job at a supermarket.
“Had I wrote it on the staff room wall or on the (Facebook) walls of everybody who works in that store to single this person out, yes, that would be different.
“But the fact it was a private conversation between me and another girl from work… it wasn’t even intended for the person I was writing about to read it,” Adelaide Now quoted Marshall as saying.
She said she removed the comment the next day but by that time it had been shown to store management.
Marshall said she was called to a meeting where she was shown her “six months’ worth” of Facebook posts. She was then sacked.
“I just feel like I could have been given another chance, I don’t feel like I necessarily had to be fired,” she told the Sunday Mail.
Marshall said she was now thinking of using Facebook only for positive comments.
She warned others to stay offline when angry: “Don’t go near the computer, don’t go near Facebook.”
Marshall said she regretted posting the comments.
“It was anger, it was frustration, this girl – she was my friend and she was hurting. You’re sticking up for someone, you want to make them feel better, to let her know that she wasn’t alone.
“It wasn’t something that I would normally do. It was done in the heat of the moment and the threat was not something I would carry out – it’s not in my character,” she was quoted as saying.
Know your Facebook Better or Have a Facebook Addiction Disorder
We must confess to the fact that Facebook is not just a social network but has become a way of life for most of us. Logging on to the site seems to be an integral part of our daily life.
Here are a few fun facts you didn’t know about your favourite social adda: Facebook deletes accounts with strange sounding names like ‘Leboe’, ‘Allien’ etc. These names could be genuine but Facebook will delete them without any further explanation!
Scientists have introduced a new diagnosis which they call ‘FAD’ or Facebook Addiction Disorder according to which people actually suffer from an addiction to Facebook and this must be treated in a certain way.
Were you aware that Syria has banned Facebook? This has apparently been done due to the government’s fear of people creating virtual societies which may result in an uprising of sorts.
Facebook has more than 300 million active users. It has had a growth rate of 250% in 5 years! It is interesting to find that more than 60% men and women have used Facebook to stalk their ex! Facebook is the perfect place to find out what your ex has been up to since your break-up and it seems that people around the world make the most of the information provided by this site!
Did you know that the number of pictures uploaded daily on Facebook is over 14 million? Also, this social network officially became Facebook.com in August 2005 when it purchased the web address for a sum of $200,000! The original founder and CEO of Facebook is 24 year old Mark Zuckerburg who has been named the world’s youngest billionaire worth $1.5 billion. Mark, along with three of his roommates, created Facebook while attending Harvard University and launched the site on February 4, 2004.
Facebook is used so regularly that more then 40 million status’s are updated daily! Around 70% of college students on Facebook log in every single day. Although Facebook is popular amongst all age groups, it is estimated that 85% of college students have Facebook profiles.
Facebook Ties up With PayPal to Collect Ad Revenue
Facebook and PayPal Thursday announced a tie-up to use PayPal as the way to pay for Facebook’s advertising and developer systems.
Facebook has currently over 400 million users worldwide, including 120 million in the US alone. Owned by eBay, PayPal is the online mode to pay for e-commerce transactions worldwide. It has 81 million accounts in 24 currencies around the world.
Under the tie-up, advertisers around the world will be able to use PayPal to pay for Facebook advertisements, PayPal said in a press release.
For businesses in areas where the payment process can be difficult and expensive, PayPal said its services will make it easier for advertisers to run campaigns on Facebook.
PayPal can also be used for the newly started Facebook Credits which aims to give (Facebook) users a fast and easy way
to buy virtual goods on Facebook, including items from the Facebook Gift Shop, the statement said.
“We want to give the people who use Facebook, as well as advertisers and developers, a fast and trusted way to pay across our service,” the statement quoted Dan Levy, director of payment operations at Facebook.
“As our business has grown, offering local methods of payment has become increasingly important for advertisers who
want to buy Facebook Ads. Teaming with PayPal, a global leader in online payments, makes this possible,” he said.
Osama Bedier, PayPal vice president (emerging technologies), added, “Put simply, PayPal’s business is payments. We make
it easier for customers to send and receive money online in 24 currencies and 190 markets around the world.
Facebook is Now In a Relationship With Farmville
Despite recent rumors that the company responsible for Farmville may split from Facebook, Zynga and Facebook yesterday announced that the two had signed a five-year contract.
Previous reports suggested that Zynga was fed up with Facebook’s antics engineered to pressure the social gaming site into signing a contract that would turn Farmville and other games into Facebook-only titles. However, although the terms of the agreement were not disclosed to the press, it would seem the two have made amends. Whereas before sources said Zynga CEO Mark Pincus was preparing to split from Facebook, he now seems quite happy about the whole affair.
“Facebook was a pioneer in opening their platform in 2007 and in just three years tens of millions of Facebook users play our games everyday, from FarmVille and Cafe World to Treasure Isle and Mafia Wars,” said Pincus. “We are excited about Facebook’s long-term commitment to social gaming and Zynga, and look forward to working with them and other platform providers to bring the best social gaming experience to users worldwide.”
Zynga describes the agreement as a “five-year strategic relationship that increases both Facebook and Zynga’s shared commitment to social gaming.” The deal will also expand the use of the all important Facebook Credits in Zynga’s games.
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