A Good Reason To Avoid Facebook

I do anyway, but their tax position, seems to be in line with Starbucks, Amazon and Google according to this report.

In fact, it’s rapidly getting to the point, where using a large company reduces tax revenues.  Although, it does seem that American companies are the best at finding ways of avoiding paying tax. Or should that be worst?

If you think  I’m being sanctimonious here, I once paid a tax bill of £3,500,000. If you don’t believe me, I have the cheque on the wall to prove it.  I could have avoided the tax bill, by going to live in Monaco or somewhere equally boring for a few years.  But then this country has so many good things, that I’d miss.

Whose Photos Are They Anyway?

This story, where Instagram is seeking the right to sell users’ photos to advertisers,  is beyond belief.

On this blog, if you want to use one of my photos, provided I get a request and a copyright notice, I will generally say yes. In fact, I have done several times.

I have a feeling, if they bring in this policy, Instagram are on a one-way trip to bankruptcy

Facebook Tries The Gambling Route

Facebook has decided that the way to salvation is to take the gambling route.  They’re starting with bingo according to the Daily Telegraph.

That’s all parents want isn’t it! – Kids addicted to bingo on the Internet.

Another Good Reason Not To Use Facebook

It would appear according to this report on the BBC’s web site, that everything about Facebook, isn’t as it should be.

I wonder what is going to be the next social network phenomena!

Facebook Tells People The E-Mail Address To Use

If I join a club or a forum on the Internet, I like to decide how I’m contacted or addressed. So I think Facebook is beig arrogant in swapping e-mail addresses to their own system in members cotacts. It’s all here on the BBC.

How dare they!

I think I made a good decision to leave Facebook.

Facebook Is a Pain

I keep getting people wanting me to join Facebook. I’m afraid, I don’t join any social networking site, that will have me as a member. I was a member once, but I cancelled it a few months ago.

People Shouldn’t be so Thin-Skinned

There is a story in the Standard last night entitled Tantrum of the Opera. A Twickenham housewife tweeted to her friend that although she had seen the musical eighty  times, she couldn’t stand the star. It has now developed into a full-blooded row.

I would make three conclusions from this.

In the first place the comment was only tweeted to a friend and thus the star is being a bit over the top.

Secondly, the lady has seen the musical eighty times, and so as she is effectively paying some of the star’s wages, she deserves a little respect.

Lastly, if I was producing a musical, I know someone, who I wouldn’t be employing.

They were also discussing another case on BBC Breakfast this morning, where someone made a comment about an X-Factor contestant. She has now suffered months of abuse.

She was possibly a bit unwise to say what she says, but it does illustrate, why you should always be careful what you say on social networking sites. However to abuse the lady and call her all sorts of unwise things in totally wrong.

The sooner we have a high profile case, where one of these so called trolls, gets some time at Her Majesty’s pleasure, the better. It will be interesting to see how much abuse the judge gets.

I have had a bit of abuse in my time over this blog and suspect it was because the post was about an odious foreign government.

When Social Media Goes Awry

The Telegraph reports an unseemly spat between Joe Simpson, the author of Touching the Void, and schoolchildren doing the book for GCSE.

It is the sort of thing that can happen on social media and I suspect both parties could have been a little bit more discrete or less outrageous with their replies.

I had a letter published once and it attracted some fairly abusive letters in reply. In the end, history has shown that I was right.

BBC Creates Addictive Viewing

According to the BBC, the amount of viewers of the Olympic Torch Relay has exceeded all expectations.  You could argue, that they would say that wouldn’t they. In fact Roger Mosey says it all here.

The coverage is not by satellite, but by mobile phone 3G technology, which gives the odd break in transmission.

Some are saying it’s addictive on Twitter and Facebook.  He’s one from Scotland.

Frances Chisholm on Facebook says: ‎”Kind of addictive” is an understatement. I am enjoying it all so much. Almost late for work this morning! I’m an ordinary working British Citizen, but “torchcam” makes me feel I can be part of it (the olympics) keep up the wonderful work! Will be cheering the flame when it passes through SELKIRK, Scottish Borders.

And I thought the Scots weren’t in favour of the Games.

 

FaceBook Renames Itself

To celebrate the performance of its shares, Facebook has changed its name to Facebomb.

As I left the site some time ago and wouldn’t deal in the shares at all, I can’t say this all bothers me. To paraphrase Marx, it’s a club I wouldn’t join, just because they’d have me as a member.