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Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook?
pigrabbitbear writes "Mother Jones reports that, 'In recent weeks, a host of liberal types have complained that their Facebook accounts have erroneously "liked" Romney's page, and some are floating the theory that the Romney campaign has deployed a virus or used other nefarious means to inflate the candidate's online stature. This conspiratorial notion has spawned a Facebook community forum, and its own page: "Hacked By Mitt Romney" (cute url: facebook.com/MittYouDidntBuildThat)' So what's going on? Is the Romney campaign engaging in some tech wizardry to hijack Americans' Facebook pages? Seems unlikely, but Romney did somehow manage to acquire millions of fake Twitter followers. But it looks like the Romney campaign isn't behind this one — Facebook and its mobile app is."
I'm pretty sure the folks just assumed they were liking a page about an android. Honest mistake, that's all.
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The opposite of progress is congress
The thing is, Romney has been on every side of every issue. So there's something to like about him for everyone!
ANYTHING in the white house, is better than a muslim sympathizing NIGGER.
except when he's not.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
My father's account was showing that he liked Paul Ryan this morning.. he most definitely did NOT choose that.
I try not to be overly political on my Facebook account but I do like certain things just to see what some groups I would oppose are up to. Other times I subscribe to the pages of tech companies that I don't like as much as I find it useful to be informed of due to my job. Just because you're on a like list doesn't mean someone likes you.
What a retarded post.
Romney isnt "hacking" your stupid Facebook account. Most of these dopes were likely drunk on FB and liked it themselves, had their nutcase "friends" start yelling at them, and now they want to blame someone else for their screwup.
Sounds just like a typical Obama supporter.
Some people "like" Romney only to get updates from his social media feed. Think of it as automated 'opposition research'. What Romney days one day, my neighbor repeats the next, so it gives me a leg up.
OK, so I do use Facebook. And yes, I am massively tired of the political ads. But, do I care who has "liked" either candidate? Or, more importantly, will that impact who I vote for; likely not.
Or are we now in an age where the popularity of a candidate on Facebook now is part of how we determine the candidate's potential for office?
I hope not, but am afraid it may be so.
They think a Facebook "like" means something, that it is symbolic of supporting whatever is "liked". It's a pointless mouse-click that most people don't give more than a second of thought to. The only people who actually believe (or say they believe) that "liking" something on Facebook is Facebook itself, in order to promote itself as a great source of ad-revenue or user-data.
Why would you like Barry over Mitt?
The thing is, Romney has been on every side of every issue.
So then, the perfect Republican counterpart to a man who claimed to hate Gitmo yet leaves it open, claimed to hate war yet doubles down on drone strikes and issues a surge in Afghanistan, claims to hate Wall Street while bailing out (and taking huge donations from) giant Wall Street banks and companies run by democratic campaign donors, claims to hate the oil industry while taking huge donations from BP before the oil spill.
In a world where you get to choose between two Mega Flip-Floppers, the best you can do is chose the one who the press pays the most attention to living up to what he says he will do.
Currently that means only Republicans. The press does not care at all what Democrats will do, and rationalize any action they take. At least when you vote Republican you know the press will do their damnedest to catch them out in something.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
These are the stories that people post about on /.? I'll just go ahead and vote anyway if no one minds.
Both campaigns have been doing this...not sure how, but I've been seeing complaints from left-wing friends wondering how the hell they 'liked' Romney's page and a roughly-equal number of complaints from right-wing friends wondering how the hell they 'liked' Obama's page.
I've seen too many complaints about this to believe that it's just mis-clicks or accidents. Somehow or another, the campaigns have been getting into peoples' list of likes without them knowing it.
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. - Sun Tzu
I'd be willing to be the Obama campaign has an account somewhere that has liked Mitt as well.
It seems like if you can not win, then simply cheat.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
In other words, if you’ve ever accidentally fumbled your thumbs over a political story or tapped the wrong ad on your iPhone, you might accidentally ‘like’ Mitt Romney
... Serves them right.
It's probably all of those liberal lunkheads that were in such a hurry to dismiss any Romney ad that popped up on their device, that they inadvertently "liked" him.
LOL
So nobody is doing any clickjacking, there are plenty of legitimate reasons people who don't "like" Romney might capital-L "Like" Romney's feed, and Facebook's mobile interface is a little cluttered.
This is not a story, this is a series of banal statements including "clickjacking," "Romney," and "Facebook" to drive traffic (and it unfortunately worked on me).
Perhaps they just wanted to see what his current platform was by viewing their wall.
Also, it's routine for people to "challenge" the choices of others when those choices are apparently strong and rigid. Maybe some liberals "like" conservative topics/people as a way to show their friends that they've considered those topics/people.
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
Bless your heart. You must be one of these.
It's done.
You have become World Net Daily.
a host of liberal types have complained that their Facebook accounts have erroneously "liked" Romney's page, and some are floating the theory that the Romney campaign has deployed a virus or used other nefarious means to inflate the candidate's online stature.
I see the ideologues are as disconnected from reality as usual. Keep clinging to your little labels like they matter, though. That;'s working REALLY WELL!
Maw: Who you gonna vote fer?
Paw: I dunno, who you gonna vote fer?
Maw: I think I'ma gonna vote fer Romney.
Paw: Why you gonna do that?
Maw: Well, people on Facebook like him.
Paw: what about all those policies that you disagree with?
Maw: Who cares about that? People on Facebook like him. That's what really matters.
My Heart Is A Flower
tto much formality as possible? How she had no 7ear lagged behind,
Why do I have friends on Facebook that "like" pepsi, amex, costco, walmart, etc...
Why do they post religious jesus quotes in cheesy photos of angles or little girls praying, or images with stupid insperational quotes, or stupid photos of things to "like": Like if you don't want to kill kittens, etc...
Tempted many times to simply post on my wall: "Seriously WTF is wrong with you people!"
/. hacked by political propaganda... C'mon. Real stories, please?!?!
I have noticed a ton of my friends that "like" things I know they know nothing about.
For example, a friend of mine that is a stay at home mom that can't use her iPhone "likes" Barracuda networks. When I asked her about this, she was clueless.
I've also seen many other friends liking things that do not fit them at all. I mean, they shouldn't be even seeing ads for these things, so I don't buy TFA's assumption that these are fat-finger issues.
Grammer Nazis - I mod you "troll" unless you actually add something on-topic. Yes, I know I have mispellings in my sig.
Zuckerberg is always dicking around with it looking for an angle. Maybe he wanted to give Romney a boost, just to see if he can.
Well my facebook page sent status updates stating that I liked obama and it was time to go get a mail in valot and vote, that same day quite a few friends told me about this and they know how much of a Romney advocate I am. I had unliked obama months ago yet this appeared. This is called a false flag to your own people so that velify Romney. I guess if you loose on issues poison the well anyway you can.
I believe he's taking a 'wide stance' on the abortion issue.
Governor Mitt did some "liberal" things about healthcare when he was governor of Mass. Then as Rep Pres candidate, he was against Obama Care - similar to what he did - WTF?!? Now, he's back to being in favor of it - I think - I lost track.
Paul Ryan is also a flip flopper. As a Congressman, he brought up some important issues about Medicare - like cutting $700+billion to keep it from going bust - and now as Ryan the VP candidate, he's against it.
That's why when the Presidential debates are happening, I tell folks that if I want to see that much hot air, I'll turn my furnace on. Because they are debating issues that the President has little or no control over: taxes (Congress controls that) and the economy - tell me how the President can do anything about unemployment and the economy?
And as far as the VP debates go tonight, I'm going to watch something that is more intelligent and pertinent to the economy and our country: monkeys flinging poo at one another.
If this is a Facebook issue then shouldn't it be hitting the Obama page too? And every other page that you can like?
If you use the number of "likes" (or any other information from Facebook) to make decisions of any kind...you might be a moron.
And I constantly hear about Obama because one of my friends "liked" him. Don't see much difference from the lame ads on youtube and pandora :P
To be fair, the Republican party got a lot of media attention in part because they had, like, 6 people running for the position of a Republican candidate
That's just the last two years.
The media has ignored just about any possibly negative thing to say about Obama over the course of four years; even longer if you include the campaign leading up to the last election.
There would be no such problem with Romney, even after the election is over. The press will gladly latch on to each and every mistake made. Indeed without other Republican candidates in the picture they will look at him ever more closely.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
They add a Loathe button.
They don't understand it, so it must be witchcraft. Here's a solution. To get rid of the evil demons that inhabit your iPhone, simply bury it at a crossroads at midnight during a full moon. Problem solved.
Could be. But those people are probably not the same people who are complaining that their facebook account erroneously liked Mr. Romney.
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
Who the fuck is mitt romney and wtf is a liberal?
TFA: ...rejected the idea that the Romney camp was engaging in clickjacking...
So, a user clicks on an advert or a story, with no intention of "liking" Mitt, but ends up doing so anyway, without any visual ques that the "like" has occurred... and this is somehow not clickjacking? Isn't that kind of exactly how it works?
Mitt Romney - Republican (conservative party) candidate for US President.
Liberal - Person who believes that the government should confiscate money from the successful so that their crony demographic supporters (minorities, unions, teachers, etc.) can receive this money and use it to ensure everyone lives equally in a state of misery (socialism).
Lets see... most liberals have Iphones/Ipads ... ...
Most Apple users consider themselves "Internet experts" and are really clueless
Apple Maps
They click to like the local farmers market/Headshop/Union headquarters...
Apple maps has that listed as "Mit Romney!"
Viola... mystery solved.
Skynet decided to flip a bit to match his flipping style
Table-ized A.I.
I "Like" all my representatives regardless of party and whether or not I agree with them. In essence what I want to do is "follow" them so I can keep tabs on what my representative's PR machine is pumping out.
My work contact in the UK is still convinced Romney isn't real and is an international practical joke being pulled by the US.
Since Obama is carrying over, and mostly doubling down on, most Bush policies (use of drones, attacking Libya for freedom, warrantless wiretapping, funneling government money to large corporations, TSA/Homeland Security) yet receives none of the same negative coverage of same that Bush received - I fail to see how you can possibly make the case that Obama's negative coverage is anywhere near what a Republican would receive.
Romney cannot carry forward the same policies without a ton a negative press. Obama can. That has been proven to us over four years now.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Cartoon
This is just a precursor to the election, when many liberals will also unknowingly vote for Romney- some of them several times.
Exactly. My girlfriend's account auto-started liking our mayor of Houston, even though she explicitly never "liked" it nor ever commented on the mayor. It's a side-effect of the mobile app.
I can't wait for an attempted lawsuit against Facebook because someone has mental anguish over their account "liking" something they vehemently dislike.
Because Fuck You. That's why.
Three days from now?? Thats tomorrow!! ~Peter Griffin
Most likely they're confused about Sponsored posts appearing in their News Feed. Most of the time when I see posts from things I don't agree with they've been posts that were bought and paid for to appear in my feed. As I live in Florida and I've marked myself as an independent, I get both Romney and Obama posts in my feed even though I haven't "liked" either one. The worst are the local election ones that aren't as professional and look like some random spam bot or virus posting political crap.
Because American "liberals" are closer to the conservatives in most other countries. There is no left-wing in the US anymore, only 50 shades of right.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
I have to post AC because I will get reamed for having a point of view you don't agree with, but anyway... (sad to say the least)
The man makes more sense that Obama in overall policy. I am not worried about abortion being up for grabs in the next 4 years, not am I worried something might happen to women's rights, etc. Those are non-issues.
Our country can not function without a strong, working economy. Obama has great ideals, but they're not worth giving everything else up for them. They just don't fit here. Not right now.
Sorry, but Romney has the background and experience to turn this around. And I assure you that you will be able to answer definitively, that you're doing better four years from now. I know you can't say that today. Good luck.
mostly doubling down on, most Bush policies (use of drones, attacking Libya for freedom, warrantless wiretapping, funneling government money to large corporations, TSA/Homeland Security)
The drone strikes was part of his original campaign. He stated that he would strike in Pakistan with them and all the other candidates said they would not. I completely support this.
Now "attacking Libya for freedom"? Can you explain what you are trying to say here? We are attacking Libya for freedom? That makes no sense. We have no troops in Libya. We are not attacking an abstract idea in Libya.
Warrantless wiretapping, yes I would like to see this stopped.
funneling government money to large corporations
You do realize that the Republicans are the greatest the supporters of corporate welfare? The amount this is happening under Obama vs Bush is laughable. It's like complaining about a couple drops of water in the desert vs being on the bottom of the ocean.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
Democrats in 2012 acting like Republicans from 2004
And folks wonder why 3rd parties are gaining more traction.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
If Romney were elected you bet he WOULD carry forward the same policies without a ton of negative press, just like Obama. Bush Jr. got so much negative press because he was the first to do these awful things, but that cherry is popped now.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
"Like" in Facebook is used to indicate interest, as in "I'd like to see more stuff like this." So when someone says something like:
It's basically a misunderstanding of what Facebook means when someone says they like something. This is a problem, because it's not easily resolved. You could add a "show me more stories like this" button, but that's not an action word so it's more confusing and doesn't evoke the same emotional response. You could add a "dislike" button, but then you have the question of how you interpret the dislike. Do you show them more things like that assuming they like to dislike it, or do you show them fewer assuming that they dislike disliking it.
Does anyone else have any ideas about how you can resolve this and still retain an intuitive, uncluttered interface that people would want to use?
My wife's friends were a little shocked about a month ago when her Facebook page showed that she "Liked" Walmart. My wife loves shopping, but she wouldn't be caught dead in a Walmart. There are rumblings out there that Facebook is inserting these likes into people's pages without their consent.
If you like Obama, "like" Romney. Romney's campaign runners will look at the numbers and think they're doing great and not work as hard as they could, Obama's will work harder, then BLAMMO! Come election day, four more years!
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/209720568/scat/b8de8e630faf3631/ht/NYT-Militants-targeted-for-US-reprisal
If we're targeting militants for reprisal attacks, we have boots on the ground carrying out recon for target painting, if not direct commando assaults. And yes, it was in theory about "freedom of the Libyan people", because the impitus in attacking Libya was that Ghaddafi planned on leveling Benghazi, the stronghold of those opposing his regime who had risen up during the Arab Spring. As the Arab Spring was (in theory, not in practice) about a popular democratic uprising (and it was in the Europeans backyard), the Europeans, mainly the French, wanted to go in there and save those people, and Obama felt obligated to honor our ALliance with France (NATO) and support them.
Drone strikes were a part of his original campaign. Obama said in his campaign that he would order attacks on terrorists in Pakistan. In other words, he clearly stated that he would send armed drones into the sovereign air space of another country who is ostensibly our ally, without their permission, and bomb their citizens (because they're terrorists). He has carried through on this campaign promise with gusto, and our relationship with Pakistan has dramatically suffered for it. Yes, Bush started it, but the number of attacks has increased 5 fold under Obama.
Stupid people who don't understand the sponsored pages? I keep seeing this romney page, but I never liked it...
The greatest right given is the right to be wrong...
You have an article with no author from a news organization operating out of the UAE talking about what the CIA is planning to do in Libya.
I would suggest taking that with a grain of salt, but also remember we have no troops on the ground in Yemen or Pakistan, but we still go after targets there.
I just have no clue what he meant by "attacking Libya for freedom", I can't make those words make sense.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
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Yes, I've seen this happen as well, only with Amazon. WTF is going on Facebook?
Both of the major parties have done ill to the everyday citizen, for about as long as any one of us have been alive. I hope that I will live long enough to see my country actually be lead by someone not in the Republocratic or Demican parties such to start dismantling this machine of corruption, deception, and death.
Short of that, the best solution is a majority (but barely, no veto overrides) of one party, and an executive of another party, and that they each said nasty things about each others' mothers. Because when it's time to get unified on shit, it always seems to pour down to the peons (PATRIOT Act, Copyright Extension++, DMCA, wiretaps, war on drugs, etc etc etc)
Correction: He didn't want to free the prisoners because that was a worse problem.
If Romney were elected you bet he WOULD carry forward the same policies without a ton of negative press, just like Obama. Bush Jr. got so much negative press because he was the first to do these awful things, but that cherry is popped now.
I think the negative lashing out was more about the press being convinced he stole the election, because we didn't spend the next year and a half auditing every hanging chad in the country.
Of course, with tools like these the framework is being put in place call any election for "the other guy" rigged.
More Twoson than Cupertino
Funneling money to business and funneling money to SPECIFIC businesses is completely different. In the words of Mittens: "You don't just pick the winners and losers, you just pick the losers".
Funneling money to business and funneling money to SPECIFIC businesses is completely different
Halliburton
At least Obama doesn't own stock in the firms he has been trying to help, and he has been trying to help them, not doing it for personal profit.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
Barracuda Networks has a paid ad on facebook now. So does Mitt Romney. Dumb people just click "like" on the "sponsored pages" that show up on their screen.
How is this tech news?
It seems that even some liberals got tired of complete zero.
JAM
The truth hurts, eh?
Geeks should vote out Obama because he's the No.1 stooge of Big Media. Obama owes his election to Big Media. Even that supposed bastion of rightwing misinformation, Fox News, has been relatively nice to Obama. Why? Because Murdoch knows Obama and the Democrats have been pushing the Big Media agenda in terms of favorable regulation and persecution. Republicans are less inclined to support Big Media because its conservative wing frowns on the sex, violence, profanities, etc, of pop music and the movies.
accidentally clicking on a Romney ad or a “sponsored story” from the Romney campaign in their news feed.
Why is it that clicking on ANYTHING but a like button generates a like? Perhaps people say the "sponsored story" and wanted to read it, now all of a sudden they "like" the person? Clicking on an ad "likes" the ad?
The issue isn't fat fingering. The issue is Facebook liking things for you, even when you didn't ask it to.
... ain't we have seen enough of complains from them liberals ?
I mean, while the rest of the human race are busying building human civilization them liberals are getting free pass on everything, plus they complain when they are not getting the priority treatment
We pay taxes, and we work hard to bring bacon and bread to our family
Them liberals? Many of them liberals don't pay no taxes and still they complain about the "1%" or so they claim
We do not expect anybody else to help us but ourselves. We toil every single day to see to that our families get feed and sheltered. We may not be wealthy but we do not depend on social welfare. We believe in human dignity to life, to liberty, to freedom of speech, to freedom of expression ...
And them?
They do not believe in human dignity to life. They support abortion even to the 3rd trimester - the "Partial Birth Abortion"
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/23/President-Infanticide-Dem-Plank-Partial-Birth
That internet movie that had been called "anti-Islamic" has shown us one thing - them liberals do not believe in the freedom of expression.
However bad or hideous that movie might be, freedom of expression states that we can not force anyone to shut up just because we do not like what he or she says.
But apparently them Liberals don't understand the basic tenet of freedom of speech / freedom of expression.
Their only "contribution" to this world is their excessive complaints.
They complain of everything, and I mean, every-single-thing !!
So some of those liberals that "like" him may have "liked" him for the purposes of trolling the page.
Or maybe it's because he's the most liberal Republican presidential candidate since ... well since ... come to think of it I can't remember a Republican candidate as liberal as Mitt. It sure pulled the rug out from under Obama's feet in the debate.
It is a very basic and simple to understand phenomenon: When a candidate promises "Change" to a population of voters, who elect himj enthusiastically on that promise, and then turns his back on those voters when elected, turning to advisors who advised the toady to the military-industrial and financial corporation oligarchy that he replaced, asking them to direct him, and doing as they direct, the candidate betrays the voters who elected him and betrays the trust and faith they placed in him.
When the candidate then runs for re-election he presents those who voted for him before with a choice: Vote for Anyone Else, or condone being lied to, which also puts a seal-of-approval on the screw-the-people-and-the-constitution and engage in aggressive foreign wars policies, the imprisonment-without-trial and assassination programs, the welfare-give-aways to military-industrial and financial corporation "super-people", etc. etc. that the candidate has adopted that you voted for him to vote against last time, when you voted for the "Change" he promsed he would bring.
You repeat this pattern, voting the liar out, every four years, doing it again and again until the system explodes or a candidate runs who does push for real change.
Being Liberal does not mean being a brain-damaged sheep, even if Obama and his sponsors would like it to, and a Republican who respects the constitution is a respectable choice aganst a Democrat who does not, whether the corporate-owned media wants us to think so or not.
It was the Silence. Enough said.
Unfortunately, I know the author of FB site mentioned from a job quite some time ago... We live in the same town, but couldn't be called close.
Mark is not particularly left wing, or alarmist...
But, If you look at the start of the timeline, you will see his COMPETENT research into how, when and why something was clicked that made him "like" Rmoney's page... I'm sure he would have let it go, if there was a FB mobile app goof... but he could find nothing conclusive... That is kinda strange in and of itself.
"Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages for links to increase Like counters"
http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/10/04/facebook-confirms-it-is-scanning-your-private-messages-for-links-so-it-can-increase-like-counters/
So basically if you message someone "Hey, check out this pages that shows how stupid Romney is http://...." facebook considers that as a "like" for Romney
Well, launching cruise missiles at targets does count as an attack. Admittedly, not one where you get American troops killed, but we most assuredly attacked Libya for the purpose of "freeing their people". He might have worded it awkwardly, but I'd say that we all know what he meant.
I have a friend who views the Like button like a Subscribe button.
I can't say that he's totally wrong.
Troll? The "overrated" was legit but troll? I guess "troll" is the moderation for "it's true but makes me uncomfortable." Some people should never get mod points!
Free Martian Whores!
Because facebook 'likes' any page you visit, automatically:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19832043
Fuck facebook.
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
What planet are you from, where Bush received negative press? You forgetting how the media marched in lockstep support of the Iraq invasion or how minor details like massively illegal surveillance of non-suspects were suppressed for the 2004 election?
American establishment media is uniformly authoritarian, pro-establishment and pro-military-industrial complex. That was true under Bush, it's true under Obama, and it would be true if Romney wins the election.
Hello fellow Slashdotters. Glad to see this topic is getting attention here. I'm the guy who started the Hacked by Mitt Romney Facebook group.
I was unknowingly signed up for Mitt Romney's page back on August 23rd. It was news to me that I was a Romney fan, but there I was, listed as a fan on his page. As an old-school geek who's been on the Internet for 20 years and works as a sysadmin (you know, they guy who tells others in the office not to click on things), I am certain that I did not click on anything by mistake.
Curiously, Facebook's Activity Log shows every like I've registered on the service since my account was created, yet it DOESN'T show me ever liking Mitt Romney's page. That's the biggest clue that this is some sort of hack. If I screwed up and clicked on something by mistake, this should be reflected in the Activity Log, right? But it's not. Then again, maybe I'm a super-hacker, able to scrub entries from Facebook records. But probably not!
I emailed Bill Pennington, the expert that the Mother Jones reporter contacted, asking him for his thoughts. He replied:
"Sadly the people that hold all the cards are FB and I don’t really buy their story of accidental clicks on the mobile site, maybe some but not all."
My own research shows that there's virtually no way what happened to me (at least) is due to Facebook mobile. All of that is on my blog, www.markturner.net.
I am very, very angry that someone (perhaps Romney's campaign, perhaps someone working on his behalf) would put words into my mouth and hijack my online reputation for a cause in which I do not believe. I have little faith that Facebook will be forthcoming on how this is happening.
What I DO hope is that other Slashdot users can help uncover more of what's going on. Am I completely wrong? Overlooking something basic? Why do so many Facebook users report the same thing, even those without smartphones?
Mark Turner
Hacked by Mitt Romney Facebook group
several of my quite conservative friends have found pro-obama crap in their timelines; which came from nowhere
I seriously did not know what he meant, I didn't know if he thought we were attacking Libya trying to prevent their freedom, or if he meant that we were attacking the freedom of the Libyan people in some other way, or if we were attacking Libya so that we could gain more freedom.
Considering the stupid shit I have heard come out of peoples mouths I was not taking anything for granted.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
here's an idea. FUCK FACEBOOK! try to borrow money from any of your "friends" on facebook and see what happens. facebook is not real. we are a nation of morons. that's real. this illusion of "social" networking is truly the saddest part of our mindset. it is childish and needs to be put in the same category as belief in the tooth fairy. step back and look at yourself as you "like" someone or something you care absolutely nothing about. what is wrong with us?
For one simple purpose: Trolling.