Facebook, Social Media

Post by **WhoUrDaddy** » December 10, 2013, 12:43 pm

noosard wrote:advertising pays

or costs.............depending what side of the check bin you're on.......

Post by **socksy** » March 15, 2014, 8:14 am

"A married benefits cheat who swindled £65,000 by claiming she was a single mother was caught after investigators checked her Facebook status, Exeter Crown Court has heard.

Samantha Close, 27, of Wykes Road, Exeter, admitted five counts of benefit fraud.

She had claimed she was struggling alone with two children but her Facebook page showed she was married.

Close was jailed for 26 weeks, suspended for 18 months".

BBC News source.

Post by **GT93** » March 15, 2014, 9:45 am

If the British government gives me that amount of money I'd happily take that sentence. Not much of a deterrent.

Post by **mortiboy** » March 15, 2014, 12:24 pm

GT93 wrote:If the British government gives me that amount of money I'd happily take that sentence. Not much of a deterrent.

But I wonder will she need pay back the money over a period of time after?

Post by **GT93** » March 15, 2014, 2:42 pm

Yes, I guess so. The very light sentence might also be because she's already paid the money back (or most of it).

However if she's on welfare she might never be able to pay it back. That might well be the case as she clearly isn't too bright given what she did and what she posted on Facebook. The husband's role in all this isn't mentioned.

I think the harsher sanction is probably her diminished employment prospects given her conviction.

Post by **BobHelm** » March 15, 2014, 3:59 pm

She is still receiving Social Security. Her husband has now left her.
She is paying back the money via getting reduced payments now.
She has two children so I guess that the general feeling was that it is actually cheaper to keep her out of prison & looking after her kids than put her inside & have to put the kids into care as well.
From what I read of the case she was never wholly reliant on SS but was receiving things like housing allowance that she should not have been receiving once she was living with a guy...

Post by **jackspratt** » June 30, 2014, 11:49 am

More disturbing news emanating from the dark depths of Mordor Park, under the control of the evil Sauronberg:

Facebook's disturbing power to alter our moods

Over the week of January 11-18, 2012, some 689,003 Facebook user accounts were manipulated by researchers within the firm's 'Core Data Science' team. The 'News Feed' of posts shared by friends and followed accounts, analyzed for positive versus negative content, was then adjusted to tilt toward one or another extreme. Some users got mostly positive posts in their feeds, while others got mostly negative posts..........

............Facebook set out to prove what we already strongly suspected - its News Feeds are mood-altering streams of media. Yet proving this point raises serious questions about ethics and responsibility at Facebook. Did Facebook have permission to conduct experiments that could alter the mood of its users? Did users give their consent to participate in these experiments? Did these experiments produce quantifiable levels of emotional harm to any individuals?..........

.........This may be the most damning revelation of all. Buried deep within its Facebook Data Use Policy, Facebook asserts its users have given the firm legal permission to edit their News Feeds in any conceivable way.

In other words, Facebook claims the right to manipulate your News Feed to make you feel happy or sad or angry or exuberant or just about any other emotion they want you to feel. They've already shown their prowess at editing reality to generate a given mood.........

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-30/p ... ds/5559530

For the Facebook users ............. not quite feeling yourself today ................ can't put your finger on what is wrong..........?