The Largest Online Protest in History: No to SOPA and PIPA

Image via SOPASTRIKE: If you wanted to enjoy your FREEDOM of expression and protect your online SECURITY read the message, share it to everyone you know, get out from your comfort zone and join the worldwide online protest.

Many believed that SOPA and PIPA will threaten prosperity, online security, and freedom of expression. Since yesterday some of the blog sites/websites at wordpress were already blacked out to show their protest.

Wordpress.org, Wordpress.com, Mozilla Corporation, Facebook, Electronic Frontier Foundation,Yahoo!, eBay, American Express, Reddit, Google, Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, English Wikipedia including some Law professors Mark Lemley (Stanford University), David S. Levine (Elon University), and David G. Post (Temple University) opposed SOPA and PIPA.

Today, the said protest has already spread worldwide. Google campaign is calling you to sign the petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late. You can also visit American Censorship Site for details on how you can show your support and to join the worldwide protest – if you wanted to protect your online security and enjoy yourfreedom of expression. Now twitter is flooded with tweets of “Vote NO to SOPA and PIPA”. The protest will last until Jan 24, 2012 – the US Senate vote date. This is the largest protest ever in history!

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How True Facebook is Powerful than Google

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In early 2010, the In Sites Consulting has released a study on the result of a market research about Facebook when at that time Facebook has only more than 400 million registered users. Their findings are as follows:

• 50% of their active users or equivalents to (200 million+) log-on to Facebook in any given day
• More than 35 million users update their status each day
• More than 60 million status updates posted each day
• More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
• More than 5 billion pieces of content such as web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc. shared each week
• More than 3.5 million events created each month
• More than 3 million active Pages on Facebook
• More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook
• More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day
• And pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans

It includes also the average user figures such as:

• Average user has 130 friends on the site
• Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
• Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
• Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
• Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
• Average user becomes a fan of 4 Pages each month
• Average user is invited to 3 events per month
• Average user is a member of 13 groups 

I can say that the above findings of In Sites Consulting about Facebook were convincing because in the same year, on July 21, 2010 Facebook users have increased drastically to 500 million active users. According to Facebook history records its company figures from the time Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004, after 1,665 days Facebook users have reached to first 100 million users. The following records are as follows:

• On August 26, 2008 after 1,665 days from the date Facebook was launched its users have reached to 100 million
• After 225 days on April 8, 2009 Facebook users increased to 200 million
• After 160 days on September 15, 2009 FB users increased to 300 million
• After 143 days on February 5, 2010 FB users increased to 400 million
• After 166 days on July 21, 2010 FB users increased to 500 million
• After 168 days on January 5, 2011 FB users increased to 600 million
• After 145 days on May 30, 2011 FB users increased to 700 million
• And on September 22, 2011 FB users have increased to 800 million
• And from September 23, 2011 to present FB users are still increasing every day

Now we can say that these are proof that Facebook has the potential to direct more online users than Google every single day. For that we should not ignore Facebook at all for our article sharing activities!

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26,752,000 Filipinos FB Users are Recipients for Facebook Ban

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Philippines have 26,752,000 Facebook users and still increasing everyday. Philippines garnered the number 8 position in the ranking of all Facebook statistics by country. The number one Facebook user is America. And out of 26,752,000 - 39% belong to Filipinos ages from 18-24 years old and 24% belong to Filipinos ages from 25-34 years old. And out of 26,752,000 Facebook users 48% of them are male users and 52% are female users. These recorded numbers of Facebook users are only from Philippines. There are still more than 10,000,000 Filipinos Facebook users who are presently living in foreign lands including myself. If Mark Zuckerberg is really decided to kick out these Filipino Facebook users from using Facebook, first he has to think twice before finalizing his decision as it is improper to punish everyone for the crime done by one or by some!

Whether it is True or not, the allegedly an online statement of Mark Suckerberg - the CEO of Facebook, which was released on November 16, 2011 at 9PM Pacific Time Zone has generated favorable traffics, views and hundreds of comments at Facebook site and on other blog sites across the Internet. His allegedly statement directly warned the Filipino Facebook users of Philippines to be banned from using Facebook - if they continue uploading pornography (photos, videos and other types) and sharing spam to the site!

Yesterday, the whole day, I used my time on net surfing to look for the original source of the said official statement of Mark Suckerberg. I had used all the possible search engines I knew but I was in vain. No-one of the search engines has guided me to the original source of Mark's statement. All of the published articles regarding the statement were all copied from a copied piece. I even penetrated Yahoo but they were all the same from a copied source. This morning, I visited Facebook hoping to see the original and official statement of Mark Suckerberg but there was no recorded official statement of his found there.

I quoted the allegedly statement of Mark Zuckerberg that says, "The porn attacks originated in the Philippines and are being published by Filipinos all over Facebook, our experts here at Facebook are doing everything they can to stop it from spreading any further (outside the Philippines) and to eliminate the porn and spam threat completely which have been causing other Facebook users ‘a hard time’. Filipinos should also be vigilant and report any spam links and pornographic materials. 41% of Facebook members around the world are aged 12-17 years old, we cannot them be exposed to this kinds of things through Facebook. If this continues and more spam keep being posted, we will have no choice but to ban Philippine users from using Facebook. We at Facebook will not tolerate outlandish behavior and indecency.'' Even if this is true or not - Mark has pointed out all the Filipinos in general.

According to some of Facebook platform policies, I quoted some that said, "You agree that you will not promote, or provide content referencing, facilitating, containing or using, the following:

• Content that is hateful, threatening, defamatory, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.

However, Mark Zuckerberg's statement is admirable. He shows how he really cares the minor ones and other Facebook users because Pornography is not really for general viewing!

For more details regarding Mark Zuckerberg statements and others you may visit the following links:

• Omgitsangeldei
• Facebookhelpcommunity
• Paulgeniousboy

Four Ways to Share Our Triond Awesome Articles on Facebook

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Published on Webupon, Mar 5, 2011 Category – Social Networks

If you’re inside Facebook you will see the section where you can choose and maximize on sharing your awesome articles to Facebook users.

That way of sharing is in accordance of Facebook policy and without spamming!

I might say that 99% to 100% among the contributors of Triond are already enjoying the maximum benefits of sharing articles on Facebook and that mostly of them have already familiarized the whole structure of Facebook.

May I ask you guys: How do you share your articles at Facebook?

I still remember – last December 2010, one of my Triond friends asked me this question “Does your article reach to all the Facebook or twitter users or to your friends only?

I replied by telling him the following, “Any stuff sent off to Twitter is open to its users. Any stuff shared to facebook will depend on how you want to share it to its users.”

Regardless of what type and kind of article that you would like to share to Facebook you are bound at least four ways to choose to share your article to Facebook users. If you were inside Facebook – updating your Facebook profile, you will see the section “Share”. Under it there are four ways or options to choose before sharing your article to facebook users.

• Share it to your friends only.
• Share it to your friends of friends.
• Share it with your chosen audience.
• Share it to everyone.

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• Mapping The Roads
• Our Triond Pages are Traffics Generators Too
• How to Market Articles.

Every time I share my articles at facebook, I always choose “everyone and friends of friends” alternatively. And that way of sharing is in accordance of facebook policy and without spamming!