Don't be fooled by that fake "Facebook Dislike button"

As I opened my Facebook account and then I saw this two message posted in my FB wall, I started to read it careful and study if this is legit, and then I hovered my mouse arrow pointing to that link "Enable Dislike Button", then I saw that the link will direct to a Facebook fake page. I didn't think twice and I immediately remove this post in my wall. I started to do a research and found an article "'Enable Dislike Button' scam spreading on Facebook" , After reading it... I learned that the Facebook Dislike Button is a fake and a scam. If ever that Facebook will have its own Dislike button, there will be announcements and also news spreading online, so its better to Google it first, research and read, before we click it.

Its funny that some people wanted to earn money and they got the idea to use this FB app to scam people with their money generating online survey recommendation. Although that the directed link to website is not harmless, but still an annoying item in my FB wall to see a fake FB links floating. If you saw one...delete it right away and do not click it. If you click the link and posted the link in your address bar, all of your FB network and friends will receive the same FB app note in their wall, telling them to enable their FB dislike buttons.

Facebook users should be very careful and aware of these fake FB apps and links

Philippines – the social networking capital of the world

Facebook logo, Twitter and RSS posted on the windows of Kitch Cafe in Makati City.

This is the new nickname that our country just received after a report came in online and our country got the number 1 spot as the most heavy user of Facebook in the world, there are other countries that are actively using Facebook, but this time the stats and numbers give the story and I know that the local mainstream media is a big influence on this number and give a big push to all of us here to use Facebook. Watch TV,check out the news, or see advertisement, all of them bear the Facebook logo. (More story below)

I first read the news here at Carlo’s blog http://www.newmedia.com.ph/philippines-is-the-social-networking-capital-of-the-world/ and he explained that “Philippines has the highest penetration of Facebook in the world at 93.9%. Penetration means the total number of Facebook users vs the total number of Internet users in the Philippines.”

The main source of the news came here at http://247wallst.com/2011/05/09/the-ten-nations-where-facebook-rules-the-internet/ and they showed here the Top 10 nations where Facebook rules the net, and they gave a nice stats based on data provided by comScore, Inside Facebook, New Media Trend Watch, and ZDNet and announced that the Philippines is the number 1 users of Facebook.

here’s the stat

1. Philippines
> Facebook: 93.9%
> Twitter: 16.1%
> LinkedIn: 1.9%
> Internet Use: 29.7%

My prediction was right last year that Facebook will dominate our screens and now I’m a little bit scared that we are the heaviest users of Facebook and this will attract lots of Facebook activities in the coming months. I’m not really sure if networking and community building is still good in Facebook for your company or small communities, but I still suggest that we should start moving and not rely on Facebook forever, there might be a time that Facebook can be the next Friendster hahahah. But still, Facebook rocks and I’m still looking for other alternatives and how do I maintain my online community there.

Big Questions come into my mind like “what if Facebook is gone after we woke up in the morning?” . The question and answer is similar to.. When Plurk is down.we move back to Twitter..but that was the old story…everyone now sticks to Twitter…and if Twitter is down then everyone moves back to Facebook. Maybe my answer will be, “I’ll go back to Twitter and Multiply if ever Facebook crashes down”, a good example also is that…I heavily use Facebook and Twitter after Blogger.com is down.

Although that the news can also show that our internet service, connection and access are doing good, broadband or even mobile are now semi-perfectly working fine and then in the coming months if SMART’s LTE and Globe’s HSPA+ launches in every part of the city, the continued growth of Facebook users will be doubled, because the access to any internet connection will affect the stats again and also bring more users to social networking sites.

So what’s your take as our country, the Philippines, as the SOCIAL NETWORKING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD ?

Facebook redirects me to Google

I don’t know what’s happening… but I’m now researching on how to fix this issue
But when I use touch.facebook.com the link works perfectly fine

What’s wrong ? DNS? Wifi Router problems? or just my browser Firefox 4

Did you encounter this Facebook Auto Chat Virus ?

I use Facebook everyday and every hour,I spend my time reading all status updates and check for the latest trends happening online. I also encounter weird Facebook shotgun Likes invitations, weird photo tags and now the Facebook Auto Chat (virus).

you might encounter incoming chat from your friends and network and they post weird messages like

"lol, have you seen your picture? its so funny!"

"just give me a call when you read this"

Sometimes the Facebook incoming chats are funny, others are weird...and some have a lot of drama. I receive this chats last week and I think my Facebook chat is also infected, and to prevent the spread of the worm or virus, I manually disabled my Facebook chat for good, so that I won't receive any of those weird messages and also to prevent the spread the worm, if ever I am infected, because I can't really tell.

Here's a funny incident that happened today, I was on a meeting with my colleagues, then my phone rang and a Facebook friend called me to check me if I am okay, and then I told him that I'm okay and what's up, we were suppose to meet last week and I canceled our meet up because I'm sick and I was wondering that my friend here might get another sched for us to meet.

Then he told me that he received a Facebook chat from me and it says that I should give him a call, and I am shocked after I heard that and told my friend that my Facebook chat is disabled and I'm not online. So that means the Facebook Auto Chat worm or virus can still use the chat engine of Facebook and still sends messages even that you are offline or disconnected from the internet. Wow!! how did they do that?

I started some research and saw that there's no news about this Facebook auto chat sessions from a virus, but I read that many forumers are offering anti virus removal for your computers, I' m very careful in downloading fix and tool kit, but I suggest to everyone that you should be very careful in downloading these tool kit, because we can't guarantee if that will work.

I know people at Facebook are working on their shell to solve this issues, and I do hope that they can inform us if it is complete solved or not..

So be very careful!

Just remember..

1. If someone posted a photo in your wall and contains a link like the "video of a kid committed suicide on camera" or "Miley Cyrus is a naughty girl and naked" . Just delete it and don't ever click on the link.

2. Same goes to Facebook app, there are apps that can redirect you to a website containing malicious sites that will auto download some harmful files in your computer,if someone invited you, just dont click it.

3. Never give any details about your personal profile in Facebook, if someone ask you in a chat or in a message.

4. Always check the url of your Facebook, or a link that was sent to you via email, sometimes a face Facebook notification arrives in your email inbox and say that you receive a tag from a friend and when you click on a link, it will direct you this fake Facebook site and it will steal your passwords and profile.

5. If you don't know what to do, just post a question in your wall and someone from your friends can help you what to do.

ok that's all folks!

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Ok after I wrote this post, I saw this news just now

ALERT: Facebook Chat Hijackings Continue To Spread

http://www.allfacebook.com/alert-facebook-chat-hijackings-continue-to-spread-2011-03

SMART Buddy Facebook-Web app Pasaload

SMART brings us a new way of loading our mobile phones or just give a Pasaload or receive Pasaload from friends and family. I encounter so many times a delay of pasaload or reload to my load provider here in the neighborhood, but this time SMART launches an app within Facebook. Now we have a better and fast Pasaload activity with just a click of a button.

instructions below
1. All you have to do is visit http://apps.facebook.com/pasaload
2. Allow it to connec to your Facebook
3. Add your mobile number
4. Add your Pasaload contacts
5. Drag the numbers into the Send and Receive boxes
6. Choose how much the load
7. then Pasaload it!

I haven't tried it, but I'm going to find first some friends who are using SMART so that I can pasaload them something. I'll add a review after doing an experiment.

let's try it! just PM me if you want to pasaload me ha.