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Facebook avoids making money through advertising

joesaid — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:25:34 +0000

I tried to ‘Promote Group with an Advert’ under a group I’m the admin of on Facebook.

“Your account has been disabled. All of your adverts have been stopped and should not be run again on the site under any circumstances. Generally, we disable an account if too many of its adverts violate our Terms of Use or Advertising guidelines. Unfortunately we cannot provide you with the specific violations that have been deemed abusive. Please review our Terms of Use and Advertising guidelines if you have any further questions.Permission Invalid — You do not have permission to create adverts on that account.”

I guess they make so much money already to care about their only source of revenue.

My friend with non-hodgkins lymphoma

joesaid — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:35:10 +0000

Hey everyone!

Michael & Kate

A dear friend of mine, in fact my best friend, is having a stem cell transplant on Tuesday. He’s 34 and his name is Michael.

He doesn’t know that I am writing this.

Mike found out he had non-hodgkins lymphoma 4 years ago. He’s gone through a bunch of experimental treatments. Work has been tough but for the most part he’s been doing good. He told me the other day that he doesn’t want to have cancer anymore and that’s why he’s doing this experimental procedure. The risk is pretty big and when he does recover he’s going to be pretty weak (unable to read, etc) for several weeks.

Mike’s a musician, writer, and poet. He loves Jane Eyre, and some other crappy Brit Lit, non-fiction audio-books, LOLcats, TED, and anything educational.

So, I thought that if he were to get a few random cards or funny stuff in the mail it would be pretty cool. I mean, every time he was feeling like shit, the twitterverse could make a difference.

He’s in Chicago and the address is:

Michael Oxenrider
University of Chicago Hospital
5841 S. Maryland Room TN 663
Chicago, IL 60637

Update: Mike is home now! .. Thx everyone!!

Below is the letter I got from his amazing girlfriend Kate.
It was addressed to me and three others.

Thanks for making the effort!!
-joe

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Hi everyone!

Michael’s Stem cell transplant is this Tuesday. I will be decorating his room for him to come back to and if any of you would like to send along a card or note for him to read when he is recovering, that would be so great!!!

Thanks everyone!
xo

P.S – After sleeping on it, I don’t know if this is the right thing to do. Let me know if you think its good or bad .. I might take it down if enough people tell me its a bad idea.

Addition: I am leaving it up. Everyone seems to think its much more positive than negative. Kate agrees. Thanks everyone!!

Lost friends from grade school

joesaid — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:12:48 +0000

Today I got a facebook add from an old friend from Toronto. So, I decided to do some searching for my friends from that time. I found one more friend before searching for Chris. It seems Chris isn’t really “doing” Facebook.

And Facebook, you have the exception written .. maybe you could make it more encouraging? .. Time to submit to Failblog.