Facebook isn’t going anywhere on February 29

The bottomline: STOP Forwarding / alerting friends / panicking. 

February 29, 2013 is a date that doesn't exist

Extract from The Right Click  By Tori Floyd:

"Nevertheless, many people have likely seen this post appear on their Facebook wall, asking them to spread the word:
"Share this message with at least 15 of your friends for the best chance of alerting everyone," reads a message circulating on Facebook, according to Mother Nature Network. "Many people will try to log in from February 29 to 31, just to find the site closed down for those days with no warning."...

If you're faced with what appears to be a chain message via Facebook, there are some basic rules to follow:

• If it asks you to click a link or send along personal info, don't. Facebook has more official means of contacting you than a Wall Post put up by one of your friends.
• Before entering in any sensitive information, including your Facebook password (or any other password), banking information, or home address, verify that the URL you're visiting is actually Facebook. And as a point of common sense, you probably shouldn't be too generous with your banking info and address to Facebook, either.
• Use common sense. Read 'important messages' that are meant to be official communications from Facebook twice, since chances are good they aren't real. And if a message is promising something that sounds too good to be true — like a free iPad or money just for reposting —then it almost always is. ... continue reading: The Right Click 

Facebook TimeLine Hoax - Forwarded again

The message comes like this (depends on the twists and turns):

With the new 'FB timeline' on its way this week for EVERYONE...please do both of us a solid: Hover over my name above. In a few seconds you'll see a box that says "Subscribed." Hover over that, then go to "Comments and Likes" and unclick it. That will stop my posts and yours to me from showing up on the side bar for everyone to see, but MOST IMPORTANTLY it LIMITS HACKERS from invading our profiles. If you re-post this I will do the same for you.

What others are doing to tell you the otherwise? Read the following:

A Hoax-Slayer Nutshell: Protest Message Rails Against New Facebook Timeline

Harry Waldron - Computer Security News

Snoops link verifing that it a hoax

Scams target anti-Timeline Facebook users, USA TODAY

Extract: As a company, Facebook has tried to educate its millions of users, pointing out options, updating security information, and answering privacy concerns. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that's been enough, with more than 70,000 people joining anti-Timeline pages across the board.

Protect Your Facebook Account from the Latest Hack
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forwarding and forwarded email - media monitoring

• Facebook scam causes pocketbook panic for some users
  
  
• Pentagon to talk to Michigan company about Bible verse scopes

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Interfaith Alliance head protests Bible verses on military gun sights

Galewher.com Facebook, Twitter Virus: Koobface Strikes Again

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Here is the news: Galewher.com Facebook, Twitter Virus: Koobface Strikes Again

"Apparently, Galewher.com is an extension of the Koobface worm, which has been running amuck for some time now."

More news here: GALEWHER.C0M (GaleWher.com) Facebook Virus

An Awesome Simple Effective Viral Email Idea Vs. Pass it on

Note: Here are extracts from two posts by experts in the field of viral marketing.
Good for a reflection: To Forward with your .02 cent or just forget it!!!

An Awesome Simple Effective Viral Email Idea:

I read a great email a while back. It gave an awesome idea of how to take advantage of those certain emails that we all get 20 a day of, mostly jokes.

You know when you scroll down to the bottom of some emails, you’ll often see a link to HotMail, Yahoo or whoever the webmail provider is? Basically any free email provider will have their ad at the bottom of outgoing emails, right?

Wouldn’t it be cool to have your link there?

It would be fantastic! continue reading

Pass it on:

Without wanting to get all Kant about this, I think there’s only one thing wrong with viral marketing, and that is that it doesn’t exist.

I’m not saying that the “viral effect” doesn’t exist. It’s everywhere. The growth of facebook is quite phenomenal for instance. I’m just saying this is not something you put on your marketing schedules. It’s not something where you can add a perceived difference (the monkey falling out of the tree being funny) to what you’re actually marketing.

Just because a phenomnen can be percieved does not necessarily mean that it can (or should) be turned into a type of marketing which is appropriate for any brand. continue reading