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me: Associate Professor, School of Informa5on, U. Michigan on sabba5cal at Facebook
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October has 5 Mondays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays No one should die because
they don’t have health insurance
April 6, 2009: L'Abruzzo si sta appoggiando all'Avis del Lazio, CERCANO URGENTEMENTE SANGUE DI RH 0 NEGATIVO. Per INFO 06 491340, per favore fate di questo post il vostro status
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shaking up the status update
Facebook bliver den 1/6 2009 en betalingsside. Prisen bliver 30 USD om året for at bruge siden. Hjælp med at sørge for det ikke sker ved at kopiere denne tekst 5l din status. Facebook som betalings side NEJ TAK!!!
"FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP. $9.99 PER MONTH FOR GOLD MEMBER SERVICES… IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED "
2 years later…!
geing your (pocketbook’s) alen5on April 2009 5,000 copies
Sept 2011 5,000 copies
close to you, close to home
true > funny > awesome > cute
"On September 31st, 2011 Facebook will start charging you for your account. To avoid this, you MUST get NAKED, stand on your dining room table and do the Macarena, all the while singing “I Will Survive”. Aper filming and pos5ng it to your Facebook wall and YouTube, then, and only then, will Mark Zuckerberg come down your chimney to tell you that your account will stay free. Pass it on, it must be true because someone on Facebook I hardly know told me."
Humor
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Fear & Warning
"URGENT!!! For all parents, Nestle is asking for everyone to return all BANANA BABY FOOD expiring 2012 because they may contain GLASS. Please copy & paste for all babies safety. Bar code 7613033089 73, EVEN if you are not a parent please help forward this post. You could help save a child
Nestle 30,000 copies, 1 month later
Fear & Warning
"URGENT!!! For all parents, Nestle is asking for everyone to return all BANANA BABY FOOD expiring 2012 because they may contain GLASS. Please copy & paste for all babies safety. Bar code 7613033089 73, EVEN if you are not a parent please help forward this post. You could help save a child
Nestle 30,000 copies, 1 month later
Gerber 8,000 copies, 1 month later
Gerber
Guilt
AMBER ALERT... 3 year old BOY taken in ROCHESTER, IN by a man driving a MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE plate number 98B351... Please put this as your status so it moves all across face book. YOU WOULD IF IT WAS YOUR CHILD!!! I have copied this from a friend
Guilt
AMBER ALERT... 3 year old BOY taken in ROCHESTER, IN by a man driving a MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE plate number 98B351... Please put this as your status so it moves all across face book. YOU WOULD IF IT WAS YOUR CHILD!!! I have copied this from a friend
It's gola be true. I read it on facebook PLEASE READ CAREFULLY 98% of you won't repost, but I'm sure I know who will be a true friend (insert lots of emo5onal blackmail here) and the HEARTS ! Don't forget the friggin HEARTS ♥♥
Urgency & persistence
within 11 mins of reading rest of the day next 24 hours one hour
If you agree, post this as your status for the rest of the day.
no one should die because they cannot afford and no one should because they
go broke health care,
get sick.
Humor & Muta5on
If you agree, post this as your status for the rest of the day.
no one should
because they cannot afford and no one should because they
go broke
be without a beer
bought too many beers.
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Humor & Muta5on
If you agree, post this as your status for the rest of the day.
no one should die because they cannot afford and no one should because they
go broke
be without a beer health care,
get sick. bought too many beers.
one,
Humor & Muta5on
all they can find is decaf.
coffee, lag behind,
fall asleep
If you agree, post this as your status for the rest of the day.
believes that no one should die because of zombie aLacks, but if someone gets infected
shoot them. the right thing to do is to decapitate them.
1,300 "No one should be without a beer…”
12,000 “No one should be frozen in carbonite”
400,000 “No one should die because they can’t afford health care.”
6,000 ”No one should die because of Zombies”
20 "No one should die unless Chuck Norris delivers a roundhouse, and no one should go broke unless Chuck Norris breaks them”
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Somewhere right now a nurse is geing yelled at for being late with meds, holding their bladder because they have been so busy they can't pee, right now a nurse is being puked on And is missing their family while taking care of yours. In the minute it took you to read this, nurse all over the world are saving lives. Re-‐post if you are a nurse, love a nurse, or appreciate a nurse.
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Somewhere right now a nurse is geing yelled at for being late with meds, holding their bladder because they have been so busy they can't pee, right now a nurse is being puked on And is missing their family while taking care of yours. In the minute it took you to read this, nurse all over the world are saving lives. Re-‐post if you are a nurse, love a nurse, or appreciate a nurse.
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Recombina5on 15 year old girl holds hands with her 1 year old son. People call her a "slut", no one knows she was raped at age 14. People call another guy "fat", no one knows he has a serious disease causing him to be overweight. People call an old man "ugly", no one knows he experienced a serious injury to his face while figh5ng for our country in the war. Re-‐post this if you are against bullying and stereotyping. I bet 88 of you won't, the other 22 aren’t heartless and will.
Hi, my name is Amy Bruce. I am 7 years old, and I have severe lung cancer . I also have a large tumor in my brain, from repeated bea5ngs. Doctors say I will die soon if this isn't fixed, and my family can't pay the bills. The Make A Wish Founda5on, has agreed to donate 7 cents for every 5me this message is sent on. For those of you who send this along, I thank you so much, but for those who don't send it, what goes around comes around. Have a Heart. Put this as your status ♥
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