A British couple wed last Saturday ending their 14 year engagement after a friend’s Facebook campaign raised £20,000 in cash, gifts, and services.
According to the BBC, Teaching assistant Emma Collins and truck driver Shaun Parsons got engaged on Emma’s 17th birthday in 1996. They were not able to afford a big wedding since they had to support their children, 13-year-old twins and a 10-year.
They were devastated when they came a close second in a radio competition for a free wedding. That’s when best friend Jenee Gatehouse decided to set up a Facebook group to raise funds for the couple to have their dream wedding.
Donations from Facebook included everything from reception venue, floral arrangements, limousine services, wedding cake, dress, photography, catering, DJ, and more.
Facebook campaigns have started showing up in support Gamu Nhengu, whose rejection scene was air last Sunday on X Factor.
18-year-old Gamu Nhengu was trailed as an early favorite to win, but was rejected by Judge Cheryl Cole last Sunday.
The decision angered many fans and shocked many, who turned to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to raise their voice.
Among the many Facebook Pages and Groups, a Facebook page entitled Gamu should have gone through has already attracted more than 122,000 fans and comments of dejection, encouragements, and anger fills the page wall, as well as some dubious accusations of racisms.
Obviously millions of viewers are shocked. However there are reports that Gamu will soon be returning to the programme as a ‘wild card’ entry.
And yeah! we got a Page on that too 
, called The Twist on X-Factor is Gamu Nhengu is coming back.
Betty White, the former Golden Girl, will appear on Saturday Night Live – an idea she referred to as ‘ridiculous’ just a few weeks back - in the near future as confirmed by the People magazine.
The “Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!” Facebook Page has now filled with congratulatory messages from fans who supported the campaign. Though the Facebook page has stagnated in growth, with around 500,000 fans for quite some time, the group got what they requested for.
Fans have been rooting for White, 88, to do SNL ever since her appearance in Snickers ad during the Super Bowl.
It is really impressive that a Facebook page about a random celebrity could generate so much buzz and response from the network.
It is still unclear when she will appear or what it will entail as she didn’t offer any details on it.
Joe McElderry’s “The Climb,” had a hard climb through the UK Christmas Chart.
This year, Joe McElderry, the winner of the X Factor was expected to score an easy win his single “The Climb,” a cover of a song by Miley Cyrus, however campaign started on Facebook to stop McElderry from topping the UK Christmas Chart this year.
Jon Morter, a 35-year-old logistics expert and music fan, started a Facebook group and encourage support for the Rage Against the Machine single “Killing In The Name.”
Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name” sold more than 500,000 copies in its most recent week of release to McElderry single “The Climb” which sold 450,000 to take the top spot on UK Christmas Chart.
In recent years, the British charts have been routinely topped at Christmas time by the winner of “The X Factor,” a singing competition produced by Simon Cowell, the “American Idol” judge.
It is being hailed as one of the biggest shocks in the history of the U.K.’s music charts — and a slice of humble Christmas pie for pop mogul Simon Cowell.
All in all i would like to put this whole news in this way – Winner of X Factor, Joe McElderry’s single “The Climb” had a hard climb on the UK Christmas Chart because RATM’s “Killing In The Name” killed McElderry’s race in the name of killing the run of Simon Cowell’s backed artists topping the Christmas Chart.
Are you surprised by the chart list or was it expected?
[Source: New York Times]
