Relatives of Kenya’s most famous polygamist started a Facebook page in a bid to connect with each other and get as many as possible to attend his funeral.
The Facebook “AKUKU DANGER FAMILY” is also set up as a tribute to the man. His burial is set on Dec 4, in order to give family members time to travel.
Accentus Akuku was nicknamed “Danger” because of his physical appearance and ability to attract women.
According to the ABC news, Akuku had 100 wives. His first marriage took place in 1939 and his last marriage took place in 1992. He became a polygamist at the age of 22. Akuku established two elementary schools solely to educate his children, as well as a church for his growing family to attend.
Members of the family told Kenya’s Daily Nation newspapers that he was a man who valued discipline and work ethic, but was not a tyrant.
Ontario’s Amber Alert system team up with Facebook to launched an Amber Alert Ontario Page on Friday that will alert users whenever a child goes missing.
The Amber Alert systems is used to recover missing children under the age of 18. Amber Alerts are currently broadcast on radio and television, as well as electronic road signs in larger cities like Toronto. Subscribers of the page will now receive critical Amber Alert information when the police activates the system.
Managing Director of Facebook Canada, Jordan Banks says Canada is the first country to have Amber Alert program on Facebook. New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are the other two province that have their Amber Alert Facebook pages.
Of the 15 million Facebook users of Canada, Ontario is said to have around 7 million users.
What can one do with Facebook?
Apart from the usual social networking, it has been used for different types of causes and campaigns. Yesterday, we brought to you news about a singer who used Facebook to find and successfully make his debut single video.
There is one more thing you can do on/with Facebook – help a plant stay alive. Yes, that true! Creator Baskim Isai says on the plant’s Facebook page:
I’m Meet Eater: a real garden that feeds on social interaction. The more you talk to me, the more I grow! Become a Fan of my page and share a joke, a picture or a video.
An experimental plant in Brisbane called “Meet Eater” is literally kept alive by love and care of its fans on Facebook.
One of the many photos of Meet Eater on its Facebook Page.
The Meet Eater, located at the State Library in Brisban is fed a measured amount of water through an automated system whenever people become fans on its Facebook page or write post on the walls of its Facebook page.
The plant also “purrs”, “coughs and splutter” when stroked or over fed and wails to catch the attention of those passing by if left idle for long according to the creator Bashkim Isai.
Meet Eater, launched to the cyber world two months ago, is said to be in its third incarnation. It has around 5700 fans at present. The number of fans reportedly jumped from 900 to 4500 in a week’s time drowning the previous two incarnation in the ocean of love. The third incarnation is said to be “much more water tolerant”.
Fans and visitors can also watch live footage of Meet Eater at it Facebook page.
Facebook users can expect some fresh looks on their profiles pages or will it be otherwise.
Facebook first announced plans to remove application boxes and application info section as well as the width of application tabs last October, and the changes are due on August 23.
These changes are made to optimize for the new profile and Facebook Pages format.
“These updates are designed to simplify navigation for users, reduce complexity for developers, and enable us to build the next generation of tools for growing your business with Facebook,” wrote Fran Larkin on the developers blog.
The primary changes will includes:
- Removal of “boxes” that exist on the sidebar of a page.
- Removal of Boxes Tab and its contents.
- Narrower tab pages of 520 pixels from the current size of 760 pixels.
The changes will be most notable to consumers and marketers as well as Facebook Page administrators, who will have to arrange and re-size their Page contents to fit the new format, as well as find other way to display the contents currently in display with the help of boxes.
Blogger Erno Hannink shows some great way on how to adjust your FBML for the coming changes in this post.. He also expects that change in profile image size announced earlier may also occur around this time.
8-year-old Trinity Bates
The teenager accused of murdering 8-year-old schoolgirl Trinity Bates is said to be in the friend list of both her parents on Facebook.
19-year-old Allyn John Slater, the accused, briefly faced Bundaberg Magistrates Court on a murder Charge Wednesday morning sitting barefoot and handcuffed behind glass.
The 8-year-old was allegedly abducted from her bed overnight last Sunday. Her pyjama-clad body was found in an open drain close to her home less than an hour after her father reported her missing about 5:45 am on Monday.
”She was a beautiful, happy, loved and loving little girl,” said Kerry Hanlon, Trinity’s grandmother.
Locals anger over the killing of Trinity is said to be escalating and police have reportedly urged Bundaberg residents to show restraint.
A number of tribute pages were set up on Facebook to honor Trinity, one of which has attracted more than 22,000 members by Monday. Facebook has also reportedly shut down one of the memorial sites which was defaced with pornographic and other offensive posts. Four person are under investigation on this matter.
According to the source, there will be a candlelight vigil held for Trinity in the center of Bundaberg tonight.
[Source: The Australian]
In what could be term as very inhuman, an Italian Facebook group came up that calls for children with Down Syndrome to be used for target practice.
Politicians and internet activities were outrage over the page and the page, which had attracted around 1,700 members by late Sunday, had reportedly been shut down.
According to the source, the page proposed what it said was “an easy and amusing solution” to get rid of “these foul creatures” – use them as targets at shooting centers.
The page reportedly featured a photo of a Down syndrome baby with the word “imbecile” written on its forehead.
“Italy will not tolerate incidents of discrimination of any sort, let alone against the disabled,” Equality Minister Mara Carfagna reportedly told Italian television. “Those responsible for creating this madness will be prosecuted by the law.”
A number of rival groups have reportedly been set up on Facebook to denounce the original page, out of which one has attracted more than 17,000 members.
Down’s syndrome is the most common genetic cause of mental retardation. There are an estimated 38,000 people with Down Syndrome living in Italy, according to the Italian Down’s Syndrome Association.
Australian twins Angela and Maryanne Vourlis learned their tennage brother had died in a car crash through Facebook.
The two twins logged into their Facebook account expecting birthday wishes on their 20th birthday only to discover that their 17-year-old brother, Bobby Vourlis, had been killed in a car accident.
Angela Vourlis said, “I didn’t get it. All these people were writing, ‘RIP Chris Naylor’ and ‘RIP Bobby’, and I thought: ‘What’s going on?’” According to The Sydney Daily Telegraph, the mother of the three was forced to ring the nearby police station to ask about her son’s death, before the news was made official to her. Bobby Vourlis, Chris Naylor and Kelsie Coleman were killed in the crash, and while two others received injury.
As loved ones flocked to place flowers and messages at the roadside scene of their death after hearing the news of their death, thousands more paid tribute by logging onto Facebook.
The Facebook page ‘R.I.P Bobby Vourlis’ was set up within moments of Bobby’s death and has attracted more than 3250 members at the time of writing this article.
Friends and even strangers are postings condolence messages on the page.
Though it is ironic the family learn about his death through Facebook before being officially intimidated, it is great to see how people, though strangers stands for others. It is also both frightening and amazing at the rate news are spread over social-networking sites in today’s world.
“Rest in Peace”
