On one hand there's a Congressman who wants the government to stop employees from using Twitter, Facebook, and (in effect) the Internet altogether, stating amazing facts such as:

“The government stands to lose an estimated P103,158,000 every month for electricity expenses alone if all the estimated 900,000 government employees use government computers for at least two hours of unauthorized online social networking activities,”.

On the other hand, the 'Laguna Police Provincial Office' (I got that from their email address: lagunapoliceprovincialoffice@yahoo.com), launched a Facebook page entitled 'Laguna Most Wanted Criminals', which (you guessed it), shows pictures of Laguna's most wanted criminals.

In the 'Probably shouldn't have Facebooked or Twittered' department, local cops nabbed car thieves and their friends via their FB and Twitter accounts, which they apparently used to communicate plans.

Let's face it, Facebook has easily become the only social networking tool worth promoting your site on. Oh I know Twitter faithful have something to say about that, but I don't twit, and since I don't twit, I'm probably not gonna read it if they do ;).

At any rate, I've been using the Addthis module for quite a while now, and I felt I needed a change. Here's a little graphic of why I think it isn't worth it anymore.

Clearly, I needed a change.

Before this happened:

And YouTube. YouTube first.

Last January, I posted details on this site about WordCamp Philippines 2010. Browsing around Facebook today, I happened onto its page again and realized nothing's changed. And for me, that's a problem.

See the last time I checked it, it didn't have an agenda. 3 months later as I write this, apparently it still doesn't have one.

But does that deter people from hyping it up? Strangely, no. As I write this, there are 190 confirmed guests, and a venue hasn't been announced yet. That is amazing.

The primary issue I have with the DOH's latest statement was: 'So what are you gonna do about it'?

In PDI's report, the DOH mentions a bunch of reasons for the rise of HIV-AIDS in the country as described by Philippine National AIDS Council secretariat Ferchito Avelino, such as:

You know I don't usually quote press releases verbatim, but I don't see what'd be wrong with this one, which reads thankfully like a news report than anything. So here goes: Philippines, 8 June 2009: Facebook for BlackBerry version 1.6 has just officially been launched. Users can access it from their BlackBerry Browser or from the desktop at www.blackberry.com/facebook.

Why didn't our grandparents warn us about Facebook? Apparently from this video, they already knew what to expect: