Al Gore wants to borrow your Facebook and Twitter accounts Would you trust someone else with your Facebook account, giving them enough access to post status updates on your behalf? What if that person was Al Gore and it was all for a good cause? Yes, the latest frontier in online activism has been breached by Gore and the kids over at the Climate Reality Project, who want you to …
"how will you ever know that your mates on Facebook or the celebs you follow on Twitter are really care about these things"
How do you know that the attractive, personable, 20-something couple who approach you in the street about environmental activism really care about these things when they're often getting paid for it? Come to that, if the subject comes up in the pub, how do you *actually* know that your friend really cares, rather than simply being a sheep?
"...how will you ever know that your mates on Facebook or the celebs you follow on Twitter are really care about these things or if they've given someone else license to speak for them?"
As I understand it, many celebs on Twitter already take payment in returning for promoting goods and services, and allow others to write the messages.
Facebook is also already heading that way - see the number of messages about so-and-so playing some-such game, or thingummy likes brand X.
No. Users who opt for this won't be giving them their passwords.
They will instead be granting a facebook APP the publish_stream permission, so that the app admin can post via the facebook API
"publish_stream Enables your app to post content, comments, and likes to a user's stream and to the streams of the user's friends. With this permission, you can publish content to a user's feed at any time, without requiring offline_access. However, please note that Facebook recommends a user-initiated sharing model."
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/permissions/
This is an excellent idea. Manbearpig is a real threat to humanity and our way of life (i.e. flying to and from our numerous houses being photographed with celebrities). Al Gore should be congratulated for his wisdom. This should be expanded so that Al Gore can send important Manbearpig warnings via our email accounts, mobiles, El Reg accounts, and the messages we scrawl on toilet cubicle doors. Also we should all buy Al Gore another house. Two more houses.
Yours entirely independently
Spleen
p.p. A Gore
After all, Al Gore _invented_ the Internet, don'tcha know? (imagine that in the most sarcastic looking font available, and you'll have my meaning)
(I don't even play on any of those social networking services, and I never intend to.)
Mine's the coat with the 40-year-old refrigerator that outcools many newer ones in the pocket...
If this is posting to your wall (rather than your friends walls), then it can be achieved by allowing the AlGoreCampain app permission to post to your wall - his spindoctors won't need your password that way.
Still, I'd get narked if all my friends posted the same thing to their walls, I'd probably end up hiding the notification of them on my facebook homepage.
.... they can't post to your wall without allowing you to intervene in the publishing process - its against the AUP to do otherwise, but then again Gore has probably bunged FB a serious amount of cash to turn the other way. If any of my friends do it then I'm reporting the AGC app as a spamming app.
1) If it's Al Gore, it isn't for a good cause; it's to pay alimony to Tipper, so screw it.
2) I wouldn't trust Al as far as I could throw him.
3) Isn't this the same father of four who chided us for overpopulation?
4) I've got enough people mad at me because I'm bemoaning Peyton Manning's health (I'm a season ticket holder) that I don't need to add this guff to it.
Back around 2005, when energy was cheaper, Al Gore used $30,000 per year in utilities for his house in Tennesee. His four (Overpopulation!) kids were old enough that they weren't living at home to help run up the bill. His big claim was that he had carbon credits to offset it, so he was carbon neutral.
Gore has made hundreds of millions on his "green" investments. So there is a conflict of interest on his part.
The title says it all. Who cares what Al Gore does anymore? He's a washed up old has-been who should have been a never-was and everybody except the media knows it. He's a phony and a hypocrite who's trying to wring a last bit of attention out of the "crisis" he invented out of nothing just to get attention. If there's anybody out there who still thinks AlGore really believes in Global Warming, just look at the way the man acts. He's wasting power and throwing CO2 into the air like there's no tomorrow, and he wants us to cut back?
IMAO, anybody who's stupid enough to go along with him on this twit project deserves all the derision they're going to get from their ex-friends.
Me? Well, it's kind of hard to give him access to my Facebook and Twitter accounts when I don't have any, isn't it?
When Al Gore was a child, His father Al Gore Sr. (who was an SOB racist bastard btw, don't care what wikipeedia has to say, Tennesseans *know* - badass that he was, he hated the brothers) told him he would be President of the US when he grew up. Al Jr. believes this and feels incredibly bewildered he is not President - thus the almost untenable position he's in now. Heavily invested in green projects, he stands to make an incredible amount of cash or lose a significant amount of Dad's leftover cash in his care. Believe it when he says he's super cereal - he just purchased a new place on the *beachfront* in California! If all that shit is coming down on us RIGHT NOW, why the hell would you live in a place where you are almost guaranteed to be killed if ONE of any of the bad things happen due to global warming climate change?
Boggles the mind - think I'll go out and decat my exhaust manifold, supposed to get 10hp and 1-2mpg by removing the first catalytic converter.............
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Bah.. no treehugger icon...oh wait...
Did the Reverend Al find the lost corpse of Goebbels and resurrect him?
Take a load of bullshit, say it often enough, and everyone will believe. The Warmists smell a bit like the Nazis and the Communists. Extreme views, no tolerance for heresy, and at bottom, a religion based on a flawed philosophy.
Warming is mostly a myth. There is no imminent crisis. In reality, the temperature numbers suggest a Little Ice Age is imminent.
Al, I know where you can find Torquemada's corpse. Shall we bring him back and have him burning heretics, or will that be too big a CO2 load?
"take a load of bullshit, say it often enough, and everyone will believe."
Is that why you uttered the following BS?
"In reality, the temperature numbers suggest a Little Ice Age is imminent."
The reality is that skeptics are the real fantasists with. While you parrot what the last pseudo-science blog told you to believe about an ice age, academies of science around the world accept that greenhouse gases have a warming effect and human emissions of them means that the world will warm.
Hmm who to believe the skeptic nutjobs or the scientific community?
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