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Perhaps the most insidious and simple facebook scam is the phishing scam from facebook. Since pretty much everyone has a facebook account these days its pretty easy for spammers to get people to notice emails from facebook. The tricky part is that facebook does send its users emails, emails about friend adds, emails about messages and so on.

What spammers do is also send emails that mimic these emails or they send you a email about some kind of update where you can click on a link to login and update your information. You NEVER need to do this. If you click on a link to get to facebook that is in the email you will not be taken to your facebook account but to another site that looks like facebook but is designed to only steal your information. Any info you enter on this site you will be stolen from you.

What you can do is always go to facebook directly via your browser. Just open up another tab and type in the facebook url to access your account, that way you can’t fall into the trap of entering a fake site.

One of the ways people get scammed on facebook is from the ads that they let advertisers show on facebook pages. Facebook has tried to root out all of the scammy and misleading advertising on their site, but with so many advertisers, they have a self-service platform where anyone can place an ad, they can’t get rid of all of them.

One of the most popular scams that advertisers run is called the IQ Quiz scam and variants thereof. BTW they run this because its so profitable for them as the number of people that are tricked is so high. Basically, the user will click on an ad that entices them with a tagline like “See if you are smarter than your friends?” or “Find out how smart you really are!”. Anything that gets you to click on this ad that prepares you to answer some questions.

Once the user clicks on the ad, he or she will answer a series of questions, usually they are pretty basic, and at the end of the questions you have to enter your phone number to see the results. This is the scam part, once you enter your phone number you are agreeing to purchase some kind of reoccuring service where you will be billed weekly or monthly, usually around $10 to $20 dollars. If you read the fine print on the page where you are supposed to enter the phone number you will probably find some terms and conditions that describe exactly this, but most people don’t bother to read the fine print, you know that and the companies know this too!

Usually the companies will refund you if you complain and its your first time canceling this kind of service, but they won’t be so nice afterwards because these kind of services are very profitable for them too! Just to be clear here the phone companies themselves don’t run these advertisements or run the companies that offer the services, but they do basically let it slide since its not illegal, just pretty misleading.

Okay, I’ve got more ways here, you may start to see a pattern here, I like to laugh when killing time.

Daily Show and Colbert Nation. Both are made available for free in their entirity by comedy central. Just go to thedailyshow.com or colbertnation.com, both hilarious and you don’t need to be a liberal to find it funny.

Also on comedy central you can find all the south park episodes and episodes of their comedy stand up show.

There is a ton of material there for you to enjoy.

And in case you’ve been living under a bridge, hulu.com has a ton of movies on there as well. They load fast and its totally legal.

I thought I’d share what I spend a ludicrous and pitiful amount of time in my life on, and that is entertaining myself online.  I mean facebook is good for a a few minutes here and there, but I like to laugh and be entertained and I have developed over the years a routine that almost never fails.

And so I will be slowly sharing some of these tips with all of you over time on this site.

—Youtube Funny Comedians—

Pretty simple, but I bet most of you don’t know that there is a ton of material from all of the worlds funniest people online that can entertain one for hours time and time again.

Who do I recommend that has a large library of stuff?

1. Chris Rock – pretty much all of his shows, his specials where he solos for almost an hour are on youtube.

2. Sarah Silverman – Her material is all over the place

3. Comedy Central roasts – Check out David Hasselhoffs roast, flavor flav, pam anderson, william shatner…  This is some of the raunchiest and         funniest material out there.  So funny that it can and has been watched over and over and over again.

4. Dave Chappelle – His specials are awesome, a super smart guy with some incredible material.

5. Russell Peters – Here is one you may not have heard of.  He is an canadian of indian descent.  Does a ton of racial humour, but is not racist, in fact his crowds are packed with ethnicities that come to hear his insights and be poked fun of by this very funny comedian.

That should keep you guys busy for a while, enjoy.

This past weekend a young talent who had some obvious drug and alcohol issues passed away this past weekend on July 23, 2011. She was 27 years old and passed away in her apartment in London. The cause of death has not been released yet.

Here’s a fake photo of her playing dead, or at least looking dead. Actually it might not even be her, but you get the idea.

Humorous sayings and jokes about the reality of married life…

My wife dresses to kill. She also cooks the same way

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, “There was water in the carburetor.”
I asked her , “Where’s the car?” She replied, “In the lake.”

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, “You know, I was a fool when I married you.”
The husband replied, “Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn’t notice.”
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