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Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner Interviews President Obama On SCOTUS Nominee Judge Merrick Garland
Buzzfeed’s legal eagle, and 2014 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association “Journalist of the Year,” Chris Geidner interviewed President Obama today in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to discuss SCOTUS nominee Judge Merrick Garland. This was President Obama’s first-ever “Facebook Live” interview. From Buzzfeed:
Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to the nation’s highest court after Justice Antonin Scalia died in February. Garland currently is the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Top Republicans have said they would not consider any nominee and maintain that they will not hold hearings or a vote for Garland — not necessarily because of his positions, but because, they say, the next president should decide who is nominated.
My Favorite Thing Today: “Texts With My Mother”
Liz Hammett has become an internet sensation after sharing several of her hilarious text messages with her mother on Facebook.
Via US Weekly:
The Ohio-based prankster began documenting their exchanges on Facebook in an album she titled “Texts from my Mother.” After screenshots were shared on Reddit on Sunday, April 3, they quickly racked up more than 200,000 views. Hammett’s public Facebook page now has nearly 180,000 followers.
Hammett’s hijinks include changing her mother’s phone settings to autocorrect a word to “butt,” pretending to be in police custody — and stealing silverware as punishment for not delivering food. “I told you there would be retribution if you did not bring me Easter dinner leftovers,” Hammett warned.
In one exchange, Hammett’s long-suffering mother writes: “You are an awful child. You know you’re killing me. You’re killing your mother Elizabeth.” In another, she calls her daughter an “ungrateful brat.”
If Facebook ‘Likes’ Were Votes, Who Would Be Winning Presidential Primary?
The stats geniuses at FiveThirtyEight have published an interactive map showing which presidential primary candidates have the most Facebook likes in each county in the U.S.
From FiveThirtyEight:
If Facebook likes were votes, Bernie Sanders would be on pace to beat Hillary Clinton nationwide by a nearly 3-to-1 margin and Donald Trump to garner more support than Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio combined. Anything seems possible this year, but, still, be careful how you interpret these numbers: Facebook likes are not votes.
According to the Pew Research Center, 58 percent of American adults use Facebook. But this share is not a representative sample of the country — Facebook users are disproportionately young (although not as young as users of other social media networks), low-income and female. And the sample may be even more skewed because only some people on Facebook have liked a presidential candidate’s page and because those pages haven’t existed for the same amount of time.
New “Reactions” Coming Soon To Facebook
Soon, you’ll be able to do more than just “Like” your Facebook friend’s posts. How much more? Huffington Post has the details:
The tech giant’s chief product officer Chris Cox confirmed in a Bloomberg report that it’s only a matter of weeks before Facebook users everywhere can hit the Reactions” icon.
Facebook announced last year that it would roll out “Reactions” buttons to accompany the familiar thumbs-up icon. Soon, there will be five emojis to represent “love,” “haha,” “sad,” “angry” and “wow.”
“Reactions” was first tested in Spain and Ireland in October. Then Facebook users in Chile, the Philippines, Portugal and Colombia got to try it. Soon, it will finally be available in the U.S. for the first time.
The company worked with sociologists to analyze the most common reactions across the social media platform to determine which emoji faces would make the cut. A spokesperson told Bloomberg that they decided to axe the planned sixth “yay” button, because “it was not universally understood.”
All of this comes out of Facebook users requests to be able to “dislike” something, like the passing of a friend’s pet or losing a job.
Note: you still won’t get the option to “dislike.”
Map: Concentrations Of LGBTs By State Per Facebook
Via the recent report from Facebook on folks who identify as LGBT in their profiles.
Check out Nevada, kids. Hey hey! We’re up there with New York state!
(I take full responsibility for that).
Over Six Million People Have Come Out On Facebook
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In the past year, the number of folks coming out on Facebook has nearly tripled.
In 2015 alone, nearly one million LGBTs have announced to the world who they truly are on the Book of Face.
Via Gay Star News:
Over the 12 months, about 800,000 Americans came out on the social network, which defines coming out as updating their profile to express a same-gender attraction or specifying a custom gender.
That means the number of people coming out on Facebook per day is nearly three times what it was a year ago.
‘The most obvious increase is seen following the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v Hodges,’ the report states.
‘On a typical day, one out of every ten people who change their “interested in” status on Facebook do so to reflect a same-gender interest. On the day of the Supreme Court ruling, this ratio was double, one out of every five people.’
In total, 6 million Americans have come out on Facebook, with 78% of these people having done so since the beginning of 2012.
Come out, come out, wherever you are… 🙂
Hilarious “Customer Service” Troll Mike Melgaard Mocks The Doritos Haters
Mike Melgaard, the guy who hilariously trolled anti-gay conservatives last month posing as a customer service account for Target on Facebook, is back.
This time under the fake Facebook account, “DoritosForHelp,” which he used to mock Facebook users hating on the brand’s pro-LGBT stance.
Facebook To Finally Get A “Dislike” Button
Founder/owner of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, announced today that users will finally have a “Dislike” button option when we want to respond – but not “Like” – posts that might be sad or of a dark nature.
“I think people have asked about the dislike button for many years. Today is a special day because today is the day I can say we’re working on it and shipping it,” Zuckerberg said during a Q&A at Facebook’s headquarters.
Zuckerberg said that the social network didn’t immediately design way because it didn’t want it to become a Reddit-style system of upvoting and downvoting.
“That isn’t what we’re here to build in the world,” Zuckerberg said.
But, Facebook and Zuckerberg have realized that people aren’t looking to downvote each other, but to have an option to express feelings other than “liking.” Zuckerberg cited moments like the news about the recent refugee crisis or even posts about family members who have died. Users don’t want to “like” those items, but right now, have no other option.
“What they really want is the ability to express empathy. Not every moment is a good moment,” Zuckerberg said.
Polite Request…
Just a quick reminder (and request) to please hit this link and like The Randy Report on Facebook.
That way, when you’re over on the Book of Face, you can read and share right from there.
(see what I did there? happy tuesday!)