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10 Cents A Child: Facebook Tries to Keep New Human Slavery Scandal Below Decks
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Slavery was the awful engine that drove empires and destroyed Africa. It planted the dangerous roots of cigarette smoking and racism around the world. Now popular social networking site Facebook.com is embroiled in an attempt to bring back this vile institution and trash the last hundred years of American social progress.
Astonishingly and sadly, Facebook.com is being accused by me of a stunning and offensive case of human slavery. Men and women are being tempted and bribed in the most horrendous of ways to sell their mothers, their fathers, their brothers and sisters and even their friends and children into servitude for the obscene monetary pleasures of a select elite few. The selling price is chilling it’s so cheap. Aren’t you worth a little bit more than 10 cents on Twitter and 7 cents on Facebook? Have you no pride, America?
2009 Market Prices for Facebook People:
- 1,000 of God’s Children for $177
- 2,000 of Our Sons and Daughters for $321
- 3,000 Handsome Hunks for $438
- 4,000 Cool Chicks With Pretty Photos for $555
- 5,000 Souls to Work Your Friendship Fields for $654
- 10,000 Helpless Fans To Prop Up Your Failing Career for $1,167
We find that each Twitter follower we have is worth about $0.10 to us every month. Therefore, for every 1,000 followers, you’ll should earn around $100 from them per month. Have 10,000? That’s a further $1,000 per month for you or your company.
– uSocial Secret Twitter Strategy
Who is buying America’s children off the auction block for their own hedonistic, self-obsessed pleasures? The Hollywood elite is, of course, a target audience. I can just imagine your Megan Foxes, Ashton Kutchners and Robert Pattinsons lining up to buy our precious children at wholesale prices. These liberal elites have a fanatical need to get in contact with the youngest and cutest of human beings. They want these beautiful souls on their fan and friends lists so they can promote their terrible reality shows and painful music concerts. They need your smiling and sexy faces on their photo pages to convince us they are cool. The celebrity set is surely salivating at the prospects of all of you subscribed to their every tweet. They want to text message you at school, send you alerts in the dead of night and lure you to motels on the edge of town. Major and unscrupulous corporations are funding these slave ships as well, hoping their new and virile captives will drop anchor and dollars in their fast food chains and supposedly hip clothing stores.
You don’t have a large following on Facebook, do you? Well, that’s where uSocial can help. We’ve just launched a world-first range of products which will enable you to invest in packages of up to 5,000 targeted Facebook friends, or up to 10,000 targeted Facebook fans which we will deliver to your very own profile in a matter of weeks.
– uSocial’s Secret Marketing Plan
But What Does This Mean For The Future?
I can just imagine the terrible market that will surely develop when these celebrities start to sag and the corporations grow weary of their rebellious chattel. Will awkward teens be sold off at bargain basement prices to the Kmarts and WB Networks of this world? Will the elderly and infirm be cruelly unfriended, left alone to post photos and blog updates that no one reads? Or will they be dropped off in the dead of the night at Barbara Striesand’s MySpace page? Will the middle-aged Facebookers, so desperately networking their way out of crushing and thankless work, find that all their hard online clicking was useless, that they’ll forever be stuck in suburban life, unmarried and drowning in credit card debt because no one wants to buy them? Will our less than trendy college students be shunned by marketers, left to find out about Rihanna’s new album or Judd Apatow’s latest masterpiece from their Mothers?
Please click on the “Share on Facebook” link above and get the word out that we Americans oppose this disgustingly cheap and dreadful bondage!
1:14 pm
Well that dont sound nice at all. Why do people use this stuff anyway? Who wants to be in the place as everyone else in the world? I have these friends who are older than me who are on this things just like there daughters! Can you imagine, that’s just strange and you think of the old men who go here and always email the little girls I just dont think it right and dont know why they all dont do more to protect the young children on the intrnet these days. I surely would not want some person selling my kids to rocks stars and or who ever you cant hardly tell who they are!
And do the kids selling themself make money? I am not understanding the whole thing here Stevenson. Its just a that part of the internet I dont go onto. I know a lot of the kids here are on it and It would be strange of them to be looking at my boys and my friends and my church group or whatever you have now on Facebook pages.
I cant imagine having a friend page with Claire!!!! that would male me laugh but then i could see your face instead of your natty little tabby!
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4:03 am
No Janice, it is not fun at all. I hope you’re still watching your boy’s browser history and preventing them from logging on to any pervert websites. I suggest you create a facebook profile so you can secretly monitor who they’re getting close to online and read their diaries. By the way, did your family get my mailer about my October Tennessee Mountains fellowship sleepaway weekend?
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12:44 pm
Lol, this website is always talking about people using alone time with your children for crude sex acts, and then you invite kids to a sleepover. you my friend are a child molester.
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8:15 pm
I agree, this guy has definitely touched little boys in the private areas near the family furnace.
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1:34 pm
Well, I have to agree that there can be some major problems with social networking sites. But if you are smart and wish to keep in contact with your friends, they can be a helpful tool. I personally live about 100 miles away from my best friend. She and I talk on the phone daily and chat online. I love her to death, but I’m so far away. These sites help to overcome that fact, and allow me to keep improving myself while keeping old relationhips. It is actually up to the parents of these kids to teach them how to be safe on these sites. So, maybe instead of arguing with others on the internet, don’t you think you could do more good by going out and educating parents on the subject instead of bitching to those people on thye internet? Kinda makes it seem like common sense huh. So get off your saggy buttcheeks and get out there and do something. Get off my internet.
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1:41 pm
Thats might mean I didnt attack you. and how exactly you improving yourself with facebook? by hitting on girls and posting naked photos of your body? that is just an invite for all the weirdos out there. and yiou are just a crazy fool for writing stuff like that. I didnt say anthing about you at all and you just go on the attack, well you sure are a bit nutty. And allright you can be careful with this stuff but why they selling children? what if i a pedophill and i want to buy the email of a bunch of girls 10 year old? thats pretty bad they doing this thing. i dont see what it will all lead to any good. Whats with your name, you some kind of cult person?
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9:24 pm
The….
Pretty explanatory.
Defiant….
Means that I do not except things the way the world or religions says I should.
Soldier….
I still belive in my moral values. I just choose to interpret them in the way that makes sense to me rather than to a bunch of other people. And I am a warrior of good. So smoke it.
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8:35 pm
It’s not slavery if you have a choice.
Osama Bin Ladin smiles upon you <3
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4:00 am
Who said these children have any choice? They are bought and sold unwillingly.
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9:01 pm
Ahahaha, slavery? Noooo the 10cent thing is selling advertising, you fool. I don’t know if you use the site, but occasionally (this is a new feature I believe) you get a little advert entitled “Facebook Friend Suggestion” at the right hand side of your screen.
The person pays 10 cents for every person that their advert displays to, and these advert package things come in set sizes for obvious reasons.
This is nowhere near slavery. This is advertising.
Please, I ask that you research your articles before posting them, it can definitely help you make an informed opinion before effing and blinding at something without knowing what it even is.
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11:37 pm
how is that the buying asnd selling of children not slavery? your stupid.
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11:55 pm
and read the article maybe you drunk or just lazy?
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/09/03/facebook-account-free-friends-about-18-cents-apiece/
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3:58 am
Chris, again I am bemused by your childish attempts to comprehend the depths of my journalism. Obviously this goes far beyond advertising. “Friending” people on Facebook is a serious art, and something for which fragile young children are obsessed, haunted and titillated by. This plan to sell them into celebrity worship violates every parent’s common sense. It preys on their small egos and need for popularity by tricking them into thinking they have friends or that they’re close to famous celebrities. And the fact that the celebrities get to sell their wares to these children, market whatever sexually explicit rock song or music video or light porn reality show, makes me even more disgusted. But that’s no surprise, I have a strong intellectually based moral foundation, unlike some people here.
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5:40 am
I think you’re looking a little too far into this. “Friending” people on facebook is another way to keep track of people, not just to make new friends. It can be useful to have certain people or companies with facebook pages friended so you can keep up to date with coming events and other such things.
Oh and Janice, they’re not buying or selling children, they’re advertising their facebook pages so more people will friend them. There’s nothing wrong with that at all. Please don’t call me stupid when you’re the one who’s obviously been misinformed. Oh, and thankyou for linking me to the site, I neglected to read that, however, after reading it I see that I was right to begin with. It’s just advertising aimed at a certain demographic.
Did you study marketing in college, Janice? I did, and although I don’t really find this method of attracting potential customers to be the best, it is still a new marketing technique and there is much room for adaptation and improvement.
The only thing that can be done to combat this kind of thing if you’re not in agreement with it is just -decline-. There’s nothing stopping you from saying no to a friend request at all, so why worry? The only people who will click accept to an invitation to a ferrari fanclub (an example from the site) are people who are interested in ferraris.
So like I said. It’s not slavery, it’s marketing. A slave can’t get out of being a slave unless rescued, bought or attempting a very risky escape. All these users need to do is click no. Hardly a daring escape, am I right?
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5:49 am
Just google “facebook rape” and you will see hundreds of cases where this website took things too far and innocent American children were violated in the most hateful of ways so don’t try to defend your 14 year old facebook friends to me, you immoral crud.
http://www.crimene.ws/2009/09/calif-man-accused-of-kidnapping-boise.html
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12:27 pm
I did just as you said, and all I got was a bunch of groups and urban dictionary definitions telling me what a “facebook rape” is.
1. Facebook rape
the access of a Facebook account by a third party, unknown to the account’s owner, which alters and adds humiliating or otherwise derogatory words to the account’s profile for the purpose of a prank. The act usually takes place between friends after one leaves their Facebook account logged in.
In fact, the only thing that the google search returned that was remotely close to what you suggest is a news article entitled:
Facebook images of rape suspect could block trial, police warn
• CCTV images ‘could wreck chances of prosecution’
So your little challenge didn’t really return what you intended it to, did it Mr. Billings?
I’ve a feeling we’re done here. I think this immoral crud will call this article closed and over with.
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2:17 am
Well Chris, your mom has probably installed some kid of parental safety filter on your laptop. I would send over my 14-year old neighbor to show you how to use Google, but you probably don’t have enough money for an aspirin pack, let alone the $12 he charges for computer work. Beyond that dumb little definition, there are plenty of news stories out there (just like the one I linked to, hey!).
Anyway, it warms the cockles of my heart that you actually heed my advice every once in a while. Now, tuck yourself into bed, close your bloodshot eyes and stop filling your waking hours with all the disdains for your wise and charming elders. I would cane you to common sense, if I thought it would help. But perverted souls like you would probably find pleasure out of my extra large ruler coming down hard on your young buttocks. Again and again!
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6:34 am
Oh hilarious. I don’t let anyone touch my computer, I’ll have you know. I paid for this with the money I earned from my job doing just that, fixing computers, so definitely no parental blocks here.
Also, I’m pretty sure that half of what you said is a copy paste job from something you said to Seriph0 at one point. What’s wrong, running out of things to say?
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6:40 am
Really, that all you got? I cut and paste from myself? Prove it to me, you lackluster laptop lover. I have a moral foundation and strong beliefs that I don’t wander from so there are times when my expressions of those beliefs sounds similar, but my disgust with your dangerous, sickening and immoral actions is perfectly fresh and honest.
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11:33 am
I think you stick too strongly to your guns. Everything you say is extremist, and I’m hoping to God you’re not like this to anyone you meet in person, because I can guarantee that not a single soul in existence abides by your unbelievably tight regime of corrupted morals.
Whichever way you look at it, if you follow everything from that magical book that supposedly contains all the answers, then you’re going to spend a lot of time contradicting yourself. If your moral foundations stem from the teachings of the holy bible, then your morals are flawed and need to be rethought. I’m not going to quote any of it, since I’ve not actually read the book to any depth.
Also, dangerous, sickening and immoral is my middle name. My full name just happens to be Christopher Dangerous Sickening Immoral Stevenson.
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3:07 pm
Oh poor Chris, you’ve run out of steam! No more lighting in your trousers? Well, it’s about time your arguments collapsed in on themselves, they really were unpleasant and meaningless.
Yes, I am vocal about my faith in my day to day life, but I rarely meet such simpering pathetic psychos as I seem to encounter in here. Mostly I minister to the young and confused who are more willing to set down their iPods and listen to my educated and intelligent advice.
And never take the name Stevenson or Stephenson in vain! I am proud of my name and the great history of generations of Billings’s.
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12:09 am
Hey Billings, want to go halfsies on the “3,000 Handsome Hunks for $438″ or have you already made your order, you old queen? When are they going to be delivered to you backwoods cabin? Will you let Abe or Dan out of their iron cages so they can watch?
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3:54 am
I am not taking your bacon bait, you confirmed pervert.
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11:08 pm
who the fuck are you people!? where do you come up with these obscene and radical lies. Perhaps is it your god? Did he tell you in a dream to rant about life on some lame website as you find your self proud to sit at your chair and realize what you post will have no affect in the world? You are all ignorant, rascist, and obviously misled by false sources. One of which is a man named god.
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2:12 am
You liberals really should be careful throwing that word “racist” around. You do it so much, it’s lost its meaning. How can I respond to such bad language, poor grammar and all around stupidity? Yes, you’re a fool. And a liar. And a greater idiot. How’s that? Now sign up for the army or shut your evil mouth.
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3:17 am
Out of curiosity, do you try to understand the things you read, or do you just skim them and put out the most ridiculous alarmist interpretation possible? That was not even a Facebook service; that was a separate business whose intent was to use Facebook to ends it is not intended, and to compare advertising to actual slavery is ridiculous
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6:24 am
Your attempts to disparage my well researched and thoughtful journalist creations are ridiculous. Where exactly do I say that Facebook is entirely responsible for this crime? I do not, you closeminded non-reader. And you “discovered” that this second company, uSocial, was involved by clicking the very links I provided right up there! Oh, that shows great insight. Why must you distract me with such stupidity?
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6:00 am
IMAGINE the HORRORS of being ENSLAVED by MEGAN FOX!!!
The MIND REELS!
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6:24 am
Actually, I have no idea who that scum bucket is.
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6:34 am
But you MENTIONED this JEZEBEL in your STORY!!!
She’s using her MIND CONTROL POWERS to BEFUDDLE your SENSES!
Just THINK OF JESUS and her HOLD will be BROKEN!!!!
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6:37 am
I mentioned her because I had heard that she is one of the top celebrities on Facebook and has an insatiable need to get in front of the faces of young men today. I really didn’t need to know anything more about her salaciously sinful ways.
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6:35 am
So how can you call anyone a scum bucket if you don’t know who they are?
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8:49 pm
he’s clearly not interested in those of the female sex..do forgive him.
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3:13 pm
“Mostly I minister to the young and confused who are more willing to set down their iPods and listen to my educated and intelligent advice.”
So you prefer to minister to people who are easily manipulated and indoctrinated, and yet you jump down Obama’s throat for trying to do the same thing? What a hypocrite (a fat hypocrite).
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3:41 pm
Fat jokes? Oh, that’s very tasteful of you Claire.
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3:45 pm
In my younger days, by the way, I cut quite the figure! The women would swoon when I wore my suit with a flower in the lapel. I did regular calisthenics and had a nice, masculine shape, if I do say so myself! I am older now, but with my daily walks, camping trips and, of course, running around at work, I do keep fit and solid. I may not have the muscles of a tennis player anymore, but I think I have a certain physical charm about me. If we ever meet, I’m sure you’ll understand.
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4:18 pm
“but I think I have a certain physical charm about me. If we ever meet, I’m sure you’ll understand.”
Um…I’m only 18 years old, so I think that’s a pretty disgusting thing for you to say, you pervert.
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4:44 pm
WooooW! Are we hitting on young women now? I thought that according to you and your little buddies that you don’t have to impress the girl. You just have to take her and make her clean, cook , and have babies. Well now, it seems like that is arguing with yourself. Stop hitting on young women and get a life.
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4:47 pm
Thank you, Defiant. Billings is constantly contradicting himself.
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9:10 pm
I say we tag team her and fill her with the glorious seeds of Christian morality.
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5:20 pm
Claire and Defiant, why don’t you two meet up? Go on a date to McDonalds and then some Goth concert or Liberal performance art show? You two might just hit it off. Have you facebook friended each other yet? I think you’d make a fabulous couple and it would save me $100s in yearly aspirin costs.
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5:54 pm
“Claire and Defiant, why don’t you two meet up? Go on a date to McDonalds and then some Goth concert or Liberal performance art show? You two might just hit it off. Have you facebook friended each other yet? I think you’d make a fabulous couple and it would save me $100s in yearly aspirin costs.”
Now you’re just trying to change the subject, here, Billings. Is that how you move the attention away from the fact that you were telling an 18 year old about your body?
As a matter of fact, I recall you saying that you consider anyone age 20 and younger to be a child. So, essentially, by telling an 18 year old about your body, you were engaged in a form of pedophilia.
We’re building up quite a case against you, old man. I suggest keeping your mouth shut from now on.
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6:23 pm
why do you have to attack poor stephenson if he wasnt wrting here you dont have nothing to read!
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7:32 am
I’m sure we could find something else to read. Perhaps something that is less funny and retarded. This site is gold for reading about an old man who doesn’t understand anything.
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10:20 am
“Goth concert”
Goth concerts? Ehm…you mean something like Marilyn Manson?
Just curious here.
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5:32 pm
Yep. i know. But I think that you may need to get reductive breast surgery for that thing on your neck……oh wait. That’s your head. Oops. My mistake. But I have to go for today. I got more important things to do.
Claire, if you ever wanna email me, it is popsdaddy0347@yahoo.com. I’d enjoy talking to you.
And stevy, you can too. But if you spam me or worse, i will trace your ip and destroy your computer.
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5:56 pm
Thanks for the email address, Defiant. My address is csnedeker9@gmail.com
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6:21 pm
my son likes that gmail chat. if i put him on with you maybe i can talk and he can type my words with you!
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10:40 pm
I had faith that you weren’t a lesbian.
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9:44 am
I had already told you that I wasn’t a lesbian, you boner-biter.
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1:01 pm
So I was wondering when inthe last few comments did claire say anything about being a lesbian? Becasue she said nothing about that, I kinda think that might be a fantasy for you though.
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6:20 pm
oh this is so excting claire! i will be in touch soon!
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2:09 am
This is completely immoral! I cannot believe that these evil, disgusting “social sites” are trying to sell our children of God to disgusting pedophilic unholy “famous people”! We must do something about this please.
Billings you are a great man. Don’t listen to the filth that spews from these heathens’ mouths, they are undeserving wretches in the eyes of our Mighty Father! Their souls will spend eternity paying for their numerous sins in the deepest depths of hell.
I would like to believe that I am a warrior of the Lord God Almighty Jesus Christ Holy Spirit and MANY other words that mean similar things.
I stand by my belief that buying people is totally wrong and evil! THIS IS POSSIBLY ONE OF THE MOST EVIL THINGS YOU CAN DO!
Mr Billings, I have one question. If my child is on this Facebook dirt, how can I get him to stop? I have told him and reprimanded him before, and he still does not get off the darned evil site. I’ve tried hitting him, but he won’t listen. He just sits there day-in-and-day-out and won’t get up and come to bed with me.
I have reached the end of my tether and don’t know what to do. All I want is the breast for my blessed children.
Please help me.
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5:48 am
Mighty, thank you for your kind words and faith. I think facebooking is a terrible trend, but much like these fads your child will grow out of it eventually and this facebook website will lose popularity when something else comes along. Remember when skateboarding was replaced by frisbee? Same thing will happen here.
In the meantime, I would try to log onto face book and friend your child. That way you can keep a close eye on the types of photos he’s posting (and if there’s any toplessness or drugs involved) and also see who his comrades are by clicking on their profiles. Then drop these names into polite conversation and see how your child reacts (but play it cool). For example, “Hi Johnny, how’s that friend of yours LeathermanHouston?”
If your child is too savvy and won’t let you friend him, you can always create an alluring fake profile. Start by google image searching for a photo- try “slut” or “gay”. Then, upload it under a fake name, fill out the profile and send a “friend request”. From there, start a conversation, ask them if they’ve tried pot or anal sex and maybe invite them to a public park– but surprise! You’ll be there waiting to give your child a stern talking to and fantastic life lesson! I hope this helps!
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1:44 pm
Hey wait, did you just encourage someone to search slut and gay on a google image search?
Really, doing that kind of thing to your own child would not only be immoral, it would also destroy the trust between parent and child. I know for a fact that if my parents did that to me I probably wouldn’t talk to them for weeks.
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3:36 am
Exactly what I was thinking Chris.
Then again, if I WERE the retarded bible-bashing hypocrite that I was pretending to be in my first comment, then I would possibly consider trying it.
The answer provided by kind (yet HORRIBLY mislead) Mister Billings is perhaps the most bullshit I’ve heard coming out of someone’s mouth since… Well… ever.
Let me start by saying: Frisbees? FRISBEES? Maybe in some parallel evangelist universe, frisbees took over skateboarding’s popularity, but if you are under the impression that frisbees are more a greater trend than skating, you are even more mislead than I initially expected… which I thought was impossible – but with GOD, all things are possible. Thanks for proving that much.
Ever seen ONE movie centered entirely around the Frisbee? Ever seen Extreme Frisbeeing at the XGAMES? Or is ESPN the spawn of Satan, returned with a vengeance to slowly saturate our minds with evil, under the guise of a simple Sports Channel. The last time I read such bullshit it had two testaments.
So your advice to me is this: JOIN Facebook (contrary to the entire article above; apparently tricking your children is more important than alleged ‘human-trafficking) then stalk my own child, then search for porn on Google, and procede to seduce my child up until the point where I meet them in a park?
Never go FULL-retard. You JUST did.
And by the way, a little pot wouldn’t harm you Mister Billings. Chill the F**K out.
We Are The Mighty Crunk.
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8:57 pm
I actually cannot believe that he just suggested that a parent invite their own child for anal sex in a park…wow
Do good christians recommend incestuous peadophile behaviour in response to facebook now.Seems a bit extreme.
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7:14 pm
The prejudice and ignorance of posters of this site knows no bounds.
I laugh at these articles. xD
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7:07 am
Ive ordered a 100 pack of little boys for my local church minister
This way he doesn’t rape the local children, i didn’t mind paying the small fee – it was the Christian thing to do!
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