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The Patriot Conservative News Reports from the Las Angeles Times Headlines Dad gives daughter $200 to stay off Facebook for five months



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A Boston man has agreed to pay his daughter $200 if she stays off Facebook for five months. (Courtesy of Paul Baier)
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Every person has their price, and for a 14-year-old Boston girl, her price to quit Facebook is $200.
Paul Baier and his daughter entered into a contract he posted on his blog this week that will earn the daughter $200 if she can stay off of the 1-billion member social network for five months.
The story of Baier and his daughter's unusual "Facebook Deactivation Agreement" has gone viral, but such a pact isn't new and for most people not necessary.
In fact, most adult users have tried without financial incentives.
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A report released by Pew Internet this week says that 61% of Facebook users in the U.S. 18 and older have also taken a "Facebook vacation" for several weeks or more.
However, most people don't leave Facebook for money, like Baier's daughter. Instead, the report found the most prevalent reason that people decide to take a break from the popular social network is because they're just too busy for it.
Of course, that reasoning probably doesn't surprise many people. But what might surprise users is the measures some are taking to stay off Facebook.
Recently, I chatted with Faisal Abid, 22, a member of Toronto's startup community, who late last month co-launched FAddict.io, a website built to help "Facebook addicts" recover.
The site lets people send $5 to FAddict as a pledge that they will stay off Facebook for an entire month. If they complete their "rehab," they'll get their $5 back, but if they "relapse," they lose the money and FAddict donates it to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
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FAddict monitors the profiles of people who pledged and will notify them if it detects they have logged onto Facebook.
So far a couple dozen people have signed up with FAddict. Because the startup is only 3 weeks old, no one has completed the 30-day challenge but so far no one has relapsed either -- at least as of early Thursday.
"We're not sure what personal motivations are for our users, but what we feel is Facebook is becoming more of a burden in their lives and taking a break is healthy," Abid said.
With Facebook essentially an online directory of all your contacts, it's very hard to not be on it in some way or form. But Abidal said it's important to remember that Facebook "isn't a part of life but just a simple, dispensable tool."

 Julie Chen serves as host and moderator of "The Talk," CBS' Daytime Emmy Award-winning talk show that examines topical events and contemporary issues through the eyes of five female hosts. She hosts alongside Eve, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, and Sheryl Underwood. Chen, who won the Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Hosts Daytime Emmy for the first time in 2017, is also part of "The Talk" writing team that won its first Daytime Emmy in 2015 for Outstanding Writing Special Class. In addition, Chen hosts the hit summer reality series "Big Brother."

Chen served as Special Contributing Anchor of CBS News' weekday morning broadcast "The Early Show" from 2010 to 2011, and co-anchor from 2002 to 2010. Prior to that, she served as the news anchor of "The Early Show" and anchor of the "CBS Morning News," the CBS Television Network's early-morning, half-hour broadcast, beginning Nov. 1, 1999, when "The Early Show" debuted under that title.

Chen covered several major news stories for "The Early Show," including the war in Iraq, and in March 2003 she reported for the program during the conflict from Kuwait and Qatar. Chen interviewed newsmakers such as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Queen Rania of Jordan, former Defense Secretary William Cohen, and celebrities including Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Cruise, Ben Affleck, Angelina Jolie, Chris Rock, and Jennifer Lopez.

Prior to "The Early Show," Chen worked as a reporter and anchor for WCBS-TV, the CBS-owned station in New York (1997-1999).

Before joining CBS News, Chen was a reporter for WDTN-TV Dayton (1995-1997). She was a producer for ABC NewsOne (1992-1995), the network's affiliate news service, and she was a desk assistant in ABC News' Los Angeles bureau (1990-1991), where she worked on the award-winning primetime special, "Anatomy of a Riot."

Chen is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. A devoted yogi, Chen says there's no better way than yoga to start her day.

Chen was born in Queens, N.Y. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 1991 with a degree in broadcast journalism and English. She lives in New York and Los Angeles with her husband, Leslie Moonves, with whom she has a son, Charlie, and three stepchildren, Adam, Sara, and Mike. Follow Julie on Twitter @JulieChen and on Instagram @juliechencbs.


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Tina Martinez1 at 12:51 PM February 07, 2013 Since when do kids charge their parents  to do as they're told. This is the problem. Allowing your kid to make their own decision, sorry if you aren't verbally of physically abusing them, then it doesn't make you a bad parent telling them what to do. Its not the end of the world if you say no. Take away her dame computer, how do you know she won't create a very new facebook account. Not just her computer but her phone.
Juajico Drivales at 12:44 PM February 07, 2013 sniperspy lets parents keep track of their computers remotely. parents can see and restrict all of their childrens' internet activity
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Facebook Connect issue wreaks havoc on the Web

A temporary glitch in the social network's system rerouted people from other sites to a Facebook error message.










Facebook had a temporary glitch this afternoon that pulled people from different Web sites to a Facebook error message when they tried to access an account that was linked to the social-networking site.
TNW's Alex Wilhelm first tweeted about this at 4:15 p.m. after trying to read an article from a news site: "Reading article. Dragged from two diff sites to Facebook, which displays what appears to be a permissions error. Wa?"
The issue, which was related to Facebook Connect, was resolved around 4:40 p.m.
Facebook issued this statement shortly after, saying it was a bug, but the company did not elaborate further:
For a short period of time, there was a bug that redirected people logging in with Facebook from third-party sites to Facebook.com. The issue was quickly resolved, and Login with Facebook is now working as usual.
This means if you logged in to other sites using your Facebook account -- a feature Facebook likes to highlight constantly -- then you would get rerouted to Facebook's site and an error message that read "An error occurred. Please try again later."
The only way to stop it was to log out of Facebook. This shows how widespread Facebook Connect is and how easily one site can cause the Internet to come screeching to a halt.















Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She returned home after several years of frolicking in the redwoods of Humboldt County as a daily newspaper reporter. Technology never ceases to amaze her.


Yahoo CEO Mayer to Cement Facebook Ties While Pushing Mobile

Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer said she plans to focus on mobile applications and strengthening ties to Facebook Inc. to bolster turnaround efforts at the biggest U.S. Web portal.
“A lot of the strengths of Facebook are available to Yahoo users,” Mayer said today at an investor conference in San Francisco hosted by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “That’s something we want to build upon. We have a real commitment to bringing valuable content to our users.”
Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer said she'll focus on the dozen or so applications that people use all the time on their phones. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Since Mayer arrived as CEO last year, Yahoo has ceded share in its core business of display advertising. This year, Yahoo’s share of the U.S. market will slip to 8 percent, from 9.3 percent in 2012, according to researcher EMarketer Inc. Google Inc. will widen its lead to 18 percent from 15 percent last year, while Facebook will advance to 15 percent from 14 percent.
To court users and advertisers, Mayer said she’ll focus on “the dozen or so applications that people use all the time on their phone.”
“How many people at least once a day mark an e-mail as unread on their phone, just so they can go back later and read it on their PC?” Mayer said. “There’s a clear opportunity for innovation. The tool just doesn’t work that well right now. These are the types of things we’re thinking about.”

Enhancing Social

Turnaround efforts will target changes that can get users interacting more, and for longer periods of time, she said last month. In the same way that recent updates to the Flickr image- sharing service got users uploading 25 percent more photos, and an overhaul of Yahoo Mail resulted in a higher portion of ads being clicked, the company hopes to refresh sites such as Yahoo Finance and Yahoo News, Mayer said.
To help its push for product improvements, Yahoo hired 120 new employees with computer science degrees in the fourth quarter, Mayer said. She also brought on Sandy Gould, a former recruiting executive at Walt Disney Co., to lead talent acquisition and development.
Enhancing social features is crucial to Yahoo’s success, Mayer said today, as she reinforced her preference to partner with companies like Google, Apple Inc. and Facebook rather than build expensive new products.
“One of the things that people really want to do is share their interests with their friends,” she said. “We need to have sharing built as a fundamental component.”
Yahoo’s shares advanced 1.5 percent to $21.21 at the close in New York. The stock has gained 36 percent since Mayer was named CEO in July, compared with an 11 percent gain for the Standard & Poor’s Index.
To contact the reporters on this story: Brian Womack in San Francisco at bwomack1@bloomberg.net; Peter Burrows in San Francisco at pburrows@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tom Giles at tgiles5@bloomberg.net

Yahoo CEO Mayer to Cement Facebook Ties While Pushing Mobile

Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer said she plans to focus on mobile applications and strengthening ties to Facebook Inc. to bolster turnaround efforts at the biggest U.S. Web portal.
“A lot of the strengths of Facebook are available to Yahoo users,” Mayer said today at an investor conference in San Francisco hosted by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “That’s something we want to build upon. We have a real commitment to bringing valuable content to our users.”
Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer said she'll focus on the dozen or so applications that people use all the time on their phones. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Since Mayer arrived as CEO last year, Yahoo has ceded share in its core business of display advertising. This year, Yahoo’s share of the U.S. market will slip to 8 percent, from 9.3 percent in 2012, according to researcher EMarketer Inc. Google Inc. will widen its lead to 18 percent from 15 percent last year, while Facebook will advance to 15 percent from 14 percent.
To court users and advertisers, Mayer said she’ll focus on “the dozen or so applications that people use all the time on their phone.”
“How many people at least once a day mark an e-mail as unread on their phone, just so they can go back later and read it on their PC?” Mayer said. “There’s a clear opportunity for innovation. The tool just doesn’t work that well right now. These are the types of things we’re thinking about.”

Enhancing Social

Turnaround efforts will target changes that can get users interacting more, and for longer periods of time, she said last month. In the same way that recent updates to the Flickr image- sharing service got users uploading 25 percent more photos, and an overhaul of Yahoo Mail resulted in a higher portion of ads being clicked, the company hopes to refresh sites such as Yahoo Finance and Yahoo News, Mayer said.
To help its push for product improvements, Yahoo hired 120 new employees with computer science degrees in the fourth quarter, Mayer said. She also brought on Sandy Gould, a former recruiting executive at Walt Disney Co., to lead talent acquisition and development.
Enhancing social features is crucial to Yahoo’s success, Mayer said today, as she reinforced her preference to partner with companies like Google, Apple Inc. and Facebook rather than build expensive new products.
“One of the things that people really want to do is share their interests with their friends,” she said. “We need to have sharing built as a fundamental component.”
Yahoo’s shares advanced 1.5 percent to $21.21 at the close in New York. The stock has gained 36 percent since Mayer was named CEO in July, compared with an 11 percent gain for the Standard & Poor’s Index.
To contact the reporters on this story: Brian Womack in San Francisco at bwomack1@bloomberg.net; Peter Burrows in San Francisco at pburrows@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tom Giles at tgiles5@bloomberg.net

 

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