Facebook has moved to the dark side for more power!

Oh yes... we were all caught by surprise when Mark Zuckerberg suddenly turned around and said "I am you lao peh and I own all your info!".

But the Deathstar is not built in a day, so let's take a look at how Facebook's privacy policy had changed behind our backs all these years...

Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline

Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2005:

No personal information that you submit to The facebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings.

Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2006:

We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on Facebook; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your school, your specified local area, and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about.

Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2007:

Profile information you submit to Facebook will be available to users of Facebook who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography, friends of friends). Your name, school name, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the Facebook network unless you alter your privacy settings.

Facebook Privacy Policy circa November 2009:

Facebook is designed to make it easy for you to share your information with anyone you want. You decide how much information you feel comfortable sharing on Facebook and you control how it is distributed through your privacy settings. You should review the default privacy settings and change them if necessary to reflect your preferences. You should also consider your settings whenever you share information. ...

Information set to “everyone” is publicly available information, may be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into Facebook), is subject to indexing by third party search engines, may be associated with you outside of Facebook (such as when you visit other sites on the internet), and may be imported and exported by us and others without privacy limitations. The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” You can review and change the default settings in your privacy settings.

Facebook Privacy Policy circa December 2009:

Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available to everyone, including Facebook-enhanced applications, and therefore do not have privacy settings. You can, however, limit the ability of others to find this information through search using your search privacy settings.

Current Facebook Privacy Policy, as of April 2010:

When you connect with an application or website it will have access to General Information about you. The term General Information includes your and your friends’ names, profile pictures, gender, user IDs, connections, and any content shared using the Everyone privacy setting. ... The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” ... Because it takes two to connect, your privacy settings only control who can see the connection on your profile page. If you are uncomfortable with the connection being publicly available, you should consider removing (or not making) the connection.

So my friends, it is now time to change your profile picture to Yoda and your name to Luke Skywalker (or Princess Amidala)!

Ah Fook's unhappy lawyer friend is gonna sue the big lemon called IR

(Photo in courtesy of Pet Society)

Ah Fook's lawyer friend was attending a top-level conference at a world class integrated resort which was newly opened, so he took the opportunity to have a look at how an expensive and high class integrated resort looks like. After getting stuck in the lift with other angry delegates of the conference for a while, Ah Fook eventually reached his lawyer friend's hotel room.

AH FOOK: Wah... dude, your room is in pitch dark!
LAWYER: Yes... for the past one hour.
AH FOOK: Er... and you don't intend to switch on the lights? Oh! Oops! Did I come in at a wrong time? Are you having... erm... special guest?
LAWYER: No! Ah Fook! For goodness sake! It's a blackout lah!
AH FOOK: Yah right... quit kidding and go switch on the lights won't you? Blackouts only happen in other countries, like Bali and India...
LAWYER: Apparently it happens in a world class integrated resort hotel as well.
AH FOOK: Oh... you didn't off the lights?
LAWYER: No I didn't.
AH FOOK: ...
LAWYER: ...
AH FOOK: And I guess you didn't switch off the air-con as well?
LAWYER: No, the air-con is not working, as well.
AH FOOK: Er... in that case, why didn't you go downstairs to grab a drink instead? Better than being stuck here in a dark and stuffy room right?
LAWYER: The lifts were not working just now, but yah, since you're here, it must mean that the lifts are okay now so we should go.
AH FOOK: Well, kinda of... though there's still the danger of getting stuck in it... again...
LAWYER: ...
AH FOOK: Erm... but I guess going down the stairs is not going to be as tiring as getting up, so why don't we just take the stairs?
LAWYER: Yah, sounds like the only solution now. I really wanna get out of this lemon room.
AH FOOK: But wait, can I use your bathroom first? I was stuck in the lift for some time, you know?
LAWYER: You can't. The toilet cannot be flushed.
AH FOOK: Oh...
LAWYER: Anyway, we're going to sue the integrated resort for all these aggravation and embarrassment.
AH FOOK: Can you do that?
LAWYER: Why not? We're lawyers! Plus we don't have to pay to sue people.


What's happening: IPBA to MBS: How will you compensate us?

Hitler said Weightage of the Mother Tongue in PSLE will not be lowered!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezboBBKsAN0

Education Minister apologised yesterday for giving the 'wrong impression' in a recent press interview that his ministry was planning to reduce the mother tongue weightage in PSLE.

Seriously? Apologised for giving the 'wrong impression', not apologised for attempting to slaughter our mother tongue?

So we got him wrong? Maybe his ang moh is too chim for us then...

Eastside Boss celebrates another massage parlour with Ah Fook

(Picture in courtesy of Pet Society)

Eastside Boss invited Ah Fook for steamboat dinner, said he has got some good news to celebrate with Ah Fook.

EASTSIDE BOSS: Hahaha... Ah Fook, I've booked the whole restaurant tonight, so just order whatever you want! Don't have to be paiseh!

AH FOOK: Er... Boss, this is $12.99 steamboat buffet right?

EASTSIDE BOSS: Hahaha... Come'on, Ah Fook, stop pulling my legs!

AH FOOK: So Boss, what are we celebrating, just done a deal?

EASTSIDE BOSS: Hahaha... Ah Fook, I've changed, I'm doing real business now! I'm opening massage parlours!

AH FOOK: Massage parlours? Wow, that doesn't sound too bad! But these days, we've got spa centers shutting down one after another, isn't the public still wary of signing up spa packages? Won't your business be affected?

EASTSIDE BOSS: Ah Fook! How dare you compare my massage parlours with those lousy spa centers? Hey, my customers can make booking via phone calls or even our website anytime, and we'll never turn away one single customer okay! And better still, they can just walk into the shop and we'll provide them our services just as well! We don't have no lousy packages to tie down our customers, they can come anytime and my girls will service them, no question asked!

AH FOOK: Er... your girls? Service them? Hey Boss, seriously, your massage parlours are not offering commercial sex, are they?

EASTSIDE BOSS: Ah Fook! Hello?! Something wrong with you up there?! Of course you go to a massage parlour for sex right? Or what? You go there to pray? If our customers require extra services, of course my girls will provide it! On the other hand, if all they want is just pure massage, which I can't imagine any guy asking for that, my girls are qualified and certified to massage them lah! Hey, I paid a large sum for their stupid professional massage training okay!

AH FOOK: Wow... and all these are local girls?

EASTSIDE BOSS: Are you kidding me? Of course not! Local girls are too expensive and too fussy, my girls are all foreign talents! Imported young and pretty girls!

AH FOOK: Hmm... and the police is not checking?

EASTSIDE BOSS: Ah Fook, you think I stupid is it? Of course I've got lookouts! And furthermore, all my massage parlours are located only in shopping centers in housing estates, no sweat man! Those stupid police only know how to raid Geylang lah! Alamak! Don't chat anymore lah, the dishes are all cold already! Let's dig in!


What's happening: Rampant comeback of sexual massage parlours in S'pore

Ah Fook is not gonna pay 90 bucks to watch World Cup!

(Picture in courtesy of Pet Society)

The World Cup is about a month away, the two giant telcos have finally decided on the price of their packages, and their announcement? 94 bucks to watch the World Cup! WTH?!?

No matter how I'd wanted to watch the World Cup, my name is Ah Fook, not Mr Carrot Head! 4 years ago, all we needed was to pay $15 to watch all matches, but now the price has gone all the way up to $94? This fluctuation is even higher than the COE prices!

Thank God there is Internet. At least I can still watch live streaming of the World Cup, some more in HD! Alright! I Ah Fook will not give in to the dark sides!

And if I grow tired of watching alone in my study room, I can always go downstairs to the kopitiam and order one kopi-C to watch the matches for free! But wait... there must be lotsa fans out there having the same idea as me... what if the kopitiam gets too overcrowded? I wonder whether I can call up the kopitiam aunty and make reservation...


What's happening: $70.62 for 64 matches

Ah Fook listens to a politically correct song

(Picture in courtesy of Pet Society)

Ah Fook visited the Artist at the right time, when he was about to try out his new song.

Artist (singing and playing on the guitar):
God save our gracious leaders,
Long live our noble leaders,
God save the Lee,
We'll never mock,
We'll never question,
Oh please reign over us;
We love the policies!

AH FOOK: Seriously?
ARTIST: Hey! No bad mouthing of the gahmen in my house okay! I still wanna earn a living!
AH FOOK: What's wrong with you? I thought you sing the voices of the people on the street, not that of the gahmen?
ARTIST: Sigh... you won't understand...
AH FOOK: Hey, I won't understand if you don't talk!
ARTIST: Do you know that the NAC has just cut the funding to that famous local theatre company?
AH FOOK: No way! That famous local theatre company?
ARTIST: Yap, that famous local theatre company.
AH FOOK: Well... I don't understand. It's not like we've got lotsa theatre companies around here to choose, and that theatre company is like the best we've got, what the hell is NAC thinking?
ARTIST: Just three reasons. Promoting alternative lifestyles, critical of government policies and satirising political leaders.
AH FOOK: Wooo... so the gahmen is making itself heard huh?
ARTIST: Yap, loud and clear!


What's happening: NAC cuts Wild Rice funds

Do you know what is Totalitarianism?

Do you know what is Totalitarianism?

Totalitarianism is...

• A political system where the state is under the control of a single political person, faction, or class


• The government recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible


• Ordinary citizens have no significant share in state decision-making


• There exists a pervasive scheme of values promulgated by institutional means to direct the most significant aspects of public and private life


• Political power is maintained through an all-encompassing propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media


• The single party in charge is marked by personality cultism, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of speech and mass surveillance


• Criticism of the government and its leaders is strictly curtailed and making such statements can be cause for arrest


• The country is ranked almost at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index


• The national media is focused almost entirely on political propaganda and the promotion of a the personality cults surrounding a particular family of father and son

So do you know one country that practices Totalitarianism?

No! Not Singapore lah! Singapore is a free democratic country with total freedom for her people and all are treated equally one okay! Don't haiz me okay!

North Korea! It's North Korea, no matter how similar it looks! It's the Kim family, not the Lee family, okay! I don't want to be sued hor!


Other readings you might be interested in...

• Single party rule ‘best for Singapore’


• Government requests directed to Google and YouTube


• NCMP, NMP: Shanmugam goes on the offensive


• NAC cuts Wild Rice funds


• Don't cast protest vote: MM


• New York Times pays damages to Singapore's leaders


• Low ranking for press freedom here absurd: Shanmugam