Jim Calabrese, owner of NY firm Real Estate Signs has been banned from Facebook for having too many friends that had the same characteristics, i.e. REALTORS. Apparently, according to FB, this is in an indication of spam, spamming or potential to spam.

His supporters say that Jim sent out messages to friends and customers such as:

“Dear Sally, Thanks for the sign order! You can reach out to me here on Facebook if there is any thing you need. Sincerely, Jim Calabrese”.

Those kind of notes to people (sending several in one day) and a few other activities (including making too many friends “who share similar physical characteristics”) may get you banned too.

You get what you pay for and one would be unwise to depend too heavily on FB or other social networking sites, paid or free. We’ve already seen them publish our wish lists, sell our demographics to advertisers and ban photos they deem inappropriate, such as new Moms nursing their babies. And while I’m at it, I think it prudent to mention that I hope you’re not saving all your photos to Flickr or videos to YouTube. I mean, you have copies saved on an external harddrive too, right? While unlikely, you never know when a server will go down or a company out of business, so better safe than sorry.

If the the puiblic didn’t read Amanda Bonnen’s Twitter feed before, they will now, thanks to a defamation lawsuit brought against her by Horizon Group Management in Chicago.

Bonnen, a tenant, posted an update that said, “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s okay.”

Now she’s being sued. The management company says it has been greatly injured in its reputation as a landlord in Chicago because of the Tweet, and seeks an excess of $50,000 in damages.

I get these all the time.

Emails directly from Windows Live Mail blocked for safety by Windows Live Mail.

If Microsoft can’t even deliver their own mail, why do we continue to trust them to deliver anyone else’s? I would love to use Outlook but last time I downloaded it, it erased all of my saved emails off the server.

Gmail has the same problem as Hotmail by limiting emails to 50 or 100 per page. That’s so annoying.

I wish I could find an email program that shows all of my emails on one page like MSN Mail or Outlook.

Quadrant Homes has come up with a clever video contest called Lose the Rent with an Shepard Fairey Obama-like graphic. Make a video about your landlord and maybe win $1000.

Well, not my bathroom, my husbands (I have my own), but it’s in our house. He even gets a thank you and film credit in the end, hee-hee!

And The Ship Sails On by Joel Brouwer

Congratulations to our bathroom for its 15 minutes of fame.

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