Facebook Charging?

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From time to time there are rumors of facebook charging for membership of the site. The latest facebook charging rumor going round is as follows:

“FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP. $9.99 PER MONTH FOR GOLD MEMBER SERVICES, $6.99 PER MONTH FOR SILVER MEMBER SERVICES, $3.99 PER MONTH FOR BRONZE MEMBER SERVICES, FREE IF YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. WHEN YOU SIGN ON TOMORROW MORNING YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR PAYMENT INFO…IT IS
OFFICIAL IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS. FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES. IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DO NOT PAY”

If you see someone posting this as their status then don’t believe it, it is not true and none of the other rumors of facebook charging are true either! Firstly, even if facebook were to charge for membership, they would not release the information like this, through people adding it to their status. They have everyone’s email address and it would be the kind of major change that would need people to know about it well in advance and agree to it.

But before we even get into that, the chances of facebook charging for membership are pretty minimal. Would you actually pay for facebook membership? I for one would not. There are plenty of options out there for keeping in touch that would make it impossible for facebook charging to occur. Twitter, mySpace, Linked In and now Google plus – there is no way facebook would survive if it were to start charging.

Facebook already earn money through advertising revenue and that has been expanding in the last few years as brands and even small companies realise the power of facebook, but facebook charging for membership? Not in my lifetime.

Halloween Costumes

Shopping,

With halloween fast approaching, people are starting to look for the best costume for the best price to wear to this year’s Halloween party! Either that or maybe a Halloween costume is needed for the kids to go out trick or treating in.

Well you have a choice, you can either make your own Halloween costume or you can go out and buy something ready made. Of course it is fun to make a Halloween costume, particularly when you are making it as part of play time that you are having with your children, you can make it into a good fun exercise and way to spend the weekend.  You may need some props in addition to some material to make a costume as well as a sewing machine to put it all together, but if you have the imagination then that is probably the best thing to do.

However, if you are lacking on time and imagination, or even think you may not have the requisite sewing skills to complete the task, then there are plenty of Halloween costumes available for sale. Check out Amazon for some great ideas on Halloween costumes and you might be surprised at what you can find for a very reasonable price:

Buy UGG Boots on Amazon

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If you are wanting a pair of UGG boots and wondering where you can get them then therre are a lot of different styles and sizes of UGG boots available to buy on Amazon.

Check out the different colors too and styles that go from the traditional long UGG boot to the kids boots, the women’s hartley boots, the short bomber boots with the button, the UGG cardigan boots plus plenty of other boots in different lengths.

UGG boots have been a fashion hit for a few years now and UGG have kept in trend by keeping their designs up to date and changing each year. The quality of the brand stands out especially when there are plenty of copies and fakes to find in the shops that are likely to fall apart very quickly.

Some UGG boots that can be bought on Amazon:

Buy Nike on Amazon

Lifestyles, Shopping,

 

These days it seems that you can buy almost anything you want on Amazon, and Nike products are no exception. When you buy thorough Amazon you know you are getting your goods from a trusted retailer, so you are going to get the genuine article, particular in terms of products like Nike shoes, where fakes are rife.

So if you are looking to buy Nike shoes for instance, you can buy the following on Amazon, among many other options:

Nike Sweet Classic Leather

These are genuine Nike Classic leather shoes that come in either black or white options.

They are offered in sizes 8 to 13 and have a leather upper with a solid rubber cupsole.

So instead of going to your Nike shop and finding they don’t have your size, you can pick exactly which shoes you want straight from the web, particularly great if you know exactly what you are looking for so you don’t need to go out your door, you can just get them delivered.

There are plenty of other Nike products for sale on Amazon – just follow the link above and you will see a range of Nike shoes and other clothing that you can buy from the online store.

Math – Prime Numbers

Science,

I have a fondness for prime numbers and I am not sure why. I guess they are kind of special in a way and even when you get to numbers of larger sizes you can still find prime numbers.

So prime numbers are numbers that can only be divided by themselves and 1. So for example 23 can only be divided by 23 and 1 and nothing else.  With smaller numbers it is relatively easy to tell if a number is prime or not by firstly making sure that it is and odd number and secondly dividing it by other numbers that are less than the square root of that number. However, it gets a bit more tricky once the prime number is higher than 100 or so, if you are trying to do the math in your head.

You can create some algorithms that will sieve out the non-prime numbers and that is the standard way to generate high prime numbers. You can create some basic coding that will generate some prime numbers or you could create a very basic excel spreadsheet.

Interestingly there is no current formula that will provide you with all of the prime numbers, many have tried but none have yet succeeded. prime numbers are fascinating to study and at the moment the largest prime number that has been found has about 13 million digits!

So, a list of all of the prime numbers under 100 follows:

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97