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Aug
2010
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Tentacle Love
I had promised my Twitter followers that if Spain won the World Cup, I’d take naked pictures with an octopus.
This year’s World Cup had become a circus: on one side models and porn stars making promises of getting naked and giving free blow jobs; on the other side, an octopus getting all the game scores right. Freakin’ HILARIOUS! So how could moi celebrate the World Cup? Mixing all those elements together…
These are photos I took with photog Matt Barnes the day after the World Cup final:
Yes, it was a real octopus.
And here’s a test shot between breaks…
20
Aug
2010
2010
Facebook VS Carol Zara Comics
As seen on GinAndComics.com
By Ryan Fisher
This comic is an obvious response to the Facebook vs. Carol Zara feud about Carol’s recent ban from Facebook. After my rage had died down a little from the situation, I started wondering just what kind of person could rationalize the banning of someone’ s profile, on a social networking site none-the-less; for talking with their fans too much. This is what I came up with… So much like most things nerd in my life, at the end of the day, I blame it on Joss Whedon.
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Aug
2010
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Carol Zara talks about Facebook and online privacy
As seen on Techvibes.com
We recently caught up with Canada’s Queen of Nerd to get more in-depth about her most recent spat with the world’s most popular social network:
It seems the whole issue of Facebook banning you started when you decided to “move” your Facebook friends over to your fan page.
First of all, I’d like to say that I decided to talk about the Facebook ban because we need more examples of how far Facebook can go and how little they actually care about its own users. Many people just decide to not talk about their stories, and as a public figure, I felt like it was my responsibility to share my experience with others. This was never about me, this is about defending web users rights. Specially when Facebook does not give you the right to appeal.
And I ask you, Facebook, are you really social media or have you become “anti-social” media?
Can you tell us why you made this decision and what notices you received from Facebook once you started doing this? What was your reason in moving people from your friends list to your fan page?
It wasn’t exactly moving anyone. If people wanted to keep “following” me on Facebook, they’d have to go to the new fan page. That was an option, and a decision that was made after I talked to my followers. And you don’t get notices from Facebook when you remove people from your friends list. It’s a right you have to choose who you want to be on your friends list. I used to accept everyone’s friend requests, I never wanted to have a fan page for myself, but the friends list was growing and each day I was getting more and more cyber junk. Club promoters tagging me on their flyers (why did Facebook remove the “approve a tag” feature anyway?), invites to join online games, groups and events from around the world. It’s actually very common to find people on Facebook who are just looking for more friends so they can promote their apps, fan pages, events, etc. My profile was also getting many virus messages. It was even hacked once. I really didnt want to deal with that anymore. So from 3000 friends, I went to about 600.
On the surface, it looks like Facebook banned you for spamming people you didn’t know. What are your thoughts?
It wasn’t like I was looking for those people, they were contacting me first. All I did was send those “strangers” a message asking them to go to my fan page instead and then ignore their friend request. That’s not spam in my opinion, that’s replying. Most of those requests were from actual fans just wanting to connect, which is the reason why I just didn’t ignore their requests. According to Facebook, what they did was also breaking the rules. And I never removed the “add as a friend” option because I still wanted my real life friends and family to be able to add me. I know many other public figures that have the same problem.
Look, Facebook’s privacy policy has more words than the United States constitution (why so long?). I think we were all naive and no one ever really thought that we were breaking any rules. If the people that sent me a random friend request reported my friendly message, then wow, that’s like stabbing my back.
What are your thoughts on Facebook’s content rules? Do you think your photos, pictures and drawings cross that line? Do you think this may be an issue on why Facebook banned you? Do you think your content is or should be an issue at all?
I watched an interview with this Playmate who was banned from Facebook because of her sexy photos and the message she received wasn’t the same as mine, so it looks like I was not banned because of my pictures. But if Facebook ever tells me that they did ban me because of some provocative photos and a cartoon (that weren’t even full on nudity), then I’ll show them the screenshots I posted on my website and ask them why couldn’t they take care of the actual pornography on Facebook first?
And what about their provocative “meet local girls now” ads? Recently, many celebrities have complained about Facebook’s user rules. Rob Sheridan from NIN, for example, tweeted this week: “Facebook deleted my latest photo work for being ‘offensive’. Really, Facebook? Censoring tasteful nudity in artwork? Are we in kindergarten?”
Have you heard back from Facebook after your open letter to them?
Actually I have, but it wasn’t necessarily what I was expecting.
Five days after I got banned, I received an email from Facebook reminding me that I had 2 weeks left to try their Facebook ads for free (http://digitallyblonde.com/2010/08/facebooks-biggest-fail-ever/). I got a similar offer from Facebook a few days before I was banned and decided to give it a try and advertise the Carol Zara fan page for the first time. To get the free credit, I had to enter my credit card info. So I pretty much feel like Facebook tricked me into getting more confidential information before the ban.
Question is, are they keeping that information with them? If so, why? How much does Facebook actually know about its users? They already know what we look like, they know where you work, they know who your friends are, what you like to do, where you live, etc. Are they sharing that information with anyone else? I think Facebook needs to be more clear with its users, specially after the Canadian government went after them for being “too loose with users’ personal data.”
I definitely don’t feel comfortable with my situation and would like to believe that my confidential information, for example, will not become data to attract more investors to the company. I have been online almost every day since I was 12 years old, so I thought I was safe, and look what happened to me. I’m pretty sure my parents would be easy prey online. And considering the fact that there are many seniors on Facebook right now, I advise people to be a little more careful.
Are you looking to be reinstated onto Facebook?
I was lucky enough to have extra admins taking care of my Digitally Blonde fan page, so that one was saved. Unfortunately the Carol Zara fan page was deleted together with my profile, as I was the only admin. It was the most popular page I had, with close to 4000 members. I’ll be watching the activities on the Digitally Blonde fan page, but yeah, just watching. I have a great team who I believe will take really good care of it for me.
Any lessons learned? Would you do anything different in your strategy had you known your actions would have prompted Facebook to ban you?
It’s hard to say because I wouldn’t want to punish my incredible fans because of a few rotten apples, even though that’s what Facebook did to me. I was such a big fan of their social network, it was part of my life. I think if I knew that I was doing something wrong, I would have definitely stopped sending my friendly messages to the people who’d friend requested me and just ignore their requests.
Any other thoughts you’d like to share?
If anyone believe that they’ve been treated unfairly by Facebook, feel free to contact me on Twitter (twitter.com/carolzara).
17
Aug
2010
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Facebook’s Biggest Fail Ever?!
So, 5 days after Facebook disabled (banned) my account for reasons no one can understand (read my letter that explains everything here), they send me this email:
Great job, Facebook! Not only you kept my personal information (including credit card info) but you forgot to tell your advertising team that you banned me from your website!!!!! And why banned? Because I replied to my fans!?!?! Read my open letter to Facebook here.
Are your users a joke to you??? Don’t forget FB: without the people (users) there’s no Facebook and no billion dollar revenue.
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15
Aug
2010
2010
Banned from Facebook for interacting with fans?
This is my open letter to Facebook:
Dear Facebook,
I’ve been banned from your website, FOREVER. And NO ONE can understand what I could possibly have done, that was so wrong to be treated like a criminal by you.
Apparently, you deleted my profile for “regularly contacting strangers.”
I had been trying to keep my personal profile private. I made that decision when I had about 3000 friends on Facebook and was getting SO MANY invites to stupid apps and events in different countries and virus messages and freaking pokes… POKES! gah. I couldn’t even keep up with my personal friends updates, they thought I was a jerk!
I was honest with my followers and told them that maybe it was time to have a fan page. Unfortunately, that also meant that I’d have to delete them from my profile. We joked about the South Park Facebook episode, which is hilarious, don’t you think? So, from 3000 friends I went to about 600 friends. –By the way, your system had SO many bugs that it took me a lot longer to delete people. Sometimes I would delete a profile and it would come back to my friends list.
Even after doing everything I could to hide that profile and “force” people to ‘like’ my fan page instead (I hid my profile from your lists, but left the “add as a friend” option so my personal friends and family could add me), I was still getting over 50 friend requests/DAY. Hell, I couldn’t change the URL (which was my name, like totally obvious, and even appeared on Google search) and some friends would link people to pictures on my personal profile: “Hey guys, have you all seen Carol Zara’s latest photos??” Great, this was not helping.
I couldn’t just ignore all of those friend requests and give them no actual reason (I’m not like you, Facebook). So what I’d do was send everyone a friendly message:
“Hey hotness,
I would love to add you, but I don’t really use this profile anymore.
You can find me at my fUn page: http://www.facebook.com/iamcarolzara
See you there?
xoxo, CZ”
It’s true. I wasn’t really using that profile anymore, except for “liking” friends’ pictures, and keeping in touch with people I knew. My updates and pictures were all on my new fan page. I had 2 on the site, by the way: Carol Zara (the new page with close to 4000 members) and Digitally Blonde. The Carol Zara fan page only had myself as an admin, so it was disabled/deleted together with my profile.
My Twitter followers and I first thought that my account was disabled because of the sexy Octopus pictures I had recently posted (they were provocative, but no full nudity shown -I’d add black banners to the pics that I thought would make you mad).
Octopus Paul and I: a promise I made if Spain won the World Cup. And yes, I took pics with a real octopus.
Last year, you deleted a cartoon of me (fan art) where a famous comic book artist used his imagination and drew me sitting down with a naked back.
How would I guess that that C-A-R-T-O-O-N is inappropriate to you? It wasn’t like it was a cartoon of Homer Simpson fucking his daughter or the chicks from Family Guy sucking a dildo.
Which makes me think IS THE POPE THE CEO OF YOUR WEBSITE?
Thinking that it was because of the sexy pics -I agree with not allowing porn, but sexy pictures shouldn’t be a problem, considering your “meet local girls now” ads that feature REALLY young chicks.
Boys have all the fun. Female users on Facebook usually get ads for pilates classes and cupcake discounts.
Don't trust this ad. She'll never show you her boobies. Never.
My friends and I started doing research on how models behaved on Facebook, specially Playboy models and porn stars. We found full-on nudity -no black bars- on a page entitled “Larissa Riquelme” (not sure if it’s the model’s official page, but photos were added by the admin, not the fans).
We also found this on a porn star’s page (again, not sure if it’s an official page, but it’s there being hosted by FACEBOOK):
I was ready to start a tumblr account called “Faceburka” to showcase all our FB finds (oh, because we found MANY things on your website that are apparently against your rules. You should totally hire me as a cyber detective. That’s a sexy title.)
Carol Zara's Faceburka
Original photo posted on Facebook. It had black bars censoring what God gave me.
Finally on Aug. 13, I get a response from you -and it WAS final, with NO right to appeal *single tear left cheek* :(
Let’s clarify things once again:
Sending friend requests to people I don’t know? No, I haven’t been sending friend requests randomly. In fact, my personal profile used to have about 3000 friends (because I accepted everyone’s friend requests) and I was getting so many invites to stupid apps and virus messages that I decided to delete a good chunk of the friends list and keep only people I knew and long time fans.
Regularly contacting strangers through unsolicited Inbox messages? aka Replying to random friend requests asking them to add my fan page instead. I’d get about 50 new friend requests EVERY DAY. What to do if I don’t want to add all those “strangers” to my private account? Send them a polite message asking them to find me at my new fan page instead. Yes, it was exhausting to reply to all those messages myself. Yes, I wished there was an app that would save me time. Yes, sometimes after copy/paste’ing the message, I had to type those words to prove that I’m human, which was a lot more work.
Soliciting others for dating or business purposes? huh DATING?! No way! Business purposes, nope. I’d add or send a “hello” message to people that I have worked with in the past or whom my friends had introduced to me. That is all!
Question is:
1. Will you delete all the users that send friend requests to people they don’t know (I was affected by it), considering the fact that your app “People You May Know” usually features people we don’t know 98% of the time? It should actually be called “People You Have No Effin Clue Who They Are” feature.
2. Isn’t social networking a way of interacting with “strangers” aka “world citizens” who share common interests? No wonder why Twitter had such a fast growth and has been kicking your ass since 2009. I met so many wonderful people there. I don’t care if I don’t know them in person (some I have met IRL). They make me happy and I learn a lot from them.
Also, how can you call me a threat? I’m only 5′3” and 100 lbs. My friends made fun of me when I dressed up as Darth Vader for Halloween, so I gave up being evil. :S
So FB, we’ve had a serious spat, and you’ve kicked me out of your house, and now I’m standing outside your window with a big boombox, letting you and everyone else know how I feel.
Maybe you could man up and let me in? The fight was really one sided, and I didn’t receive any warning at all.
In other words, let’s put this fight behind us so we can get to the make up sex already!
And just for you, I promise to wear the burka.
Thanks Hotness!
xoxo
CZ
UPDATE -Aug 17: Facebook sent me an email. HA! Looks like they forgot to tell their Advertising team that they had banned me…
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Jun
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Carol Zara’s World Cup 2010
For more photos, check out my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/iamcarolzara
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Jun
2010
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¡Virgin Gaming y Carol Zara!
Brought to you by @ViceAleman
Recientemente ha sido noticia el lanzamiento de los Virgin Gaming como parte del lo último de la E3. Si no has escuchado nada acerca de esto, tu probablemente vivas en Marte, y no, los “Virgin Galactic” astronautas no irán a buscarte.
Eso sí, inicialmente fue WorldGaming, pero ahora se ha hecho público que Virgin Gaming es quien se hará cargo del platform.
Algunos de los nuevos lanzamientos que podras jugar ahora seran Halo 3, ModNation Racers, Fifa 10, Fight Night Round 4 y mucho mas! La mejor parte todo esto sera que Virgin Gaming le dara un millón de dólares en premios y cash a los ganadores de los torneos que realizaran.
No te quedes dormido! Si no te perderás esta tremenda oportunidad.
Pero esto no es todo. ¡Virgin Gaming ahora juega con Carol Zara!
¡Como lo escuchaste!
Carol estará haciendo videos con chicas sexys del mundo de los videos juegos, presentando los torneos, posteando fotos de esta bella chica divirtiéndose con comida y pateando traseros en su tiempo libre.
Entonces, ¿estás listo para jugar con Carol Zara?
Clickea aquí para registrarte gratis.
Tienes que estar seguro de usar tu bonus code VG-CZ si entras a VirginGaming.com.
Tweet @carolzara después de registrarte has el hashtag #carolzaravirgingaming. Así estarás concursando para ganarte un poster de Carol Zara y muchas más sorpresas especiales.
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Jun
2010
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Virgin Gaming and Carol Zara
So. Virgin Gaming has just launched at E3. Like, today!
If you haven’t heard anything about it then you probably live on Mars, and no, the Virgin Galactic astronauts are not gonna go pick you up.
Among the awesome selection of 8 games that you can play right now (AND most importantly compete for $1 million in cash/prizes) are Halo 3, ModNation Racers, Fifa 10 and Fight Night Round 4.
Some of the games coming soon are “Hit the street, choose your player and fight the good fight” and “Rock the house with new tunes and new gear.” Oh noes, that’s just SO hard to guess… ^_^
But that’s not all. Virgin Gaming is playing with Carol Zara!
You heard it riiiiight.
I’ll be making videos with hot gamer chicks, hosting tournaments, posting pictures of me having fun with food and kicking your ass in my free time.
So, are you ready to play with me?
Click here to register for free. Make sure to use bonus code VG-CZ if you go on VirginGaming.com. Tweet me @carolzara after you register (hashtag #carolzaravirgingaming). There’ll be a draw to win a Carol Zara wall poster and a special surprise.
15
Jun
2010
2010
Carol Zara Cammy, the New Street Fighter
Here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for…
Get ready to ____ your pants!
CZ Cammy by Alvin Lee
Alvin explains on his DevianArt page that he’s “added some thigh high socks on her (Cammy) because that’s Carol’s trademark choice of apparel” and that the drawing was “done with Pen & Copic Marker.”
About the artist:
Alvin Lee is a comic book artist known for his manga-styled art. Lee is the co-creator, along with writer Gail Simone of the character Agent X.
In 2001, Lee joined UDON as a lead artist with the revival of Capcom’s Street Fighter comic books and Darkstalkers comic books. His talent has also led to the game art of two Capcom videogame titles, Capcom Fighting Jam and the re-release of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.
Keep an eye out for his work in DC Comics soon!
You can follow Alvin on Twitter at twitter.com/AlvinLeeArt
As seen on AlvinLeeArt.com
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2010
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