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10 malas prácticas de un perfil personal de Twitter (I) #infografia #socialmedia

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10 malas prácticas de un perfil personal de Twitter (I)

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10 malas prácticas de un perfil personal de Twitter (I) #infografia #socialmedia

Hola: Una infografía con 10 malas prácticas de un perfil personal de Twitter (I). Infografía realizada con Piktochart. Un saludo

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It’s Very Gross And Very Dangerous When Dogs Eat Diapers

Ginger the dog died after eating part of a baby’s diaper.

The very thing that makes disposable diapers so useful–their super-absorbency–can make them deadly to pets. While nobody goes around giving diapers to their dog as a chew toy, animals do have a gift for rifling through the trash, and one thing they can find there are diapers. KKTV in Colorado interviewed one family whose dog died after eating some of the absorbent material in a diaper.

The dog was kind of listless one evening, and they found her dead on the floor the following morning. What had happened? There was fluffy material around that looked like wall insulation, but there were no walls torn open where the dog could have eaten insulation. Finally, they discovered the answer: there was part of a diaper along with some dog vomit under a piece of furniture.

Material that absorbs liquid expands when it does so, since that’s how the laws of physics work. What seems to have happened here is that the dog shredded a diaper and ate some of the dry absorbent material inside. It came into contact with liquids in her digestive system and expanded, causing internal injuries.

“Don’t let dogs eat diapers” might seem like common sense, but pet owners that KKTV interviewed were surprised that there is no specific warning explaining the dangers of ingesting a diaper on the package. It’s not just diapers for babies, either: tampons, for example, are made out of different material but are also designed to expand when they come in contact with liquid, and can cause internal injuries.

11 CFA Investigation: Diapers Can Be Deadly For Pets [KKTV]

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

Story Of The Returned $10,000 Walmart Debit Card May Be Hoax

Green Dot, the company that services Walmart MoneyCard accounts, says an investigation gives it reason to believe this may be a hoax.

Earlier today, we told you about the odd story of a man in Alabama who claimed to have found a Walmart prepaid debit card containing more than $10,000 on it, and who says he did the right thing by trying to return it to the store. However, the more we learn about this story the more questions come up.

Initially, there was some confusion involved with Walmart’s response to the story as a rep for the company claimed the card could not hold more than $1,000. As we noted in our original story, that appears to have been the result of some confusion because people kept referring to it as a “gift” card, which would be subject to $1,000 limit. However, this is a Walmart MoneyCard, and users of those accounts can add up to $2,999/day to their card.

But as we dig deeper, some issues come to light. The card in the image is indeed a Walmart MoneyCard, but it’s the “dummy” card that you first get when you start an account at the store. You can tell by the “Valued Customer” name.

Once a MoneyCard user has gone through a verification process to confirm their ID, they can get the personalized card and then add the larger amounts to their account. However, further inspection of the MoneyCard terms [PDF] show that the “The overall maximum amount of value that can reside on the Card is $7,500.”

Even if there are ways around that maximum, there’s the issue of the man claiming to have checked the balance on the card. Multiple sources have told us he should not be able to do this without a PIN for the card, which calls into question the authenticity of the receipt seen in the image above.

We reached out to Walmart to discuss these issues and ended up speaking to Green Dot, the company that is actually responsible for servicing the MoneyCard.

Citing privacy policies, Green Dot could not provide any specific information about this account but did say that their investigation currently gives them reason to believe that this is a hoax.

by Chris Morran via Consumerist