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Facebook to Unleash Clickable Hashtags

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:00:02 +0000

Facebook just may be the new Twitter. Everyone’s favorite social network will unveil a new hashtag feature over the next few weeks that will allow users to hashtag a phrase that other people can click on to see what other users who have tagged the same words have posted, much like #NBAFinals in the above [...]

Fugitive Teenager Taunts Cops on Facebook and Gets Arrested

LV — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:52:07 +0000

If you're sleeping under a rock and haven't found out the cops are using Facebook, you need to wake up now. One troubled teenager found out the hard way after taunting cops on Facebook. The UK teen thought he was living a movie but reality struck him, quickly.

Facebook to Implement Video Ads When Viewing Profiles

LV — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:18:26 +0000

The website that you love to hate will give you another reason to take a break from signing on. Facebook will implement video ads when you view profiles. In the past year, Facebook has tried to bring in extra revenue with savvy strategies and they've worked, I guess.

Detroit Dad Creates A 'To Catch A Predator' Situation To Stop Man From Trying To Sex His Daughter [Video]

Clay — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:27:36 +0000

Antoine Martin lives on Detroit’s West side, and has the difficult job of raising a teenage daughter. When he found out that an older man was trying to set up a meeting with his 13 year old girl on Facebook, he took things into his own hands. Martin suspected the man, who was a volunteer [...]

Mother Informed By Police of Her Son's Death Via Facebook

LV — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:28:31 +0000

A mother was informed by the police of her son's death via Facebook. After being dead for 20 days, the mother was informed by the police in her Facebook inbox. Finding out your child has passed away is sad but it becomes worse when you have to find out on Facebook. SMH.

Why Is Facebook Losing So Many Users?

Clay — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:18:50 +0000

Facebook is still the King, Queen, Prince and probably the Duke of social media, but that’s not stopping the growing trend of people leaving Facebook. So the obvious question is why? There are a lot of reasons that people might be straying from Facebook, but it looks like the main factor is overkill. According to [...]

Parents Informed About Daughter's Death on Facebook

LV — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:49:08 +0000

Parents were informed about their daughter's death on Facebook. A female college student at Valdosta State University was found dead in the study area of her dorm after being dead for 12 hours. Parents were not notified by the VSU before they found the news out on a friends Facebook update.

Feeling Stressed? Blame Your Many Facebook Friends

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:47:09 +0000

The counter located prominently on everyone’s Facebook page has created a bit of a friends arms race. According to new research, it’s a race you may be better off losing. A study from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland of 300 Facebook users has found the more social network friends a person has, the higher their stress [...]

Your Facebook Copyright Notice Status Update Is Bogus

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:58:14 +0000

If you've been on Facebook over the last few days, you've probably seen that some of your friends have posted a copyright notice as their status update.

The message suggests that the poster has copyrighted all the material on their Facebook page thanks to the authority of something called the Berner Convention. Here is the full text of the update:

Nine-Year-Old's Dying Wish Granted Thanks to Facebook

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:00:15 +0000

There is nothing worse than a story about a nine-year-old dying of cancer. The best we can hope for out of one is something like this — overwhelming humanity from strangers in the face of tragedy. Nine-year-old soccer fan Jens Pascal Schmidt had a brain tumor, and his dying wish was for a gravestone with the [...]

Saturday Is 'National Unfriend Day' And Jimmy Kimmel Has Some Tips [Video]

Clay — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:30:57 +0000

Jimmy Kimmel claims to have started ‘National Unfriend Day’ on Facebook, so when it rolls around this Saturday he would obviously be the man to ask for advice. The point of ‘N.U.T.’ is simple, in real life we have a few close friends and on Facebook we have thousands. There is no way that we [...]

Planning to Tweet or Instagram Your Ballot? You May Be Committing a Felony

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:53:35 +0000

Voting in a presidential election is pretty exciting. And, these days, when we do something exciting we want to tell the world about it through social network sites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

But while there may be a temptation to take a photo of your completed ballot and post it on the internet with pride, it's not a very good idea. In fact in states like Wisconsin it's a felony to let anybody else see your ballot or a photo of your ballot.

Parents Embarrass Teen With Hilarious Facebook Pics

Cameron Simcik — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:15:52 +0000

We love our parents; we really do. It's just that during those early years, they can seem like the most embarrassing people on the planet. It's tough enough growing up (kudos to you if you can read the word "puberty" without wincing) without lame-o parents humiliating you, but when it comes to two parents in Wisconsin, we have to admit they've surpassed "embarrassing" and jumped straight to "awesome."

Do You Want a Facebook 'Want' Button?

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:57:54 +0000

Thanks to Facebook, we can now “like” just about anything on the internet. But what if you more than “like” something you see on the Web? What if you “want” it too? Soon there may be a special button for that. Facebook is currently working with retailers such as Pottery Barn and Victoria’s Secret to [...]

Can You Be Fired for What You Post on Facebook?

Mike Adams — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:36:51 +0000

Most of us intuitively know that insulting your boss on Facebook is probably not the best idea, but what about other job-related opinions we have? More to the point, can you be fired for posting them?

A recent National Labor Relations Board hearing found that “overly broad” company policies regarding employees' social media activity is unlawful, but not protected by federal labor laws.

Sound a little confusing? Let us help out:

Facebook Sets Social Media Record With One Billion Users

LV — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:09:57 +0000

Facebook set a social media record with one billion users. This morning Facebook become a billion strong and counting. After reaching one billion users, it is hard to believe that no one has a Facebook account. Don’t be fooled, there are people out there who still do not have a Facebook account. I know several [...]

Facebook Creates Anti-Stalk Technology, Takes All the Fun Out of Facebook

Marla Rosenthal — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:47:21 +0000

These days, everyone and their grandmother and pet hamster have Facebook. And most people would agree that the best use for the social networking site is passive stalkage of exes, frenemies and coworker crushes. So naturally, those fun killers at Facebook have decided to shut that business down.

Rainn Wilson Explains Why Facebook Posts are False [VIDEO]

Fantone — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:51:07 +0000

Rainn Wilson, or more commonly known as Dwight from The Office has been reading his Facebook news feed and is here to explain to you why most of the crap that people post just isn’t true. So many people put so many stupid Facebook statues up. It’s a good thing that Rainn Wilson took the [...]

Mark Zuckerberg Meets Facebook's Oldest, 101-Year-Old User

Mike Adams — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:27:38 +0000

While there might not be a spot in ‘The Guinness Book of World Records’ to praise Facebook’s oldest registered user — maybe there should be.

On Monday, Florence Detlor, the social network’s oldest registered user, celebrated her 101st birthday by crashing in on Mark Zuckerberg and his crew of hackers, nerds and programmers at Facebook’s California headquarters.

Amazingly, There Are Only 83 Million Fake Accounts on Facebook

Dan Seitz — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:00:23 +0000

While Facebook has no data on how many fake people currently reside on its server (based on our News Feed we’d guess about half of all users), it does know how many fake accounts there are: 83 million. And it’s not who you think, either. Facebook recently broke out how many fake accounts it has [...]