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Nightmare Restaurant From 'Kitchen Nightmares' Has Epic Facebook Meltdown

Emerald Catron — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:37:47 +0000

In all the years he’s been doing ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ (in the US at least), Gordon Ramsey never quit on a client. Until he went to Amy’s Baking Company in Arizona. Those people were horrible. Taking waitstaff tips, screaming, firing people — they genuinely are the worst. Unfortunately, they didn’t take learning that fact very well. [...]

Funny Video Shows What Life Would Be Like if Updated by Facebook, Just Like Our Profiles [NSFW]

Frank Pain — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:03:52 +0000

Seems like every time I log in Facebook has made an update. From privacy settings to news feeds, photos and more; I can't get used to one update before another update is made. Most of the time, those updates are terrible too.

Well, what if real life was 'updated' all the time by Facebook, just like our profiles are on Facebook?

12 Parents Embarrassing Their Kids on Facebook

Cameron Simcik — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:16:24 +0000

There’s a funny thing about parents and technology. That being a majority of moms and dads are pretty tech unsavvy without the help of us internet-obsessed younger folk. And while parental struggles can be frustrating at times, their attempts to get in the techy loop are mostly just hilarious. This is particularly true with Facebook. Many [...]

The Men's Room Talk About Favorite 'Dude' Websites

Frank Pain — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:41:06 +0000

Back in the day, guys had favorite magazines that were just for guys. You know, Maxim, Playboy, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Now, we bypass the wait from the mailman and go straight to our favorite sites. Yeah, there are websites that guys and gals alike can get in to, but there are also those sites that just for dudes.

Facebook's New 'Home' Ad Proving Controversial

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:30:35 +0000

Usually when Facebook draws the ire of the collective internet it’s because it’s made a change to its format. But this time it’s one of the social network giant’s TV commercials that has the Web firing off a barrage of negative comments. The spot is for Facebook’s new Home phone feature. In the ad, a [...]

Here's What The Painman Does When the Company Email Goes Down for Hours

Frank Pain — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:24:25 +0000

Like many companies, our email is hosted on an exchange server. Well, Friday morning our exchange server 'went down' and the entire company was left without the ability to use email. My 'work life' centers around email. That's my primary means of communication with record labels, company personnel, etc. Everything I do requires use of email. So, when our email went down, I was left with a lot of time on my hands.

How Do I Stop the Facebook Beeping Sound?

Joe Hyer — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:18:36 +0000

Has your computer made any strange pinging sounds today, but you can't figure out where it's coming from? The answer is probably Facebook. The world's most popular social networking site now makes a sound whenever you have a notification -- you know, for timeline posts, friend requests and more. Luckily, the sound can be turned off by following these three simple steps.

Dad Offers Teen $200 If He Quits Facebook For Five Months

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:12:43 +0000

Yesterday we learned that more and more people are taking long breaks from Facebook. If they’re not getting paid for these social network hiatuses they may be doing it wrong. Rachel Baier is getting the princely sum of $200 for handing her Facebook password over to her father and allowing him to deactivate her account for five months. The terms [...]

Have You Taken a Break From Facebook? Many Have

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:57:11 +0000

If Facebook was anything like Friendster and MySpace it would be only available in Malaysia or reduced to a Justin Timberlake vanity product.

Yes, the Harvard-born social network has beat the odds and looks like it will be around for the long-haul. In fact, the latest debate surrounding Facebook is what happens to a member's page when they die.

Survey Reveals Americans Feel the Need to Take a Break from Facebook

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:33:39 +0000

Valentine’s Day may be in the air, but it seems like there isn’t a ton of love for Facebook Why? Because we may have had our fill of the social networking site. According to a new Pew survey, 61% of people have taken a break from the social networking site for several weeks at a [...]

That Facebook Legal Settlement Email You Got Is For Real

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:01:56 +0000

Over the last week, about 125 million Facebook users in America received an email concerning a legal settlement of a class action suit against the social networking site. While you were probably tempted to put the email in your spam folder alongside the offers for free iPads and solicitations from African “royalty,” it’s actually completely legit, and [...]

'Actual Facebook Graph Searches' Exposes Weird Facebook Habits

Emerald Catron — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:03:41 +0000

Well, this certainly didn’t take long. Only a few days after Facebook unveiled their new search engine Facebook Graph Search, a Tumblr mocking it has been made, and it’s a hit. Aptly named Actual Facebook Graph Searches, the site’s creator, Tom Scott, searches for contradictory sets of data and highlights the fact that such results [...]

I'm Deleting a Lot of My Facebook Friends and You're Probably Next — The [Fairer Se]X Files

Jackie Mancini — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:00:10 +0000

When I got on Facebook way back in 2004, it was a network created specifically for college students. In order to join, you had to have a college email address. We all migrated over from Myspace and Friendster and left "testimonials" on each other's walls, because we had no idea what we were supposed to do. Today, Facebook is getting really creepy, and so last night I decided to start making some edits.

New Facebook App Will Help You Find Out Who Gave You the Flu

Donald Deane — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:00:46 +0000

After last year's flu season, which health officials say was one of the mildest in the past 30 years, the illness is back with a vengeance. Well, if you're unlucky enough to currently have the flu, at least a new Facebook app can help track down the diseased jerk who gave it to you in the first place.

Facebook Reunites Sisters After 72 Years

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:10:41 +0000

Back when Facebook was just about college students and the recently graduated it was great for getting back in touch with high school friends that you had lost contact with for a few years. But now that everybody and their grandmother is on the social network, the reunions Facebook enables have started to become really impressive.

Fake Facebook Conversations Between NFL Quarterbacks Will Have You Laughing Hysterically

Chaz — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:41:25 +0000

At the end of NFL games, you'll always see the starting quarterback from each team, shake hands, high five or have a few words of encouragement for each other. According to 'NFL Quarterbacks on Facebook', that might not be the case. I will warn you, the language that is used is NSFW.

The Best 'TBH' Memes for Facebook's Meme of the Year

Emerald Catron — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:03:26 +0000

TBH, we don’t really remember a huge TBH craze on Facebook, but Facebook made “to be honest” their meme of the year because it was the most-often mentioned phrase of 2012. Maybe it just got buried in all the “What I Do, What You Think I Do, What I Actually Do” garbage. At any rate, [...]

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 [...]

Facebook Prankster Recreates Profile Pictures

Cameron Simcik — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:14:01 +0000

Even though we're self-proclaimed addicts, Facebook can be super confusing. There's that whole copyrighting thing, for one. Turkeys can be voted for pardoning and a cat petition can get liked 120,000 times. It's a weird, weird world. Recently, one guy decided to take advantage of the social media site's strangeness by playing an awesome prank on fellow users.

Facebook Can Now Help You Get a Job

Mike Adams — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:17:11 +0000

Don’t just update your status—update your résumé. Facebook has just released a Social Jobs App that will allow people to search job listings from a multitude of sites like Monster and DirectEmployers. Earlier this week, Facebook launched its new app, as part of the Social Jobs Partnership program in association with the U.S. Department of [...]