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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Facebook and Your Job? What's Legal? [VIDEO]

Bristol — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:04:29 +0000

I saw this online and I about fell out. My employer could possibly ask me for my Facebook username and password? What happened to your private life being private? So many questions and not nearly enough answers! I’ve never bashed my employer online (that they know about at least) but I’ve seen people do it [...]

Dad to Buy Daughters Puppy After They Get One Million Facebook Likes In A Day

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:51:56 +0000

It's a scenario which has played out in countless homes over the years. The kids want a puppy, but the dad isn't so sure it's a good idea.

But when the Cordell girls, Cadence, 12, and Emerson, 9, went to their father Ryan with their canine request, he added a social media clause -- he would get his daughters a dog if they could get one million likes on Facebook.

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.

Man Hijacks Girlfriend's Facebook Page To Propose

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:00:23 +0000

If there’s anything the internet loves, it’s a creative marriage proposal. Now that the best ones end up on YouTube for all to see, it has become harder and harder to come up with a truly unique proposal. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Israeli entrepreneur Guy Malachi accepted that challenge and passed with flying colors when he asked [...]

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:

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.

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 [...]

Facebook Reaches One Billion Users

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:35:07 +0000

You know what’s cool? One billion users. OK, now that that’s out of the way, lets discuss the big Facebook news, which is that the social network recently topped one billion users. This amounts to about 15% of the world’s population. Mark Zuckerberg announced the achievement as a status update on his Facebook page, and thanked users [...]

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.

Is Facebook Trying to Get You to Narc On Your Friends Who Don't Use Their Real Name?

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:43:46 +0000

Like most folks, you’ve probably never really read Facebook‘s Terms of Service. But it you had, you would have seen this telling gem: Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way … You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an [...]

Change Your Facebook Language for 'Talk Like a Pirate' Day

Frank Pain — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:36:29 +0000

Today, September 19th, is Talk Like a Pirate Day. So, in an effort to help you sound more like a pirate, I’ve got some quick instructions on how you can change your Facebook settings to ‘pirate’. It’s pretty simple really. Just log in, click on the upside down triangle (next to ‘home’), go to account [...]

Facebook Doesn't Want You To Die [AUDIO]

Wes Nessman — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:00:40 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks that people reveal a little too much on Facebook? People also create drama for now reason, but that’s beside the point. Or maybe it’s not beside the point? Either way Facebook wants you alive (probably so you can play Farmtown). More after the jump. Facebook is going to [...]

Don't Dew it – Did Mountain Dew Prevent a Suicide on Facebook?

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:59:02 +0000

Look, we all know suicide isn’t something you should usually joke about, but Michael Abraham has made it kind of funny by posting on Mountain Dew’s Facebook page. What just happened here is either he triggered a hilariously pun-filled comment thread by making a joke about having suicidal thoughts, or he really was feeling like [...]

Facebook Needs The 'Like' Bra

Chris Illuminati — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:06:27 +0000

During Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s “Look At This Awesome Thing We Did” talk at the F8 developer conference in San Francisco, he made sure to explain how much users are going to love the new Timeline feature that some people noticed a few days prior to the conference and kind of hated.

Facebook is Located in the Real World

Wes Nessman — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:42:26 +0000

I guess I just don’t understand people anymore. There are some that think they can trash people on the web/Facebook and not expect it to come back on them. These “social media” sites are not fantasy sites like Warcraft. Read more after the break. If you call someone or something a name online, it’s going [...]