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Facebook to Unleash Clickable Hashtags

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:14:02 +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 [...]

Why Liking Something on Facebook Isn't As Helpful As You Think

Emerald Catron — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:35:35 +0000

If you think you’re saving the world by liking a page on Facebook, UNICEF Sweden has got some news for you — you’re not. Liking a page is a great way to keep informed about a charity or cause, but unless it’s part of a specific campaign, it doesn’t actually do much good. This starving [...]

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 [...]

The Best Ways to Show Your Support for Marriage Equality on Facebook

TheFW Staff — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:19:24 +0000

This week the Supreme Court is hearing arguments for Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California. They are also weighing the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

To show their support for the LGBT community, people have been changing their profile pictures on Facebook. It started as big blocks of solid red. Then changed to a red block with a pink equal sign, which is symbol of the Human Rights Campaign. Now things have gotten a little out of control and some more creative options have popped up. Here are our favorites.

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

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:33:39 +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 [...]

'Actual Facebook Graph Searches' Exposes Weird Facebook Habits

Emerald Catron — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:03:41 +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 Reunites Sisters After 72 Years

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:10:41 +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.

Teen Arrested After Making Facebook Threats

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:35:15 +0000

Eric Rizley of Portage, Indiana was having a bad day. So the 19-year-old got on Facebook and started issuing threats. Unfortunately for him, that was actually a very, very bad idea. Now he faces criminal charges “Watch out portage people might be dying soon,” Rizley wrote on his account at about 4 AM Thursday morning. As if [...]

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 [...]

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

Emerald Catron — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:03:26 +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, [...]

Shocker! People Like Drinking and Having Sex More Than Facebook and Getting Sick

Mike Adams — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:20:42 +0000

Sex and drinking alcohol are the most beloved of all pastimes, according to a new survey from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Stunning, we know. The researchers found that the act of carnal knowledge finished first in all three of the survey’s categories: pleasure, meaning and engagement. Still, there is hope for our [...]

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 — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:00:15 +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 [...]

Facebook Can Now Help You Get a Job

Mike Adams — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:19:35 +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 [...]

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."

Spend Too Much Time on Facebook? Hire Someone to Slap You in the Face

Wes Glinsmann — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:30:13 +0000

We all know it’s easy to get distracted and waste a ton of time on Facebook (or GuySpeed) but one guy is getting serious about his social media addiction -- he hired someone to slap him in the face every time he logs on to Facebook.

Posting Political Rants on Facebook Might Get You Defriended

Mike Adams — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:41:31 +0000

You may have strong political opinions, but new research finds that those hardcore rants you’ve been posting on Facebook lately just might be losing you some friends in your social media circle. Joseph Burns, a professor of communication at Southeastern Louisiana University recently conducted a study where he asked 24 of his friends (half Democrats [...]

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.

Woman Jailed For Failing To Delete Facebook Account

Carl Pettit — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:54:02 +0000

You know it’s a bad day when a judge decides you need to spend some time behind bars because you didn’t delete your Facebook account. Is having a Facebook page now a crime? It seems that if you irk the wrong judge in the state of Kentucky, it just might be. And just how do [...]

Military Starts Naked Salute Facebook Group for Prince Harry

Emerald Catron — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:56:07 +0000

Well, if what happens in Vegas isn’t going to stay in Vegas, as many people as possible should probably put naked pictures of themselves up on Facebook to make it okay. It’s maybe not how we would deal with the Naked Prince Harry Fiasco of 2012, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening right now.