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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 [...]

6 Funny Alternatives to the Red Equal Sign Facebook Profile Picture Phenomenon

Tony Hart — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:26:16 +0000

Unless you're living under a rock, or I guess not on Facebook or Twitter, you've noticed the red equal sign popping up as people's Facebook profile picture over the last 48 hours, well of course this has also spawned several funny alternatives and parodies, here are six of the funniest that I found.

What Do All of The Red Equal Signs on Facebook and Twitter Profiles Mean? Find Out Why They're Popping Up on Social Media

Nick Cooper — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:15:05 +0000

If you’ve been on Facebook or Twitter today, you’ve undoubtedly noticed several people changing their profile picture to a red equal sign that is spreading rapidly around the web. What is this supposed to signify? The emergence of these symbols is a social media effort to show support for equal human rights as the U.S. Supreme Court [...]

How Do I Stop the Facebook Beeping Sound?

Joe Hyer — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:18:36 +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 — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:46:43 +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 [...]

Facebook Reunites Sisters After 72 Years

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:10:41 +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.

Facebook "Poke" App Doesn't Actually Delete Videos as Suggested

Nick Cooper — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:02:22 +0000

As we learned right before Christmas, Facebook has released an app called “Poke” that is supposed to magically make photos, videos, and messages “disappear” after a set amount of time. It turns out that may not be true after all. “Poke” explains in the app’s description that photos, videos, and messages can be sent between [...]

Is Facebook's New "Poke" App Designed to Promote Sexting?

Nick Cooper — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:34:10 +0000

Zuck and the crew at Facebook released a new companion app Friday for the social network called “Poke”. The app is designed to enable mobile users the ability to use the semi-useless poke Facebook feature, but it also allows users to do a couple other interesting things. Beside “poking”, the standalone app allows users to [...]

Facebook Enables iTunes Movies, Apps, and Music Gift Giving in Time for the Holidays – Does This Make Gift Giving Less Personal? [POLL]

Nick Cooper — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:15:38 +0000

While the days of physical discs for music and movies are slowly going away, Facebook has decided to make it easier to offer the gift of a digital album, movie, or game to anyone on your shopping list if you also happen to be friends on the social network. The age of digital gift giving [...]

How to See Your Entire Facebook News Feed, Not Just the Stuff Facebook Wants You to See

Nick Cooper — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:04:53 +0000

Remember the good old days, when you saw all of your friends’ awesome and ridiculous status updates and Facebook activities? Those days seem to have disappeared, giving way to a limited news feed cluttered more with sponsored posts than the stuff your friends are up to – or have they? Recent history in the world of the [...]

Facebook Introduces Pages for Couples Feature, Giving Those in a Relationship on the Site an Official Common Page

Nick Cooper — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:17:35 +0000

Facebook relationship statuses are an interesting thing. Some have fun with the status by entering “relationships” with friends; while others take the status all to seriously, believing a relationship isn’t “official” until it is on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg and his team have taken the relationship status to the next level, adding a new feature for [...]

Do You Want a Facebook 'Want' Button?

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:44:54 +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 [...]

Vikings vs. 49ers – Social Huddle

Tony Hart — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:20:58 +0000

The Minnesota Vikings face their biggest challenge of the young season when the San Francisco 49ers visit Mall of America Field for a NFC match-up that has the potential to have a lot of Viking fans speaking their minds on social media, and you'll be able to catch all the action right here.

Facebook Releases New Version of its App for iPhone and iPad

Tony Hart — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:28:59 +0000

Addressing speed concerns, Facebook released a new version of its app for the iPhone and iPad today it was announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg via a status update, the updated app is available now. Zuckerberg said, “We just released a new Facebook app for iPhone and iPad and it’s a lot faster. Our team completely [...]

"NOH8″ Campaign Plans Open Photo Shoot in Duluth

Laura Peterson — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:19:15 +0000

Get your white shirts ready, and On Sunday, August 19th the NOH8 Campaign will set up a mobile studio at The Depot in Duluth (506 W. Michigan St.) offering the Northland a chance to be heard! The NOH8 Campaign is a charitable organization whose mission is to promote marriage, gender and human equality through education, [...]

Does Facebook Make It Harder to Heal a Broken Heart?

Shauna Wright — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:50:10 +0000

Relationship experts often say the fastest and easiest way to get over someone is to make a clean break — essentially erase the person from your consciousness. But with the advent of social media, that’s getting harder and harder to do.

And it seems we’re bringing a lot of the anguish on ourselves.

Daughter Successfully Sues Mother For Facebook Humiliation

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:29:39 +0000

Ever since older people have been joining social networking sites like Facebook, they’ve been embarrassing their children. Usually this manifests itself in the same kind of hokey parental sentiments that have been irking kids since way before the internet. But a woman in Germany has gone in the complete other direction by humiliating her daughter with the kind of stunt you’d only expect from junior high schoolers.

Facebook Changed the Default Email on Your Profile to Their @facebook.com Address; How to Change it Back

Tony Hart — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:03:27 +0000

Today Facebook rolled out even more changes, and this one you may not even notice unless you were looking for, that sneaky Zuckerberg.

Facebook took your default email, the one people would normally use to reach you, and changed it to their @facebook email address that I bet you didn't even know you had, or if you did, probably never used it (seen to the left). Well apparently Facebook wants you to use it so bad that they forced the issue by automatically making it your new default email. Want to change it back? After the jump I'll tell you how.

Students Won't 'Like' This — Elementary School Threatens Expulsion If Kids Use Facebook

Shauna Wright — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:22:36 +0000

A while back, we told you about the Jewish girls’ school in Brooklyn that instituted a Facebook ban for its students, saying using the social media site violated its religious tenets.

Now an elementary school in Australia is following suit, but its demand that kids delete their Facebook pages has an entirely different reason: it’s an attempt to wipe out cyber-bullying.

Jay-Z Launches Facebook Game App

Trent Fitzgerald — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:00:01 +0000

We know that Jay-Z doesn’t play games when it comes to his business. That’s why he’s among the wealthiest rap moguls in hip-hop. But if you ever wondered how Jay flips his business deals — there’s an app for that.