Facebook has now made it possible to embed public posts, similar to how Twitter and Instagram can be embedded into content. It is worth mentioning that posts must be "public" in order to be embedded.
In a growing trend over the past year, Facebook fan pages have been popping up, offering free items like iPads, phones, computers, and other electronics and prizes. All the pages ask you to do is "like" or share the page or post in order to win. Pages like this are categorically considered fraudulent by social media specialists. Why are these pages being made, and how can you spot a fake
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.
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...
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.