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Waitress Gets Fired for Insulting Police on Facebook

Chris Chaberski — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:31 +0000

Looks like someone didn’t get the memo that what you post on Facebook can be seen by lots of people—and some of them may not like it very much. Ashley Warden, formerly a waitress at a Chili’s in Oklahoma, posted to Facebook a picture of three sheriff’s deputies and wrote the following message: “Stupid cops [...]

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

Emerald Catron — Sun, 05 May 2013 03:00:35 +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 [...]

12 Parents Embarrassing Their Kids on Facebook

Cameron Simcik — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:16:24 +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 [...]

Facebook's New 'Home' Ad Proving Controversial

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:30:35 +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 [...]

5 Important Ways Social Media Networking Affects Your Career

Kathy Landin — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:26:13 +0000

While the social media landscape often changes quickly, it’s pretty clear that networking on those sites is going to be a big part of our lives for a long time—both personally and professionally. In many ways, social media is as much for work as it is for fun. It may have started out as a [...]

Facebook Helps Reunite Man With Dog He Lost After Wrecking Car Months Ago

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:30:38 +0000

In December, Dave Vitali was going to see his daughter when he got into a serious accident. He flipped his pickup truck, and hung upside down and bleeding with his only comfort being that his trusty dog Max was by his side and okay. Unfortunately, when the ambulances came the sirens scared the golden retriever, and Max ran away.

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

TheFW Staff — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:00:24 +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.

How Do I Stop the Facebook Beeping Sound?

Joe Hyer — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:18:36 +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.

'Actual Facebook Graph Searches' Exposes Weird Facebook Habits

Emerald Catron — Sun, 17 Feb 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 [...]

That Facebook Legal Settlement Email You Got Is For Real

Jeremy Taylor — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:00:56 +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 [...]

Facebook Reunites Sisters After 72 Years

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:10:41 +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.

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.

Man Hijacks Girlfriend's Facebook Page To Propose

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 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 [...]

Facebook 2012 Trends: People Love Them Some Channing Tatum

Mike Sampson — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 03:18:13 +0000

We are big fans of Channing Tatum. (If you couldn't already tell, we're also big fans of the image above of Channing in drag from 'SNL'...) And it turns out, so are you. Facebook today released their 2012 trends and the top 10 movies for the year included a whole lot of Tatum.

Facebook Prankster Recreates Profile Pictures

Cameron Simcik — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:14:01 +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.

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

Mike Adams — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:20:42 +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 [...]

5 Annoying Things Pet Owners Do on Facebook

TheFW Staff — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:07:45 +0000

Now that the election is over, we can go back to being annoyed by the usual stuff on Facebook — Farmville updates, the unceasing stream of invites to comedian friends’ weekly shows, pictures that promise “likes” will somehow generate something for somebody somewhere … and everybody’s pets. We get that you’re sad and lonely (that’s [...]

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."

Do You Want a Facebook 'Want' Button?

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:57:54 +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 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:00:07 +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 [...]