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Showing newest posts with label Facebook. Show older posts

Study: More Than Half of America Use Facebook

3/26/2011

According to Research, more than half of all Americans aged 12 or older are now on Facebook. The study showed that 51 percent of these Americans are on the site. 

Facebook Bans 20,000 Kids a Day

3/23/2011

Although Facebook requires all users to be 13 or older, the social network bans 20,000 underage users a day, a spokeswoman said. "There are people who lie. There are people who are under 13 [accessing Facebook]," Mozelle Thompson, Facebook's chief privacy adviser, told the The Telegraph (Sydney, Australia). "Facebook removes 20,000 people a day, people who are underage."

Virtual Facebook Thief Jailed For Two Years

3/22/2011

A British hacker has been jailed for two years after becoming a multimillionaire by breaching the service’s security featured. Ashley Mitchell, 29 of Devon, managed to break into Zynga’s main servers, steal the account details of two staff members and transfer poker chips worth over £7 million to his own account.

Like Button Tip Box

3/21/2011

Most of the shops want tipping and you found many tip jars everywhere, but Like Button Tip Box is a amazing idea of tipping - it is derived from Facebook Like Button. This Like Button Tip Box can increase your tipping to a great deal.

Teen Cancels Party After 200,000 RSVP on Facebook

3/15/2011

An Australian teen who had to shut down an event page on Facebook after more than 200,000 people RSVPed for her sweet 16 party now has more than 70,000 people who have signed up to attend her new party. The girl named Jess called police Monday to say her Facebook account had been hijacked after thousands said they’d attend her birthday party in Chatswood in New South Wales on March 26.

Like/Dislike Stamper Set

3/14/2011

Using Facebook one can only Like any post, picture or video but Facebook doesn't allow the feature of Dislike. However, using this stamp you can not only show that you Like a certain thing but also you can Dislike any thing as well. Each stamp has enough ink for 5,000 impressions. The price of this stamp is $12.99.

Facebook Adds Ability to Easily Tag Others In Comments

3/12/2011

Facebook users can now tag their friends, Pages, Groups, and Events in comments to news feed stories and wall posts to create linked mentions. This will help users carry on conversations with other commenters and allow them to easily reference different entities on Facebook. Users can type an “@” symbol to initiate the tag drop-down menu in comments. Until this release, some users had taken to manually typing @[first name] without it properly linking in order to create unofficial mentions in comments. When a user is tagged, they’ll receive an notification stating that a friend “mentioned you in a comment.”

US Politician Sues Facebook After Losing Election

3/09/2011

Majed Moughni lost Michigan’s Republican primary against incumbent Rep. John Dingell, who just so happens to be the longest-serving member of Congress. Even so, Moughni blames just one entity for his loss: Facebook. And now the attorney is suing the social networking site—not for money, but for an injunction that would halt premature account closing. Moughni, who came in fourth in the August primary, wants to know why Facebook shut down his page, cutting him off from his 1,600 friends, in June.

Egyptian Names His Baby 'Facebook' to Honour Facebook in Egyptian Revolution

2/21/2011

In honor of the role the social network played in the revolution in Egypt -- which led to the eventual departure of president Hosni Mubarak -- one Egyptian couple have named their baby girl "Facebook," reported TechCrunch.