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Fill In The Blank: I Once Had A Girlfriend Who ____________________?

Adams — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:24:31 +0000

Sometimes I think posts on Facebook are either too serious or a bit to informative. You know what I mean? Let's have fun, laugh a little and just enjoy social networking's master blaster. Say it with me: FACEBOOK!

Five Finger Death Punch's Ivan Moody Starts Fight With Black Veil Brides Via Facebook

Jennifer Beaudoin — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:38:16 +0000

Ivan Moody, front man of iconic Las Vegas rockers Five Finger Death Punch is sure living up to his name. I don't know what lit his fire but he sure is in a bad mood, as he recently picked a fight with Hollywood rock band Black Veil Brides via Facebook for no apparent reason. Read about the drama below.

Social Media Guide for Food Truck Festival

Bryen — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:25:05 +0000

If you're going to be at our first ever Food Truck Festival happening this Saturday (5/4) in Troy, NY, we want you to Tweet, Instagram, Facebook, Foursquare, flickr, and more with us! Here's a complete guide for the fest including our hashtag for the day and the Twitter handles for a bunch of the trucks. We'll even have a fancy-dandy guide to save to your phone, or print out. We'll also have paper copies at the festival too, but you can save a tree and download it here.

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

Emerald Catron — Thu, 02 May 2013 03:35:35 +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 Solves Murder In Fulton New York

Dalton Castle — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:46:07 +0000

The Fulton Police Department say a Facebook post has helped identify the driver of a car that struck Carolee Sadie Ashby in 1968. On Halloween night 45 years ago 4 year old Carolee was crossing a street with her 15-year-old sister and cousin when a car fatally struck her. The driver of the car failed to [...]

12 Parents Embarrassing Their Kids on Facebook

Cameron Simcik — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:16:24 +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.

10 Things You Didn't Know About Facebook [VIDEO]

Adams — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:14:47 +0000

Think you know everything there is to know about Facebook? There's more to the social media empire than meets the eye, literally. Want to know why Facebook is blue? Curious to know what the divorce rate is because of Facebook? Want to know what facebook.com sold for back in 2005? No worries, I'm on it for you!

Facebook Users Prone to Anxiety and Alcohol Abuse

Wes Styles — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:26 +0000

Here’s something that shouldn’t come as a shock to you – According to a new study, Facebook users are prone to anxiety and alcohol abuse (you don’t say?). Russell Clayton, the author of the study for the University of Missouri School of Journalism, found the students were more “emotionally engaged” with the social media site if [...]

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

Jeremy Taylor — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:30:38 +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

Bacon or Oral Sex: Which Could You Live Without? [POLL]

Adams — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:15:10 +0000

It seems as though the greasy breakfast staple that we've all grown to love, and love and love is as big as ever. There are signs everywhere showing our passion for bacon: 'Keep Calm and Eat Bacon' is just one floating around here. Hello, there's even the Bacon Brothers (I know that's their last name, but still) touring around the country playing their music. Yes, we all love bacon but what if you had to choose between Bacon or Oral? Which route would you take? Stopped you dead in your tracks didn't I?

Netflix Social To Start Today

Nick Lee — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:30:45 +0000

Starting today in the U.S. you can show your facebook peeps what your watching on Netflix. By Connecting your fackbook page to Netflix you have two new “social rows” on your Netflix homepage. The first is your “Friends favorites”, in this row you will see shows/movies your friend rated 4 stars or better. The second [...]

Bacon Or Booze: Which Could You Live Without? [POLL]

Adams — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:36:52 +0000

Last night on our Facebook page I posed a very important question: ‘If you had to choose between Bacon or Booze, which could you live without?‘ Riveting right? Apparently, this is a serious question and many had plenty to say. Personally, the smell of pig in the morning wakes up my senses like those old [...]

My Significant Other Is Talking To Their Ex On Facebook, What Do I Do?

Rayne — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:06:16 +0000

Your partner’s spent the whole day at the computer. They get up and wander off to the restroom, or to grab a drink, and you lean over innocently to clean up their workspace. As you’re picking up the rumpled paper, and wiping away the crumbs, you notice they left their Facebook messages open. Though you [...]

Want More Twitter Followers? Stay Positive.

Wes Styles — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:45:20 +0000

Want more Twitter followers? Researchers actually sat down to figure out what it takes (How sad is that?) The team studied for 15 months around 500 Twitter users. They gauged the tweets for positives or negatives including emotional terms, common acronyms like LOL, slang, swear words, and even emoticons. So what did they find? Those [...]

Dad Offers Teen $200 If He Quits Facebook For Five Months

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:00:43 +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 [...]

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

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:00:39 +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 [...]

New App Wants You to Start Banging Your Facebook Friends

Mike Adams — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:00:55 +0000

Social networking has always been a way to anonymously spy on people you wish you were hooking up with, but now it can be a tool to help make it actually happen.

That Facebook Legal Settlement Email You Got Is For Real

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:01:56 +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 [...]

Woman Wished To Be Fired On Facebook, Wish Granted

Wes Styles — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:05:56 +0000

I’ve said it over a thousand times – Watch what you post on social media! Amy McClenathan posted on sentence on Facebook and it changed her life forever. Amy claims she was having a “bad day” near the one year anniversary of her mother’s death. She went on Facebook and posted “I wish I could [...]

Danielle Harris or Simone Simons: Pump or Dump? [POLL]

Adams — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:55:34 +0000

I need to be straight up honest. After Alana Blanchard demolished Tera Patrick this past Wednesday I thought for sure, Danielle Harris would have been slaughtered, Michael Myers style, but let me tell you: I was proven wrong, dead wrong: No pun intended.