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You May Not Be Friends With the IRS, But They May Be Looking at Your Facebook Profile

Steve King — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:44:58 +0000

So let's just say that your went on a vacation and you MAY have written it off as a business expense. After all, you did tell your wife or girlfriend that you like your job. If that's the case, you may not want to post those pictures of you and her on the Tea Cups at Disneyland. It looks like someone finally told Uncle Sam about Facebook.

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

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:33:39 +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 [...]

UPDATED: Facebook's Best Super Bowl Power Outage Memes [PHOTOS]

Scott Lewis — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 02:42:16 +0000

A power outage in the Superdome during the biggest televised event of the year... Was it a last ditch effort by the 49ers? Was it all part of New Orleans Saints Owner Tom Benson's plan to get a new venue for his team? Was it ol' Marie Laveau getting her revenge on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell? We may never know, but we can laugh about it, courtesy of the jokers on Facebook.

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 [...]

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.

Facebook Reunites Sisters After 72 Years

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:10:41 +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.

Sister Accidentally Shoots and Kills Brother While Posing for Facebook Photo

Donald Deane — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:30:36 +0000

In a tragic example of why guns, alcohol and social media don’t mix, a woman accidentally shot and killed her brother while posing for a Facebook photo early in the morning on New Year’s Day. According to reports, 22-year-old Manuel Ortiz and 19-year-old Savannah Ramirez returned to the home they shared in Phoenix, Arizona, after [...]

Teen Arrested After Making Facebook Threats

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:35:15 +0000

Eric Rizley of Portage, Indiana was having a bad day. So the 19-year-old got on Facebook and started issuing threats. Unfortunately for him, that was actually a very, very bad idea. Now he faces criminal charges “Watch out portage people might be dying soon,” Rizley wrote on his account at about 4 AM Thursday morning. As if [...]

Is the United Nations Planning an Internet Sneak Attack?

Danny Fox — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:41:16 +0000

Do you ever wonder who runs the internet? The answer at the present time is no one and no government. But the answer could change to the United Nations by next week according the the Wall Street Journal. As it is at this moment, it is impossible for governments to censor or tax the internet, [...]

Nine-Year-Old's Dying Wish Granted Thanks to Facebook

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:00:15 +0000

There is nothing worse than a story about a nine-year-old dying of cancer. The best we can hope for out of one is something like this — overwhelming humanity from strangers in the face of tragedy. Nine-year-old soccer fan Jens Pascal Schmidt had a brain tumor, and his dying wish was for a gravestone with the [...]

Facebook Game Leads to Life-Saving Kidney Donation

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:39:11 +0000

You can waste a good chunk of your life playing Facebook games such as FarmTown, FarmVille and FarmFarm (okay, we made that last one up). However, in the case of an Idaho woman in need of a new kidney, FarmTown ended up saving her life.Like many folks, Lisa Miller of Gainesville, GA, got hooked on FarmTown. [...]

Facebook Makes You Spend More and Over-Eat — Dollars and Sense

Mike Adams — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:30:11 +0000

Facebook may be giving people a false sense of self-esteem, leading to overspending and gluttonous behavior, according to new research.

Planning to Tweet or Instagram Your Ballot? You May Be Committing a Felony

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:30:35 +0000

Voting in a presidential election is pretty exciting. And, these days, when we do something exciting we want to tell the world about it through social network sites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

But while there may be a temptation to take a photo of your completed ballot and post it on the internet with pride, it's not a very good idea. In fact in states like Wisconsin it's a felony to let anybody else see your ballot or a photo of your ballot.

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 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:57:54 +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 [...]

Do You Use Facebook or Twitter?

Justin Massoud — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:49:08 +0000

Are you a Facebook fanatic or manic Tweeter?

Facebook Reaches One Billion Users

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:35:07 +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 [...]

Facebook Creates Anti-Stalk Technology, Takes All the Fun Out of Facebook

Marla Rosenthal — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:47:21 +0000

These days, everyone and their grandmother and pet hamster have Facebook. And most people would agree that the best use for the social networking site is passive stalkage of exes, frenemies and coworker crushes. So naturally, those fun killers at Facebook have decided to shut that business down.

Is Facebook Trying to Get You to Narc On Your Friends Who Don't Use Their Real Name?

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:43:46 +0000

Like most folks, you’ve probably never really read Facebook‘s Terms of Service. But it you had, you would have seen this telling gem: Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way … You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an [...]

Breaking Up is Harder to do Since Facebook [POLL]

Mary Martin — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:43:25 +0000

Ending a relationship is never easy. Much more now since most of us are now on Facebook. A masters thesis written by Western University researcher Veronika Lukacs shows that 88 percent of the respondents admitted to “creeping” on their ex’s Facebook page. A “creeper” is a person that constantly checks up on their ex’s Facebook [...]