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

Emerald Catron — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:35:35 +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 [...]

12 Parents Embarrassing Their Kids on Facebook

Cameron Simcik — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:16:24 +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 [...]

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

TheFW Staff — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:19:24 +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.

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

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 15 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

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

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:12:43 +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 [...]

Have You Taken a Break From Facebook? Many Have

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:57:11 +0000

If Facebook was anything like Friendster and MySpace it would be only available in Malaysia or reduced to a Justin Timberlake vanity product.

Yes, the Harvard-born social network has beat the odds and looks like it will be around for the long-haul. In fact, the latest debate surrounding Facebook is what happens to a member's page when they die.

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 [...]

'Actual Facebook Graph Searches' Exposes Weird Facebook Habits

Emerald Catron — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:03:41 +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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Man Hijacks Girlfriend's Facebook Page To Propose

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 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 [...]

The Best 'TBH' Memes for Facebook's Meme of the Year

Emerald Catron — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:03:26 +0000

TBH, we don’t really remember a huge TBH craze on Facebook, but Facebook made “to be honest” their meme of the year because it was the most-often mentioned phrase of 2012. Maybe it just got buried in all the “What I Do, What You Think I Do, What I Actually Do” garbage. At any rate, [...]

Abilene Facebook Group "Abilenee Swap Meet" Continues to Give CraigsList and Ebay Competition

Dave Wheaton — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:04:38 +0000

My wife Brenda came across a new way to clear out our "yard sale" pile in the garage, and do a little shopping for herself, without leaving the house. Abilenee Swap Meet is the name, but I call it Brenda's new addiction.

Feeling Stressed? Blame Your Many Facebook Friends

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:47:09 +0000

The counter located prominently on everyone’s Facebook page has created a bit of a friends arms race. According to new research, it’s a race you may be better off losing. A study from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland of 300 Facebook users has found the more social network friends a person has, the higher their stress [...]

Your Facebook Copyright Notice Status Update Is Bogus

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:58:14 +0000

If you've been on Facebook over the last few days, you've probably seen that some of your friends have posted a copyright notice as their status update.

The message suggests that the poster has copyrighted all the material on their Facebook page thanks to the authority of something called the Berner Convention. Here is the full text of the update:

The Funniest Photo Captions of the Week (Created By You!)

Emerald Catron — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:35:02 +0000

It seems like just one week ago we were posting a picture of a dog in a garbage can on our Facebook page. Since then, we've shared lots of stuff with you, and in return, you make us LOL with your witty, sometimes disturbing (looking at you, guy who said he take his time killing a cat) comments. Here are our favorite captions you provided for our weekly photo contest. Congratulations to our winners, who will receive...bragging rights. Awesome, awesome bragging rights.

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. [...]

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

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:53:35 +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.