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Have You "Liked" Your Favorite Team Recently?

Kacy Collins — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:41:53 +0000

How many times have you “liked” your favorite college basketball team on Facebook since March Madness kicked in? Well thanks to the good people at Facebook, we can now see which team is more popular based purely on Facebook “likes.” They have compiled all the “likes” that the tournament teams have and put them on [...]

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 [...]

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

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:30:39 +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 [...]

See Your Customized Facebook Year-in-Review

Blake — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:00:17 +0000

Here’s an antidote to all the year-in-review lists dedicated to celebrities and famous people. How about a year-in-review dedicated solely to YOU? Facebook has overstepped its stalker boundaries again (remember when they made you that couples page without your knowledge?), and put together YOUR customized year-in-review. You can see it by going to facebook.com/yearinreview. They say [...]

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 [...]

Facebook Just Made You a Creepy Couples Page and You Didn't Know it

Blake — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:47:08 +0000

If you’re wondering whether Facebook got the message about curbing the creepy, stalker-ish stuff – no, they haven’t. Facebook just started rolling out brand new couples pages. They didn’t ask first, you can’t delete them, and you can’t opt out. If you list that you’re in a relationship with someone, and they say they’re in [...]

Facebook Makes You Spend More and Over-Eat

Mike Adams — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:30:11 +0000

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

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."

Would You Pay to Promote Your Facebook Posts?

Shauna Wright — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:40:51 +0000

Posting a Facebook update and making sure it gets the maximum exposure could soon be as simple as opening your wallet, if you can believe it. The social media giant is rolling out a new program that will allow its members to pay a small fee to highlight or promote their posts.

Mom Draws Heat for Using Facebook to Punish Disrespectful Daughter [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:38:30 +0000

More and more parents are using Facebook to spy on their kids, but one Ohio mother has taken it to the next level by using the social media site to shame her disrespectful daughter, and it’s drawing some heated criticism.

Do You Set Your Social Media to Private? – Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:31:08 +0000

These days, just about everybody is on some form of social media. However, that doesn’t mean they want to share their information with everybody.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 2,267 adults, 58 percent of social media users set their profile to private.

How Are You Adapting to Facebook and Other Social Media? – Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:51:05 +0000

Now that people are getting more used to being on social networks like Facebook they seem to be getting more picky about whom they are sharing their information with.

According to a survey from the Pew Research Center, 63 percent of social media network users removed people from their friend rolls in 2011, which was up from the 56 percent of those who did so in 2009.

'Cowboy Dad' Tommy Jordan Has Some Choice Words for Dr. Phil

alex staub — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:53:28 +0000

Tommy Jordan, the computer savvy cowboy father with a very interesting approach to parenting, has inadvertently sparked a huge national discussion on whether or not he overreacted when he pumped his daughter’s laptop full of lead in response to her foul-mouthed letter of grievance that she posted to her Facebook page. The viral video even prompted daytime TV talk show host Dr. Phil to weigh in on the debate when he spoke out against Jordan’s techniques on ‘Today.’

Nephew Sues Uncle for Posting Embarrassing Photo on Facebook

Shauna Wright — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:06:47 +0000

Family dinners for one Minnesota clan probably got a lot more uncomfortable after an uncle was sued for posting embarrassing photos of his nephew on Facebook. Unfortunately for the embarrassed nephew, it seems that a district court says the lawsuit has no merit. Aaron Olson brought the harassment suit against his uncle, Randall LaBrie, after [...]

Is the Viral Video of the Dad Shooting His Daughter's Laptop a Fake? [VIDEO]

Aaron Galloway — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:15:18 +0000

Last week a man by the name of Tommy Jordan from North Carolina posted a video on YouTube of himself reading aloud a long rant that his daughter supposedly posted to her Facebook page about how she hates her parents and her life. He then proceeds to 'teach her a lesson' by shooting her laptop nin

Dad Teaches Daughter a Lesson by Shooting Her Laptop 9 Times With a Pistol [VIDEO]

Aaron Galloway — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:13:57 +0000

Some girl in North Carolina posted a long rant on Facebook about how unfair her life is, and how her parents don’t pay her for doing chores. So her dad decided to teach her a lesson by calling her out in a YouTube video. And at the end of it, he destroys her computer by [...]

Top 25 Facts About Facebook

Lonestar 102.3 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:32:03 +0000

The hugely successful social network may soon go public. So as a public service to potential investors, let’s learn more about Mark Zuckerberg’s company with the top 25 facts about Facebook. 1. It’s successfully replaced “a pair of binoculars and a windowless van” as the most effective way to ruthlessly stalk women. 2. Mark Zuckerberg [...]

How Do You Feel About Facebook's New Timeline? — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:05:15 +0000

Like it or not, Facebook users are soon going to be transferred to the Timeline layout, if they haven’t been already. According to a new survey from security firm Sophos, not too many folks are liking the mandatory change. The poll of over 4,000 Facebook users found that only eight percent approve of Timeline and eight percent [...]

Facebook Trend – What Song Was Number One the Day You Were Born?

Shauna Wright — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:21:47 +0000

If you’ve been on Facebook in the past couple days, you may have noticed a fun new trend: people are posting the song that was number one on the charts the day they were born. The meme basically goes like this: 1) Find the song that was number one the week you were born. 2) [...]

Fun Holiday Greetings To Put On Your Friends' Facebook Page [IMAGES, VIDEOS]

Lindsay Seim — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:45:03 +0000

With the holidays fast approaching and ~~patience~~ time running short, TheFW.com would like to take one item off your list of seasonal chores. Please enjoy and share these light-hearted holiday images and video clips with everyone on your “Nice” list. (And then break out the boxed wine.) Warm wishes from the FW.com family to yours!