2012 Trends: Memes
A look at 10 biggest memes from the year: TBH (to be honest) YOLO (you only live once) KONY One-word Comment Gangnam Style Cinnamon Challenge Cray SMH (shake my head) Big Bird Linsanity
Facebook: The Things That Connect Us
Chairs, doorbells, bridges, airplanes. These are things that people use to get together and connect. Facebook is also something that over a billion people around the world use to connect with one another.
Facebook Helps To Fall Of Two Brooklyn Gangs
As it currently stands, the body count from the ongoing war between the “Rockstarz” and the “Very Crispy Gangsters,” both thuggish Brooklyn street gangs, stands at three dead VCG members — which prompted…
Facebook Deletes User Photos Within 30 Days
It has been more than three years since Ars first started covering Facebook’s inability to remove “deleted” photos from its servers, but this particular saga appears to be coming to an end. The…
Facebook Scans Your Chats
Facebook scans your private chats and posts for criminal activity, it has been revealed. A Reuters interview with a special agent supervisor for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Jeffrey Duncan revealed that…
Verified Accounts on Facebook
Facebook, a service built on real names and real identities, will tomorrow start allowing prominent public figures to verify their accounts and then opt to display a preferred nickname instead of their birth…
Faces: David Choe
David Choe is a graffiti artist in Los Angeles. He agreed to draw on the walls of the first Facebook office and as payment he had received the equivalent of a few thousand…
Facebook Comment Received 1 Million Comments
In an attempt to break a Guinness World Record, Cathy Matthews and about 106 other people – many of whom, like herself, are fans of the Facebook game “Frontierville” – posted a whopping…
Research: Facebook Friends Can’t Help On in a Crisis
The poll by Macmillan Cancer Support found that the average young adult has 237 Facebook friends, but only two they could turn to for real support. The survey, of 1,000 people aged 18…
Guy from Saudi Arabia Tried To Sell Son For $20 Million On Facebook
If your dad were called Saud bin Nasser Al Shahry he would sell you on Facebook for $20 million. That’s what happened to a young kid from Saudi Arabia, who found himself for…
