Category: Facebook

Facebook Blocks Russian Roulette Style App That Has 1 In 6 Chance Of Deleting Your Account

Over the weekend a new Facebook Application went live – Social Roulette, which is a Russian Roulette style game that has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your Facebook account, or social suicide as some are calling it. Facebook was quick to find out about this application and claimed it didn’t meet their terms [...]

Mark Zuckerberg Stars In New Facebook Home Ad [VIDEO]

David Cowling on April 15, 2013 | Comments (0)

Facebook Home is now available on Android devices via Google Play, and initially the reviews were not that great but now the app is sitting right in the middle with 2.5 stars. Google Play gives us an indication there has been between 100,000 – 500,000 downloads already since April 12. What is even more cool, [...]

Facebook Starts Surveying Australian Users

David Cowling on April 11, 2013 | Comments (0)

Facebook has started surveying Australian users to get some feedback on the general experiences and how we feel about the functionality on the site. It’s clear from the questions that Facebook wants to check how we feel about the news feed, reliability of the site, and how advertisers ads are making their way into the [...]

Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Facebook Home on Android [VIDEO]

David Cowling on April 5, 2013 | Comments (1)

Mark Zuckerberg and the team at Facebook have built a modified version of Android, so users can have Facebook’s social functions to built into the Android home screen. This new product is called Facebook Home. This means that your Android home screen basically becomes your newsfeed. Users will be able to Like and Comment straight [...]

Palestinian Blogger Jailed For Liking Facebook Post

Siobhan Chapman on April 3, 2013 | Comments (1)

Salfit man, Anas Ismail was charged with libel and slander and sentenced to six months imprisonment after liking three Facebook posts criticising Palestinian authorities. Ismail said that he was detained for 17 days before his absentia sentencing, later writing on his Facebook page: “For a ‘tag’, you get one year. For a ‘like’, you get [...]

Success Story: Man Finds Birth Mother Through Facebook Plea

Siobhan Chapman on March 21, 2013 | Comments (1)

I don’t know about you, but recently my Facebook feed has been filled with people sharing images of strangers holding hand written signs, looking for help in finding long lost loved ones or people from their past. It’s been a wonder to me if anyone had actually had any success in this research method, until [...]

Hashtags on Facebook

Siobhan Chapman on March 19, 2013 | Comments (1)

Facebook is rumoured to be currently working on a hashtag feature. Although the dominant feature of Twitter, hashtags are becoming a part of the Facebook culture with users tagging images and updates, both in connection to other social networking sites such as Instagram, and also ironically since hash tgas don’t work on Facebook (yet). Reported [...]

Mark Zuckerberg Explains New Facebook News Feed

David Cowling on March 11, 2013 | Comments (0)

Mark Zuckerberg has explained Facebook’s plans to roll out a new, simplified news feed to users. As per Facebook’s general roll out procedures New Zealand will probably be the first country to have access to the new layout. See the below videos for more information: Facebook Press Event Facebook Promotional Video Goodbye Clutter. Want to [...]

So What Is The Value Of A Facebook Fan?

Guest Blogger on March 5, 2013 | Comments (0)

So what’s the value of a Facebook fan? Is there some kind of complicated mathematical formula scrawled across a dusty blackboard in the Facebook offices? Can we realistically assign some kind of dollar figure to every person who likes a Page? How many of those people are even people? How many of the people who [...]

Is This A Picture Of Mark Zuckerberg Raving?

David Cowling on February 15, 2013 | Comments (0)

This picture has been doing the rounds lately and according to the DJ in the photo this was around 3 years ago. Dj Dory goes on to say there were other Facebook staff there that night, so it seems legit. Even Zuck Dawg likes to get down and party. Nice!