Is this new? If it isn’t, then I’ve certainly never noticed it there before. I know that Facebook is pretty good about privacy settings, but tonight was the first time I saw the privacy setting sliders for the public News Feed (what you see on the home page when you first log in).
You can get [...]
Facebook applications come in varying degrees of usefulness. But the Coffee Facebook application is by far, I think, one of my simplest and most useful.
Instead of asking me in a note or on my wall whether I want to go get coffee, now you can do it through this application and even set a date, [...]
Remember that Facebook trick to get profile pictures to be 200% bigger? It turns out there’s a much easier way to do that without any copy and pasting involved.
Install the enlarge Facebook profile images Greasemonkey script and you’ll soon be on your way to a lifestyle of easy profile picture enlargement! Once the script is [...]
Normally, when you search for somebody on Facebook, the results are accompanied by a small profile picture. This photo serves as a visual check for you to see whether or not you are friending the right person and not somebody else by the same name.
Sometimes however, this photo is just WAY too small to distinguish [...]
Photo: Emily Shur for WIRED
Wow, can you believe it?
It’s been a year since Facebook introduced the idea of the News Feed to its users.
Remember the initial backlash? Remember how Facebook immediately introduced its spectacular privacy settings in order to curb resent from users?
Now look where Facebook is! It’s a tip-top web juggernaut with everybody and [...]
I just logged into Facebook and was presented with this message at the top of my News Feed. In a few weeks, your profile (or at least some information in it) could be searchable by people outside of your Facebook network.
It could even be indexed by Google!
For those of you who are worried about your [...]
First it was The Kings of Myspace. Now that Myspace is being upstaged by Facebook, a new song has come to light. Ladies and gentlemen, the Facebook Song!
Of course, Gym Class Heroes also had “New Friend Request” which referenced Myspace culture.