October 31, 2011 : Comments (4)
Google+ Updates Android App, Adds New Design And Other Features
Patricia Arquette Closes Facebook Account Due To Disturbing Incident With User
Medium actress Patricia Arquette won’t be Liking anyone’s status anytime soon. The actress announced via her Facebook Page that she would be closing her account. The 43-year-old actress explained that she’s been avoiding Facebook for the past 2 weeks because of a disturbing incident with another user, according to iVillage. While she doesn’t go into detail... Read more »
Woman Arrested After Trying To Sell Newborn On Facebook For $15,000
Facebook is a service that’s used to bring people together – to help long lost relatives find each other and to help old friends reconnect. In July we heard about the son who found his birth mother on Facebook 36 years after she gave him up for adoption and in September a son who was stolen by his father during a custody battle found his mother through the social... Read more » Man Arrested After Hitting His Wife Because She Didn’t Like His Facebook Status
The Like button is typically seen as a positive Facebook feature that’s pretty hard to argue about unless of course you use it sarcastically, which we’ve probably all done on occasion. Messages, comments and chats are where the real stuff happens – where most arguments that spill into real life begin. On this occasion there was no chat that escalated into a... Read more » Web App Lets You Create Facebook Cover Collage Of Your Friend’s Profile Photos
GraphicFlash has launched a website that will help you choose a cover photo for your Facebook timeline. The website, myFBCovers.com, allows you to choose from a variety of other cover images that others have added, upload a photo to use as your cover or create an image using the photo collage creator before adding the photo to your Facebook account through a Web... Read more » Man Steals Woman’s Purse, Takes Picture Of Himself, Accidentally Uploads Photo To Victim’s Facebook Wall
Like I’ve said a many times in the past -- some criminals are just so stupid. Why would you post any evidence on Facebook? You will most likely get caught and shouldn't criminals be more careful? Just like the couple who posted a photo of a stolen ring on the social network and got charged or the man who posted a photo with a stolen car and was arrested, we have... Read more » Rdio Launches Ad-Free, Cost-Free Music Streaming With Facebook Integration
With the various music services that have been integrated into Facebook, we’ve seen some awesome developments and opportunities to discover new music for free. Spotify recently opened up public membership and gave all users 6 months of free unlimited service when they logged in with their Facebook account. The latest in awesome free music is a new offer from Rdio,... Read more » Facebook Launches New Translation Tool For Pages
Facebook has quietly rolled out a new in-line translation tool that allows you to quickly translate content on pages using Bing Translate. This will make it easier for you to translate posts and comments on public pages into your preferred language, so you can enjoy content from any public page on the social network. Whenever a post or comment is posted in a... Read more » Facebook’s Active User Base Now Bigger Than Population Of Europe
At its f8 event last month, Facebook revealed that the social network has more than 800 million monthly active users. That's a pretty big number by any standard, but when put into perspective, that figure is even more impressive. For instance, there are more people who use Facebook than live in Europe (727 million when you include Russia), while Facebook has as... Read more » Teenage Burglar Breaks Into Store, Checks His Facebook Page Mid-robbery, Gets Busted By Police
Facebook is really distracting. It’s easy to get caught up in reading your friends’ posts and have an hour go by without realizing it. In some cases, being that distracted leads to tragic events, like the mom whose 13-month-old drowned when she left him in the bathtub for a couple of minutes to check Facebook. Some cases of Facebook distraction are just plain... Read more » Social Network Ad Revenue To Hit $5.54 Billion This Year, $10 Billion By 2013
Many of the most popular social networks have amped up their advertising options in recent months. Twitter has created a new platform for political advertisements as well as expanded Promoted Tweets and Facebook has launched a campaign to target small businesses as the next wave of advertisers. It’s no surprise that advertising from social networks is supposed to... Read more » 
