This is probably one of my favorite updates that Facebook has done in a long time. Their Messenger App on iPhone and Android devices has just updated in the last day or so to include voice messaging. If you have had a smartphone a while then you may have apps like HeyTell or Voxer that you can use to send short voice recordings instantly back and forth with your friends. Facebook has taken that…
It doesn’t surprise me that most people wouldn’t remember their friends birthdays unless Facebook reminded them. I’m guilty of this almost everyday! TODAY I signed on and my first response was “Oh crap, it’s my sisters birthday!” (HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS!) So I can understand that. Apparently less than half of us actually remember our best friends birthday.
There is a new survey out that finds out what percentage of people remember key moments in their lives, the shocking part for me is WHAT some of these people remember! For example, 15% of people remember the DATE of the first movie they saw in a theater. Who remembers that?! That’s not even the most bizarre, do you know how many people remember the DATE of the first vacation they took abroad? 25%. Please tell me I’m not the only one that thinks this is weird. If I am then I know why my girlfriend writes me little sticky notes about everything…See more stats after the jump, how much of it can YOU remember?
According to reports plastic surgery is up and they are blaming Facebook. Apparently some people have never looked in a mirror, so when they get a picture of themself put on their Facebook wall they FREAK out! “I didn’t know my face looked like it had been attacked by a hive of Ugly Bees” or “when did I get more chins than stomachs?” OR “Maybe I should stop going to the tanning booth cause Im starting to look like an orange EWOK” These are questions that plague us everyday (ok, I made those up but I’m sure it’s something like that) So to save your face from ending up like Lindsey Lohans or worse Mickey Rourke’s, here are some helpful tips to make you look better from your friends at Skype.
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With all the “check-ins” now on our smartphones, it was only a matter of time before we started wondering where the most popular places in the world are. So that’s what Facebook did. They analyzed all their data to find the 25 most popular landmarks in the world. Among them you find the Colosseum in Rome, Wrigley Field in Chicago and oh yeah, T.G.I. Fridays in Norway (WHAT?) First problem I have with this is that T.G.I. Fridays in more popular in Norway than at any other location in America. Really? Has no one tried their onion rings? I mean, seriously. Delicious. The second problem I have with this is that I have no idea where Norway is and therefore should not be allowed on the list, and/or access to Facebook. When you really think about it though, how can you be mad? They apparently love Fridays and wish that they were in a place that always felt like it was Friday once you got inside. Who doesn’t enjoy Fridays? Ok, Norway. I’ll allow it. If you want to see the rest of the places in the world that are popular then just click the jump!
With new technology comes new parenting challenges. Parents over the last couple years have been getting pretty creative with their punishments. Like the dad that shot his daughters laptop after she talked some smack about him on her Facebook. Now this lady discovered a picture of her 12yr old holding a bottle of vodka on her Twitter. So as punishment she made her hold up this sign and tweet it. It says “Since I want to post photos of me holding liquor, I am obviously not ready for social media and will be taking a hiatus until I learn what I should and should not post. Bye-bye.” The daughter said she was so embarrassed that she “begged” her mom for a spanking instead. If you look closely she’s crying in the picture (Bwahahahaha!)
I’m sure you’re doing a lot more than 5 things but these are just going to cover the basics. Keep that freaky weird stuff you do to yourself! Oh and we know you love your kid and the joys of being a parent but PLEASE stop showing me photos of everything he/she does everyday. I didn’t have the little brat so I shouldn’t have to watch him grow up in front of me. Luckily there is a setting for that and these 5 things that the website LifeHacker.com came up with cover it. Check them out after the jump!
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You wake up to what seems like a perfectly normal day, get your glass of orange juice and sit down at the computer. Open Facebook and see how much love you got over night about that witty thing you said about cheese before you fell asleep. Then you notice that something is wrong (dun dun DUN!) You could have swore that you had 123 friends before you went to bed, but your timeline says 120. What did you do to make 3 people not want to be your friend anymore? How are you going to continue on knowing that you may have offended someone who really likes cheese! Well friend, I have the answers you seek. Below I will inform you of 10 scientifically-proven rules (not joking) that will keep you from losing friends on your Facebook.
Come on, we knew someone, somewhere was going to take the time to figure this out. Check them out after the jump!
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So apparently kids are texting and facebooking and tweeting so much inside movie theatres that companies are thinking of doing something about it. I don’t understand what you’re facebooking about? I know I sound all “old” and stuff but I grew up with the tech age just as much as the kids did and I don’t see the point. I just paid $12 to watch a movie, there is no way I’m missing any part of it because I want to comment on my friends picture. It’s not like they can update about the movie that no one has seen right?
Anyway some ideas are floating around about making a
Ever wanted to know if any of your Facebook friends are registered sex offenders? Yeah me either, but NOW I do. Well some one did actually wonder and convinced the people of Facebook to create an app called Friend Verifier. It scans your friends and pending requests and compares them to the national sex offender registry. if you’re a snooper and want to know what your friends are hiding, get this app at FriendVerifier.com
Although you may watch what you say or do on Facebook because of your job (Tell me about IT!) it still may give your employers more information about you than you originally thought.
Researchers from Northern Illinois, the University of Evansville, and Auburn found that looking at people’s Facebook pages for just ten minutes could predict how well they’d do on the job.
They had people in Human Resources look at the Facebook pages of job applicants and grade them on traits like intellectual curiosity, conscientiousness, agreeability, and whether they were extraverted.
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