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If you’re a Facebook Page admin and are unable to Highlight your Timeline posts today, you’re not alone. The feature seems to be acting up for a lot of admins.
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Top Gear doesn’t like this caravan. The popular TV show about cars and other motor vehicles has promised to blow up a caravan as soon as their Facebook Page hits ten million likes.
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Designer Ryan Kennedy took a few of the most popular brand pages on Facebook and gave them the Timeline makeover.
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The Bad Rabbits decided to give their 8000th Like free merch. Ten minutes later, they were down 10 fans instead of gaining the two or three they were angling for to reach the 8000 Likes milestone.
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After receiving one million Likes on Facebook, Heineken decided to return the compliment one Like at a time. A team of Heineken Huggers was sent out on the streets of Amsterdam and hugged every Heineken drinking person. Sucks to be the one guy drinking a Merlot for a change.
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We addressed Facebook’s severe lack of proper relationship statuses in an earlier post, and with your help even suggested a bunch of new ones. Today we came across a Facebook group created by Eric Stob, a Microsoft employee nota bene, who’s championing “polyamory” as a relationship type.
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Facebook isn’t just a place to connect with friends. It’s also a virtual universe where people with wacko interests, funny similarities and crazy ideas discover that they’re not alone.
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Even if you have only accidentally watched just a few seconds of the World Cup 2010 while flicking channels, you’ll have heard the sound of the vuvuzela. The stadium blowing horn, approximately 1 meter (3 feet, 3 inches) in length, is the favourite instrument of soccer fans in South Africa. And right now, it’s also the most hated instrument in the rest of the world.
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Upside Down Facebook Day 2010 is coming to an end. And if there’s one more thing you can do during the final hours of UDFD, it’s to “like” a funny “upside down” themed Facebook Page. Here are our personal suggestions…
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Sometimes it really pays off to “Like” a company on Facebook. Xilisoft, creator of very handy multimedia tools, has posted a license code for one of their most popular software titles on their Facebook page. For free! And for everyone to use!
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Hundreds of thousands of personal phone numbers are available publicly on Facebook. But don’t blame Facebook’s vague privacy controls just yet. The people who’ll pick up the phone when you dial one of these private numbers have shared them openly, although most likely unsuspectingly.
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Now that Facebook got rid of the whole “Become a fan” terminology, a batch of new pages have appeared in the past week, wittily or cleverly building on the “[insert name] likes…” phrase. We compiled a list of 25 “likeable” Facebook pages with a pun…
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We previously warned you about the danger of admins renaming Facebook groups you belong to, and today we learned about an interesting AIDS-awareness campaign from Germany, making creative use of this feared renaming option.
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While hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes, and tens of thousands of grounded air travelers are frustrated because volcanic ash has shut the European air space, there are already some funny Facebook groups and pages mocking the troublesome eruption of a volcano in the southern Iceland area of the Eyjafallajoekull glacier.