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Home » Archive » NewsDid you survive Facebook’s extended site maintenance?
Pieter posted in "News". 14 years, 5 months ago - 11 commentsTens of thousands of people were deprived access to their Facebook accounts for the past days, some even more than a week! By now, forunately, most accounts are available again and have returned unharmed (save for a crop in FarmVille here, and a bankrupt restaurant in Restaurant City there). Photos, wall posts, and other Facebook data should all still be there, but as a downside, Facebook had to reset privacy settings to their most restrictive settings for the recent updates of those affected.
Facebook Fail Friday: Penalized poke
Pieter posted in "News". 14 years, 5 months ago - no commentA 36-year-old woman living in Henderson, Tennessee (USA), was arrested for poking someone on Facebook. By using the virtual “poke” option to contact a Hendersonville woman on Facebook, Shannon D. Jackson violated her restraining order which prohibits “telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with the petitioner.”
Facebook Events redesigned
Pieter posted in "News". 14 years, 5 months ago - no commentFacebook Events has recently been redesigned to make it faster and easier for us to create an event and invite people. Along with the redesign, the Wedding event type has been added for those who want to get rid of fancy, handwritten wedding invites (look under the Other category). Wedding 2.0, baby!
Another burglar busted checking his Facebook account on victim’s computer
Pieter posted in "News". 14 years, 5 months ago - 3 commentsJust two weeks after the first bust of a Facebook-addicted thief, another burglar made EXACTLY the same mistake of checking his Facebook account on the victim’s computer and not logging out afterwards. What did burglars do before the existence of Facebook? Make coffee at the crime scene? Grab a bag of potato chips and watch a movie?
Should Obama be killed Facebook poll: case closed
Pieter posted in "News". 14 years, 6 months ago - no commentThere were those who believed that the creator of the “Should Obama Be Killed?” Facebook poll might be a sinister white supremacist out to cause world disruption. Some were less convinced, as all the four potential answers to the poll–“Yes”, “no”, “Maybe” and “if he cuts my health care”–were spelled correctly.
Facebook movie “The Social Network” starts filming this month
Pieter posted in "News". 14 years, 6 months ago - 3 commentsThe much-debated Facebook movie will begin filming this month in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “The Social Network”, its current working title, tells the story of Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) getting dumped at a bar in Boston and eventually adding the girlfriend who dumped him as a friend on his multibillion-dollar social networking site.
Facebook penguin emoticon
Pieter posted in "News". 14 years, 6 months ago - 26 commentsAn American politician called Joe Moore once said: “It’s practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry”. So maybe that’s why Facebook this month added a cute penguin emoticon to the existing arsenal of Facebook Chat emoticons, to compensate for the aggressive shark emoticon added back in May.
Burglar busted checking his Facebook account on victim’s computer
Pieter posted in "News". 14 years, 6 months ago - no commentThe Journal reports that an alleged burglar was arrested after the victim found out someone checked his Facebook account on her computer and forgot to log out before leaving the home with two diamond rings worth over $3500. I wouldn’t be surprised if he updated his status to say “selling two diamond rings worth over $3500 for just $2500, anyone interested?”.
George Clooney on Facebook? Never!
Pieter posted in "News". 14 years, 6 months ago - no commentI’m not afraid of growing old. Gray-haired guys can be cooler than Batman, just think of Sir Sean Connery and Samuel L. Jackson. Or take George Clooney for example. Hanging out with Brad Pitt, getting chased by hot models, drinking Nespresso,… Not bad for a 50-year-old! The only thing I will have to avoid is dropping behind in love for technology.