If you’re fortunate enough to have living grandparents that were around in the 50s and 60s, here’s what might be a good way to explain social networks and Internet services like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to them.

A bogus page is promising free FIFA Superstars gold coins if you “Become a fan”, “Share the page” and post a message 7 times around Facebook, but the “cheat” that is revealed is just what we’ve already told you.

In honor of National Coffee Day, here’s our selection of 33 coffee themed Status Updates for Facebook.

The largest coffee fan page on Facebook has over half a million likes. Nespresso, our personal favorite brand, comes close to half a million. And Starbucks, probably the most popular coffee shop in the world, even has over 14 million! Yes, many of us Facebookers enjoy a damn fine cup of coffee every now and then, but did you know we have a dancing goat …

You can have a gut feeling about unauthorized access to your account, but did you know Facebook is also offering an option to verify your suspicion?

You are well aware it’s the last day of school or work for the week, and you’re counting down the hours before you can indulge in your habitual weekend escapades. Now all you need is a Facebook status update to let your friends know you’re celebrating Friday.

Over the weekend Zynga announced that they plan to donate $100,000 US dollars to help build a school in Haiti. Oh, what’s that? The catch, you say? They want FarmVille players to send 400,000,000 virtual school supplies to their friends and neighbors first. (So if you don’t gift back, you are no longer just a terrible Facebook friend. You are an education-hating swine.)

Farm Rescue was created by Animal Visuals to educate the player on the horrors that hens raised in battery cages face.

If you’re a regular player of EA Sports’ FIFA Superstars on Facebook, you’ll know that it takes many days to gain enough coins to be able to purchase gold transfers. But there’s a very easy way to almost instantly add match credits, coins and even gold players.

Born out of a fake trailer during Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse double feature, Machete is an over the top exploitation movie about a former Mexican Federale turned renegade.

It was hard to miss Diesel’s Be stupid campaign the past few months, but of all the different versions and executions, we liked the following one best.

A lot of our readers have started to experience problems with McDonald’s Avatarize Yourself application never getting past 64% or 80% while processing the image. Fortunately, we’ve found an alternative, free “Avatarizer” called Become an Avatar.

Last week we told you about a Facebook application that allowed you to use emoticons in your Facebook statuses and wall posts. Unfortunately for the many users of Status Emoticons and similar applications, the Facebook Platform Policy Team has removed the emoticon functionality “in an effort to improve the user experience on the Facebook platform”.

Facebook is coming to a store near you! Starting Sunday, September 5th, gift cards with Facebook Credits will be available at Target’s 1,750 retail stores and at Target.com.