You’re probably a fan of at least a handful of brands and/or products on Facebook, and that’s because you’re truly fond of them. But have you ever wondered how much your virtual support is actually worth to these companies? Vitrue, an Atlanta-based social media management company, has calculated the exact value of a Facebook fan.

Kip Drordy, the nerdy kid with zero friends in South Park’s Facebook episode, has gained over a 100,000 fans on Facebook in less than a week after the show aired on the 7th of April 2010.

The average person on Facebook has 130 friends, but most of them aren’t really friends at all. This theory is what Rosa Salazar, a 24-year-old comedian from Brooklyn, will be investigating in a video campaign promoting Microsoft’s Kin phone. The Kin is a touch-screen mobile device for “people who are actively navigating their social lives.”

For a series known for its absurd pop-cultural references, it took South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone surprisingly long to deal with the omnipresence of Facebook. To make for that, they dedicated an entire episode to the site. In episode 1404 of season 14, which is called “You have 0 friends” and aired on April 7th 2010, Stan Marsh finds himself forced to maintain his Facebook profile and eventually sucked into the “stupid social network”, Tron-style.

Today’s Facebook Fail Friday isn’t about something humorous for a change, because we’d like to pay attention to the recent resurgence of Koobface, the dreadful and persistent Facebook worm. Genuine fail, if you ask us.

Any artist can have hundreds of fan pages on Facebook, but it takes a really successful one to have dozens and dozens of anti-fan pages. Take Justin Bieber. The 16-year-old Canadian pop singer with a certified platinum debut release may have millions of screaming fans, but his young, slightly androgynous looks and voice make him an easy target for opponents.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. The weather is sizzling hot over here, and all we can think of is swimming pools and ice cream. So Dairy Queen’s timing to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their famous Blizzard treat couldn’t be better. Part of their celebration are these tag your friends Facebook pictures that allow you to turn friends into 25 different Blizzard treats.

We have designed a bunch of Facebook t-shirts in the past year, but never considered creating any baby products. Not until we saw how some Facebook-hooked parents create and maintain profiles for their newborn kids ─even though they’re obviously not allowed on the social network.

We thought this week we’d make an exception and rename our Status Saturday into Status Sunday ─hey, the alliteration still kinda works─ because families around the world are celebrating Easter today. And as we can tell by the popularity of our Status Updates for Easter post from last year, many of you are interested in posting funny Easter status updates to Facebook this very day

If there was such an award, Nestlé would probably win the Facebook Fail of the Year award. If you don’t know why they deserve the prize, we suggest you read up on the subject. Basically, it comes down to the company censoring comments and personally lashing out to Facebook users on the Nestlé Fan Page.

Are you looking for last-minute inspiration for an April Fools’ Day joke? Luckily for you, Facebook is the best medium to play a prank on your friends. Here are five Facebook Fools’ suggestions, but feel free to add your ideas in the comments!

Facebook Status Optimizer (FSO) automatically posts status updates on your behalf that are algorithmically written to ensure your status updates beat the competition and appear at the top of your friend’s news feed.

It’s been a while since we had another Facebook meme, but in the advent of Good Friday and Easter, Jesus Christ Himself has been turned into the subject of a new one!

If Zynga had the balls, FarmVille freaks around the world would wake up today, go to their virtual farm like they usually do, but encounter the nightmare pictured below. A debt of 500,000 coins, beheaded rabbits and chickens, and barns and trees on fire. In other words: FarmVille apocalypse.