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Facebook not a social network, but a broadcasting channel?

Facebook not a social network, but a broadcasting channel?

Dr. Cameron Marlow, the in-house sociologist at Facebook, recently shared some interesting statistics about the social network’s users. The average male Facebook user with 120 friends comments on 7 of his friends’ photos, status updates, or wall, and messages or chats with just 4 of his friends…

My Facebook Wookiees: tag your friends as Wookiees

My Facebook Wookiees: tag your friends as Wookiees

I’m sure that Chewbacca isn’t the only Wookiee you know… With this new “tag your friends” picture, you can tag up to seven of your Facebook friends as Wookiees, the race of hairy bipeds from the Star Wars movies.

Status Saturday: 10 Facebook status updates about food

Status Saturday: 10 Facebook status updates about food

Every Saturday is Status Saturday here at reface.me. Every week, we’ll post a number of funny Facebook status updates about a certain topic. To kick off the series, here are 10 clever status updates about food. Feel free to copy-paste them into your status update field on Facebook.

My Facebook Peeps: tag your friends as ducks

My Facebook Peeps: tag your friends as ducks

Following our report of the Mr. Men & Little Miss tagging meme, we decided to create our own “tag your friends” collage called “My Facebook Peeps”. We based it on the popular Bud Luxury Ducks created by Designroom, so the credit for the designer bath duck images goes to them.

Add Facebook profile photos to your iPhone contacts

Add Facebook profile photos to your iPhone contacts

Photo Phonebook is a free iPhone app that syncs your phone’s contacts with their Facebook profile pictures. Once you have installed the app via iTunes, you need to open it and create a Photo Phonebook account. Next, it’ll download up to 100 profile pictures of your Facebook friends and link them to their phone numbers.

Facebook Groups can now be renamed. Verify your memberships!

Facebook Groups can now be renamed. Verify your memberships!

Facebook recently enabled group admins to change the names of their Groups. This can now be done directly in the Group Name field from the Group Info tab in the Edit Group menu.

Tag your friends as Mr. Men & Little Miss characters

Tag your friends as Mr. Men & Little Miss characters

A new meme has hit Facebook last week, and it’s all about tagging your friends as one of the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters. Except, their usual names such as Mr. Happy and Little Miss Sunshine have been replaced with descriptions like “The one that’s up to no good” and “The good friend”.

Facebook status update business cards

Facebook status update business cards

This is thinking out of the (Update Status) box! Kim Bost, Assistant Art Director for Op-Ed at the New York Times, has created business cards with some empty space for a “live” customisable status update. She, or the receiver of the card, can complete the “Kim Bost is…” sentence with anything that comes to mind. So simple, yet original and above all very personal.

How to put duct tape over the Facebook sidebar

How to put duct tape over the Facebook sidebar

If you watched the “25 Things I Hate About Facebook” video featured in our very first post, you know Julian was considering putting a piece of duct tape over the Facebook sidebar, to hide the “People You May (Not) Know”. Paul has put words into action and wrote a script that actually covers the Facebook sidebar with duct tape without your screen getting sticky.

Official cut-and-paste Facebook Comments Box Widget

Official cut-and-paste Facebook Comments Box Widget

Facebook yesterday released the Comments Box, its first official social widget for Facebook Connect. With the Comments Box, Facebook users on your site can comment on your content, post those comments to their profiles, and share them with their friends on Facebook. But its first version doesn’t come bugless…

What’s the maximum length of a Facebook status update?

What’s the maximum length of a Facebook status update?

This is basic Facebook 101, but I’m sure that most of you have -at least one time- hit the maximum length of a status update. A Facebook status update is limited to 160 characters (including spaces). This equals the maximum number of characters of an SMS or mobile text message.

25 Things I Hate About Facebook

25 Things I Hate About Facebook

It might seem odd to start a new, Facebook-oriented blog with an “I hate Facebook” post, but that’s us. We actively and voluntarily indulge in facebookness while being critical enough to notice its flaws. That, and because this video by Julian Smith from Nashville, Tennessee is just sheer comedy.

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