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Facebook Messages Cometh: What You Should Know
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In an effort to knock Gmail down a peg or two, Facebook is finally ready to start rolling out its long-awaited messaging system dubbed, well, Facebook Messages. The big news today is that Facebook has officially start...
How To Get Your MBA On Facebook
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So you spend a few hours every day on Facebook. You probably skim through your friends and family members' photos, updates, and check out a few apps. What if one of those apps put you on the road to getting an actua...
5 Big Ways Facebook Just Changed Pages & Pictures
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It's that time of year again: another Facebook redesign. This time it's not your profile getting tweaked, it's those fan ("like") pages. I'm not actually sure if they're now called fan pages or like pages or community...
The Gates Foundation Makes Unprecedented Investment In 'Facebook For Higher Education'
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[caption id="attachment_6841" align="alignright" width="274" caption="Inigral CEO Michael Staton with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg"][/caption] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation just made an unprecedented invest...
New Facebook App Tells College Applicants If They'll Get In
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Hoping to take some of the mystery and anxiety out of college admissions, AdmissionSplash, a new Facebook app might be the dose of reality college applicants need. The app basically rates your chances of being accepte...
5 Key Features of the Facebook Phone
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[caption id="attachment_6712" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Not the Facebook Phone."][/caption] In case you haven't heard, Facebook will likely be soon be offering a phone. It's not necessarily an iPhone ...
The History of Social Media
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Where were you in the year 1971 when the very first e-mail was sent? Probably not checking Facebook on your smart phone while watching Netflix on your iPad. In other words, there have been an insane number of innov...
Dangerous Malware Spreading Via Facebook Status Updates
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Be careful about what links you're clicking on in Facebook. There's a new scam that's spreading via your friend's status updates. In fact, you may want to check your Facebook account right now to be sure your statu...
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Facebook Now Sharing Your Address & Phone Number [UPDATED]
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***Facebook has halted the ability to share address and phone information to app developers. Read more here.*** When you're as big as Facebook, any change involving privacy becomes controversial. However, the mega ...
Facebook Now Sharing Your Address & Phone Number [UPDATED]
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***Facebook has halted the ability to share address and phone information to app developers. Read more here.*** When you're as big as Facebook, any change involving privacy becomes controversial. However, the mega so...
Every Teacher’s Must-Have Guide To Facebook
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You can't swing a stick in social media without hitting something on Facebook. Same goes for education. You can't talk about how technology is revolutionizing education without mentioning Facebook. It's a simple servi...
BU Student Resurrects Controversial FaceMash, The Original Facebook, To Rate Female Students
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Following in Mark Zuckerberg's exact footsteps, a Boston University student just launched a FaceMash-style website after being inspired the film 'The Social Network.' In case you didn't know, FaceMash is the precursor...
The Real Story Behind All Those Facebook Cartoon Character Profile Pics
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You've likely seen the cartoon characters cropping up on Facebook--Reptars and Jetsons and Smurfs replacing your friends' profile pictures. But did you know the reason behind this short-lived trend? Turns out there...
New Facebook Profile Page Now Live. How To Get It
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Are you ready for the usual round of outrage / excitement from Facebook users? Facebook is rolling out the latest iteration of your profile page tonight (Sunday) and tomorrow (Monday December 6th) so be sure to check ...
Fight Child Abuse: Change Your Facebook Pic To Your Favorite Cartoon Character
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You may notice something different about your Facebook feed this weekend. Many people are changing their profile pics to cartoon characters in order to fight child abuse. While it will likely not actually do much for ...
HowRandom Lets Students Anonymously Chat For Better Or Worse
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Get ready for a whole new way for students to get in trouble. Bringing back the days of the DailyJolt chat rooms, there's a new website being rolled out today that is aiming to make social networking a lot more anonymous. It's called HowRandom and is a simply chatroom where someone with a .edu e-mail address can go and represent their school online. There's very little authentication other than someone having a .edu address. There’s no photo uploading, file sharing or video capabilities, just a text entry line and a chat widget.
