Back in the rootin’, tootin’ lawless early years of Facebook, tons of fictional characters maintained profiles on the social network site. I recall every character from Mean Girls being around, along with Doug and several Arrested Development characters. Eventually, Facebook got uptight and eliminated the majority of these not-really-student pages, and the only [...]

No, we haven’t yet figured out the literal significance of those five names that showed up beneath everyone’s Facebook search bar Tuesday. Facebook claims that it wasn’t a list of the people who search for you the most, nor was it a list of the people you search for. Supposedly, it was just Facebook’s guess [...]

Earlier today, Gawker.com posted an apparent way to see the five people who search for you most often on Facebook. Some glitch, bug, (or intentional feature) caused five names to pop up when you push the down arrow on your keyboard while the cursor is in the search box.
Update, 3:57 p.m.: Facebook seems to [...]

About two weeks ago, the Northwestern Facebook network was blessed with Facebook Chat by the Patron Saint of Procrastination, Mark Zuckerberg. More than enough time has passed to hand down judgment on the feature, and figure out how radically it has changed lives and brought about a mass kumbya session between North and South [...]

Hundo the Fun Dolphin, born in Fall Quarter, died Sunday after his owner, Patrick St. Michel, euthanized him by deleting the (fluff)Friend application.
“I originally created him as an experiment for the blog I run, Netplay,” St. Michel said. “I wanted to talk about how dumb and pointless a virtual pet was. But [...]

Being mysterious on Facebook is a mighty challenging task, given one of the main reasons for joining the college-social-networking-site-turned-worldwide-monster is to be an attention whore. You could always bypass filling in your interests or make your profile pic a shot of abstract art or, even more daring, leave it a question mark. The [...]

Remember when England was funny? Like, with Benny Hill running around to wacky music, or this chestnut. Heck, anyone who is anyone knows the British version of The Office is a billion times better than its American counterpart Dwight is Really Weird. But, unfortunately, witty online commentary doesn’t seem to be [...]

Company exploits Facebook. Facebookers exploit company.

ASG elections are coming: Do you know who you are going to vote for? NBN introduced you to the presidential candidates, but, if you are like me and are turned off by “platforms” and “facts” and “Associated Student Government,” you need to find different criteria to judge these people on. I say, what [...]

If the tall, dark, and handsome look just isn’t for you.

Facebook just became even more essential to your life. Yes, it’s true, Facebook hopes to roll out Facebook Chat, an instant messaging service run through the popular social networking site, starting this week. First impressions here. Prepare to never leave Facebook again.

Welcome back, kids. In case you missed some of the latest news in the tech world this past week, here’s a nice lil’ summary for you.
1. Facebook set to launch instant messaging. According to the article, the service will be built into the user’s profile page. Another 3rd party app!? I’ll let it slide. At [...]

Disney movies? A little too much.

This spring, Facebook plans to roll out a redesigned profile page for all users. The new design features tabs at the top of the user’s profile. The tabs, it seems, should help reduce the clutter caused the numerous third party applications on many users’ pages.
TechCrunch, an online blog, noticed that the screenshots released by Facebook [...]

Have you ever gotten into a serious conversation with someone about Facebook? Like, talked about how it has all this social importance and will change the world and in twenty years we will go to Facebook for news and sports and everything outside of a sandwich.
Don’t you hate people like that?
If you [...]