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Just saw this on Facebook. It reminded me of the way I play pool when I can’t work out how to get a ball in a pocket.

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Facebook has slipped in a new feature next to its adverts, in the form of little thumbs up and thumbs down icons. I doubt that giving something the thumbs down results in the responsible party being finished off in front of a baying crowd; I can but hope. Meanwhile I can vent my Facebook advertising [...]

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Ah nuts. My mobile, which has been hanging on gamely since going on the fritz last October, looks to be finally shuffling off this mortal coil. It’s still working, but the screen isn’t, so I’ve no idea who’s calling me, or who’s texting me and about what. I was pondering this, and what a pain [...]

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When you’ve had a hard day and you doze off in front of the telly, you can tell how long you’ve been asleep by the calibre of the adverts greeting you when you wake up. If the internet was TV, Facebook’s ads would mean it was 4.30am and you’d been asleep leaning on the ‘channel [...]

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Hi, it’s 2008. Just wanted to remind you, because BBC News thinks it’s discovered a security flaw in Facebook applications. Yes, apparently they can gain access to your and your friends’ profile information, so a malicious application could pose as a legitimate one and harvest profile details, even if they’re not public. I had to [...]

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I’m used to celebrity endorsements, or even celebrity beauty journalist endorsements, but I’d normally expect recommendations from my friends to come up in conversation. Tooling around on Facebook, then, I had a bit of a double-take at this advert, which recommends a range of health supplements on a friend’s behalf. Anyone else had one of [...]

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Facebook has rolled out its integrated chat client, which is nice if you like that sort of thing. Adam quickly spotted that it tells the people you’re chatting to what else you’re up to, which provides almost as much scope for hilarity as the default ‘reply all’ behaviour on group messages. Fortunately, it turns out [...]

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Thanks to Adam for this. It comes from Facebook Lexicon, a new trend-tracking tool for the social network that can tell you how often certain terms appear in wall posts. The blue line is “party tonight”, the beige is “hungover”. The big fat spike is New Year’s eve. Click on the pic to see it [...]

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Take the users out of Facebook and what’s left? Book, I’d say. The site’s the epitome of 2.0; a framework on which to hang user-generated content, and nothing without it. So, in common with other user-populated sites like Flickr, you’d expect them to have a pretty enlightened view of users’ importance, no? No. Consider this [...]

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