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Sunday, October 25th, 2009 | Blogging | Permalink | No Comments |

If it seems like all your friends stopped posting on Facebook this weekend, it’s Facebook, not you. Here’s the fix from Kathy Tyson:

Repost from JonAnne: 1. Go to FB Home Page. 2. Choose “Live Feed.” 3. Scroll to the bottom & click ” Edit Options.” 4. You will then see your “News Feed Settings.” Change the 250 to 5000, which is Facebook’s friend limit, and your feed will work correctly again.

Worked for me.

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Over on Facebook I notice that friends across the political spectrum are creeped out by the LAPD iWatch commercial. It’s filmed like an Apple TV ad, but instead of encouraging you to buy a hip consumer electronic it’s advocating you report your neighbors to the police if you have the slightest inkling they’re terrorists.

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Officer Friendly likes this

Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | Blogging | Permalink | No Comments |

Times Online - US investigators use Facebook to track down wanted man Maxi Sopo:

What’s wrong with making friends on Facebook? Nothing — unless you happen to be a fugitive from US justice, living the good life at a Mexican holiday resort after allegedly stealing more than $200,000 (£125,000) through a bank scam in Seattle.

But Maxi Sopo, 26, a native of Cameroon, didn’t think twice before logging on to the popular social networking site and making a ‘friend request’ to a man he had met while out drinking in a Cancun nightclub.

Unfortunately for Sopo, he had no idea that the man in question was a former US Justice Department official.

Bonus! Lamebook, “the funniest and lamest of Facebook.”

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On the Internet no one knows you’re a dog until you upload the video of you licking your own butt to YouTube

Monday, October 5th, 2009 | Funny Ha-Ha | Permalink | 2 Comments |

Second Pranknet Member Arrested:

Prank caller James Tyler Markle “convinced a McDonald’s worker to set off the restaurant’s fire suppression system, which released a liquid from overhead extinguishers… and directed the worker to break the store’s windows ‘for ventilation.’”

Then he bragged about it on Pranknet and got tracked down by the authorities.

Five Everett bikini baristas charged with prostitution:

Investigators saw the women expose their crotches, lick whipped cream off their co-workers’ private parts and pose naked for pictures inside the Grab-n-Go Espresso stand at 8015 Broadway, according to police reports obtained by The Herald on Wednesday.

Detectives also witnessed some of the women charging customers to touch their bare breasts and naked buttocks. Touching of that kind, for pay, falls under the city’s definition of prostitution.

Don’t put pics/video of you doing illegal stuff on the Internet:

One Waukesha County man is guilty and another awaiting court action in what the Wisconsin DNR Law Enforcement Division is calling its first arrest based upon a Facebook video of illegal deer shining spotted by an anonymous tipster.

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Facebook zingers today

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | Blogging | Permalink | No Comments |

Trudy Claiborne - ” ‘Sharing everything is ‘socialist’, sharing 10% is ‘religious’, and sharing a few percent or less is, well, just sharing.’ ”

Rich Hailey - “When the gov’t runs health care like they run schools, will substitute doctors show movies instead of treat patients?”

Barack Obama’s Teleprompter - “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of the International Olympic Committee…”

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Facebook friends stats

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | Blogging | Permalink | No Comments |

You can find me and friend me at http://www.facebook.com/lesjones.

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One thing I’ve learned about Facebook today

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 | Blogging | Permalink | 3 Comments |

From comments on what Uncle learned about Facebook, I learned you can hide alerts from certain apps. So tonight I turned off alerts from Mafia Wars, Farmtown and the zoo thing.

Just mouse over the update from your friend. When the “Hide” drop-down appears choose the application.

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Getcher Facebook vanity URL

Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | Blogging | Permalink | 2 Comments |

I kept meaning to blog this, but starting today Facebook is offering short, vanity URLs to replace your long, ugly URL. I went from facebook.com/profile.php?id=1185399475 to facebook.com/lesjones.

Get the new URL for your account at facebook.com/username. The only requirement is that you must have created the account prior to May 31, 2009. Otherwise you’ll need to wait until June 28. More info here.

If you admin a page you can register a vanity URL for the page if it was active before May 31, 2009 and if the page has more than 1000 fans. Otherwise you’ll have to wait until June 28. More info here.

Mashable.com is covering the Facebook name rush.

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Facebook to launch payment system

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | E-commerce | Permalink | No Comments |

Securosis has the story.

Alexa ranks Facebook as the number 4 most-visited site on the Internet. Netcraft ranks it second after a bunch of Google properties. If your realm is that big why not mint your own coins?

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