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Facebook is Phasing Out Questions

It appears that Facebook is starting to phase out its Facebook Questions feature. You may have used the feature to answer a question in a poll that one of your Facebook friends put together. The Facebook Questions feature was something that everyone on Facebook could use in order to get a “crowd sourced” answer to a specific question. It could

A Scary Amount of Photos are Coming to Facebook

Halloween is going to generate a frightening number of photos, many of which will immediately be posted to various forms of social media. If you went through the trouble to create an interesting costume, odds are you want your online friends to be able to see it. There is a good chance that the people you have connected with through

Facebook “Pay to Promote” Feature Reaches U.S.

Facebook just announced that Promoted Posts are now being tested with Facebook users who live in the United States. It has been made available to people who currently use Facebook and who have fewer than 5,000 friends and subscribers. I've been seeing this story all over the internet today, but it actually goes back a bit farther. In May of

Give an Online Friend an “IRL” Gift Through Facebook

Soon, Facebook will have a new feature. The Facebook Gift Store will allow users to spend real world money to send an “in real life” gift to an online friend that they have connected with on Facebook. Does anyone else find this as bizarre as I do? I understand that the primary purpose of the Facebook Gift Store is to

Test Your Music Knowledge with Songpop for Facebook and Android

I am a sucker for trivia games.  In fact, I pride myself on being what my wife has called "a fountain of useless information".   I think (hope) she means that lovingly.  That being said, she's not bad at these games herself and, in fact, is quite good at those involving music.  When an Android app called "Songpop" came to

Social Fixer Takes the Politics Out of Facebook

Those of you who have had quite enough of the incessant politically motivated posts that your friends insist on cluttering up Facebook with, day after day, may want to check out Social Fixer. It is the new name for the browser extension that was once called “Better Facebook”, and that was created by Matt Kruse. I can immediately see how

Rovio Releases “Green Day” Levels for Angry Birds Facebook

Yesterday Rovio rolled out the new Angry Birds Seasons levels, titled "Back to School", but many people missed the fact that they quietly released a new set of levels for Angry Birds Facebook, called "Green Day".  Yes, in case you're wondering, the new levels are named after the popular alternative band. There was no announcement of the release, so we're