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Report: Facebook Home will be available on “select” Android devices April 12th.

Why You Might Actually Want a Facebook Phone

Facebook’s got a new phone. And a new home screen. They’re going to be fine, probably, more or less. But you are also asleep now because the idea of a Facebook phone bores you, deeply. Maybe it shouldn’t. In a perfect world, there’s a compelling case for a true blue Facebook phone. It’s the Messaging…

A Map of Who’s the Best (and Most Biased) at Picking March Madness Brackets

You’re biased about sports. It’s fine, we all are. It’s part of the allure. But it’s just as fun breaking it down to see exactly how we’re biased. Yahoo gave Facebook Data access to its more than 60,000 brackets filled out by Facebook users, which Facebook has in turn made into some awesome visuals showing…

If Game of Thrones Characters Were on Facebook

By now, it’s pretty much a fact that everyone uses Facebook (pipe down if you don’t). It’s also pretty much a fact that everyone watches Game of Thrones too (shut up if you don’t). But what if the characters in Game of Thrones started using Facebook? It would be so hilarious I need to see…

Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg’s Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire Website?

The word on the interwebs today is that this 1999 Angelfire page belongs to one Mark Zuckerberg. Yes, that Mark Zuckerberg, which means this could be the very first website that the hoody that made Facebook ever created. If true, it’s a time machine into the 15-year-old brain of the most powerful man on the…

Let’s Hope the Facebook Phone Really Does Look This Darn Beautiful

It’s widely believed that Facebook will announce a new Android phone UI, called Home, along with accompanying HTC hardware at an event tomorrow. I know, we’re all thinking, “Ugg, Facebook phone.” But everything we’ve heard is really exciting. 9To5Google claims to have some shots of the new UI, and if they’re real, it’s going to…

This Is (Probably) the New Facebook Phone

Facebook has a big event planned Thursday to show off a new homescreen, reportedly, along with a “midtier” (read: cheap) phone. According to well-known tipster evleaks, this is it. It looks pretty boring, sure, but boring is a billion million times better than Facebook’s last gawdawful swing at hardware. Baby steps! [evleaks]

Report: Facebook’s “Phone” Is a Home Screen That Could Be Coming To Your Phone Too

Android Police has managed to get its hands on a system dump for the upcoming “Facebook Phone” this Thursday. And while there will be a physical device announced, it seems “Facebook Home” is a really customized launcher, eventually destined for a wide variety of handsets. https://gizmodo.com/is-facebook-about-to-announce-a-facebook-phone-running-5992843 The disassembled data reveals a lot of information about…

The Russian Government Has Started Censoring the Internet

It’s no secret that the likes of China and Iran censor the internet to within an inch of its life, but now there’s a new Big Brother blocking content: Russia. https://gizmodo.com/how-china-censors-its-twitter-at-light-speed-5989161 The New York Times reports that the Russian government has recently been making heavy use of a new law to “block Internet content that…

Report: Facebook’s Secret Android Project Isn’t a Facebook Phone But a Home Screen Dedicated to Facebook

The WSJ is reporting that Facebook’s upcoming Android event will be a home screen—as in the first screen you see when you flip on your phone—dedicated to Facebook. It will “display content from users’ Facebook accounts on a smartphone’s home screen.” Facebook is expected to first offer this feature to an HTC phone but hopes…

The Most Accurate Map of Gay Marriage Support in America

Seen a few profile pictures change in support of gay marriage recently? The all-seeing eye of Facebook has seen quite a few, and from that ocean of data, it’s whipped up a comprehensive map of gay marriage support in the America. Facebook users switch up their profile pictures for no reason all the time, including…

What’s Facebook’s Big Mysterious Phone?

Next week, Facebook is going to show us its “new home on Android.” What does that mean? We’re not sure—we could be days away from The Facebook Phone, or just a lovely new life-consuming app. But here are our best bets for what Zuck has up his Androidy sleeves. If we take off our cool…

Is Facebook About to Announce a Facebook Phone Running Android?

Facebook just invited the press to an event at Facebook HQ that’ll show off Facebook’s “new home on Android”. Is this the much talked about (and denied) Facebook phone? Will Facebook be using the Android OS to build a layer of Facebook on top of? HMM. Or is this just some new version of the…

Facebook Is Rolling Out Threaded Comments to Pages and Hyper-Popular Profiles

What was once just an infinitely looping twinkle in a Facebook developer’s eye has officially become a reality: comments in reply to comments in reply to posts. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-testing-comments-on-comments-on-comments-oh-m-5959323 For now, the new threaded comments are only going to be available to Pages and individual public Profiles with 10,000+ followers or more—in other words, probably not…

What Your Friends on Each Social Network Would Really Do for You

Sure you have friends. Sure people Like your pictures on Facebook and Instagram. Sure people favorite your tweets. But what would these people really do for you? None of ’em would take a bullet for you! Some would make a hashtag. All will talk about how much they miss you on their profiles. Sometimes, that’s…

Facebook for iOS Is Testing an Obnoxious New Feature That Harasses You Until You Update

Facebook is notorious for testing all sorts of wild and crazy ideas before implementing them site wide—assuming they ever even make it that far. So for the sake of everyone’s sanity, we hope that this newest venture will soon make its way to The Graveyard of Horrible Facebook Features Past and join the others. Because…

Kamy: Facebook

Psy isnt the only singer able to transform a critique of modern society’s pitfalls into a catchy song number. In tonight’s Soundtrack, Hungarian pop singer Kamy let’s Mark Zuckerberg know what she really thinks of him. Lyrics translated to English: Face, face, face, face, facebook (w/ Hungarian pronunciation) Sharing, pushing, commenting, liking Push it, like…

The Most Accurate Map of NCAA College Basketball Fandom

Like it or not, Facebook is a pretty good barometer if what people like. So it’s fun when it gathers up its considerable data troves and spits out maps of stuff we like. Today it broke down the fans of teams in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The data uses simple Likes for the team…

The Single Creepiest Thing You Can Do on Facebook

Always be nice, and cool. That’s the motto around here. But sometimes you just want to make someone wildly uncomfortable. Or maybe you want to avoid social nightmare! Either way, here is some sacred social media advice. Heed or perish. It’s customary, when courting a potential sexual partner or vetting an employee, to go through…

WSJ: Facebook Stealing Hashtags From Twitter

If you’re #dying for #newwaystoexpressyourself then you’re about to read some #goodnews (#rumoralert!). The #wallstreetjournal says #facebook will “incorporate the hashtag” on its own (#copying much?). It seems inevitable: hashtags are probably hitting your news feed. #ugh. Details are scant: “It is unclear how far along Facebook’s work on the hashtag is and the feature…