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Facebook Just Declared War on Google: Meet Your New Search Engine

Today’s big bad Facebook revelation is a search engine—not for the web, but for your entire life. And it’s just another step in Facebook’s attempt to conquer the entire Internet. This is Graph Search. Facebook’s search has been convoluted and weak for years until now—it’s hard to expect what you get when you type anything…

What Is Tomorrow’s Big Facebook Mystery?

Tomorrow, Facebook will reveal to the press what it’s been “building.” What could it be? Zuck rarely invites us to his corporate home, so it must be special—and here are our best guesses. The invitation itself is light on clues—Zuck & Co. need to take some pointers from the Cupertino Crew—so trying to decipher it…

What Do You Think of People Without Facebook Accounts?

Social networking is great and all, but you can’t really fault anyone for not buying into it. Unless, of course, you’re talking about Facebook. Everybody has a Facebook, except for the people who don’t, and they tend to be few and far between. Whether it’s a hipster statement, like not owning a TV, or an…

You Can Send a Message to Zuckerberg’s Inbox (For $100)

If you have something you feel you desperately need to tell Mark Zuckerberg, now might be a real good time. For the handsome sum of $100, you can send a message to Mark’s Facebook inbox, without being automatically sent to spam. How nice. Mashable reports that Facebook is actually trialling a new spam filtering technique:…

Obama Signs Bill Finally Allowing Netflix-to-Facebook Sharing

President Obama has finally signed a bill which allows you to legally share information about which videos you’re watching on Netflix direct to Facebook. The Hill reports that the bill, signed yesterday, sets right the decrepit laws that previously banned Netflix-to-Facebook sharing. As a refresher of the problem: https://gizmodo.com/netflix-will-finally-probably-publish-what-you-watch-5970581 The 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act…

Facebook: Instagram User Exodus? What Instagram User Exodus?

After all the fuss over whether or not Instagram lost users over the holidays, Facebook has decided the best solution is to just ignore the problem altogether. https://gizmodo.com/instagram-says-25-user-exodus-is-bullshit-5971784 In fact, it’s just pulled user count data out of Instagram’s Developer API entirely. The graph above shows monthly active users as measured by Facebook logins: on…

How to Stalk the Gizmodo Staff Through CES and Beyond

Sure, you may have already liked Gizmodo on Facebook or followed us on Twitter (hint hint), but we’re individuals too! Lucky for you, we all have our own Facebook and Twitter accounts where we’re just waiting to be questioned, praised, and mercilessly harassed at your leisure. Plus, now’s a good time to get in on…

It’s Super Easy To Lock People Out of Their Facebook Accounts by Claiming They’re Dead (Updated)

In this new world of social media, plenty of your accounts are going to soldier on after you die. Get ready. But in the meantime, it’s easy—too easy—to convince Facebook just about anyone is dead, at which point the site will lock down the account as a memorial until the supposed corpse argues otherwise. The…

Teenager Posts About Drunk Driving on Facebook, Then Gets Arrested

Jacob Cox-Brown had a pretty wild New Year’s Eve. So wild that he decided to drive home drunk. The problem came, though, when he decided to post about his journey on Facebook. The 18-year-old posted a message on the Big Blue explaining: “Drivin drunk… classsic 😉 but to whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry.…

Would You Use Facebook if It Looked This Insanely Different?

Facebook is what church and bathing used to be: a daily, comforting, familiar ritual. And so it’s not without cause that people go nuts whenever it’s redesigned. But if you thought Timeline was radical, check out this (unofficial) prototype. The mockup, by Australian art director & designer Fred Nerby, drops the vertical look we’ve been…

Facebook Messenger Now Allows You to Send Voice Messages (Update With Hands On)

The Facebook Messenger application is getting an update for Android and iOS so that users can now send voice messages up to one-minute long to their friends. Just a few weeks after Facebook went after Snapchat with a clone app, it’s modified Messenger to be a clone for Apple’s iMessage. https://gizmodo.com/poke-facebook-just-cloned-snapchat-update-hands-on-5970590 The app has popped…

New Arizona Bill Could Outlaw Parody Twitter Accounts

Arizona is considering a bill that could penalize the creators of parody Twitter or Facebook accounts with jail time if they have “malicious intent.” The law—proposed by Republican state Rep. Michelle Ugenti—would criminalize online impersonation. If passed, making a web page, sending a text, or sending an email in someone else’s name would be a…

This Girl Has the Best Facebook Cover Photos

Maybe you change your Facebook cover photo according to the season. Maybe you hacked the Facebook cover photo to look seamless. Maybe you pranked people with your photo. But no matter what you did, it probably wasn’t as pop culturally aware as Libby Cooper. She inserted her head into famous scenes from movies and paintings…

Watch Out: Your New Year’s Midnight Delivery Messages on Facebook Aren’t Private (Updated)

You know how Facebook added that Facebook Stories feature that lets you automatically spam all your “friends” with automatic “Happy New Year” inanities? Well, beware because they aren’t private, thanks to a security cock-up. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-spam-everyone-you-know-a-happy-new-year-messag-5971360 On the off-chance your queued messages contain something sensitive, you might want to go in there and scrub the dirty—er,…

Watch Randi Zuckerberg Have a Facebook Freakout Over Her Photo Going Viral

You probably already read about Randi Zuckerberg’s faux-privacy violation on Facebook this week. But odds are you’re not part of her inner circle. Lucky for you, a tipster who’s “Friends” with RZ gave up the goods directly from her wall. https://gizmodo.com/randi-zuckerberg-is-just-as-confused-by-facebook-privac-5971227 While Randi was admonishing people for lacking “human decency” on Twitter—dispatches she’d delete shortly…

How You Can Save Snapchat Videos Forever After You’ve Watched Them

Snapchat, the sexting app of choice recently cloned by Facebook, might not be as private as you think. BuzzFeed reports that video files sent using the app are actually not deleted from the phone immediately—meaning they can be copied onto a computer and watched over and over. https://gizmodo.com/poke-facebook-just-cloned-snapchat-update-hands-on-5970590 BuzzFeed describes the simple process required to…

Seriously, How Does the Media Still Not Know How Facebook Works?

You’ve probably seen the deeply silly Randi Zuckerberg photo privacy story going around. But the lesson learned might be more about how little everyone knows about Facebook itself, like these goons on the Today show. https://gizmodo.com/randi-zuckerberg-is-just-as-confused-by-facebook-privac-5971227 Here’s a clip from this morning’s Today show: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the…

Facebook Spam Everyone You Know a ‘Happy New Year’ Message Right at Midnight on January 1st

New Years Eve can get a little crazy, and if you try to wish everyone you know luck for 2013 just as as the ball drops, you will fail. Hammering out dozens of messages on your phone with your clumsy midnight fingers over clogged data airwaves will not work. Sorry. But! If sending heartfelt messages…

Randi Zuckerberg Is Just as Confused by Facebook Privacy as You Are

Randi Zuckerberg shared the above photo of her family—including Facebook Czar-in-Chief Mark Zuckerberg—on Facebook. Then it got out into the world, and Randi got all upset about her privacy. Oh, boo hoo, Randi! The story goes like this: Randi Zukcerberg posted the photo of her family fooling around with Facebook’s new Snapchat clone, Poke. When…

The “Poke” sound bite from Facebook’s new Poke app? Apparently that’s Zuck. [TechCrunch]