Tag: FRIENDS

If you're a prankster with a modicum of Photoshop skills, you'll probably want to get in on this one. Oli and Alex are charmers who use their innate artistic abilities to seriously piss off their hapless friend James. As Oli puts it: "I like going onto my friend's Facebook page, taking photos of him, changing them slightly, then putting them back up on Facebook. He doesn't like me doing this." ...

Some Facebook users may enjoy collecting hundreds of virtual friends, but it turns out that those online relationships can cause a lot of stress, as well. That's what researchers at Edinburgh Napier University discovered after conducting a survey of 200 students who regularly use the social networking site. Among the students who were surveyed, 12-percent said they actually dislike receiving ...

Facebook users planning their next vacations can now easily consult their friends' opinions, thanks to a comprehensive new recommendation service from TripAdvisor. The feature uses Facebook's Instant Personalization platform to generate travel recommendations based on the cities your friends have visited, their most popular destinations, and their personal reviews of each place. All this ...

Share Yet another scam is making its way around Facebook, and it's affecting a disturbingly high number of users. As Sophos explains, the scam is spreading via Wall posts that read: "OMG OMG OMG... I cant believe this actually works! Now you really can see who viewed your profile!" Once the attached link is clicked, you're redirected to a rogue application that requests access to your Facebook ...

Facebook users may have an easier time rounding out their online social circles, thanks to the site's new Find Friends Browser (Ed. note: it's still being rolled out, so you may not be seeing it yet). As All Facebook explains, the new tool essentially provides users with an expanded, more comprehensive version of Friend Recommendations. The new Friend Browser presents these recommendations in a ...

Wasting your life away on Facebook may not seem like the most social of activities, but, according to a new study from the University of Texas, all those hours you spend on the social network may actually strengthen your personal ties with friends and family. To test the effects of Facebook on real-world relationships, researchers at the University of Texas questioned 900 college students and ...

Share We've seen Facebook facilitate several parent-child reunions, but few of these feel-good stories have been quite as incredible as Jutta Fairley's. When Fairley was 19-years old, she became pregnant while still living with her family in Germany. At the time, her parents forced her to make a difficult choice: either moving out of the house, or giving the baby up for adoption. Fairley chose ...

It's one of the most perplexing moments known to 21st-century society: the instant you realize that someone, for whatever reason, has decided to unfriend you on Facebook. Yesterday, your friend-count was 623. Today, it's a piddly 622. Your heart stops. You begin maniacally scanning your Friends list for the hole your departed acquaintance left, while simultaneously wondering what on Earth you ...

According to a new study from research firm TNS, Japanese social networkers are the loneliest people on Earth. As the BBC reports, the study found that the average Japanese Web surfer has just 29 online friends -- the lowest average among the 46 countries under examination, well behind even China's average of 68 friends. At the other end of the spectrum, Malaysian online consumers have the most ...

When it comes to unfriending people on Facebook, most of us don't think twice. Much like removing a Band-Aid or throwing out a banana peel, dumping dead weight from our friends lists nowadays doesn't seem like a psychologically complex decision. University of Colorado Ph.D. candidate Christopher Sibona, however, decided to take a closer look at the social dynamics governing the unfriending ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/08/17/man-jailed-after-sending-facebook-friend-request-to-estranged-wi/'; Share When Carole Bruder filed a restraining order against her estranged husband Harry, she had every reason to believe that her soon-to-be ex-hubby would never dare contact her again. Apparently, though, Harry didn't think that Facebook friend requests fell under the legal ...

If you're one of those people with about 3,000 Facebook friends, you probably think you're pretty cool. But we'd bet good money that you only actually interact with a tiny fraction of them. And Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, would probably put money down with us. Dunbar conducted a study that shows most people can only maintain an active social circle ...

Share Growing up, most kids make a prank phone call or two -- especially before the era of caller ID. But according to the Chicago Tribune, one Chicago area man never quite grew out of the habit. In 1973, 10-year-old Kevin Nolan prank called fellow Chicagoan and recently returned Vietnam vet Bob Cortese on New Year's Eve, and told him that he'd won 10,000 gold-plated rubber ducks. Cortese kindly ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/10/27/memorialize-the-facebook-pages-of-friends-who-pass-away/'; Dealing with the death of a friend or relative is never easy. But in the era of social networking, many are taking to the Internet, grieving and paying their last respects by writing to the Facebook pages of the deceased. However, Facebook has never officially decided what should happen to ...

After collapsing like the 2007 New York Mets, the WB and its stable of shows is coming to the World Wide Web. TheWB.com is set to debut next week and will offer streaming episodes of hit shows like 'The Gilmore Girls,' 'The O.C.,' and 'Friends,' as well as original material developed for the site by McG and Josh Schwartz, the minds behind the Charlies Angels movies and 'The O.C.' respectively. ...