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The Hilarious Truth on How Facebook Comes Up with Its Annoying New Features

If you've ever wondered how Facebook comes up with those annoying features you hate, wonder no more: Facebook is obviously getting all those silly requests from focus groups! Read More >>

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Wolfram Alpha Will Tell You Even More About Your Facebook Page Than You Ever Knew

Wolfram Alpha, the true know it all on the Interwebs, introduced a ridiculously detailed Facebook report complete with statistical insights about how many links, photos, and updates you ever posted on your page last year. Today, Wolfram Alpha is adding even more detail to its Facebook report so you can learn more about how you book the face. Read More >>

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How Everybody Will Use Facebook Graph Search (Hint: Inappropriately)

Slacktory's video shows how Facebook Graph Search, as awesome as it can be, will quickly devolve into a completely inappropriate search engine for finding MILFs, GILFs, pictures taken at the beach and anything of that nature. Basically, it's going to start innocently with people trying to find others with the same music tastes, but eventually become creepers filtering and stalking people they wish they could have sex with. Read More >>

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How Facebook Will Power Graph Search

Facebook's new Graph Search is an ambitious project, and brings with it the need for some serious computational grunt. Here's how Facebook is taking on that challenge. Read More >>

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The Secret to Facebook Happiness Is Killing Friendships

You have too many friends—I promise you. Really. You've been collecting them for probably half a decade, like barnacles on the side of a slow boat, and they're holding you back. They're also threatening your privacy. End it. Read More >>

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Stupid California Cost Itself £450 Million Over Stupid Facebook IPO

It's generally a bad idea to base your budget on hypothetical money that may or may not end up in your pocket. It's a much worse idea if you're the state of California, and that money is wacky Facebook cash. Read More >>

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Free Voice Calling Rolls Out on Facebook Messenger for iOS

One of features promised with the Facebook Messenger for iPhone update a few weeks ago was Voice-Over IP calling, so that you could use the app to call your friends over a mobile or Wi-Fi data connection instead of your plan's minutes. The feature is finally rolling out to phones in the US, with the UK hopefully to follow shortly. Read More >>

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Who Does Facebook Search Screw the Most?

Graph Search, which we're going to call Facebook search from here on out because nobody wants to read or write "Graph Search," is a dramatic new way to browse Facebook. But its implications spill over onto its rivals—which companies lose the most? Read More >>

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3 Privacy Settings You Must Change Before Using Facebook Graph Search

Tweaking your Activity Log just became a necessary and tedious new part of being a Facebook user. Thanks to the service's new Graph Search feature, all that profile info you've painstakingly updated over the years (employer, home town, relationship status, movie likes, etc) and all the photos you've added over time, are now to become data in a database of the social network's trillion connections between a billion users. Read More >>

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These People Are Now Sharing Horrible Things About Themselves Thanks to Facebook Search

FB's glistening new search engine makes finding interesting things about yourself, your past, and all of your friends excitingly easy. It also makes it a cinch to find strangers who are openly racist, sexist, and generally embarrassing. This is fun! Read More >>

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Here’s What Using the New Facebook Search Looks Like

Facebook Graph Search is an amazing feature with a terrible name. It takes the massive, inordinate amount of personal information and experiences you've charted over the years, and pulls them up with a few keystrokes. Watch it in action. Read More >>

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How To Get on the Waiting List For Facebook Graph Search Right Now

Facebook's Graph Search landing page is live now at Facebook.com/graphsearch. Unfortunately, this is not actually the live product but just an explainer. To get on the waiting list, head over to the page, scroll all the way to the bottom and click the "Join Waiting List" button. Facebook will notify you when it's your turn. Read More >>

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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 life. And it's just another step in Facebook's attempt to conquer the entire Internet. Meet Graph Search. Read More >>

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Facebook’s Big Announcement Is a Google-Killing Search Engine (and No One Will Care)

So, not content with merely having our souls, it looks like Lord Zuck wants to rule the world of search as well. By now, you've probably heard that Facebook is holding a big dramatic press conference this evening, at which they've promised to unveil something big. Problem is, Facebook's press conferences are normally dull tedium-fests, so we're not holding our breath on this one. Read More >>