Posts Tagged “Facebook”

Nick uses Facebook’s social graph search

Facebook has a powerful new search tool! Nick tries to break it.

Previously: Nick and Siri get an iPhone 5
- - 2013/01/18 at 4:55 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
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The Year in Memes!

Everybody’s getting into meme-tracking! Google’s got their Zeitgeist, Facebook’s got their grandma-like definition of memes. So Slacktory made our own chart of 2012′s best memes:

Background photo via A Place to Love Dogs
- - 2012/12/13 at 3:49 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
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- Filed under:Charts and Graft
#HireKevin: Man tries to become Applebee’s spokesman over Facebook and Twitter

Facebook is topping all our news feeds with obnoxious brand posts, while hiding updates from pages we actually liked. Clicking to hide the post leaves me feeling impotent. My colleague Henry likes to leave stupid comments on these promoted posts, punishing the brands for so desperately chasing his likes.

It looks like Kevin Matuszak is doing that, but on a grand scale. He’s begging Applebee’s to hire him, in a Facebook comment thread that’s gotten 182 comments and 265 likes. And whoever runs the Applebee’s Facebook page has been responding every now and then, checking on his progress — and then helping him along. They’re trying to turn it into a publicity stunt. A very silly, stupid, actually-fun publicity stunt.

On Monday, Kevin wrote on the Applebee’s Facebook timeline: “hi, can I work for you?” They replied, “Check if your local Applebee’s is hiring!”

But Kevin said he wanted a job at corporate. And he kept bugging them. With updates like these:

See Kevin’s insane campaign to become the public face of Applebee’s. »
- - 2012/11/29 at 2:06 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 4285 views
  - 14 comments
- Filed under:Real Life
Celebrities and newsmakers fall for the Facebook copyright notice hoax

It’s really sad to see everyone fall for the Facebook copyright notice hoax. You guys realize that just declaring something on your Facebook status doesn’t make it legally so, right?

See more people in the news, all falling for the Facebook copyright hoax. »
- - 2012/11/26 at 5:40 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 467 views
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- Filed under:Stupid Pictures
I think Jimmy John’s regrets their election-themed Facebook post

Jimmy John’s sandwich shops posted this cute joke photo on their Facebook this morning:

The commenters quickly started arguing whether it’s illegal to post these pictures (it’s a misdemeanor in some states, a felony in others, completely legal in a few). It got real stupid, real fast.

See more Facebook commenters arguing about whether a sandwich franchise committed electoral fraud. »
- - 2012/11/07 at 2:15 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 501 views
  - 1 comment
- Filed under:Bowels of the Internet
Proper terms for “gurus” on every social media site
It’s really embarrassing to see social media experts running around with the wrong fake-cool job titles, all calling themselves “Facebook ninjas” and “Twitter rockstars”. Let’s clarify what title you need based on what site you have bullshit expertise in.
- Facebook oracle
- MySpace swami
- Pinterest barbarian
- Twitter queen regent
- Instagram unicorn
See the rest of the correct social media guru names »
- - 2012/10/19 at 3:23 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
- - 328 views
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- Filed under:Lists
Explaining away my Facebook frienemy’s supposedly good taste as shown by his Likes

I refuse to accept that my Facebook frienemy has good taste. This is probably what he thinks about his favorite Facebook pages:

Arrested Development: Martin Short was the best on that!

Democratic party: Bush planned 9/11.

Adele: Just between listens of early Charlotte Church.

Community: Chevy Chase FTW!

David Foster Wallace: Inspired me to wear a bandana every day.

See the real reasons this asshole likes the New Yorker, the Daily Show, and Mumford & Sons. »
- - 2012/10/15 at 12:10 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
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- Filed under:Lists
Status Kill: A Facebook Interrogation

My favorite episode of My Damn Channel’s Status Kill so far, thanks to the clever back-and-forth. You don’t need any context to jump into this, just a loathing of people who post mysterious status messages.

Watch the latest Status Kill. »
- - 2012/09/20 at 2:01 pm
  - by Nick Douglas
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- Filed under:Web Shows
Unbaby.me’s baby-detecting keywords list is amazing

I just installed unbaby.me, the browser extension for replacing Facebook baby photos with photos of other, more interesting things. After you set it up in Chrome, it drops you on the configuration page, which features a RIDICULOUS list of keywords they use to locate babies.

Here it is:

Check out the most ridiculous baby-detecting list you’ve ever seen. »
- - 2012/09/19 at 8:00 am
  - by Henry Birdseye
- - 387 views
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- Filed under:Lists
“Condescending Corporate Brand Page” Reminds You Why Brands on Facebook Are So Terrible

We make fun of Facebook Likes and Twitter Favorites and Hearts and Stars and Horseshoes, but it’s positive reinforcement and our stupid human brains are wired to gobble that shit up. We like this feedback, but not enough to explicitly beg for it.

But have you ever seen a corporate brand page on Facebook? They’re all shameless monsters, desperate for Likes and Shares. In theory, Likes and Shares make posts more visible to a larger Facebook audience. Then, more people will like that brand, and then that brand can drive cross-traffic to promotions, and then everybody gets rich from all that Like-and-Share money. And that’s why corporate brands on Facebook do whatever it takes to get attention, and they don’t care how much they have to pander to the lowest common denominator to do it.

That’s why Condescending Corporate Brand Page is such a treat: It’s calling out all corporate brands for posting insultingly stupid Facebook content and then begging for Likes and Shares, and it’s doing it with posts that are simultaneously absurd and familiar.

See some of Condescending Corporate Brand Page’s best jokes. »
- - 2012/08/30 at 11:08 am
  - by Henry Birdseye
- - 2486 views
  - 2 comments
- Filed under:Fact