If the internet is the wild west, Facebook is your homestead. And while everything can (and, for better or worse, does) go on the internet proper, Facebook is your little corner of the prairie to call your own. So are you doing it right? Let’s find out. You do not have 1,500 friends No matter ...
Facebook has started testing their new “Groups for Schools” feature with a handful of universities in the US. The new feature lets a school create a community that’s limited to just people with an active email address for that school. Once students and faculty become members, they can create or join groups within the community for ...
#8220;Now, News Feed will act more like your own personal newspaper,” says Facebook engineer Mark Tonkelowitz in a blog post.If you’ve been on Facebook in the last couple of weeks, you’ve probably noticed some dramatic changes in your newsfeed’s layout. What with the ticker, revamped friends lists, subscribe button, and more, Facebook has been rolling ...
Now if my computer were to explode, my high resolution photos of Luke holding keyboards would be safe on Facebook. Earlier this week, we all got to endure irate status updates and Tweets about Facebook's new photo viewer, which ineviteably faded away after a few hours. Now that the dust has se
Ch-ch-ch-changes. Facebook, in an attempt to stay current and hip (haven't you seen The Social Network?), has just launched a new profile for their users. Screenshots are from Facebook's blog and are being displayed through fair use. As much as I love the readers of HackCollege, and would
Yep, THAT red cup. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Chris Makarsky. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. So it happened. Your first red cup picture has made its appearance on Facebook. Most likely you're underage - and you're probably a freshman who let your squeaky clean high school reputation slip a b
What the new privacy page will look like. Click here for more info straight from ZuckerbergWe’ve been talking a lot about Facebook lately because, frankly, about 99% of college students use it. When Zuckerberg and co. came out with their incredibly fine-grained confusing new settings that defaulted to making tons of information public a few ...
As you can see, I have some work to do on my profile.Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Facebook’s recent privacy snafus. In fact, a few astute readers were correct in predicting the social network’s issues in the comments of this recent post. Part of the problem stems from the ...
Say hello to the newest HackCollege writer. Her name’s Kahley Emerson and she’s currently a sophomore at ASU. Give her a warm welcome. ~Kelly While the meal-plan cafeterias and 2 am pizza runs are part of what the college diet is all about, sometimes all I want is a piping hot piece of my mom’s ...
As of today, Facebook has made its newest theme-change official. This is the most aggressive theme change yet, with a complete reorganization and a yet-again minimalist-ization (that is definitely not a word) to the profile pages. To check it out for yourself, just visit www.new.facebook.com. As with all Facebook updates, there’s going to be a ...
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