HTC’s Facebook Phone Flops, AT&T to Pull the Plug?
Facebook’s entry into the mobile phone market with the HTC First has turned out to be a colossal flop. It’s such a failure that even after AT&T dropped the price by 99 percent to just 99 cents last week, it may still not have been enough to save the social media giant’s debut smartphone. Barely [...]
Facebook is Sucking With Teens … What the Kids Really Want is … 4chan?
Facebook needs Doc Brown and his time machine, because their future might just be in trouble. While the social media company still ranks number one with teens (33 percent of them reported it was their primary go-to site), Facebook is dropping from its stranglehold on social media of just a couple years ago. While it [...]
Facebook Home Android Platform Replaces Home Screens With Status Updates
Even though Facebook won’t be producing its own phones anytime soon, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of apps for the Android called Facebook Home that will make the social networking site front and center on home screens. In his introduction of the new platform, Zuckerberg said: “Today, our phones are designed around [...]
Change Your Facebook Profile Pic To A Red Equals Sign in Support of Gay Marriage Today
Holy Facebook trends, internet! So it turns out that isn’t a virus infecting people’s Facebook profile pics, but rather an “equals” sign in support of gay marriage. The Supreme Court is weighing in this week on two landmark cases concerning equal rights for homosexuals, and as such, the social media world has responded in kind. [...]
How to Increase Your Facebook Fan Page Reach & Engagement By 200% and More
Lately, a common complaint amongst content creators online involves their Facebook fan pages’ reach decreasing by 40 percent or more due to the social media site’s recent algorithm changes. It seems that online video creators on YouTube are taking a huge hit when promoting their videos on Facebook. While I know the common action amongst [...]
Facebook’s News Feed Revamp To Possibly Include Multiple Feeds
Facebook is closer to revamping its news feed for the first time since the feature was introduced in 2006, TechCrunch reports. While specific details are scarce in the lead-up to Thursday’s big press conference from Facebook, multiple sources told the website that the most significant change to the news feed feature would be the option [...]
Facebook Promoted Posts Are Hurting YouTube Creators, Set To Get Worse?
Back in October of 2012, I wrote about Facebook’s decision to alter the overall reach of, as they are now known, “free posts.” At the time, the introduction of paid posts limited most independent businesses and creators’ overall reach by a rumored 30 percent, a figure that could get much lower starting Thursday. Last week, Business [...]
Facebook Tests Newly Revamped Timeline Layout In New Zealand
Facebook users will see their timelines tweaked a little bit differently in the near future. According to The Next Web, the social media site is testing out their new timeline in New Zealand, which includes a single column in the middle for status updates and a “like” button that would encourage more people to notice [...]
4Chan Trolls the Grammys, Attempts to Get Lil B the ‘Gig of a Lifetime’
Over the years, 4Chan has hijacked many a internet voting contest for laughs. Some of the stunts their followers pulled included getting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un voted as Time’s Person of the Year, sending Pitbull to perform in Kodiak, Alaska, Taylor Swift to perform at a school for the deaf and encouraging Justin [...]
Facebook’s New ‘Graph Search’ Feature to Sink Yelp?
After much hype over the big Facebook announcement, the social media site unveiled its new Graph Search feature today, where users can search for pretty much anything friend-related. While some were hoping that Mark Zuckerberg would reveal a Facebook phone or confess that he stole the idea of Facebook from the Winklevoss twins, the Graph [...]
