Ever feel like you’re posting the same old stuff on your Facebook page?  Here are some hints on creating popular wall posts that friends will want to read, like and comment on.
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Facebook can help you detect friends who may be suffering from depression.
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The average 22-year-old in the U.K. boasts more than 1,000 online friends — more than 50 times as many as people in their early 50s, according to a new social networking study by international consumer research specialist Intersperience.
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Everybody thinks you can never have enough friends on Facebook. But there’s such a thing as excess!
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Do you wake up nights drenched in sweat at the thought of having to unfriend that supervisor at work who maniacally proselytizes her religious beliefs?
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Have you ever been at a social event and run into someone who you want to add as a friend on Facebook?
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A 200 plaintiff class-action privacy lawsuit filed in Canada against Facebook will not be tried in Quebec Superior Court.
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These days, most companies are obsessed with counting their fans and followers instead of turning them into real customers.
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Facebook’s social graph appears to those who look at it most as blocks of code. Paul Butler, an engineering intern at the company, has rendered it into a stunning visual map of friendships that proves his theory that geography and political borders influence where people live in relation to their friends.
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Is there a major security breach in Facebook’s mutual friending system? An article over at Loose Wire indicates that an engineering loophole has rendered it possible for someone to add another Facebook user to their friend list without mutual consent. Facebook’s mutual friending system can get a little tricky at times, but this particular fluke could be worrisome.

When Jeremy of Loose Wire received a Facebook invite in his email inbox from someone he didn’t know, he was perplexed, since he’s already a Facebook member. But he clicked on the invite link, which directed him to the regular Facebook login page. After logging in, he didn’t see any more information on the person that had sent him the Facebook invite. Jeremy then Googled the invitee’s name and found that he was already on this person’s friends list.
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