Perhaps in retaliation for the host’s role in promoting National Unfriend Day in 2010, the Facebook Police raided ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” ast night.

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Teenagers who don’t log off before leaving Facebook in favor of other websites risk getting fraped.

Don’t confuse it with the caffeinated blender drink. Frape refers to a popular prank among teens: Posting humiliating status updates on an accounts that a friend forgot to log off of.

As blogger Martyn Kelly explains:

Frape victims have usually left themselves logged into Facebook, or Twitter, or something similar, and one of their friends has written a comedy status, seemingly from them, to their friends or followers. This usually happens at parties, when someone will use a shared machine, and oh look, they’re still logged in. Boring pranksters go for the playground low-blows — “I am gay” through to “I just shat my pants.” The more sophisticated frapesters change the birthday of the frape victim to the very next day, ensuring they wake from their hangover to not just the clanging of their own nerve endings, but to the odd well-wishings of 200+ people saying “Happy birthday!”: in that process-driven way we’ve become accustomed to.

Kelly’s come up with a solution: a contractual agreement that friends can sign to promise not to frape one another. We appreciate the cuteness of it, but the exercise seems like more of a hassle than simply remembering to log off of Facebook before navigating elsewhere or leaving a shared computer.

Readers, what’s the funniest prank you’ve seen on Facebook?

‘Tis the season to forward humorous cartoons about Santa Claus on Facebook.

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U.S. Facebook users are wishing each other happy Thanksgiving one day before the holiday actually begins; we suspect they’re having a slow day at work.

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Remember The History of the World According to Facebook, the book by Cool Material’s Wylie Overstreet that looked at world history through fictitious Facebook updates? Or Let There Be Facebook, by comedians Travis Harmon and Jonathan Shockley, which basically did the same? They have company.

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In case you haven’t been on Facebook today, or have been holed up in a cave: Today’s date is Nov. 11, 2011, or, in what has become a red-hot Facebook meme, 11/11/11.

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Facebook wants alternatives to like, but maybe the Open Graph needs adverbs in addition to verbs — in other words, ways to qualify the relationship between two objects.

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Bookstores aren’t quite setting aside shelf space for a Facebook section yet, but there are now two books that look at history via fictional status updates.

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Yes, Facebook connects us with the people in our lives. Sometimes, however, the social network can complicate our dating. Here are seven examples.

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If you’re friends with your boss on Facebook, now is a great time to reboot your relationship.

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