Facebook users are forwarding humorous pepper spray photos that actually have a serious message: Expressing outcry over Lieutenant John Pike, the University of California at Davis policeman spraying peaceful student demonstrators at point-blank range.

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Facebook now lets you add tags to photos before they’re finished uploading.

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Facebook users have gone posting rants about Kim Kardashian a couple of weeks ago to calling for the E! channel to take her entire clan off the air.

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By now you’ve probably seen at least one post or news about a rash of pornographic images that flooded Facebook’s news feeds, along with some violent photos as well. But how did content expressly prohibited by the site proliferate on the social network?

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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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Late last month, Facebook introduced the ability for users with the new timeline profile to time-stamp their status updates. That capability has been extended to photos, as well.

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Research keeps pouring in supporting the use of photos in Facebook posts in order to improve engagement.

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Creatively carved pumpkins are getting a lot of play in Facebook news feeds, as users reshare their favorite images related to Halloween.

Here are some of the most popular images of pumpkins on Facebook. Feel free to share with us in the comments section any you think we might have missed.

Facebook Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg got a special visit from this pumpkin, which happens to be his nephew.

Timeline profiles now include a tiny clock icons in the window for publishing status updates.

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Most likely photo uploading to Facebook will outdo the more than 1.2 billion images that went up last year at this time — ten times the number that got uploaded for Halloween in 2008.

Exactly how much that number will grow remains a tough call.

About a year ago, the site had around 600 million members and today membership exceeds 800 million, but because Halloween is largely a U.S. holiday and Facebook’s growth occurred the most outside of the country, it would be inaccurate to forecast that 20011 would have one third more pictures than 2010.

Besides, the biggest surge in photo uploads will occur on Tuesday, not before the holiday or the day of, according to Facebook Data Scientist, Itamar Rosenn.

He said, “The day after Halloween is one of the biggest photo sharing days of the year. Our data demonstrates that Halloween is the perfect visual and social holiday to share with friends.”

Facebook pointed out that Heidi Klum is doing a Halloween promotion on Unicef’s page, enabling people to create virtual costumes while donating to charity.

Readers, how is Facebook tying into your Halloween planning, if at all?

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