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

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We’ve still got another month left of 2011 and already Facebook has supplied a list of the 40 articles shared the most on the site this year.

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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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You don’t have to administer a page on Facebook to see the newest metric for pages: the number of people talking about a page appears for both visitors and admins alike.

Displaying this metric for all to see could very well increase the amount of dialogue about already popular pages and topics — a phenomenon demonstrated by the recently added share button.

A possible downside to this: Less popular topics and pages might become more so if people can see on the page in question that a small number “are talking about this.”

It remains to be seen whether people who don’t administer pages will even notice the new metric, however. The measurement became available within Facebook’s insights for page administrators yesterday as part of an upgraded application programming interface that developers are already melding into product upgrades.

Do you find yourself more inclined to post about pages or topics that have a large number of people already discussing said item?

Thanks to Kevin Evanetski and Jesse Ferrell for pointing this out to us.

Posting complaints about every change the site makes dates back to the original launch of the news feed five years ago; but has the latest round of kvetching set a new record for Facebook?

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Facebook users are once again reposting erroneous advice in their status updates, and this time it concerns the news feeds.
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Facebook users are circulating status updates that cast roles for the first seven people listed as friends on their profiles.
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American Express is honoring the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 with a new Facebook application,  “I Will Volunteer,” that hopes to encourage the 60 percent of Americans research shows want to perform charitable acts as the 10th anniversary approaches.
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The deadliest sin of Facebook marketing is being boring. To gain fans’ attention and keep it, marketers need to create novel campaigns, or put a unique spin on familiar techniques. Otherwise, brands’ efforts are largely ignored or used by fans to score free stuff.
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