Facebook Increases Maximum Status Update Length To 63,206 Characters

Maximum length of a Facebook status update has just been increased to 63,206 characters. 

In July 2011, Facebook already stretched the limit to 500 characters, followed by an increase to 5,000 in September. Starting yesterday, you can post status updates that are roughly equivalent to:

• 32 pages (the size of a standard picture book)
• 8800 words
• A 9th of a standard novel
• 451 maxed out Tweets

Facebook Timeline Shows Who Unfriended You On Facebook

A useful but probably unintended side effect of the new Timeline profile, is that it allows you to very easily see who unfriended you on Facebook over the past few years.

UPDATE: Facebook addressed this issue and removed all ‘lost’ friends from the yearly new friends lists. Consider the instructions below obsolete.

1) Select a year in the sidebar (TIP: Start with the year you joined Facebook and work your way to 2011)

2) Look for the Friends box that shows how many new friends you made

3) Click on the number of new friends

4) Those with an “Add Friend” button next to them are the people who unfriended you (or where unfriended by you)

5) Feel bad all day wondering why X unfriended you back in 2007.

Automate Your Facebook Birthday Wishes

Sending out automated birthday wishes on Facebook might be the most antisocial thing you can do, but will that keep you from using the HappyBirthday Chrome Extension ?

After the browser extension is installed, your automatic wall posts are randomly selected from a list of customizable birthday messages so you can’t be accused of a lazy copy-paste job (while in reality, you’re doing something far worse). Make sure you change those automatic presets though and give them more of your personal voice.

What? No inspiration? Surely, you can’t be that lazy!

» Install the HappyBirthday extension (requires Google Chrome).

» Install the original Italian version of the HappyBirthday extension (requires Italian speaking friends).

Facebook's going down by November 5

The more Facebook seems to dominate the world, the closer it seems to be to its end.

Earlier this year, there was dastardly nonsense being peddled that Facebook would shut down March 15. However, now we have news of an apparently credible threat.

It comes from Anonymous, the interesting group of people who express their principles in an activist way by infiltrating the systems of the unsuspecting or the merely complacent.

The Village Voice has pointed me to an Anonymous press release that states quite unequivocally that Facebook is going to get it on November 5.

Should that date not be dear to you, it is the day when British people let off fireworks to commemorate Guy Fawkes, a man who felt the passionate need to detonate Britain's Houses of Parliament.

For those who haven't bothered with British history (short version: a lot of colonizing, eating meat, and pretending to be friendly), you might have seen Guy Fawkes immortalized in the fine movie "V For Vendetta".

Anonymous' press release is candid to its core. It declares: "If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy."

It then offers an interesting accusation: "Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria."

There follows a hearty disquisition about how Facebook allegedly owns your information, regardless of whether you delete your account, and makes money from it.

Anonymous makes very clear which side it believes Facebook has made its bed and laid its skateboard. It says: "Facebook is the opposite of the Antisec cause. You are not safe from them nor from any government. One day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right, you will thank the rulers of the internet, we are not harming you but saving you."

Facebook You Versus Real You

When Smosh saw THE FACEBOOK YOU comic, they agreed that people present themselves online differently than how they really are. But why stop there, when there are at least a dozen of other examples to prove that point ?

Mark Zuckerberg is red-green color blind !!!!

Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg is red-green color blind. "Blue is the richest color for me. I can see all of blue," he tells Vargas.
He is not able to distinguish red or green so he is chose facebook theme color to be blue.

How far are you willing to go to check your Facebook ?

Manatee County Sheriff’s officers say a 19-year-old man snatched a Starbucks customer’s laptop after being told he could not use it to check his Facebook account.

According to officers, Corey Kinney then grabbed the customer’s laptop and ran out of the coffee shop, located in an outlet mall. Two people in the parking lot tackled Kinney in the parking lot and held him there until a mall security guard arrived. The victim got his laptop back and Kinney was charged Saturday with robbery by sudden snatching, a felony.