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Facebook was littered with funny little stories on the 1st of April.  Did you get in on the fun as well?  I read somewhere some women announced they were expecting, some friends were adopting a child from China; another said that he had rechecked his lottery ticket and had actually won!  He even posted a Photoshopped picture of his lottery ticket.

If you spend any of your work hours checking sites like Facebook, you aren’t alone. A new study says more than half of employees do just that when they should be working instead.

Sadly, he did not live in St. Ives, but Alan O’Neill did, in fact, have two wives. The really sad thing, though, is that it wasn’t because he was cheating. He had two wives because he was lazy and passive aggressive.

Many employers these days readily admit to scoping out the social media profiles of potential hires during the interview process. But what if all that Googling could be replaced with a single ID scan from a card you carry in your wallet?

Now that people are getting more used to being on social networks like Facebook they seem to be getting more picky about whom they are sharing their information with. According to a survey from the Pew Research Center, 63 percent of social media network users removed people from their friend rolls in 2011, which was up from the 56 percent of those who did so in 2009.

Family dinners for one Minnesota clan probably got a lot more uncomfortable after an uncle was sued for posting embarrassing photos of his nephew on Facebook. Unfortunately for the embarrassed nephew, it seems that a district court says the lawsuit has no merit.

Unless you have a lot of spare time on your hands and enjoy reading privacy policies and terms of use, there are probably many things about Facebook that you aren’t aware of. Here are ten things you probably didn’t know about the agreement between you (the user) and Facebook.

PARENTS THERE IS SOME MILD PG-17 LANGUAGE IN THIS VIDEO Kids this video should serve as a lesson to you and your habit of posting something on Facebook and thinking your parents will never see it. Here is a video of a father as he teaches his teen a lesson in tough love after her lengthy critique of her parents on Facebook. SERIOUSLY KIDS WISE UP parents ALWAYS will find out!

There are people who love Facebook and people who love Twitter — and now scientists think they’ve discovered why those preferences exist, and what they say about the people who hold them.

It took about three months, but 106 dedicated fans of the game Fronterville have posted over one million comments on a single Facebook post, setting what they believe is a Guinness World record.

Like it or not, Facebook users are soon going to be transferred to the Timeline layout, if they haven’t been already. According to a new survey from security firm Sophos, not too many folks are liking the mandatory change.

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