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Yeah, that’s right. History is still here guys. Preserved through time on stone tablets and cave paintings. Archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient hard drive from the sands of Egypt. And held on that hard drive was an archive of the Facebook statuses that changed history. In part II of Facebook history, Cool Material explores The Crusades, Pearl Harbor, the parting ...

While the talks heat up about the future of Foursquare in the wake of Facebook Places’ choppy launch, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley tweeted that yesterday set a new company record in terms of new user signups. While this can largely be attributed to Foursquare’s newly found nook in the media following the launch of Places, it bears repeating that Facebook ...

#Some people just @don’t understand the lingo of the internet. Particularly people who are unaffiliated with the ways of Twitter. Hash tags certainly don’t require a degree in rocket science to understand. Most people can usually get the point after seeing a few statuses including the elusive “#” symbol. Most people. This Facebook user is not most people. I’m pretty ...

In the beginning, God created Facebook. So stop taking all of the credit, Mr. Zuckerberg. You’ve been exposed. Historical figures have been using Facebook to embarrass themselves since creation, all the way up to modern history and everywhere in between. Need more proof? Hit the jump to see some of the most historical status updates in the history of history.

Cracked offers a helpful little rule-of-thumb for determining rather you should like a Facebook page or not. It’s easy enough really. Just ask yourself “Would I talk about this on a date?” Seriously though, consider whether you’d include the page topic in conversation on a first date or just talking with a friend, and then reconsider. So, what does it ...

The internet’s social landscape is constantly in a state of transition. Five years ago, no one would have imagined the massive popularity of Facebook or the complete deterioration and mass migration of MySpace and its users. But the Social Networking Map doesn’t lie or play games, and Facebook is clearly the new superpower. Just to give Facebook’s meteoric rise some ...

Nothing expresses your apathy to your friends’ benign lives quiet like a quick and concise ‘meh.’ And I can’t think of a better place to display said apathy then everyone’s favorite place to celebrate their most intimate of useless tidbits. “John likes Adam Sandler.” Meh. “Why did you have to break my heart?” Meh. “*insert song lyrics here*” Meh. But ...

This is why Facebook was invented. The entire progression of the Facebook UI has led up to this moment. I expect Mark Zuckerberg will announce the discontinuation of the site’s development later on in the day, having finally reached their ultimate goal. Facebook’s a hell of a drug. As I’ve said before, I’m not much of a Facebook gamer, but ...

Simply ask “How is babby formed?” Spoilers after the jump.

A pack of brilliant Turkish pranksters decided to use Facebook’s use of crowd-sourced linguistics for their own benefit. A group of clever hackers congregated on the Inci S�zl�k message board and launched a full-scale attack on the Turkish branch of Facebook’s language translation interface, which relies on crowd-sourcing to improve the lingustics of the non-English Facebook translated pages. Hilarity ensued. ...