Facebook Introduces New Way To ‘Prioritize’ Your Best Friends

If you have a lot of friends on Facebook, your News Feed can be a confusing jumble of status updates, links and photos. A new update to the social network’s mobile app should alleviate that problem, though. Facebook on Thursday announced new settings that allow users to prioritize which friends and pages are featured in their News Feed. At the

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If Your Friends’ Vague Facebook Statuses Were Said IRL

“Well, that was interesting.” WHAT WAS? Is everything okay? What’s happening? These are just a few of the questions that usually arise after one of your friends post one of those vague, rather ominous Facebook statuses, providing absolutely no information and worrying the hell out of everyone. Comedy writer Jason Horton imagines what real life conversations would be like if

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This Is How Important Best Friends Really Are

“It started with secret languages, some without words.” So begins Facebook’s new advertisement that shows the importance of friendship throughout all stages of life. Published on Feb. 13, the ad is one of three 60-second commercials created by Facebook. The ad shows all different types of best friends from teenage girls laughing to young women dancing. It features the different

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Making Friends Online Could Help You Lose Weight

In the age of the social network, there’s certainly such a thing as sharing too much. But when it comes to losing weight, sharing could be key. A new Northwestern University study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface found that those who actively engage in such online communities lost a higher percentage of their body weight compared

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Beware: New Facebook Feature Makes It Easier To Find Embarrassing Posts

Facebook just made it a lot easier for your “friends” to dig up the most ridiculous stuff you’ve posted on the social network. Last week, Facebook started rolling out a new search feature that lets you search friends’ past Facebook status updates for specific keywords. The good news is you can quickly pull up posts that were previously hard to

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