While you're busy posting photos of your dinner and commenting how cold it is outside, the rest of the Facebook community is discussing the trends taking the world by storm.
It’s that time of the year, when pop culture websites and critics publish their annual Best Of lists and we heap praise on the best and most beloved movies and TV shows of the year. But what about the average moviegoer and TV-viewer? That’s where Facebook comes in. The social media site has released their top 10 movies and top 10 TV shows of the year, based on the most discussed titled of 2014. While some are fairly obvious, the lists might surprise you and inspire you to contemplate the overlap between what’s popular and what’s actually good.
We've all heard stories about people getting arrested for something dumb that they posted on Facebook. Here's a list of 10 popular stories that got some people in some serious trouble for their facebooking actions.
Flint Police are about to start "slut shaming" the whole city by posting the names and faces of suspected prostitutes and johns on their Facebook page.
Everyone has probably seen an unusual message from one of your Facebook friends and may not have realized their account was hacked until it was too late. I've been through this a few times, so I decided to have some fun with it -- see my exchange with a hacker here.
Prompted by an incident where I saw a woman challenge another woman holding a baby to a fight, I asked our Facebook friends what the "Flint-est" thing they've seen lately was. As usual, the results were hilarious and depressing all at once -- see the highlights/lowlights here.
I've spent a lot of my time on Facebook as well as other social networking sites but I never really thought about how it was affecting the inner me. It's best said in this video, "we are sacrificing conversation for connection", therefore leaving us connected but alone. Here is the connection between social networking sites and being lonely.
Facebook remained the king of all social media websites in 2013. While there were a lot less game invites this year, there were plenty of other annoying scams and trends to take their place. This is our list of the things that were most bothersome on FB...
Well I must be doing something right. Today while going through messages on the Banana Facebook page, I stumbled across this message from a listener. While most people would take this to heart and be sad, I welcome such emails.