Feb 04
Facebook, the world’s most widely used social network, celebrates its 10th anniversary today. Here’s a look back at a decade’s worth of innovation.
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Oct 02
Make Your Embarrassing Old Facebook Posts Unsearchable With This Quick Tweak
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This week, Facebook tweaked Graph Search so that it can search posts, photos, check-ins, and comments. Basically, any word you’ve written on Facebook.com is now searchable. Here’s how to keep those potentially embarrassing posts, photos, check-ins, and comments from coming …
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Oct 01
As of yesterday, Facebook Graph Search has officially opened its big, omniscient arms
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Aug 15
Facebook’s Graph Search now makes it possible for others to see which apps you use. Disable that functionality with a few steps.
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Aug 07
A good seven months after Facebook announced the Facebook Graph Search feature, here we are with word that will definitely keep fans of the social network happy – especially those who happen rely on US English as their heart language. Facebook Graph Search is now officially available for the entire gamut of US English users.
Facebook begun to make available Graph Search to US English users from the beginning of July, and that happened to be a gradual rollout, which was why efforts were made to ensure that from today onwards, Facebook Graph Search will be available across the board to those who have set their language set to US English.
Just what is Facebook Graph Search all about? This particular tool was specially designed to assist social networkers work out complex searches on the website depending on a quartet of categories – namely People, Places, Photos and Interests. We did come up with our fair share and thoughts on what Facebook Graph Search is as well as its implications, so you might want to dive here for a little bit more context.
Facebook Graph Search Available For All US English Users original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jul 16
“The story of your life.”
With that phrase, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the company’s new Timeline profile in the fall of 2011. The social network’s original profile page, he explained, was the first place where most people “felt safe expressing their real self” on the internet, but it was only the “first five minutes of your conversation.” A major redesign in 2008 extended that to “the next 15 minutes.” Timeline, though, was the “next few hours.” Your true self, in full.
To illustrate the point, Zuckerberg went on to show a promotional video that put This Is Your Life to shame by recapping one man’s life from his own birth to the birth of his child (and then some) in just over a minute. Facebook has always wanted to be your online identity — your internet, in many ways — but it was now also bringing something else to the fore that once had a tendency to fade into the background; your memories.
Jul 08
Mar 08
Facebook showed us its new News Feed yesterday. It’s as pretty as anyone could have hoped, and a wonderful update to the design. But lost in the big images and new feeds was a pretty major change that actually started weeks ago: The first thing you look at on Facebook’s page has moved. More »
Feb 23
Graph Search is Facebook’s bold new way of browsing the social network, letting you call up photos of your family in California, restaurants your friends like in New York, or any public updates from Gizmodo employees who also like hot air ballooning. It’s currently only available to a limited number of users, but it’s coming to your timeline soon. And in the wrong hands, it can be the ultimate stalker search engine. More »
Jan 29
As The Register learned, in part of an ongoing effort to turn Facebook into its own, closed little ecosystem, Zuck’s empire has closed off public events to, well, the public. Account-holding stalkers only, please. More »
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