The Story: Little Facebook tweaks are not the kind of changes we want to see.  If you’re going to do Facebook updates Matt, give the people what they want.

The Search: Facebook Changes

As the Facebook community grows, it appears more and more like a nation, with terms and conditions as a constitution, pictures as currency, and people looking for lewd examples of currency as the peace keepers. It’s true for each individual citizen as well. Relationships rise and fall over status updates and picture comments. Lovers quarrel over relationship status, and friendships tear apart over the act of unfriending. Seeing how personally people take changes to the social networking site, Mark Zuckerburg and the Rulers of the Face Kingdom try and incorporate peoples desires into Facebook. This democratic process has led to many changes, well-received and hated alike. Today, Zuckerburg announced more changes to the geographical networking aspect. To many, these updates are the last thing we care bout. How about some real change, Zuckerburg? Isn’t that what you promised in your 2008 campaign to become president of Facebook? Here’s stuff we want to see.

The Dislike Button
Is 3,728,544 votes not enough to get you clowns to add a dislike button? C’mon, we know you know what we want. Is it that you’re trying to keep Facebook from becoming a platform for negative confrontation? Notice that social networking sites immensely fuel phenomena like cyber bullying, the organization of violence-oriented events, and young kids talking about forms of sex that would make Dr. Ruth blush. If you really want to cut out on the mean aspect of Facebook, then cut out the source of the problem: 350 million human beings. Since we know you won’t do that, embrace your citizens and add the damn dislike button.
No More Spam Games (more…)

A stadium operations manager at Lincoln Financial Field lost his job this week for making the rookie mistake of dissing his employer, the Philadelphia Eagles, in his Facebook status update.

Dan Leone, crushed by the Eagles’ decision to let safety Brian Dawkins sign with Denver, was driven by his emotions to change his status to “Dan is [expletive] devastated about Dawkins signing with Denver … Dam Eagles R Retarted!!” The Pennsylvania Aviary for Handicapped Birds of Prey declined comment.

Rather than changing their own Facebook status to something like “The Philadelphia Eagles are going to suck ass with or without Dawkins. Have you even been watching football for the past few seasons? Dan Leone is a tool,” the Eagles decided to kick it up a notch and straight up fire Leone. The six year Eagles employee told the Inquirer that he feels he’s been ‘done dirty’ and that he is ‘devastated’, a word he clearly loves using frivolously.

As far as his future in stadium operations management for Philadelphia teams, Leone’s future looks bleak. The Phillies are doing too well to care about him, he’s afraid of ice, and he has a deep seeded loathing for Jon Bon Jovi. Luckily, Tony Luke’s is hiring, but due to the bad economy they can only pay him in their delicious, homemade mayonnaise.