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Snag Your Free OneRiot Tee

2/22/10 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under OneRiot Community

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Valentines Day may have been over a week ago, but we still want to share the love.

We just wanted to thank our community and the hundreds of people who have become fans of OneRiot on Facebook.  Our fan page is a place where we not only post news, blogs, and more, but is also a space where we encourage discussion and feedback from OneRiot users.  Your thoughts and ideas are always appreciated, which is why we want to send you a little thank-you in the shape of a shirt.

“So get to it already, how do I get my free tee?”

Good question

  • If you’re already a Facebook fan, just email Jhodges@OneRiot.com your name and where you’d like the shirt sent.
  • If you’re not yet a fan, but still want the shirt–fan us on Facebook, and follow the above instructions.

We’ll verify that you are indeed on our Facebook page, (and not some super scammer hitting us up for our amazing shirts,) and get one out to you asap.  Painless eh?

Extra love points to you if you send us a picture wearing it.  Don’t you want your stylin’ pic on Facebook?  You know you love being tagged…..

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The Oldest Profession In Social Media

12/03/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Hot Topics
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The Story: Has Facebook infiltrated all areas of your life? Can’t stop Tweeting? Let OneRiot help determine if it’s time for you to join a 12 step social media withdrawal program.

The Search: Facebook Wedding

Social media status updates are the new status symbol and aspiring social media mavens from Hialeah, Florida to Hong Kong can’t seem to give enough day to day play-by-play for their horde of eager and sometimes completely disinterested followers. Recently, an Abingdon, MD man brought his wedding to a stand still in order to update his facebook relationship status and tweet his knot tying, thereby cementing his status as a social media whore.  So what makes someone fall into the social media whore category?  We here at OneRiot have compiled a list of some of the tell-tale signs…er symptoms that you may be practicing the world’s oldest profession over the Internet.

You May Kiss The…- Any historic event in your life that you take time out to turn into a status update rather than enjoy the visceral experience of being there speaks volumes of your digital prostitution.  If something is worth recounting, the story you’ll tell later will be better than the 140 characters you’re currently conveying.

Cewebrity- Your fame is based on your ability to social network. Hello Tila Tequila.

We’re Engaged- Instead of telling any of your friends you’re engaged, you just change your relationship status on Facebook.

The Menu- Your friends and followers can list all of the meals you’ve eaten in the past two weeks because you’ve tweeted or made status updates about all of them.  The catch is, you’re not a food critic. (more…)

Facebook Changes: For the People, By the People

12/02/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Industry

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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…)

Oxford Gets Unfriend-ly

11/17/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Hot Topics

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The Story: The Oxford American Dictionary has chosen “unfriending” as its word of the year.  OneRiot gives our pick for other 2009 candidates.

The Search: Oxford Dictionary

Having 825 Facebook friends can often be a burden.  The constant string of unwarranted and obnoxious status updates can drive a social networker absolutely batty. Treading lightly and keeping a finger on the “remove connection” button has become such a necessity in our digital society that the act of eliminating said connection a.k.a. “unfriending” has now emerged as a predominant daily quandary for the net set. Though this writer prefers to refer to it as de-friending, the Oxford American dictionary has chosen to recognize the former term as its “word of the year.”  In celebration of the emergence of such popular new verbiage, we here at OneRiot thought it a good idea to proclaim our favorite words that have recently worked their way into the lexicon.

1. DVR- We know it’s only three letters, but along with Tivo these letters have managed to save our television viewing lives from an onslaught of car commercials, because who buys a car based on a commercial anyway?

2. Sexting- There’s no word that sounds like what it means more…and it means good times or getting expelled from high school. (more…)

The Many Faces of Facebook

11/11/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Hot Topics

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The Story: Your Facebook profile pic is a scientific look at your character perception.  OneRiot helps decode your mysterious avatar.

The Search: Facebook

In the nonchalant early days of Facebook, your favorite movie was listed as ‘porn’, your hobbies included ‘getting totally wasted’, and your picture was a captured moment of youthful irreverence, perhaps depicting you watching porn and getting wasted. When you read that news story about a guy who got fired because his employer had somehow discovered Facebook and seen the capsule of your misbehavior known as a ‘Profile’, your page got a makeover that depicted you as a gentle-person and listed your refinements (it doesn’t matter that you made these changes while sitting around drinking a beer and watching adult entertainment). Now, a study confirms that the first impressions given by your picture have an effect on how you are perceived by others. In our world of social media and the diminished need for actual contact, this is more relevant than ever. (more…)

Glory Be // Pope Hits Facebook, iPhone with Pope2You Aps

5/22/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Hot Topics

Facebook sinners, prepare to saddled with massive amounts of Catholic guilt for all of your social networking indiscretions. While you previously only had to answer to your stalker friends who might be inclined to comment on every damnable offense apparent in your profile photos, now you’ll have to answer to a much higher power: His Holiness.

That’s right, el Popo is on Facebook - and he wants to be your friend. While some of the Catholic Church’s policies might be rooted as far back as the 1st century, that doesn’t mean they’re unable to bring religion coasting into the Twenty First with a hot new application. The Pope2You page allows users to send their friends and enemies virtual postcards with photos of the Pope Benedict XVI staring directly at them. If this doesn’t get them running to confession, at least it’ll be a fun tool to use to let your roommate know that you’re well aware of his solo indulgence in the pleasures of the flesh the previous evening. That’ll be “two Hail Marys” and three “our fathers.” Sinner.

Lo & BeHOLD ON… Mom’s on Facebook?!

4/13/09 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under Industry

If you know what’s good for you, you’ll delete those keg-stand pics and put that pink-panties frat-party album on “private.” While Facebook used to be a safe-haven for teens behaving badly, a dark menacing army has infiltrated it’s way into the bowels of Facebook, slowly taking over the social networking site. Their numbers are huge, and their will is strong. Yes my young friends, beware of threatening parentals who are seeking to destroy all that is co-ed in our beloved Facebook.

In the last few months, this older crowd has been taking to the social at a faster rate than any other age demographic. While they benevolently claim it’s to more efficiently stay in tune with the lives of children and grandchildren, we all know deep down that the real reason is to keep an eye out for shenanigans that their offspring may be partaking in. Currently there are now about 1.5 million female users older than 55 on the social site, which roughly translates to a 550% increase over six months ago (and we’re going to assume that only a small fraction of those women are cougars purely out on the prowl). Growth in the same period for the under 25 crew was only up a tinsy 20%. If this trend continues, Facebook life as we know it is sure to cease. This may be a good time to point out the site’s privacy features, which can be found here.

Author’s Note: While I am confident that my mother will read this blog, I would like to take a moment and assure her that I, myself, am not currently hiding any pictures or posts from her on Facebook. I swear mom.

What An Open Web We Weave

3/10/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Industry

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.

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