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It took about three months, but 106 dedicated fans of the game Fronterville have posted over one million comments on a single Facebook post, setting what they believe is a Guinness World record.

Like it or not, Facebook users are soon going to be transferred to the Timeline layout, if they haven’t been already. According to a new survey from security firm Sophos, not too many folks are liking the mandatory change.

With the holidays fast approaching and patience time running short, TheFW.com would like to take one item off your list of seasonal chores. Please enjoy and share these light-hearted holiday images and video clips with everyone on your “Nice” list. (And then break out the boxed wine.) Warm wishes from the FW.com family to yours!

If you recently lost a slew of Facebook friends, it probably wasn’t a glitch. Go back and look at your timeline because the chances are good it’s your own fault. That’s what a new study from Nielsen seems to indicate anyway. The group surveyed about 2,000 adults to learn why Facebook users add and remove friends, and the results may surprise you.

After a few months in private trials, Facebook launched its Timeline feature to the masses on Thursday. In a nutshell, it lets you view people’s photos and status updates from days long past instead of just showing you what they’ve done or posted most recently. Basically, it’s the Facebook equivalent of being forced to look through your friends’ childhood scrapbooks. Intrigued? Here’s what you nee

Did you know that any message sent to you on Facebook which isn’t from a friend or a friend of a friend gets filtered into an “other” subfolder? Most people don’t, and this means you probably have dozens of messages sitting on your Facebook page that you’ve never looked at before.

White girls. If you are on Facebook, there’s a good chance you are friends with a whole bunch of them. Mary (a white girl herself) has been studying the social media habits of her Caucasian sisters, and has published a list of ’15 of  Things White Girls Love To Do On Facebook’ on her blog Fibromy-Awesome.

He got kicked off a plane, stormed Twitter and… now what? The majority of us by know already know about the whole Alec Baldwin-American Airlines fiasco, but the actor may have left out a few crucial details. According to American Airlines, Alec Baldwin wasn’t thrown off the flight simply for playing ‘Words With Friends’ on his cell phone, as the actor had alleged in a series of Tweets.

Frustrations over Facebook’s lax privacy policies have risen quite high in recent times, which makes the fact that someone was able to hack the social site and make public some of Mark Zuckerberg’s private photos all the more satisfying.

The turkeys staff members here at TheFW are thankful for our fabulous readers and want to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving! In the spirit of the season, we’d like to offer a cornucopia of Thanksgiving greetings for you to post and share with the butterballs loved ones in your life. Gobble Gobble!

Facebook plans to enter into the smart phone market in the next 12-18 months with a phone that they have codenamed ‘Buffy.’ And, yes, that’s because Mark Zuckerberg and company thinks the device will be an iPhone slayer.

Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media sites have changed the way young people interact with each other, but according to a survey from Poll Position, the majority of Americans don’t think this has been a change for the better.