Get Rid of Annoying Facebook Features

A lot of people are annoyed by some of the features implemented by facebook a few months ago, such as the news ticker and the strip of friends on the right, with one or two of them available for chat. This slideshow from mashable.com shows you slick tricks for reversing some of these. While at mashable, you may wish to check out the latest news on facebook timeline, also with ways to lessen the blow of the changes.

Finding Jobs Through Social Networking?

Mashable.com posted an enlightening and surprising story and series of infographics on the modest but growing number of people who have landed jobs via social networking sites. See if you can pry yourself away from facebook long enough to read it.

Google Enters Social Networking with Google+

Having failed on three previous occasions, Google is trying again to enter the social networking fracas with Google+, a new social networking site in "invite only" phase.

One of the crucial ways in which it differs from facebook is that it doesn't mash all your contacts together. Instead it creates circles, into which you divide your various acquaintances. That way you can complain about work without co-workers seeing it, send family vacation pictures to just family, etc.

It seems quite similar to facebook, though, and this salon.com feature gives a roundup of the assessments of a bunch of tech pundits.

Soon you may be invited to try it out!

FOR, Apr. 30: Facebook Box

This week's Featured Online Resource is not exactly an online resource, but something you'd have to buy, and something that is either a hoax or just more bizarre than the objects of most hoaxes.

The facebook box is a handsome little printer/ticker-tape machine that you hook up to your computer. It prints out every item in your facebook news feed, apparently on separate little ticker squares. It then stores these, so that when you want to throw them all away in a few weeks, you'll know where they are.

Time Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg

They really re-touched his freckles: Here's the brand new online issue of Time, christening facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg the Person of the Year. As for the green lizard eyes, I was going to make a joke about the Geico Gecko, but I found out he has brown eyes. Pretty brown eyes.