
$100 to Message Mark Zuckerberg. Is Facebook Getting All Desperate, or Smart?
Charging users to message prominent users, without giving a cut of the share to these people, is a slippery slope.

Charging users to message prominent users, without giving a cut of the share to these people, is a slippery slope.

Admit it, you love attention. Attention means everything to you, be it for any legitimate reason and noble cause, or just because you are a so-called attention whore. Facebook has been made for catching people's attention - so why not hone your Facebook attention whoring skills using these tips.

Social media, as any other tool, can be used both to help, and to hurt people. In the past four years, the number of complaints police received about alleged crimes that were linked to Twitter and Facebook increased by 780%. As a direct result, around 650 people were charged last year.

Google, ChatGPT, Reddit, TikTok, food press, OpenTable/Resy, Yelp. Seven surfaces where restaurant reviews live in 2026 — and what operators must do across all of them.

As if stealing our photos and trying to sell them to advertisers via its alter-ego Instagram wasn’t enough, Facebook has taken its relentless pursuit of profits to even more extreme levels - asking certain users to pay to send messages to ‘non-friends’ and ‘ensure’ they don’t end up being labeled as spam.

Moxie Software, Inc. announced today the release of the Engage+ App, a social chat application for customer sales and service that leverages Facebook’s API. This app is available with Chat Spaces™ and enables companies to have engaging discussions with fans and, based on their profile, to deliver personalized offers and better interaction experiences.

Marketers should go beyond likes and shares or retweets/repins as main criteria in measuring social media ROI. In order to provide content that is indeed relevant to fans and followers, marketers need to have access to relevant metrics that offer comprehensive real-time insights on conversations about their brands and products across different social media networks. The newly launched Digital Channel Intelligence (DCI) solution from NetBase provides such valuable information in real time from several social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest and others.

Private Facebook users are given a 'Promote' button next to the ones for 'Share' and 'Like,' where they're given the option to pay $7 to make sure that a post reaches a higher percentage of their friends by bumping it up in news feeds and making it stick around longer. What does this mean for business, and how can you take advantage of this new Facebook advertising channel?

I'm sure everyone thinks that MIT researchers are worthy of appreciation and always work on inventing new and useful things. Well, after an invention announced today I have to say that this will be only partly true, as these researchers just invented the Like-A-Hug Jacket that gives its owner a hug when they receive a Like on Facebook.

The number one social network of the moment seems to have some aces down its sleeve that will convince advertisers to spend more and more on Facebook ad campaigns. As anyone probably knows, there are many debates around Facebook and the effectiveness of advertising on this network.