Awesome Facebook

Learn to get the most out of Facebook with this series of 11 online courses from The Awesomer Shop. Among the lessons, you’ll learn about building and engaging an audience, creating Facebook ads and boosted posts that perform, and using Facebook Messenger as a marketing tool.

To help deploy high-speed Internet access to rural areas, Facebook Engineering has been developing a robot which can ride along on existing power lines to install fiber optic cables, saving time and money compared to conventional methods such as digging. The system uses with special cables which resist weather damage.

Over a billion people use Facebook every day. If you want to reach your audience online, you can’t ignore those kind of numbers. This series of online courses will teach you how to build a Facebook following, create engaging content, and market with Facebook Ads. Another great deal from The Awesomer Shop.

“Anytime you combine 2 billion people in one location, people are gonna exploit that for money, power and influence.” After looking into how YouTube and Twitter are abused, SmarterEveryDay looks at the worst spot of manipulation online: Facebook.

(PG-13: Language) “When I’m conquering MySpace… It’s actual SPACE, man. Two giants of technology face off in a battle for the modern age, as the innovative, yet controversial duo brag about their achievements, in this satirical rap about their two very different styles.

Facebook’s Portal and Portal+ are tablets specialized for video chat. They use AI to determine when to zoom, and in the case of the Portal+, to pan as well. They also feature music sharing via iHeart Radio, Pandora and Spotify, and have Amazon Alexa built-in.

“So when I have The Facebook, do I also have the Internet?” Bad Lip Reading pokes fun at the congressional hearings of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, replacing the often uncomfortable and uninformed interrogation with an similarly awkward series of questions and answers.

YouTuber Hot Dad pokes fun at some of the oblivious folks out there who for some reason think that posting on the Google Search App Facebook page is how you search the web, and decided to turn some of their absurd queries into a little song.

(PG-13 Language) Materialisimo demolishes the endless stream low-quality, freebooted, text-embellished videos which fill our Facebook feeds these days. Regardless of what you think of them, we blame Facebook for encouraging this crap with their algorithm.

Screen Junkies smacks down Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s film about the world’s largest social network, which apparently was started by some of the most antisocial people on the planet. Er wait, is this entire movie Fake News? Time to rework the algorithm.

(PG-13: Language) CollegeHumor roasts the trend of Facebook pages who freeboot videos, then wrap them in text which attempts to explain what’s going on. We understand that Facebook gives bonus points to anything that nabs video views, but damn, it’s annoying.

Adam Ruins Everything digs a little deeper into the obvious – that free online services sell our data to advertisers. On one hand, targeted ads sustain the free stuff we enjoy (like this website). On the other hand, we don’t know just how much of our data is kept and by whom.

To celebrate its 12th year, Facebook rolled out Friends Day Video, which automatically puts up to 16 photos of you and your friends into one video. The site warns that you may not get one if you “don’t have enough content.” Tell that to Redditor Hey_Mike’s friend Tyler.

The folks behind the fantastic YouTube channel Kurzgesagt present yet another argument about how Facebook encourages a culture of content theft against original creators, where pirates duplicate videos, and get huge traffic from Facebook’s skewed video sharing algorithm.

(PG-13 Language) It happens to all of us who use Facebook. We see that it’s a friend’s birthday and try to post something that someone else hasn’t already said. CollegeHumor envisions how this would work in the real world.

More satirical art from Pawel Kuczynski. These illustrations symbolize the different aspects of Facebook, such as its power to spread and gather information and how it’s become an alternative to real life interaction.

Does the number of Likes on a Facebook page mean anything anymore? Veritasium presents damning evidence that Facebook’s “targeted” advertising service can be as illegitimate, useless and harmful as illegal like-boosting farms.

For its 10th anniversary, Facebook is giving its users a chance to look back on the highlights of their activities on the social network. Tripp and Tyler imagine what an honest retrospective of their account would be like.

Paper offers an alternative way to interact with your Facebook feed. Taking cues from the popular news-reading app Flipboard, Paper features a clean interface dominated by gestures instead of buttons. Available for iOS on 3/2/14.

A gospel choir passionately teaches its church members important lessons about the dangers of sharing too much on social media – through song. Next Sunday’s lesson: “Keep yo smartphone horizontal when shooting videos!”

Extremely Decent Films takes us on a tour of the latest update to Facebook – if Facebook was the bank that held the mortgage on your home. In all seriousness, can’t these guys stop messing with things for a while?

All of the elements are amusing, but we like that clear face panel the most on the Social Shower Curtain; it’s an amusing gift idea for social media hounds or anyone who lives their life online.

At first glance, you might think you were looking at some sort of organic lifeform in a petri dish, but these videos are data visualizations of content being shared virally from George Takei’s Facebook page.