Profile pictures often provide the first impression Facebook users make on other users viewing their profiles. Some are serious, some not so much. MyLife shared this humorous look at 10 types of profile pictures and what they mean.
Vine has added sound and motion to the popular microblogging website, Twitter. Learn how to bring your information to life in our Vine webcast on Wednesday, June 19 from 4-5 pm ET. In this one-hour webcast, Gemma Craven (left), EVP, New York group director at Social@Ogilvy will discuss best practices for using the visual social platform and share some of her team's successful vine videos. Register here. 
Facebook is now allowing users to upload and suggest photos to be used as profile pictures for pages that have not been claimed by page administrators, sister blog Inside Facebook reported.
The box art for Capcom’s upcoming game offering, Resident Evil Revelations, features one of the main characters, Jill Valentine, fearfully looking through a porthole. Now, by using new Facebook application Face on Board, the game’s Facebook fans can swap places with Valentine.
As the recent tragedy in Boston showed, Facebook can be a valuable resource for journalists looking to spread the news, as well as to connect with readers and sources. Facebook recently published a thorough guide outlining the best practices for reporters on the social network.
On March 26, several people all over Facebook changed their profile photos to red and light-shaded equality signs in support of the Human Rights Campaign and same-sex marriage. While Facebook couldn’t track specifically the numbers of those who changed their profile pictures to this image, the site’s data science team tracked how many users changed their profile photos that day — an increase of 120 percent.
Droid does it: Facebook announced a press event at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday (April 4), with the invite reading, “Come See Our New Home on Android.”
Facebook users who are puzzled by seeing red equal signs all over their News Feeds, here’s what they’re all about: With the Supreme Court hearing arguments Tuesday on California’s Proposition 8, which mandates that the state recognize only marriages between men and women, Human Rights Campaign is urging Facebook users who support same-sex marriage to change their profile pictures to the red equal sign image.
Facebook’s Thursday blitz of mobile announcements for both the iOS and Android platforms continued with news that software development kit Facebook SDK 3.0 for Android is now out of beta.
If you’re entering your final year of school, you have probably been told over and over and over that your Facebook profile can have an impact, positive or negative, on whether or not you are hired.
Facebook released its new software development kit with support for the social network’s integration into Apple’s iOS 6, Facebook SDK 3.1 for iOS.
