April Fool's Day on Facebook 2007

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April Fool's Day on Facebook 2007

Posted by: Cary ()

Date: April 01, 2007 04:21AM

For those that don't know, upon logging into Facebook you are presented with a "feed" with all the recent updates your friends have made. A typical feed looks like this:

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Usually this section is filled with boring crap about people you only half care about, but this year Facebook got creative and snuck some comic relief in there!

The first hint that something's amiss was this Orwellian reminder that Facebook knows everything about you:

Followed by this Grey's Anatomy reference that I didn't get:

AN OREGON TRAIL REFERENCE!? HELL YES! This one took the cake:

Fat chance:

Facebook allows you to list your relationship status, which usually has a little heart icon, not a lightning bolt:

Hah! My second favorite. Usually you can "poke" people instead of sending them a message. Now you can REALLY poke people! Too bad the link goes nowhere:

I'd rate this as the #3 best gag of April Fools this year (so far) behind Google and ThinkGeek. But then again it's only 4am so we'll see what happens.

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Re: April Fool's Day on Facebook 2007

Posted by: V ()

Date: May 16, 2022 10:58PM

Cary, go check on your spambots.

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