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There's a funny thing about parents and technology. That being a majority of moms and dads are pretty tech unsavvy without the help of us internet-obsessed younger folk. And while parental struggles can be frustrating at times, their attempts to get in the techy loop are mostly just hilarious. This is particularly true with Facebook.

How many times have you "liked" your favorite college basketball team on Facebook since March Madness kicked in? Well thanks to the good people at Facebook, we can now see which team is more popular based purely on Facebook "likes." They have compiled all the "likes" that the tournament teams have and put them on a color coded map, showing you exactly which team each

Yesterday we learned that more and more people are taking long breaks from Facebook. If they're not getting paid for these social network hiatuses they may be doing it wrong.

Facebook is trying out a new charge for messaging people that you are not friends with. Mark Zuckerburg is apparently the way they are testing this out. Before you start typing up your message, you may want to hit up the bank.

Back when Facebook was just about college students and the recently graduated it was great for getting back in touch with high school friends that you had lost contact with for a few years. But now that everybody and their grandmother is on the social network, the reunions Facebook enables have started to become really impressive.

The daytime talk show host went through the Facebook pages of her audience members prior to a show taping.

Kids Lesson one: Do not drink and drive. Lesson two: Do not brag about drinking and driving on Facebook.

In a tragic example of why guns, alcohol and social media don't mix, a woman accidentally shot and killed her brother while posing for a Facebook photo early in the morning on New Year's Day.

If you've been on Facebook over the last few days, you've probably seen that some of your friends have posted a copyright notice as their status update. The message suggests that the poster has copyrighted all the material on their Facebook page thanks to the authority of something called the Berner Convention. Here is the full text of the update:

If you're wondering whether Facebook got the message about curbing the creepy, stalker-ish stuff - no, they haven't. Facebook just started rolling out brand new couples pages. They didn't ask first, you can't delete them, and you can't opt out...

Parents of Texoma, I am not giving you any ideas. I can guarantee if you do what these parents did when their daughter gave them attitude you wont have any problems for long.

Thanks to Facebook, we can now "like" just about anything on the internet. But what if you more than "like" something you see on the Web? What if you "want" it too? Soon there may be a special button for that.