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After a few months in private trials, Facebook launched its Timeline feature to the masses on Thursday. In a nutshell, it lets you view people's photos and status updates from days long past instead of just showing you what they've done or posted most recently. Basically, it's the Facebook equivalent of being forced to look through your friends' childhood scrapbooks.

Intrigued? Here's what you need to know before taking the plunge.

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Did you know that any message sent to you on Facebook which isn't from a friend or a friend of a friend gets filtered into an "other" subfolder?

Most people don't, and this means you probably have dozens of messages sitting on your Facebook page that you've never looked at before.

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White girls. If you are on Facebook, there's a good chance you are friends with a whole bunch of them. Mary (a white girl herself) has been studying the social media habits of her Caucasian sisters, and has published a list of '15 of  Things White Girls Love To Do On Facebook' on her blog Fibromy-Awesome.

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Frustrations over Facebook’s lax privacy policies have risen quite high in recent times, which makes the fact that someone was able to hack the social site and make public some of Mark Zuckerberg’s private photos all the more satisfying.

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A woman in Ireland is unable to list the name of her hometown on her Facebook profile because it’s Effin, Ireland. Not “f***in’ Ireland”… Effin, Ireland.

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If you got rid of some of your Facebook friends on Jimmy Kimmel's 'National Unfriend Day,' you might be depressed or have second thoughts. William Shatner wants you to know that you're going to be OK.

In this clip from 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' Shatner guides you through the steps on how to recover from the feelings of denial and fears of being alone that come with Facebook "un-friending."

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Jimmy Kimmel's 2nd annual 'National Unfriend Day' was a success. We've already shown you how the Peanuts gang wants you to dump some friends on Facebook, now it's Biz Markie's turn.

But he's not the only celebrity that gets involved.

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Facebook plans to enter into the smart phone market in the next 12-18 months with a phone that they have codenamed 'Buffy.'

And, yes, that's because Mark Zuckerberg and company thinks the device will be an iPhone slayer.

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Facebook may have changed the way we communicate, keep up with long lost friends and pretend that we're doing actual work in the office, but it has come at a great cost to privacy. Now the federal government is forcing the social networking giant to ask all 800 million of their users if they wish to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204224604577030383745515166.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"target_new"opt out" of certain settings and features that might expose some of their personal information to the entire world.

We applaud these efforts to ensure our privacy, and we think it should be taken even further. Facebook should not only make sure that our most sensitive information isn't exposed to the general public, but they should also ask us if we want to "opt out" of the most annoying causes of social networking headaches that have spread like some virtual flesh eating bacteria that cannot be stopped.

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Most of us with a bit of computer savvy can assign sounds to incoming emails or other online happenings. But what if you could assign odors to them as well?

That's the idea behind Olly, a USB-powered device which takes internet events and turns them into smells. A slide-out tray in the back of the device holds drops of essential oils, perfumes or even fresh fruit, releasing the smell to "ping" you when a particular event occurs.

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