Simply type the above code that corresponds to the appropriate rage face into Facebook chat, and the image of the rage face you chose will appear, emoticon-like in its existence. Facebook didn’t suddenly become hip to the Internet and add rage face emoticons (something from which Google Chat would greatly benefit), but the ability to add rage faces to Facebook chat is more of a hack than anything else, and something to which you can add.

In this wide, wild world of social media, companies are always trying to find a way to get into your treasure trove of personal information. I mean, it must be tantalizing knowing that all that information is sitting out there, but most of it — if you’re smart — is locked down. That’s why companies have been moving towards ad campaigns that use all your Facebook information to do something “really cool!” Orbit Gum, for instance, lets you turn your Facebook information into an abstract gum design on a digital pack of gum! Amazing right! Oh, and only requires that you hand over access to, you know, all your Facebook data! Yeah!

Want to know why people are unfriending you on Facebook? Well, it’s not as easy to tell as it was back when everybody was doing it for the Whoppers. Sometimes you just know, but other times the best you can do is venture a guess, and this infographic from NM Incite can help you narrow it down. Most of the time it’s due to offensive comments, or the fact that you were never real friends with people in the first place. But you can also get cut off for updating too frequently or too infrequently. If it makes you feel any better, “physical attractiveness” and “increasing friend count” rank 4 and 5 on the list of reasons to friend people in the first place, so you’re probably better off with fewer friends in that case. Or, at least, that’s a good thing to tell yourself if you need to sleep at night.

In response to Rotem Guez launching LikeStore, a website that sells advertisers Facebook Likes for their Facebook pages, Facebook is suing him. LikeStore offers users free content for Liking a company’s page, which happens to be in violation of Facebook’s current Terms of Service, so Facebook decided it was time to shut the service down. Guez is unhappy, as one might expect, and claims that though LikeStore is indeed in violation of the current Terms of Service, many other companies offer the same service. So, Guez did what any rational person would do in response to a lawsuit from Facebook — he legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg hoping that the bad publicity of Facebook suing Mark Zuckerberg would deter their legal efforts.

In this day and age, it’s pretty much a given that you should be keeping your social networking life somewhat under control because schools and prospective employers might be looking at it. But that’s not all, banks and creditors seem to be creeping in that direction too, because why let a little free information go to waste? As it turns out, there are plenty of things that creditors might like to know about you that, legally, they can’t ask, things like your race, your marital status, and whether or not you’re receiving public assistance. Also, having deadbeat friends who are yapping on about their inability to afford weed on their completely public profile probably wouldn’t help your case either.

The website Once Upon imagines a simpler time; a slower, more civilized age best viewed in Netscape Navigator 4.3 on a CRT monitor at 8 kB/s. In short, it imagines how current pillars of the Intnernet — Google+, Facebook, and YouTube — would look and function if they were made in 1997. The brainchild of Olia Lialina and  Dragan Espenschied, the site brings back the square dialog boxes and tables you hoped you’d never see again. It even claims to run at super-slow dialup speeds. The experience is so real, you can practically hear the modem screech.

Of course, if you’re too impatient to deal with the sites’ period appropriate speed restrictions, you can simply check out the screen shots after the break.

Internet behemoths like Facebook and Google are starting to get miffed about the increasing trend of browser apps that are effectively stealing their adspace out from under them by giving their own ads a priority spot. Adception, if you will. It seems that the prime culprits are applications from the Sambreel suite, namely PageRage and Buzzdock. Ostensibly, the purpose of these applications is to do stuff like make your Facebook page look pretty by slathering it with hearts, stars, and horseshoes or whatever. You know. Important stuff. As it turns out, however, a big part of the plan may involve pushing ads.

Vigilant readers will recall how this weekend we wrote about a rumor claiming that social networking juggernaut Facebook had purchased the Austin based check-in service Gowalla. Well, now those rumors have been confirmed, and Gowalla’s founder has said that the service will begin shutting down next month.

Social networking juggernaut Facebook has acquired the Austin-based check-in service Gowalla, apparently planning to put the service’s team to work on the recently unveiled Facebook Timeline service. Though Facebook has not formally announced the deal, CNN Money reports that its sources indicate that the deal will lead to the current Gowalla team taking jobs with Facebook. This could be the final chapter for Gowalla, which battled location service Foursquare with a suite of unique check-in features.

A few months ago in September, Facebook increased their status update feature to have a 5,000 character limit. Possibly in an effort to differentiate their status updates from something disposable and tweet-like, Facebook has now increased the character limit of status updates from 5,000 characters to a much larger 60,000 characters. The longer status updates appear in the Live Ticker like they previously have, but don’t worry, your Ticker won’t become much more spammy than it already is.