Pranking someone on Facebook is easy. All it takes is for a careless friend to leave his or her computer unattended and logged on. That’s bush-league. A good Facebook prank, like a good bank heist, ...

I come from a large family, which means that April Fools' Day was basically the Olympics for pulling "harmless" pranks and practical jokes. No one made it out unscathed. So it should come as no ...

People in Ireland take the All Ireland Football championship very seriously. Credit: Ray McManus/Sportsfile via Getty Images/facebook/kevin keenan/mashable composite If ever there was a good reason ...

I logged onto Facebook one day and saw that my mild-mannered Swedish cousin “Susan," an accomplished architect who has worked on projects all over the world, had a status update that I can’t repeat ...

A few days ago, I wrote about how much I hate April Fool’s Day, but NPR played a prank I can totally get behind. They posted the above headline to their Facebook page, a story about “Why Doesn’t ...

Brian Swichkow was responsible for one of the most viral Facebook pranks of all time—slowly driving his roommate insane with disturbingly accurate personalized Facebook ads. The prank was funny, but ...

Most tech savvy individuals are well aware of the vast amounts of data that social networking companies collect on us. Some take steps to avoid this data collection, others consider it a trade-off for ...

In what may qualify as the sickest social media trend ever, kids are rumored to be participating in the “48-hour challenge,” which has teens pretending to go “missing” for days. Here’s the game, for ...

The founder of online fashion success story Showpo, Jane Lu, has pulled off a pretty cool prank, and for an even better cause. The Australian entrepreneur released a Facebook Live on Oct. 26 that ...

Jackson County Sheriff’s Sgt. Cindy O’Barr was monitoring the sheriff’s Facebook page on Tuesday when she received a private message pleading for help. The messenger was from Tennessee and she was ...