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 ...

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 ...

Dylan Zéroosiix's little brother is apparently un petit jerk on Faceboook — so much so that on the French version of the social networking site, his IM insults are listed as one of the reasons ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone who isn’t a Snapchat user might be feeling a little left out, but never fear, because there are plenty of pictures of the April 1 prank to fill in the gaps. The thrust of the joke is pretty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new Facebook challenge has kids faking their own disappearance. (Photo: Getty Images) In what may qualify as the sickest social ...