Story of the Year will release a new track if they hit 7000 fans on Facebook.

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Facebook has announced music gifts.

Mark Hoppus now has a Facebook.

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Help Triple Crown Records get to 1,000 fans on Facebook, and you could win an original vinyl test pressing of As Tall As Lions' You Can't Take It With You. For all you vinyl nerds out there, only four were ever made. Be the envy of your friends.

3OH!3 is apparently the fastest growing page on all of facebook.

Justin Timberlake has a lead role in the upcoming Facebook movie.

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Facebook is now nearly as large as the US population ... and has turned a profit.

We've now got our name on Facebook - so check us out at facebook.com/absolutepunk.

According to new figures from Nielsen Online, "total minutes spent on Facebook in April rose 699 percent from a year ago. At MySpace, meanwhile, total minutes spent fell a jarring 31 percent." For those curious, total minutes spent on AP.net increased +10.10% from a year ago.

Former Facebook chief operating officer Owen Van Natta has been tabbed as the new CEO of MySpace.

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"Owen combines a deep understanding of social networking, a keen business sense, and the operational experience to guide MySpace through its next phase of growth. I'm confident his leadership will be an invaluable asset," Miller said in a statement.

Rob Dobi has helped contribute to the obnoxious "tag your friends" phase going around Facebook. Check out his Your Scene Sucks picture for tagging -- in the replies.

Today is Facebook's 5th birthday. How different would the past five years have been without it, keeping in mind that more than 3 billion minutes per day are spent on the site worldwide?

AbsolutePunk.net has a new myspace page. Make sure to add us as a friend - we send out bulletins every once in a while about new things, exclusive downloads, extra contests, and little reminders about big features. We're also on Facebook if that's more your style.

We will be picking one of our "fans" from our Facebook page to win an AP.net calendar magnet. All you have to do is be one of our fans for a chance to win -- bonus points if you leave us a cool wall comment. Don't forget we're also on myspace. We'll pick a winner at the end of the day.

Help Fall Out Boy support Invisible Children this holiday season by regifting a fruitcake on Facebook. While you're on Facebook - become our fan.

The United Nations (ie: the real one) has found out about United Nations (the band) and had facebook remove their page. Check the replies for more.

Copeland have launched a widget and facebook app for their new album.

The New York Post is reporting that Facebook Music is back on.

A new Facebook application allows you to register to vote within Facebook. Please take the time to make sure you're registered to vote. If you're already registered there's always lively discussion in our politics forum.

According to a study published today in the Irish Times, “83 percent of employers have monitored individual’s Facebook statuses to check whether an employee was truly ill with the result that 67 percent of company bosses have disciplined staff for bogus sickness after discovering the real reason for them being absent”.

I guess we're on Twitter. I don't really know what that means because I didn't set it up - but you can follow us if you'd like. We're also on myspace, facebook, and buzznet if you'd like to check those pages out -- we usually send out updates and bulletins about big news items.

Facebook will be rolling out the new design on July 14th. AP.net still has a ways to go.

Underoath have a new widget for your myspace or facebook pages.

Have you added us on myspace yet? How about becoming a fan of ours on Facebook? Go ahead and do so (please), and then if you have any cool ideas how we could use these two sites to improve our promotion of AP.net, leave 'em in the replies.

Ticketmaster created fake Facebook profiles to boost their online popularity.

Facebook is about to overtake Myspace in traffic.

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At 100.7 million uniques in January, Facebook is now just about 8% smaller than MySpace' 109.3 million. A year ago, MySpace's worldwide...[read more]

Want to stay up to date with everything going on here at Absolutepunk.net? Add us on myspace (add us to your Top 8 if you'd like!) and become fans of the site on Facebook, and we'll make sure you stay in the know.

R.E.M.'s new album, Accelerate, will debut on Facebook's iLike beginning March 24th in advance of the April 1 release.

We've got one of those gnarly Facebook pages; we're also on Myspace and Buzznet. We want to be loved. Our self-esteem is directly tied into our online friends.

Want to stay updated with everything that's going on here on AP.net? Add our Facebook group as well as our myspace page, and we'll keep you in the loop with news, reminders about the huge band chats we have upcoming, and lots of other cool stuff. Feel free to suggest any ways that you'd like to see us use these more to promote the site, and as always, please invite any of your friends you think would like to check us out!