As well, clever gestures like the "thank" tab that let members acknowledge one somebody posts a cool clip (without the heavy lifting of an email or status updates) are thoughtful and useful over time.
Meanwhile, sites like YouTube met the demand for free "South Park" clips without paying for the privilege.
An unsuspecting visitor to the site will be introduced to the video's not-too-subtle premise automatically, because the site begins showing video clips without prompting once the home page is loaded.
When Otis Redding is shown performing Sam Cooke's "Shake" in "Survive," it's tough to see the clip without remembering the airplane crash that ended Redding's career.
Facebook is testing a new tool that will automatically play video clips without sound in the News Feed.
Be careful when using clips without permission from the copyright owner, and make sure that your work follows any Fair Use laws or any similar laws that your country has.
Furthermore, research by online news portal heise.de suggests that those users who received the warning were redirected to the copyrighted clips without their knowledge, in what the site calls a "computer scam".
The social network admitted that it mistakenly made the explicit video – which was tagged "porn" and "nsfwvine" – an "editor's pick" on Monday, meaning users could view the x-rated clip without leaving the homepage.
But in the last month or so, I've actually sat down and focused on my kids for hours at a clip without feeling the need to simultaneously (fill in the blank): do dishes/check my email/scan the newspaper/etc.
Having spent 17 minutes yesterday watching videos of babies doing the hakken dance, I knew I couldn't blog this clip without providing the who, where, when, and why because, as a friend pointed out, "The evangelicals would be planting car bombs over this if it happened in America".
