In the coming hours you will receive an email asking for your participation in an annual survey that Dining Services is conducting on all on-campus dining institutions.  Do you like them?  Are they too expensive?  Those are the kinds of answers they are looking for!  To further motivate you, they’re offering to donate a total […]

The Freshman elections for Columbia College Student Council approach (Bwog is sitting on its hands for October 6th and 7th) and in order to keep you the voter informed, here is a recap of the six parties running and why they think you should vote for them. Candor Party Facebook group size: 76 Website: Features […]

Oh boy, the “New Facebook” that you’ve been hearing nothing about is here. What’s different about New Facebook? Well, for one thing, it’s certainly wider! And your wall posts are outlined in gray. But apparently there are other differences, and the madman behind this creation has explained them all in his Facebook blog: The Publisher […]

While most of you are probably relieved to have exited Columbia’s campus, free of Butler and Lerner for an entire summer, there’s an entire generation of earnest young people who just can’t wait for August. They were born in 1990, their SATs were probably out of 48,000, and we’re calling them the Terrible 12s. Every […]

It’s a dark day today on your Facebook, where dozens of quasi-acquaintances and people you hate could be trying to communicate with you via the gruesome new Facebook Chat. The new buddy list type apparatus enables Facebookers to see those who are simultaneously online doing some stalking, picture uploading, friend-deleting and the like. Some details, […]

The day that the frequenters of collegeconfidential.com live and die by has finally arrived, as Columbia’s admissions letters to the class of 2012 have officially been mailed out, and online decisions were posted as of 5:05 p.m. last night.  Amidst a careful navigation of the daily chaos that is the post-CC or Lit Hum reunions […]

In which Ashish Kundra, bringer of news from around the net, passes on a friendly warning. A few months ago, Microsoft handed Facebook a $240 million wad of cash. Microsoft’s new equity boosted Facebook’s estimated value to $15 billion (by comparison, that’s three times Monster.com’s market cap of $4.8 billion). At the moment, Facebook’s ad […]

The rare finals week procrastinator may have noticed changes afoot at Facebook in the form of Friends lists. Explains The Facebook Blog: “The new Friends page lets you create named lists of friends that you can use to organize your relationships whichever way works best for you.” Differentiate, categorize, control. Finding your HS Crushes’ current […]

2012’s Facebook half-life began with Simon H.’s creation of “Columbia – Class of 2012.” Early decision applicants were notified online of their acceptance at 5pm, and by 7pm, the group’s ranks had reached 50. Mere days later, the Facebook group is brimming with 276 members—including one confused Brown 2012 pre-frosh who is “not sure if […]

Despite Zuckerberg’s victory earlier today with the cancellation of the BandW Bwog Facebook profile, the Blue and White/the Bwog has triumphantly returned to Zuckerberg’s fiefdom in the guise of Verily Veritas. Befriend away, good soldiers.  UPDATE 11:15 PM: Zuckerberg’s empire strikes back! Veritas killed in battle! Bwog is gathering its forces, and storm clouds are […]

Facebook has long deleted facebook personalities that probably actually don’t exist. It started with Alexander Hamilton, and moved on to Barack Obama (although he has his own legit profile now anyway). But now, they’ve killed someone much closer to home: the lovely and charming BandW Bwog, who had the pleasure of becoming friends with many […]

The newest edition to The Blue and White media family? A Facebook profile! Make sure to befriend BandW Bwog for access to meeting information, unlimited wall-posts, photos of debauched Blue and White parties and more. We promise we’ll never poke you.

So you thought the Facebook apps were bad. Now Facebook has this nifty little feature where non-members and search engines can access your Facebook too! In technical terms, your public search listing is indexed by external search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.). Now alongside your high school cross-country race times, curious minds can also see […]

Zach van Schouwen tips off Bwog on a Facebook revelation: Top Movies in the Columbia Network 1. Fight Club 2. Love Actually 3. Zoolander 4. The Big Lebowski 5. Shawshank Redemption  All pretty standard, except for number 2. What, was Four Weddings and a Funeral too edgy?  

Tipster Kendall Barnes spotted this on Facebook Marketplace for York, England, where she is currently studying abroad.  In other crazy foreigner news, we got this odd message from a would-be 2014-er: Hello, My name is Laura. I am 15 years old and i always dream to will be a student of the famous university : Columbia. […]