Facebook Users & App Developers Play Practical Jokes for April Fool's Day

One of the most common “roommate” tactics we’ve seen is that of friends posting content without their roommates’ knowledge, only to have it be discovered hours later (or when they get a flood of calls from confused friends and relatives). However, this approach can also be dangerous (and technically against the TOS). Of the variety we’ve seen today, here’s a relatively harmless example of the “hacked status update” with accompanying email blast:

On the app developer side, the most creative marketing prank we’ve seen today comes from We’re Related, who sent notifications to 19 million members this morning telling them that Barack Obama has confirmed them as his “fourth cousin once removed”:

Barack Obama (Washington, DC) has confirmed you as his fourth cousin once removed on We’re Related.