Hack Your Facebook (All In Good Fun)

Hacking has both bad and good connotations when it comes to Facebook, but what about if Facebook users hack their own accounts, with humorous results?

Hacking has both bad and good connotations when it comes to Facebook, but what about if Facebook users hack their own accounts, with humorous results?

Time’s Techland blog reported on Hack My Facebook, which went viral at student-run hackathon PennApps this past weekend, winning a $500 prize from AddThis.

Hack My Facebook was the creation of University of Michigan students Raj Vir (20), Shiva Kilaru (19), and David Fontenot (19), according to Techland, and it works like this: Users log in with their Facebook accounts and choose from several fake messages to share, with topics ranging from politics, to career moves, to pregnancy, but no offensive language or sexual references.

Once the joke has run its course, users can click the “UnHack Your Facebook” button to return their profiles to normal.

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