If only your high school prom king and queen could see you now - 125 Mashable followers! It’s like you’re the most popular kid in...on second thought, let’s just keep this between us.

Facebook has introduced two relationship status indicators that folks in the LGBT community might find more useful. Effective immediately, U.S. residents can choose between "In a domestic partnership" and "In a civil union," along with the usual roster of relation...

You’ve acquired your 75th follower but there’s no need to get all smug about it. Stay cool and keep sharing, lest any of your crew find the “Unfollow” button...

Coding can be a solitary and frustrating enterprise, but the best thing about it is the community, which is generally waiting and wanting to help struggling programmers get past bugs and issues. HackerBuddy is a clever, free application that capitalizes on the st...

Convore is a Y Combinator startup that's out to challenge the likes of Campfire and IRC with a free group-chat web app. Users can create groups, either public or private, with multiple topics in each group, all free of charge. Private groups require would-be membe...

If you're a developer interested in earning some passive income for blocks of code, or if you're a dev who'd like to save time by buying someone else's code, we've got an interesting proposition for you. Binpress is a new site that hopes to act as a marketplace fo...

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Path, the almost counterintuitive "personal networking" startup, has just dried the ink on an $8.65 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures with participation from Digital Garage Japan and First Round Capital. Index and First Ro...

Aren’t you important? You’re now being followed by 50 people. Here’s a VIP badge for attracting these followers.

You’ve got quite the balancing skills, you silly rabbit you! You’ve now connected with four networks. This will enable you to more easily share and update to these networks.

The Learning Company has posted trailers for both “Oregon Trail” and “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego” casual games that it plans to launch on Facebook in February. The games are being developed by Blue Fang Games, whose previous titles include “Zoo Kingdom” o...

It all starts with the first follows. Just like the Tron Guy, you’re being “brought to life” by the Internet. By following 25 people, you’re now taking part in connecting with others in the community. Tron Guy would be proud.

You're now following 15 topics, so get ready to get schooled! That’s 15 topics that you’ll be able to keep up with. Soon enough you’ll be a spelling bee champion!

Oh my God! You’ve connected with two networks! What does it all mean? Well, you’re now able to share to those services easily. It’s so amazing!!

Teehee! You’re following your first 5 topics. That’s something to be quite happy about because now you’ll receive updates surrounding this topic. So be a happy baby and enjoy the updates.

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STOP...Hamster Time! Congrats on snagging your 25th follower. Feel free to follow them back. Also, nice wheel.