Facebook adds new gender option for users: fill in the blank
Facebook users who do not fit any of the 58 gender identity options offered by the social media giant are now being given a rather big 59th option: fill...
Stalking old flames on Facebook can lead to depression, study finds
Reading Facebook posts about your friends’ beautiful babies, delicious meals and invigorating jobs can seriously damage your mental health.
Tech workers polish up CVs as Facebook gears up for hiring spree
Fuelled by virtual reality goggles, drones and data centres, Facebook is set to increase employee numbers by up to 14% this year.
Facebook takes on LinkedIn by testing workplace version of social network
Facebook has revealed it is taking on LinkedIn and testing a version of its leading social network tailored for getting jobs done in workplaces instead...
Facebook offers apology for ‘Year in Review’ app
The latest Facebook gimmick is a customized timeline labeled “Year In Review.” It’s a collection of your photos most “liked” by fellow Facebook...
Court battle looms for Facebook after scanning ‘likes’ for advertising
Facebook Inc will face a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating its users’ privacy by scanning the content of messages they send to other...
Facebook stops using Microsoft’s Bing search results
Facebook has stopped including results from Microsoft’s Bing search engine on its social networking site as the company has revamped its own search...
Zuckerberg: Facebook will add a ‘dislike’ button ‘only as a force for good’
Facebook is considering the possibility of adding a “dislike” button to its site, according to its CEO.
Facebook has got ‘blood on its hands’, say family of murdered UK soldier
The family of Lee Rigby have said they hold Facebook partly responsible for his murder, after a report found it failed to take action over an online chat...
Facebook ‘newspaper’ spells trouble for media
Facebook’s move to fulfill its ambition to be the personal “newspaper” for its billion-plus members is likely to mean more woes for the...
Facebook slams the door shut on political campaigns
Barack Obama’s reelection campaign pioneered a pathway for political campaigns to reach voters through Facebook when it released an app that helped supporters...
Facebook preparing new website for office use
Facebook is preparing a new office version of its social networking site to compete with other sites like LinkedIn, the Financial Times reported on Monday. ”Facebook...
Facebook’s government requests for user data rises 24 percent
Facebook said requests by governments for user information rose by about a quarter in the first half of 2014 over the second half of last year.
Facebook ‘I Voted’ button experiment: praiseworthy or propaganda?
If you posted Facebook’s “I voted” sticker on your wall congratulations, you were part of the most recent social experiment being conducted by the...
Facebook’s new chat room app brings back the 90s
Can Facebook bring back the chat room popularity of the ’90s?
The massive social networking company is back in the consumer app inventing game with...
You could soon be able to post anonymously on Facebook
Facebook is preparing to launch a standalone app that will allow users to anonymously interact with each other.
Facebook admits mood experiment ‘should have been done differently’
Facebook has admitted that a controversial mood experiment “should have been done differently”.
On the heels of Google and Apple, Facebook plots first steps into healthcare
Facebook Inc already knows who your friends are and the kind of things that grab your attention.
Victory for drag queens as Facebook reverses ‘real name’ policy
Facebook Inc said it would change its policy requiring users to go by their real names on the social network, following outrage over the locking of hundreds...
Facebook takes on Snapchat by testing self-destructing messages
Facebook is testing a new feature that lets users post self-destructing messages that disappear after a set period of time.
Facebook shares top $200bn as it becomes 22nd biggest firm in the world
Facebook’s value has soared above US$200 billion for the first time, making it the 22nd biggest company in the world.
In overshare era, some parents keep baby photos offline-only
At a time when just about everyone and their mother—father, grandmother and aunt—is intent on publicizing the newest generation’s early years...
Facebook flagging satire to keep users from falling victim to The Onion’s jokes
According to a report from tech blog Ars Technica, Facebook is experimenting with a “satire” tag that’s added to stories from faux news...
Facebook receives a message from reviewers: We hate your new app
Facebook’s new app might just be one big error message. The social media giant announced in July that it would split the private messaging option off...
Thousands join Austrian student’s privacy class action against Facebook
More than 17,000 people have signed up to join an Austrian law student’s class action against Facebook over the social media group’s alleged...
Facebook under fire: Student starts global class action suit
Austrian law student Max Schrems appealed to a billion Facebook users around the world on Friday to join a class-action lawsuit against Facebook’s...
UK opens probe over Facebook’s psych experiment
British regulators, in coordination with Irish authorities, are investigating revelations that Facebook treated hordes of its users like laboratory rats...
Facebook ‘manipulated users’ emotions’ in ‘creepy’ secret study
A study carried out by Facebook and two universities has angered users who have accused the social networking site of manipulating their emotions.
Ethical questions abound over Facebook’s newsfeed mood experiment
For one week in January 2012, data scientists skewed what almost 700,000 Facebook users saw when they logged into its service.
Facebook lost $500k in half-hour of ‘silence’
Facebook’s 30-minute outage yesterday cost the social network half a million dollars.
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