Facebook users have been known to greet the site’s latest features with a good amount of push-back and controversy. The social networking site’s founder Mark Zuckerberg told the e-G8 Forum that while users are skeptical of new changes at first, they tend to change their minds over time. “We’ll roll it out, and pretty often more »

It looks like everyone’s favorite social networking boy-extraordinaire has once again found himself behind another lawsuit. Larry Klayman, a well known Republican political activist, has sued Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook for $1 billion after the social networking site did not remove an anti-semitic page quickly enough. And like any other mentally stable politician, Klayman attributed more »

It’s 9:00 PM on Wednesday night; do you know who’s hacking your Facebook profile? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page was hacked earlier this week by an anonymous evil doer who left a message claiming that Facebook should look to become a “social business.” The comment, which was seemingly posted by Zuckerberg, was promptly removed more »

Remember that group of geeky NYU students that were onto creating the “Facebook killer” known as Diaspora? Well, the first set of private alpha invites were sent out to the contributors of their fundraising site Kickstarter. Every subsequent week, the Diaspora crew will dish out more invites to the remainder of their mailing list. By more »

Holy smokes! Zynga, the social gaming company behind Farmville, is currently valued at $5.51 billion by SharePost, a company that trades privately held stock. By contrast, Electronic Arts, a gaming company almost everyone knows is valued at just $5.16 on the Nasdaq. Facebook is on fire, but really, $5 billion for spammy-little-timewasters? “The valuation is more »

Just when you thought you had even the slightest bit of control over your Facebook account, Jacqui Cheng over at Ars Technica is proving us wrong by claiming that Facebook servers actually retain your deleted images for up to sixteen months. Chen, pictured below in striking the illustrious “duckface” pose, supposedly deleted this image last more »

I guess you have to keep finding ways to innovate, right? Facebook has now created a new feature (found under the account settings section) that will allow you to download all of your Facebook information including photos, posts, videos and other general information straight to your desktop. Just when you thought you couldn’t find any more »

“Geek”, “nerd”, “awesome”. In the mainstream media, it’s rare to get all three of those words together, but the new movie that opened last night, The Social Network, does just that. The movie chronicles the founding of the popular social networking site, Facebook. At Gadgetell, we report on a lot of Facebook news: privacy, it’s more »

A 2.8GB torrent containing the personal information of over 100 million Facebook users reared its ugly head onto a torrent site. Hacking extraordinaire Ron Bowes developed a web crawler program that accumulated data on all users on Facebook’s open access directory. These list is comprised of those Facebook users that have not changed their privacy more »

“You can’t make 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” It is in this statement alone that I have any shred of respect left for Zuckerberg. Seriously though, with all of the negative publicity this young man has been receiving, I couldn’t imagine being in his shoes trying to keep over a billion users more »