So this happened. It’s a father reacting to a post his daughter made on Facebook. He wasn’t happy. You can skip ahead to seven minutes for the big reveal. More »
Now Facebook’s IPO is filed, soon anybody will be able to buy a piece of a Facebook. But going public won’t stop Zuckerberg having control — especially given that he buys out the voting rights of current shareholders, $US100 at a time. More »
A Tennessee man, Marvin Potter (on the right), is in police custody tonight, charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on the popular social networking site. More »
To most people that know him, Max Schrems is a typical law student from Austria. To Facebook, he is a massive pain in the arse. Outsmarting their attorneys, bombarding them with legal complaints and forming activist groups, he plans to transform Facebook’s privacy policy in Europe. More »
When you’re perusing your Facebook account, your brain might be fooling you into thinking you’re doing something incredibly creative and productive that will improve your life. If only that were true! More »
Theatre has entertained man since the days of marble columns and poisoned philosophers. But what if the art were inspired not by medieval betrayal or star-crossed lovers, but by annoying middle school kids? Behold: Facebook tweens, a dramatic reenactment. More »
Facebook is the place we look at photos online. And for years, those photos have been constrained to tiny boxes and ugly, low-resolution uploads. No more! Facebook’s new picture browser is here: your life is now giant and pretty. More »
We love Timeline for Facebook. Maybe you don’t. Doesn’t really matter since Facebook is forcing everyone to switch. So what to do? We say have some fun with it! More »
Three years ago, Ars Technica discovered that when you “deleted” your photos, they were still kept on Facebook’s servers, and anyone with a static URL could still access it. Three years later, Ars Technica revisited the matter and found little has changed. But Facebook says that things will be different… eventually. More »
