One out of five divorce , facebook is the cause:Survey

Here is another interesting or shocking, depends on how you take it. According to survey, In US one in five divorces in the US is due to involvement of the popular social networking sites.

This survey was carried out by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported that the rise in clients that use social media for evidence of cheating.

Flirty messages and photographs found on Facebook are increasingly being cited as proof of unreasonable behavior or irreconcilable differences.

One out of five divorce , facebook is the cause:Survey

Soon the word 'face' will be trademark of 'facebook'.

U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has sent the social networking site, facebook a Notice of Allowance, which says they have agreed to grant the word 'Face' as trademark to the facebook under some certain conditions.

All Facebook needs to do is pay the issue fee within three months and the “Face” trademark will be issued and be published in the official USPTO gazette and everything.

Soon the word 'face' will be trademark of 'facebook'.

Skype soon to be seen intergrated with facebook?

What happen when two popular things combine? The become much more popular and powerful.

How about this world's leading VOIP provider integrating with worlds leading social networking site? Yay Yay i am talking about Skype and facebook.

Rumors are doing round that soon Facebook might add Skype video chat functionality within the social networking site.

Facebook application developer Tal Ater has rekindled speculation around the idea in spotting a “VideoChat” object in Facebook’s code.

Skype soon to be seen intergrated with facebook?

Concerned with Facebook privacy issue? Then join Diaspora.

A open source social networking site alternative for facebook was developed called Diaspora is not in live and in Alpha stage.

This site was developed keeping users privacy in mind, so some time referred as 'anti-facebook'.

At present is being invited to certain limited people and it is community-funded project.

Concerned with Facebook privacy issue? Then join Diaspora.

US Govt warns its home away troops not to use Social networking site.

Social networking sites like Facebook, Foursqure, Loopt may be dangerous to soldiers who are away from their home and who are on a mission.

The United States Air Force had issued a warning its troops through its internal website to be careful when using Facebook and other popular networking sites because some new features could show the enemy exactly where US forces are located in war zones.

US Govt warns its home away troops not to use Social networking site.

Farmville played major role in overtaking Orkut frezy india

In India, a year ago many people didn't know what facebook was but they knew what Orkut was. But a year later the situation is almost entirely upside down.

Now, Facebook which has around 500+ million users across world is the leading social networking site.

According to Mumbai-based agency Komli Media's Vizisense, which tracks web audience measurement in India, social games like Zynga's Farmville, mafia wars..... made many people to sign in for facebook. This is how facebooks captured the indian internet market.

Farmville played major role in overtaking Orkut frezy india

Facebook surpass eBay, estimated 3rd largest online business site worth $ 41 Billion.

Even without going public, still being private owned site, facebook now ranks as the third largest web company, with an estimated valuation of USD 41 billion which is greater than EBay. This comes after facebook announcing new messaging service, some say as "Gmail killer"

According to Bloomberg, the social network's latest valuation, based on the selling price of shares on SecondMarket, an exchange for privately held companies, makes it the country's third-largest online business after Google (USD 192.9 billion) and Amazon (USD74.4 billion).

Facebook surpass eBay, estimated 3rd largest online business site worth $ 41 Billion.

Now you can get British Royal family updates on facebook.[Update] Now its online.

Now the British Royal family will now have official presence on the worlds largest social networking site.

British Monarchy page on facebook is due online shortly.

Buckingham Palace says it is not a personal profile page, but users can "like" the service and receive updates on their news feed.

Now you can get British Royal family updates on facebook.[Update] Now its online.

Facebook servers stores data of your Ex's .

One feature of facebook has exposed that Social networking website Facebook keeps a record of users' former lovers, if you had entered data earlier.

This incident got a lime light when some users got and unpleasant surprise when Photo Memories sidebar, showed up old photographs of ex-wives or husbands.

Facebook servers stores data of your Ex's .

Facebook, Amazon and Zynga forms alliance, bets big on future social networking

For the sake of future social networking, Facebook, Amazon and Zynga are going to invest in a fund to help entrepreneurs develop applications and services for a new era of the social web.

The lion's share of the sFund's $250m (£160m) will come from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

This announcement were made at an event at Facebook's California headquarters.

"There's going to be an opportunity over the next five years or so to pick any industry and rethink it in a social way," said Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

"We think that every industry is going to be fundamentally re-thought and designed around people."

That was a view backed by KPCB partner John Doerr, best known for investing in Amazon, Google and Netscape.

"These social networks are going to go from a half a billion people to billions of people connected on the planet and so represents an extraordinarily exciting time on the internet," he told BBC News.

"Think of it as a quarter-billion-dollar party. The third great wave of the internet is mobile and social together. It's going to be tectonic," added Mr Doerr.

Facebook, Amazon and Zynga forms alliance, bets big on future social networking

Teachers being sacked for flirting with their students on social networking site.

In the past six months, at least 3 teachers from public high schools in New York for making indecent remarks while dealing with students on Facebook, according to media report.

One of the reason for a teacher got sacked for commenting "This is sexy", under some of their Facebook photos.

Other reasons include flirty comments and physical relations.

- IANS Inputs

Teachers being sacked for flirting with their students on social networking site.

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg facebook architect but not so flashy lifestyle.....

(IANS) Multi-billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg likes to wear worn jeans, cheap T-shirts and lives in a rented house. To relax, he likes drinking beer and eating fast food with workmates, it was reported in London Friday.

The man responsible for connecting over 500 million people across the world through social networking site Facebook could easily pass off as an ordinary 26-year-old.

The Sun Friday reported that Zuckerberg, who is said to be worth 4.3 million pounds, he wears jeans, cheap T-shirt and flip-flops.

In fact, he does not own the four-bedroom house where he lives in Palo Alto, California. He pays a relatively modest 3,500 pounds a month as rent. He doesn't even have a posh sports car, instead driving a Japanese saloon.

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg facebook architect but not so flashy lifestyle.....

Facebook denies building a Smartphone.

After a Tech site Techcrunch reported that facebook may be developing a mobile phone secretly, heart beats of gizmo lovers were raised.

But the company says it s not true. In an e-mail, Jamie Schopflin, a Facebook spokeswoman, said the company is, and has for some time, been developing various features and services to integrate its social functions into various mobile phones and applications. But, she wrote, Facebook is not building a phone.

Here is more of her e-mail:

Our approach has always been to make phones and apps more social. Current projects include everything from an HTML5 version of the site to apps on major platforms to full Connect support with SDKs to deeper integrations with some manufacturers. Our view is that almost all experiences would be better if they were social, so integrating deeply into existing platforms and operating systems is a good way to enable this. For an example, check out Connect for iPhone and the integration we have with contact syncing through our iPhone app. Another example is the INQ1 phone with Facebook integration (the first so-called Facebook Phone ). The people mentioned in the story are working on these projects. The bottom line is that whenever we work on a deep integration, people want to call it a Facebook Phone because that s such an attractive soundbite, but building phones is just not what we do.

Facebook denies building a Smartphone.

New Study shows that most Facebook users have low esteem

(IANS) Facebook is used mostly by narcissists and those with low self-esteem, says a Canadian study.

These type of people use Facebook as a self-promotional tool, says psychology researcher Soraya Mehdizadeh of York University.

Mehdizadeh, who extensively examined the online habits and personalities of 100 Facebook users aged 18 to 25 years old, found that individuals higher in narcissism and lower in self-esteem spent more time on the site and filled their pages with more self-promotional content.

"We all know people like this. They are updating their status every five minutes and the photos they post are very carefully construed," she says.

New Study shows that most Facebook users have low esteem

Age doesn't matter when you are on Facebook: Study

(PTI) A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says the number of social networking users aged 50 and older nearly doubled in the past year, continuing a trend of strong growth that was first spotted last year.

In fact, for adults between 50 and 64 years, the use of social networking sites have jumped by 88 per cent in the past year, the study found. For those aged 65 and older, it has doubled.

The younger generation, however, still remains the biggest users of Facebook and other sites.

Age doesn't matter when you are on Facebook: Study

Ron Bowes, the person who posted 100 Million Facebook user Details speaks out.

Ron Bowes, a Canadian security consultant, used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by users' privacy settings.

Mr Bowes told BBC News that he did it as part of his work on a security tool.

"I'm a developer for the Nmap Security Scanner and one of our recent tools is called Ncrack," he said.

"It is designed to test password policies of organisations by using brute force attacks; in other words, guessing every username and password combination."

By downloading the data from Facebook, and compiling a user's first initial and surname, he was able to make a list of the most common probable usernames to use in the tool.

Ron Bowes, the person who posted 100 Million Facebook user Details speaks out.

Facebook crosses 12-million user mark in India

Social networking site Facebook has said that it has crossed the 12-million userbase mark in India.

Even as people continue to share their lives on the social networking site, the company has surpassed the 12-million user mark in India, Facebook said in a statement.

While users in India upload more than 53 million photos in a month, mobile usage also increased nine-fold in the past year, it added.

Facebook is growing rapidly across the world and catching up with Orkut in India and Brazil, where the Google creation had dominated the social networking scene for a long time.

Facebook crosses 12-million user mark in India

Now, Facebook has 500 Million Users.(OFFICIAL)

Facebook in its blog has announced that it has passed the 500 million member mark.

In a blog post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes that, “I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook (Facebook) when we were getting started 6 years ago. I want to thank you for being part of making Facebook what it is today and for spreading it around the world.”

Zuckerberg  latest venture, announced the launch of Facebook Stories, showcasing interesting ways that people have used the social network around the world. News of the feature leaked over the weekend.

Now, Facebook has 500 Million Users.(OFFICIAL)

2.5 mn Muslims threaten to leave Facebook over removal of certain Islamic pages

Angry over the removal of certain Islamic pages from Facebook, more than 2.5 million Muslim users are likely to quit the social networking website, according to a media report.

Following the removal of four extremely popular Islamic pages from the website, the Muslim community has expressed anger and a template letter that has been pasted into numerous Facebook pages accused the website's founder Mark Zuckerberg of "ignoring the feelings of more than 2.5 million Muslims", the Daily Mail reported.

The letter reads: "Although you have attended the world's best communication skills courses you have been most successful in growing great hatred and hostility between you and Muslims around the world, but seriously this time you have caused an almost unrepairable [sic] damage."

2.5 mn Muslims threaten to leave Facebook over removal of certain Islamic pages

Facbook hits with new Traffic Record.

Facebook is on top of all of the above social networking site . According to comScore, the social network pulled in more than 141 million unique visitors in the U.S. during the month, beating its previous record (set in May) by better than 11 million.

Year-over-year, Facebook’s traffic has nearly doubled, from 77 million unique U.S. visitors in June 2009. As a result, as you can see in the chart above, Facebook has blown past its social networking competition –- most notably MySpace and Twitter, both of which have shown little growth in the past year according to comScore.

Facbook hits with new Traffic Record.