Robert Wayne Gladden, Jr., a Baltimore-area 15-year-old who allegedly shot a classmate in the back before being tackled by school staff, was charged with attempted murder and assault this morning. But while journalists were working to confirm the shooter's identity yesterday, internet sleuths had already found his Facebook profile — and his eerie last status update, which has been shared over 950 times.

For years, permanently deleting your photos from Facebook was harder than removing an arrow from your body. You thought you hit delete, but they often lingered on Facebook's servers for months or years, still viewable by their original Facebook URL. Speaking from personal experience, this unintended feature was a boon to journalists looking to dig up old Facebook photos that unwilling subjects might have thought they'd hidden forever.

If there's one thing missing from your Facebook experience, it's an even heavier influx of ads, right?

Here's a picture of Mark Zuckerberg that was posted to the image-sharing site Imgur. The picture was accidentally uploaded publicly to Facebook by Facebook Director of Engineering Andrew Bosworth and deleted "seconds later," according to a screenshot posted by TMZ. Yes, you can see his nipples.

America is currently drier than a Mormon wedding, with large swaths of the country parched by an epic drought and heat wave. But have no fear, Facebook users have banded together to do what they always do in times of trouble: Share stupid memes.

Catfish was a documentary (allegedly) about the deception of an online relationship: it reminded us how easy it is to lie, to present a false version of yourself, and to find a connection with someone who doesn't exist.

Anyone who saw the movie Catfish or has spent longer than 20 minutes online knows that social media is not exactly a paragon of honesty. But it's still a little surprising to learn that there are 83 million fake accounts on Facebook.

Aurora shooter James Holmes isn't the first mass murderer with a Facebook fan page, and he won't be the last.

The stylized drawings and hip fonts of Someecards do not at first seem compatible with virulent right-wing sentiment. But this is the internet: Wackjobs find a way. Check out these hilarious right-wing ecards, coming to a conservative relative's Facebook wall near you.

It is not out of the ordinary for fitness instructors to ask their students to turn off all electronic devices prior to the start of the class. But at least one Facebook employee found the request so intolerable that she had the company's yoga teacher fired over it.

Our fascination with gritty true crime is nothing new, but thanks to 21st century innovations, we can now "like" psychopaths on Facebook. At least, until Facebook wises up and takes the fan page down.

Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee posted a fucking expletive and exclamation-point-laden rant to the band's official Facebook page last week, letting Crüe fans know he "[doesn't] owe anybody anything!" and does not want to take a fucking picture with them.

Out of 1,500 women surveyed by the photo gift website Mymemory.com, one in four said they've deliberately uploaded "ugly photos of friends" to Facebook, though had different reasons for doing so.

Attention Muslims of the world: Better get your Muslim-ing in ASAP because atheist users of Reddit have decided to "go after" your puny religion. Rest in peace, Islam. You had a good thousand-and-a-half-or-so years but you're no match for image macros and rage comics.

Chad Kimball is a born leading man. In 2010, the 35-year-old veteran actor was nominated for a Tony award for his starring role in the Broadway musical Memphis. But on Facebook he's applying his talents toward an unusual end: Stopping spam ads for shoes.

A 21-year-old facing jail time for assaulting his friend's father blew his case after posting a public message to a friend on Facebook telling him he thinks he'll "get away with it."

You know a news story is going to be good when it begins with, "It will be an explosive-free weekend for the northeast Georgia college student..."

Facebook's terms of service are a modern soporific miracle. They are so blindingly dull that I fell out of my chair into a near-coma after struggling through the first paragraph just now. But take these bath salts to stay alert and follow me: Now is your chance to vote on the Facebook terms of service that nobody reads even though we all know we should.

Debbie Piscitella was arrested earlier this week in St. Petersburg, Florida, for physically assaulting a 14-year-old boy she claims had been harassing her daughter on Facebook.

Earlier today, Business Insider's Henry Blodget asked readers a "serious question": Why do people hate Jews? While it may not be the catchall Blodget was looking for, it seems a habit of not tipping is the reason Italy hates at least one Jew: Mark Zuckerberg.