Hollywood has it wrong: The real "father of Facebook" was not a young hacker working out of a Harvard dorm room; it was a technologically advanced dentist in the suburbs of New York City. Just ask Edward J. Zuckerberg, D.D.S.

Someone is annoyed with Dylan Zéroosiix's little brother. A menu on Facebook's French language version has been hacked to poke fun at le petit frère de Dylan Zéroosiix. This was made possible by Facebook's reliance on free, crowd-sourced translation.

During host Jesse Eisenberg's monologue on tonight's Saturday Night Live, the Social Network star was surprised on stage by Andy Samberg-as-Mark Zuckerberg. But that wasn't all—shortly thereafter, the *real* Mark Zuckerberg showed up... and it was incredibly awkward!

Porn stars love Twitter: They chat with fans, tweet Amazon wish lists so their fans can buy them presents, tweet NSFW pictures of partying with Charlie Sheen. But porn stars do not like Facebook, because Facebook doesn't like them.

Egypt's apparent blocking of Twitter and Facebook amid fierce protests this week was nothing: Now it appears they've blocked the entire internet, as well as text messaging. It's got the whole world watching and wondering: What's next?

A Staten Island man is suing Facebook for $500,000 for deleting his profile. He misses his 340 friends.

Facebook finally provided a way to keep any random jerk in the café from hijacking your account. But you have to go out of your way to enable this protection, and you might have to wait. Still: Jump on this.

After blocking Twitter, Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak's regime now seems to be cracking down on Facebook. When you're trying to violently suppress a mass uprising, after all, any unfettered venue for news and coordination constitutes a threat.

Ignore those texts from Facebook instructing you to call 911; they're a Verizon glitch. The ones asking for bank information and incriminating photos, however, remain very important and should be obeyed like any other SMS from a stranger.

Instead of blocking all your personal information from the masses, this video suggest you overload your Facebook page with meaningless posts so you're hiding in plain sight. It's like the witness protection program for your online identity.

Facebook will change its "Friend Finder" to not uncontrollably spam your email contacts with Facebook solicitations. But only if you live in Germany, where regulators actually attempt to enforce privacy laws, and where privacy is an actual thing. [NY Times]

Pope Benedict tentatively praised social networking, steering Catholic doctrine toward support for online communication but also toward clucking at sensationalists and hating on fameballers.

Sure, you knew you could follow Gawker.TV on facebook, but did you know each of our editors have their own pages now, too? Inside, we break down who you should follow and why!

Facebook is being overrun by scam surveys, fake applications and bum links, according a new report by an Internet security firm. And it's getting worse by the day as scammers figure out clever new ways to trick unsuspecting users.

Pop star Katy Perry swung through Facebook's headquarters for a visit. What did she do there? Pose with employees, eat at the cafeteria, and not much else as far as we can tell. But it looked fun for the employees!

It turns out the third-largest advertiser across MySpace and Facebook was a scam to switch people's search engines to Bing and then collect affiliate fees from Microsoft. It's yet another example of how social networks are rife with shady operators.

The Social Network depicts Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as an antihero who ends up chastened, awkward and lonely. But now that the movie has gleaned $200 million and four Golden Globes, its makers are proclaiming Zuckerberg a valorous rock star.

A woman in Indiana called 911 because she felt Facebook was too slow in removing a "nude self-portrait photograph" from its site. People. This is not what 911 is for. Let's review.

Events in Tunisia are changing by the minute, but one thing is clear: This is the first popular uprising to bring down a leader in the Arab world in recent history. Who — or what — is responsible for it?