Placentas are nothing to be ashamed of. Four college nursing students demonstrated this, by posting photos of themselves on Facebook, posing with a human placenta. Their school kicked them out?! Say hello to a lawsuit, Johnson County (Kansas) Community College!

Goldman Sachs and Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies have invested $500 million into Facebook in a deal that values the social network at $50 billion—more than eBay, Yahoo! and Time Warner. What's cool now, Justin Timberlake?

43,869,800 people changed their relationship status to "single" on Facebook in 2010. But just 28,460,516 people changed their status to "in a relationship." So, there are like 15 million Facebook users out there for the taking.

Fresh off his tour of mainland China, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg celebrated the New Year in Taiwan. Above, Zuckerberg and his girlfriend stroll through Taipei's famous Snake Alley market on Thursday. He even stopped for a picture with a fan.

The Winklevoss Twins—the hunky identical twins who claim Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them at Harvard—are still hopping mad! Apparently you can't even interview them without being inundated with the tiniest details of Zuckerberg's betrayal.

Speculation is heating up again that Facebook might go public next year. Or what if Groupon AND Facebook IPO'd at the same time? Would all the money in the universe be sucked into the resulting black hole?

A fameball contractor who's leading an effort to boycott construction of the "Ground Zero Mosque" is also participating in a Facebook campaign to boycott Justin Bieber for supporting Park51 in a Tigerbeat interview that was actually a hoax, the end.

Technology seemed especially relevant in 2010, what with The Social Network's blockbuster receipts and mass mania for Apple's iPad and iPhone 4. The newfound attention helped turned some techies into genuine stars — while lending others real worldwide infamy.

This is Ross and he is very serious about you getting rid of your Facebook page, for your own sake. But he's not judging you, unlike all the people you are "friends" with. He might have a point there.

Yoko Ono, in an interview with the Daily Mail, said for the millionth time that no, she didn't break up the Beatles. She also said John Lennon would "love" Facebook, Twitter and Lady Gaga. Oh, Yoko.

A while back, we paid a paparazzo to tail Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. But during his high-profile trip to China this week, Chinese fans are doing the stalking for free. Here's a gallery of their Zuckerberg-in-China snapshots.

Does Google have any chance at all of competing with arch-rival Facebook? Not really, former Google bigwig Paul Buchheit says. Buchheit tells us his old company will probably find it easier to land on the moon.

"Did a lot of girls contact you and your brother after the movie?" Newsweek asked Social Network villain Tyler Winklevoss. His response was a series of flustered giggles and awkward stammering.

Bill Hader's cackling impression of Julian Assange once again popped up in this week's SNL, this time letting us know how he feels about Zuckerberg being named Time's Man of the Year. Who knew Assange and Zuck were so similar?

Now that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has overthrown the internet and been named Time's "Person of the Year" is there anything left for him to do? Yes: Conquer China, beginning with this weekend's visit to Beijing.

Facebook is sorry for forcing you to interact with people in the real world for 30 minutes yesterday

Yesterday, we introduced you to Facebook's new face-recognition feature. Today, hints emerge of yet another new feature called "memories". What is Facebook's "memories," and how will it help us embarrass ourselves on the Internet?

The internet is so popular these days! A big new survey shows that people of all ages are emailing, searching, shopping, banking, and browsing news and information online more than ever. What they aren't doing more is blogging.

Facebook knows what you look like, and the implications are staggering. Drawing on billions of labeled photos, the social network will now automatically recognize faces and suggest people to tag in photos you upload. That's probably just the start.

Facebook's CEO had a huge year, what with the Hollywood blockbuster about him and the explosive growth of his social network. Now, as if to confirm the culture's Facebook obsession, Time has named Mark Zuckerberg "Person of the Year."