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Facebook's Billionaire CEO Is on a Month to Month Lease

Ryan Tate · 10/13/10 01:49PM

His Palo Alto, California-based social network is valued at around $35 billion, but that doesn't mean 26-year-old Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is ready to commit to something as, like, serious as a lease. He's happy as the world's richest hobo.

Facebook Just Made It Extra Dangerous To Lose Your Phone

Ryan Tate · 10/12/10 04:36PM

Facebook can now send a temporary account password to your mobile phone, for when you're on an untrusted computer. It's a nice idea, but dangerous for the millions of Facebook users who don't know about it.

Facebook Co-Founders Donate To Pot Legalization

Ryan Tate · 10/11/10 01:50PM

Sean Parker and Dustin Moskovitz have donated a total of $170,000 to support California's Proposition 19 to legalize marijuana. In so doing, the old friends of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have become two of pot legalization's best friends.

SNL Offers a Solution for Those with a Mom on Facebook

Matt Cherette · 10/09/10 11:02PM

Jane Lynch is hosting tonight's SNL, and—naturally—there are a lot of sketches that feature her playing a mom. Speaking of which, here's a hilarious "commercial" for an embarrassment-reducing product called "Damn It, My Mom Is on Facebook."

MySpace's Last Grasp at Relevance: A Hip New Logo

Adrian Chen · 10/09/10 02:16PM

MySpace—remember that?—just unveiled a new logo. A clean, sans-serif bat signal to all the cool kids who left for Facebook: Come back! We're hip; we're with it. We listen to your independent rock and roll music.

New Facebook Offers Cliques for Privacy

Ryan Tate · 10/06/10 03:36PM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken some fierce criticism for compromising his users' privacy. Today he issued a clever response, taking the primordial tendency of humans to form groups and rolling it into his product as a feature.

The Five Best Ways To Lose Facebook Friends

Ryan Tate · 10/06/10 11:49AM

A University of Denver PhD candidate has completed some utterly crucial research into why people unfriend one another on Facebook. The big takeaway: Don't be too focused. In the attention deficit disordered world of social networking, concentration is highly annoying.

Facebook's Bad Boy Acts Out Again

Ryan Tate · 10/05/10 02:34PM

It's just like old times: After being ejected from Facebook after a cocaine-related arrest, Sean Parker worked hard to cultivate a more upscale image. But now comes news he flipped out at a New York nightclub doorkeeper. Whoops.

Is This the Communist Facebook?

Max Read · 10/05/10 01:36AM

Vietnam's ruling communist party isn't too psyched about the idea of its citizens using Facebook and other social networking sites. So they've made their own: It's called go.vn, and you need your government-issued I.D. number to sign up.

Facebook CEO's Humanizing Simpsons Cameo

Ryan Tate · 10/04/10 04:25PM

Sure, there's a Hollywood blockbuster about him, he's got half a billion users, and his net worth is estimated at $7 billion. But for cultural relevance, it's hard to beat Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's cameo on The Simpsons.

Evil Nerds and Warrior Owls Have Defeated the Vampires

Richard Lawson · 10/04/10 11:23AM

This weekend was the most internetty weekend at the movies ever! Everyone got out from behind the glowing friend-box and headed into the scary, cold real world to watch a movie about, well, the glowing friend-box.