Before he dropped out of Harvard to build Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg was an officer at the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, where the scrawny young computer geek had a ferocious nickname, according to a classmate.

Sarah Palin's latest Facebook note has hit the Internet like an open palm against a slab of beef. She who has been the most vocal critic of the Ground Zero Mosque thinks Pastor Terry Jones shouldn't burn the Koran.

Justin Timberlake needed some help preparing for his starring role in the forthcoming Facebook movie The Social Network. But when the young singer approached Facebook co-founder Sean Parker in a nightclub, seeking acting help, he got shot down.

Everyone's familiar with how businesses use our personal information to deliver targeted advertising online. But new developments in predictive analysis goes far beyond that, allowing companies to use thousands of points of data to make startlingly specific assumptions about customers.

Having trouble stalking your Facebook friends efficiently? Help is on the way! Facebook is currently testing a new feature (dubbed the "Stalker Button" by Mashable) that makes online stalking easier than ever. So what does it do?

A former Washington Post reporter is said to writing a comprehensive profile of Mark Zuckerberg. Comprehensive enough, maybe, to include the old romantic entanglement Zuckerberg just fibbed about. Prepare to do a little more sweating, Mark.

A Detroit-area woman was kicked off a jury for commenting on Facebook that it's "gonna be fun to tell the defendant they're GUILTY" before the trial was over or the defense even presented its case. Guess what her punishment was?

Mark Zuckerberg said society has loosened up about privacy. But the Facebook CEO was talking about his users; now that he's a defendant in a New York lawsuit, Zuckerberg is calling for stronger privacy protections.

Diaspora, the open-source, privacy-minded social network, has great online buzz, thanks to $200,000 in start-up funds raised exclusively through Kickstarter and a dirty nerdy joke they slipped past the Times. Now, a launch date is set: September 15th. [Wired]

Yeah, yeah, everyone wants to see David Fincher's Facebook movie The Social Network but will it really be better than this music video for the Turkish song "Facebook"? Even with the coke and tits, I doubt it. [via; via]

If you're planning on setting up any kind of online community for your business — and who isn't these days? — know that Facebook has begun suing to protect "the distinctive BOOK portion" of its trademark, starting with Teachbook.com.

Constantly updating your status, oversharing the gory details of your simple life, Farmville... these are the symptoms of being a FaceDouche. This video's filled with examples of the most annoying facebook faux pas—-how guilty are you?

On tonight's Report, Stephen Colbert wanted to talk about the Internet! After giving a shout-out to pretty much every social media platform, Colbert took on a more serious tone and put Google's/Facebook's scary control over our private information into perspective.

On August 17, a list of the names of 69 young men in Puerto Asis, Colombia was published on Facebook. Leave town in three days, the list warned, or you will be executed. Now, three of the men are dead.

Remember the trailer for The Social Network? The one that had an a capella choir's rendition of Radiohead's "Creep" in it? Well, it turns out that adding that same music to even the most silly/lighthearted viral video transforms it forever.

Facebook abruptly removed ads for pot legalization group Just Say Now, saying the ads' marijuana leaves might encourage Facebook members to try toking. A social network founded on college campuses can't really think its users are strangers to pot.

North Korea was recently discovered to have both a whore-obsessed Twitter account and a Facebook page soliciting hot man on man communal love. Or maybe not: The regime says its sexy profiles are, uh, tricks of the capitalist running dogs.

Facebook's ideal Facebook movie is one which depicts Mark Zuckerberg coding alone in his dorm room, the action climaxing in a bathroom break. But The Social Network has cocaine and boobs. What happened to Hollywood's age-old defense of the truth?

Exciting news, comrades: Our Facebook friendship with North Korea is "awaiting confirmation." The North Korean government has apparently set up an official Facebook page. But they only have 65 friends. And North Korea is gay?

In your unemployed Friday media column: The NYT magazine editor search continues, top editors shuffle in and out of magazines elsewhere, an ill-advised warning for young journalists, and Robin Givhan on the Essence RACE SCANDAL.