Everyone knows that white people love Facebook and hate MySpace. But why? In a sure-to-be-controversial new essay, a famous internet sociologist says it's a lot like white flight.

So that alleged Russian spy who worked as a Microsoft software tester for nine months had a Facebook profile, which you can see after the jump. How did people not catch on to this guy? The clues were all there.

A New York Supreme Court justice blocked Facebook from transferring any assets, so a wood pellet distributor from Wellsville, New York can press his case that he's the real inventor of the social network. This is crazy on many levels.

A Michigan woman has been sentenced to nine to 30 years in prison for having sex with her biological son, whom she had given up for adoption and later tracked down on Facebook. He was 14 at the time.

Why allocate more money for domestic AIDS education when Facebook is free?

Remember how Facebook unilaterally appropriated private friend lists and profile photos several months ago? A new class-action suit says that action violated Canadian privacy and consumer protection laws, and demands a cut of Facebook's ill-gotten revenues. Nice, ay?

Boom! Mark Zuckerberg was served legal papers relating to a mysterious lawsuit at a fancy lunch in Sun Valley, Idaho yesterday. The sneaky server pretended to ask for Mark Zuckerberg's autograph before dropping the bomb.

Ughh. Here comes another teaser for The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin's too-timely movie about the creation of the most important invention of all time, the Facebook. This one is just as serious as the first one, only now there's typing!

Google is preparing another attempt to crack the social networking world owned by Facebook, and to a lesser extent, Twitter.

Sarah Palin was doing a meet-and-greet at the American Amusement Machine Association's International Bowl Expo 2010 last week (Ha) and, well, it appears one guy she met was a fan of more than just her fiscal policies.

One in five teenage users has "Facebook Fatigue" and plans to quit or cut back on Facebook, says a survey of 600 kids. Others plan to gag themselves "with a spoon" or "totally die" if Mom keeps friending. [Pic via]

Do you ever find yourself on Twitter or Facebook and think to yourself, "I wish I was on Gawker"? Don't click away, because you can find us on Facebook and Twitter. And we'll appear in your inbox, too!

Accused spy Anna Chapman wasn't the only suspected Russian agent on Facebook. A tipster with access to co-defendant Mikhail Semenko's Facebook photos sent us some of his pictures. Want to see an alleged spy in a Bill Clinton costume?

Author Gregory Levey just revealed how his book won almost 700,000 Facebook fans, more than Brad Pitt, JK Rowling or the New York Times. His secret: Accidentally appeal to stupid people.

The creator of a Facebook page listing the "100 Biggest Sluts" in an Australian town could be brought up on stalking charges. 60 of the 100 women named went to the police. The other 40 were off slutting, it's believed.

Are you anticipating The Social Network as highly as we are? It's this movie about a deranged psycho who kills people by strangling them with their own small intestines. No, wait. It's about a nerd who founded a popular website.

Any mystery about why tech companies feel free to plunder, lose and even illegally appropriate your personal data should be cleared up by observing how lightly the Federal Trade Commission spanked Twitter for losing control of 35 high-profile accounts.

We go to Martha Stewart for many things—recipes, decorating tips, officious WASP-y superiority—but for blue humor? Never! But now she's posting suggestive pictures on her Facebook page and our universe is turned upside down.

Facebook's privacy rollbacks may have pissed off users, but the bottom line has been just fine. That may yet change. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that the social network's rapid growth has finally slowed.

The attached poster for Facebook film The Social Network neatly illustrates how Hollywood will try and turn an awkward young computer nerd into an exciting character worthy of a big-budget Hollywood drama: light him like a serial killer.