Facebook's CEO came up with a way of predicting who a given user would be dating one week in the future, according to a new book about the social network. And he did it for fun.

With everyone complaining about how hard it is to remain private on Facebook, some users are looking for help on the social network itself. And they're not happy with Facebook's bizarre results when you search for "privacy."

Facebook has a rap sheet sheet when it comes to silencing critics. In addition to shutting down the account of a critical commenter as mentioned yesterday, the social network banned the team behind a critical book in Argentina.

Mark Zuckerberg may have finally had it with all the criticism. Some users of Facebook are suggesting that the social network's CEO has punished them for having the audacity to question Facebook's business practices and make satirical comments about Zuckerberg.

Facebook sealed a five-year deal with FarmVille-maker Zynga. Details are secret, but we're guessing Zynga promised to stop doing "every horrible thing in the book" to users, while Facebook promised to stop trying to take all Zynga's money. [VentureBeat]

Need another reminder of how relaxed Facebook's privacy settings have become? Openbook lets you search Facebook status updates, regardless of whether or not you have a Facebook account. Go on, search for "rectal exam." We know you want to.

You may not think it to look at him, but according to the Times of London the new Facebook movie depicts Mark Zuckerberg as a "ruthless and untrustworthy sex maniac."

Flying from London to New York, Peter Frank and boyfriend Michael Bailey witnessed two Courtney Love meltdowns. They wrote about it on their Facebook walls. Four days later, the Post's Cindy Adams ripped them off verbatim.

Facebook's first president, former Napster cofounder Sean Parker, was pushed out of the company in 2005 at the insistence of Facebook VC Jim Breyer after a cocaine-related arrest in North Carolina.

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For the first time in 40 years Heinz is significantly changing its ketchup recipe, dropping current sodium levels by 15%. And they're being sneaky — no new label, meaning consumers will have to read the back nutrition panel! Blame Mike.

Facebook's chief flack is beyond apologetic in his extraordinary Q&A with New York Times readers: He admits he's failed at his job. But why should users allow Elliot Schrage to take a bullet for his bosses?

An instant message transcript slipped to Business Insider shows 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg suggesting that users of the social network—fellow Harvard students at the time—were "dumb fucks" for trusting him.

Here's one tangible upside to society's dysfunctional love affair with Facebook: The social network has so much information on people's moods and activities that it can now predict how you'll feel after you do something.

Russia's Digital Sky Technologies might be the toast of Silicon Valley, but the investment firm gives the Russian founder of Chatroulette the creeps. Sometimes it takes a teenager to say the obvious, rude things adults can't bring themselves to utter.

Facebook had its third alarming bug in as many weeks, when a security researcher showed how a hostile website could obtain your Facebook information via Yelp. The hole is supposedly fixed, but then so were the prior two.

Days after her highly-rated turn hosting SNL, Facebook campaigns have already started to get Betty White to host the Emmys and Oscars. First of all, the internet petition strategy only works once. Second: She's 88. Let her catch her breath!

Facebook board member and investor Jim Breyer had his Facebook profile hacked over the weekend. According to PeHUB, Jim's account sent a message to his 2,300 or so Facebook friends over the weekend, asking them, "would you like a Facebook phone number?" The message also contained a link to "see more details and RSVP."

The Times has an article today about how young people are realizing they look like idiots on Facebook and are taking increased steps to protect their privacy online. But old people don't understand how to work the damn privacy machines.

A guy has used the Internet to show you how, exactly Facebook's privacy rollbacks affect your information. It looks sort of like a flower. If a flower could inadvertently reveal to the world your love of Miley Cyrus. [Matt McKeon]