If you're seeing the above redirect message to Facebook when you try to visit, oh, pretty much any webpage (Gawker included), you're not alone. Starting about 15 minutes ago, an apparent glitch with Facebook Connect triggered the problem. In addition to Gawker Media, there were reports of issues at NYMag.com, ESPN, CNN, Hulu and apparently dozens of other sites. We're working on figuring out the problem but for now, here's how you can fix it: Sign out of Facebook. That should let you continue to read about the Snow Storm to End All Snow Storms and Justin Bieber's mom. We'll update when we know more.

If Goethe were a 14-year-old girl living in modern times, his Faust might have played out like the real-life story of Rachel Baier, a Massachusetts teen who was convinced by her dad to quit Facebook in exchange for money.

An NBC affiliate serving the Dallas-Fort Worth area was forced to apologize today after posting a shockingly tasteless write-up of a soldier's death on their Facebook page.

Jenessa Simons has spent the past three years searching for her biological parents.

Maybe. The picture has been making the rounds across the internet (and by rounds, I mean a British tabloid, a local NBC affiliate and a few music sites). But is it real? Probably, though there's been no official confirmation. NBC Bay Area found the deejay in the photo, Los Angeles-based DJ Dory, who wrote on her Facebook wall: "This photo was from 3 years ago... who knew?"

One of the many university students who perished in Sunday's horrific nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil, managed to post one last Facebook status update asking her friends for help, before succumbing to the inferno.

"Want to start a book club or find a gym buddy? Connect with friends who like the same activities — and meet new people, too," Facebook's brand-new, would-be revolutionary Graph Search promises. Of course, you can also find out which Muslims in Tehran are interested in men, and which Chinese citizens have relatives interested in Falun Gong. Or which married people like prostitutes!

Taking his cue from the kids who convinced their parents to give them a puppy after getting 1 million likes on Facebook, Petter Kverneng of Norway got his high school crush Catherine to agree to sleep with him if he secured as many Facebook likes himself.

We've all been there: It's a Tuesday morning and you've got a hankering for some trail running. But your wilderness survival class taught you never to trail run alone. What do you do? With Facebook's new search engine, you can instantly use your computer to search for anyone on earth who likes trail running. (You can also find other things. But why would you want to?)

Two people named Kelly Hildebrandt who bonded over their shared name and eventually got married say they gave it their "best shot," but couldn't make it work.

65 years ago, Betty Billadeau and her kid brother Clifford Boyson were torn apart by fate and sent to two different foster homes.

A Las Vegas blackjack dealer who sold her story of sext and intrigue involving Anthony Weiner to Radar Online made an impromptu appearance on the former congressman's Facebook page to apologize for destroying his political career.

A 19-year-old woman in Phoenix who accidentally shot and killed her brother was posing with a gun for Facebook photos, according to local police.

Irrespective of the inevitable politics that will be attached to this image, it is certainly apt that the first viral Facebook photo of the year is a TMI shot of a baby pulling itself out of her mother's womb.

I guess this is what happens when you take shortcuts to privacy.

Like son, like father. As Instagram reels from the backlash over its new Terms of Use, announced — and then revised — earlier this week, its parent company Facebook has introduced a new service that's likely to be highly unpopular.

Instagram, the massively popular photo sharing site purchased this year by Facebook, released its latest "Terms of Use" today, to the consternation of many of its more than seven million daily users. Most of the rules, which officially take effect January 16, include rational things like "no porn" and "you must be 13 to use Instagram." But a couple are rightfully pissing people off:

After initial reports that police had named 24-year-old Ryan Lanza the suspect in this morning's Connecticut elementary school shooting that left nearly 30 dead, including at least 18 children, dozens of media accounts (including Gawker) shared the above photo — from the Facebook profile of a 24-year-old man named Ryan Lanza, who was born in Connecticut and lives in New Jersey — many of them describing it a picture of the shooter.

How far is too far when it comes to corporate social-media policing? That's the question at the heart of a new controversy in which a black TV meteorologist in Louisiana, Rhonda Lee, was fired for responding—calmly, it should be said—to racist comments on her station's Facebook page, one of which was about her appearance.

While you were busy unfollowing the Pope on Twitter, the evil geniuses at Facebook were busy compiling your year in review, based off your most popular posts.