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Gaga Edging Obama in Race for 10M Facebook Fans

Only Michael Jackson has more

(Newser) - We'll leave it to others to parse the significance: President Obama and Lady Gaga are neck and neck in the race to become the first living person with 10 million Facebook fans. (The qualifier is because the only other person to reach the lofty milestone is Michael Jackson.) CNET...

Baby With Bong Shocks Facebook

Mom insists baby isn't smoking, but still...

(Newser) - Forget that baby who smokes cigarettes —this one smokes a bong, at least if an ill-advised Facebook photo is to be believed. Florida’s child protection agency is investigating the family of the 11-month-old shown in the picture, WJXT reports. A spokesperson says they are “alarmed that any...

AWOL Afghan Soldiers Turn Up on Facebook

They're apparently in Toronto...and fans of hip-hop, Paris Hilton

(Newser) - Remember that report warning that 17 Afghan soldiers had gone missing from a Texas Air Force base? Well, you can find 11 of them in the same place you can find pretty much anyone these days: Facebook. Fox News easily tracked down the deserters, who've done little or nothing to...

Zuckerberg Set to Trounce Former BFF

New Facebook Q&A product likely put Quora out of business

(Newser) - Facebook is working on a new questions and answers product that, it promises, “will be as exciting as Facebook Photos and Facebook Events.” It might also happen to totally destroy Quora , the Q&A startup that’s become the darling of Silicon Valley. Which is interesting, because Quora...

Facebook Pulled in $800M in '09
 Facebook Pulled in $800M in '09 
Jun 18, 2010 10:28 AM CDT

Facebook Pulled in $800M in '09

Site making more money than previously believed

(Newser) - Facebook made a lot more money last year than it let on. The company’s actual revenues were close to $800 million, sources tell Reuters , which translates into tens of millions in profits. Facebook had forecast $500 million in revenue, and analysts had assumed the actual number was in that...

Palin to Visit Margaret Thatcher

Former Alaska gov wants to meet 'political heroine'

(Newser) - Sarah Palin will visit Margaret Thatcher in England, the former Alaska governor announced in a Facebook post. Palin calls Thatcher "one of my political heroines" and says the former UK leader's "life and career serve as a blueprint for overcoming the odds and challenging the ‘status quo....

George W. Bush Makes Facebook Debut

He's 'done with politics, but not with policy'

(Newser) - Look out, Sarah Palin: You have competition on Facebook . George W. Bush posted what he called his “inaugural address” on the site today, telling his fans and friends he’s “done with politics” but “not done with policy.” The former president gives a boilerplate rundown of...

Meet the New Islamic Facebook
Meet the New
Islamic Facebook
Jun 9, 2010 5:17 PM CDT

Meet the New Islamic Facebook

Site launches during Pakistan's ban on social networking site

(Newser) - The recent furor over a Facebook page that invited user drawings of Mohammed has spurred a Pakistani man to start an Islamic version of the social-networking site. He founded Millatfacebook.com after Facebook refused to pull the offending page and Pakistan temporarily banned the original site, the New York Daily ...

After 15 Years, Mom Finds Kidnapped Kids on Facebook

Dad charged with kidnapping; daughter breaks off contact

(Newser) - Fifteen years after her husband ran off with their two children, a California woman has located her daughter—on Facebook. The father, who the woman says vowed she'd never see the kids again, has been arrested in Florida, but the story doesn't have a happy ending, reports the San Bernardino ...

Facebook 'Clickjacking' Attacks Persist

This time, Justin Beiber's the bait

(Newser) - Eager to see that Justin Bieber page your friends "liked?" You may want to resist the urge to click, say security experts. Facebook has been hit by a fresh round of fast-spreading "clickjacking" attacks that trick users—by means of an invisible page placed over one saying "...

Zuckerberg Sweats (Literally) Through Privacy Grilling

Facebook founder needs to bone up on answering questions cogently

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg, on the hot seat at the D8 summit late yesterday, apparently found questions about Facebook's privacy issues, and the backlash against them, so scorching that he sweated until his interrogators begged him to take off his hoodie. Not that they stopped hammering him, as he stammered through evasive...

Facebook Newbie: George W. Bush

Well, sort of

(Newser) - Facebook sure has changed since its inception as a college-only online hangout—first your parents joined, and now even George W. Bush has a page up . The profile is hardly personal—Laura Bush isn't even mentioned under "relationship status," Politico notes—and it's full of links to pre-order...

Disney Is First to Sell Movie Tickets on Facebook

New app encourages your friends to come along

(Newser) - Disney has quietly taken the next step in linking social networking and commerce: a new Facebook app allows users to buy tickets to Toy Story 3 without leaving the website. Disney's application isn't just the first such service embedded directly into Facebook—it also capitalizes on Facebook's social nature by...

'Quit Facebook Day' Looks Like a Flop

The official site has a measly 27,191 users committed

(Newser) - Today is "Quit Facebook Day," and it you haven't heard of it—or have no plans to walk away from your 437 friends—you're not alone. PC Magazine reports that the effort to get the masses to abandon the social networking site looks like a bust. A recent...

Pakistan Lifts Facebook Ban
 Pakistan Lifts Facebook Ban 
May 31, 2010 8:48 AM CDT

Pakistan Lifts Facebook Ban

But any 'blasphemous' material is still off limits

(Newser) - A Pakistani court today lifted the country's Facebook ban—or at least part of it. The site, which was blocked two weeks ago in response to an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" contest, was made accessible after the court was assured by the government that "blasphemous" material would...

Facebook Friends: How Many Is Too Many?

Even the social network says to can it at 5K

(Newser) - Sure, you get by with a little help from your friends, but in the überfriendly world of Facebook, how many is too many? One professor sets the number of meaningful relationships one can handle at 150, and even Facebook itself will cut you off at the you-can't-possibly-know-all-these-people number of...

Beware Video Phishing Attack on Facebook

If the video is "most hilarious ever," don't click on it

(Newser) - Facebook users, watch out for yet another weekend phishing attack. This one involves a video titled something along the lines of "Most Hilarious Video Ever" posted on Facebook walls. Click on it and it directs you to a fake Facebook login page, where it tries to steal passwords (possibly...

Zuckerberg: I Don't Care About Money

Revenue 'factors in, like, not at all'

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg went on a revealing rant the other day when asked how Facebook's new privacy settings would affect its business model. “We didn't talk about revenue at all,” he replied, and implied that he and his cohorts never thought about it. He said they genuinely believe Facebook...

Mom Who Hijacked Son's Facebook Page Convicted

Denise New can't have contact with her son

(Newser) - Let this be a warning to meddling (and cruel) moms: A woman who hijacked her son's Facebook account and posted obscenities, among other things, was convicted yesterday of misdemeanor harassment and ordered not to have contact with the teen. Denise New must pay a $435 fine and complete anger-management and...

Facebook Privacy Changes a Good First Step

New settings seem relatively easy to control

(Newser) - Facebook's unveiling of changes to give users more control over privacy (details from Mark Zuckerberg here ) is getting a decent reception on the tech blogs. Here's a sample:
  • Kevin Bankston, Electronic Frontier Foundation : They reverse "some of the worst of Facebook's privacy missteps," but "we still
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