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The Facebook Blog wrote:You control your experience on Facebook. Control isn’t just about deciding what you share and with whom you share it; it’s also about being able to keep your Facebook login secure.

Soon you’ll see a new way to take control of your account. You’ll be able to log out of any Facebook session that you may have left active on another computer or device.

Have you ever borrowed a friend’s phone to use Facebook and then forgotten to log out before you handed it back? Maybe you logged in from a public computer, but accidentally...

Facebook is in the process of testing a new feature which lets you subscribe to all the actions of a specific user. In other words, you can receive notifications anytime a specific user takes an action on Facebook. It also appears to be Facebook’s answer to Twitter’s follow feature. As a Facebook user who has seen the feature explained to us, “By subscribing you don’t miss any updates from people you subscribe to.”

This could also serve as a new engagement opportunity for Pages if Facebook enabled users to subscribe to their activities as well. The result would be a...

ATTENTION FACEBOOK LAUNCHED FACEBOOK PLACES YESTERDAY.ANYONE CAN FIND OUT WHERE YOU LIVE WHEN YOU ARE LOGGED IN. IT GIVES THE ACTUAL ADDRESS AND MAP LOCATION OF WHERE YOU ARE AS YOU UED FACEBOOK.MAKE SURE TO THT U PASS THIS ON. TO UNDO: GO TO ACCOUNT THEN ACCOUNT SETTING NOTIFICATIONS THEN SCROLL DOWN AND THEN YOU WILL SEE PLACES ... UNCHECK THE TWO BOSES. AND REMBER MAKE SURE TO PASS THIS ON SO WE CAN BE SAFE!!!!!!

IF ANYONE SEES THIS MESSAGE WITH A LINK - DON'T CLICK ON IT BECAUSE IT'S A VIRUS!!!!!!! PLEASE COPY AND PASTE TO YOUR FRIENDS.

"Hey, 3 days ago I signed up at http((((((a hacker's site)))))))))) as a tester and today I got my iPad. All you need to do is to tell them your opinion about iPad and you can keep it forever. You should hurry since i highly doubt this is gonna last forever."

Facebook Blog wrote:

No one likes being cut off in the middle of a conversation. That's as true on Facebook Chat as it is in person.

Many of you have told us that sometimes your Chat session comes and goes or even stops completely. We're working hard to end those interruptions so that your experience is stable and consistent.

The...

THERE IS A VIRUS GOING THROUGH OUR COMMENTS. IT WILL START SENDING LINKS IN YOUR NAME. IT SAYS, "I KNOW YOU WILL LOVE THIS", OR "LOOKING FOR SOME FUN", THEN IT HAS A PAGE LINK SAYING, "NEW GIFTS FOR YOU". DO NOT OPEN THIS LINK. THEY ARE POPPING UP EVERYWHERE!!! PLEASE COPY & PUT IT ON YOUR STATUS & HELP WARN THOSE IN YOUR CIRCLE

Facebook has just announced [url=Places,...

With Google ramping up efforts to take on Facebook, Facebook is batten down the hatches by pushing out product updates, acquiring companies, and apparently launching a new product.

The latest rumors suggest that Facebook will most likely launch location as a feature within the Platform, enabling developers to add geo-location data to applications. Last we we reported that Facebook’s location products...

More than 200 UK Facebook users have reported suspicious behaviour following the launch of a "panic button" application last month, figures show.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop), which created the app, say the figures represent a seven fold increase in reports.

The application was launched after months of negotiations between Ceop and Facebook, which had resisted the idea.

Facebook welcomed the figures...

Tired of getting updates every time someone comments on your popular friend’s status update because you were the first to comment? Worry no longer! Facebook has begun testing a feature which lets users opt-out of those notifications. By clicking a simple “Unsubscribe” link (as pictured below), you can turn off notifications from stories that you comment or like. It’s a useful feature that can help you instantly reduce the noise.

It’s an extremely subtle addition, however there are many users who will be grateful for this addition. Commenting on a person’s status update...

AllFacebook wrote:

Want to get a ton of free Facebook credits? Don’t expect to get them by simply liking or sharing a page which claims to offer you them. While Facebook is actively handing out free Facebook credits, a new Facebook scam is aiming to convince users to share a page which will give you Facebook credits if you share the page. While the page won’t steal your money, it also won’t...

Earlier this week Facebook began testing a new type of story when users become a fan of Pages which displays the type of page the user just liked. It’s a pretty small change however we received numerous tips from people around the web about the change. Obviously Facebook users notice even the most subtle changes.

This week has been a busy one for Facebook as they’ve been testing a number of new features, most significantly a listing of Pages that a user likes from within their profile. Facebook also began testing a larger photos layout. The latest test of making the...

Social networking websites are costing the UK economy £14 billion a year in lost work time, new research has revealed.

It found around two million workers...

Want to view 100 photos on a single page? Not sure why you would, however Facebook is currently testing a new format for albums which does exactly that. It’s part of a number of upgrades that the Facebook Photos team is testing since recently acquiring Divvyshot back in April.

Early last month Facebook began pushing out a facial recognition...

Facebook is known for their numerous easter eggs left throughout the site, and with the launch of the new Facebook Questions product, the company is sticking with some of their old ways. The new easter egg appears when users enter the questions “How is a babby formed?” It’s an internet meme which dates back to 2006 (view here), and was initially started on Yahoo! Answers. Trying to play off one of the memes first started on a Q&A site, Facebook now rick rolls any users that enters the same question.

The easter egg, which was first pointed out by Sean Percival, is...

Rather letting Spanish users know which friends have birthdays today, many are being greeted with the message “f*ck you b*tches”. The message, which appears to have been accomplished by tricking the Facebook Translations application, is being reported by numerous Facebook users who are viewing the site in Spanish. Other vulgar phrases seen around the site include, “See all ****” rather than “See all photos” and “va a follar con”, which is an extremely vulgar Spanish phrase.