Too lazy to update your Facebook status with real details? Life too boring? Use this status generator to make it look like you're still joining in. picked by pocksucket 8 months ago

A husband who hacked his wife to death with a meat cleaver in fury over her Facebook entry was jailed for a minimum of 14 years at the Old Bailey today. picked by bunnysutra 1 year ago

Imagine if the most important sentence you ever wrote was a Facebook status update that goes something like this: "ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK......WHERER MY IHOP." Now you know how it feels to be 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, who used that all-caps message to keep himself out of prison. picked by suebe 2 weeks ago

British secret agents are supposed to be exponentially smoother than their American counterparts. We get Ethan Hunt, they get James Bond. Except, not, because the chief of MI-6's wife had her Facebook profile set to public. Very public. picked by bornbad 5 months ago

A British mother has been reunited with her son after tracing him on Facebook - 27 years after he was abducted by his dad. picked by suebe 6 months ago

Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg made up Facebook and lots of people are grateful.

I've not signed up yet. I'll get round to checking it out at some point, I guess. Is it any good, do you think? picked by pocksucket 10 months ago

Despite Facebook's decision to eliminate two Holocaust Denial groups, numerous others remain on Facebook. Facebook is allowing these groups to remain, because, in Facebook's view, these groups are engaging in legitimate discourse over a controversial issue and not crossing the line into hate speech. picked by muppet 7 months ago

Cherry Currin, a member of the The Dazzle Dancers who goes by the stage-name Cherry Dazzle, has had trouble with Facebook in the past over risque photos; she's previously received warnings about a photo of herself backflipping out of the vagina of a giant female statue, and then again for an image of her breasts covered in flame-shaped pasties. But it wasn't until Cherry got pregnant that Facebook... read full post picked by suebe 3 weeks ago

They beat out google for this small percentage of facebook. Multiplied out it pushes the value of facebook up to $15 billion. In case that number doesn't sound all that big, it is $15,000,000,000 picked by sykeo56 2 years ago

"born in San Francisco, became a shooting star over everywhere, and ended his life in Brooklyn. ... And couldn't have asked for more." picked by suebe 9 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg, the 22-year old creator of Facebook.com has turned down an offer of $1.6 billion dollars from Yahoo.com for the purchase of his site. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

A teenager who posted a death threat on Facebook, yesterday became the first person in Britain to be jailed for bullying on a social networking site.

Keeley Houghton, 18, said she would kill Emily Moore, whom she had bullied for four years since they were at school together.

Not the first time either. picked by Bingo 3 months ago

It was the son her ex-husband had kidnapped 27 years earlier. Video at link. More on the story here. picked by meggysue 6 months ago

Two girls aged 10 and 12 got trapped in a storm water drain in Adelaide and were further imperilled as the water level began to rise. Not a problem though as they had at least one working mobile phone with battery power and a strong signal. Using their initiative they did the obvious and.... updated their Facebook profiles. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

We had a chance to chat with Facebook's Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, who came over from Mozilla in August. Topics included everything from open source, to Facebook Connect's impact on the web, to getting stopped in airport security lines. picked by cactushair 12 months ago