A "rare" simultaneous hard drive failure meant a chunk of Facebook's online photo storage temporarily went down this week. Time to backup, we think.

A change to Facebook's terms of service, which extends control over user content to profiles that have been shut down, has prompted nearly 20,000 users to join protest groups..

Facebook rolled out a beta for Facebook Lite at the beginning of the week – a simpler, faster version of the website aimed at mobile users and those on dial-up connections

Bill Gates has decried the use of Facebook and other modern tech tools, claiming it took too much of his time and caused him too much trouble trying to discern who were his 'real' friends were.

A mistake by a legal firm has revealed that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg paid out $65 million to end a legal case over the origin of his company.

Facebook users were warned today to be extra vigilant, after it emerged that criminals are running an online password hacking service, charging just US$100 per account.

A recent survey found Australia is among the strictest countries in the world when it comes to employees using social networking services such as Facebook; banned in more workplaces than the UK, Italy and Germany combined.

Online platform to launch in coming weeks.

No matter how much we tell ourselves that we are rational, scientific human beings a Friday 13th still sends a tremor up some spines.

Facebook users who allow third-party applications onto their desktop have been warned that a rogue Facebook app is luring users to a site set up to harvest their credentials.

Money might not buy you happiness, but thanks to a new social networking website, it can buy you very rich friends. A new 'Facebook for the wealthy' is apparently booming, despite the gloomy economic conditions.

A new 'stream' function arriving on Facebook next Wednesday will give users access to real-time comments from friends in much the same way Twitter operates.

Nintendo has released the DSi update that will bring Facebook to its handheld, while also blocking R4-type piracy devices that let you play bootlegged games for free

Dubbed the 'Facebook phone', this small and stylish social-networking phone will connect to you to your favourite net apps including MySpace and MSN.

If MySpace has its own credit card, maybe other Web sites will follow. We gaze into a warped crystal ball to imagine how the Digg card and others might work.

A woman has been conned out of US$4,000 by scammers who hacked into a Facebook page belonging to one of her friends..

The Facebook app for iPhone has been updated and has finally hit the App Stpre with lots of new additions, including a few last minute changes

But unlike MySpace or Facebook, parents or guardians will be contacted personally to verify the identity of every young person who joins the new Livewire website.

Mobile browser lets users update Twitter and Facebook from phones.

The Pirate Bay have come out in support of Iran by temporarily renaming themselves 'The Persian Bay' with a forum for uncensored speech. Similarly, Google and Facebook are to launch Persian translations of their respective sites