Facebook just doesn't know how to get over you, it seems. Three years after tech sites called out the social network for keeping copies of deleted photos on their servers, Facebook is still having a hard time permanently deleting all the old photos its users trashed in the sober light of day. Facebook originally claimed that an old photo management system wasn't properly clearing out the deleted photography, and that they've been working to improve it, but according to Ars Technica's follow-up report today photos deleted as many as three years ago could still be floating around the back corners of the Internet. more ›

Michael Krasny took on the Facebook IPO today on Forum (a morning talk show on NPR's Bay Area affiliate), and not surprisingly, the call-in audience had A LOT to say about how Facebook has affected — and ruined — their lives. more ›

When Facebook stock publicly trades later this year, scads of people will turn into billionaires and millionaires seemingly overnight. One person who stands to gain an estimated $200 million is graffiti artist David Choe, who, in lieu of payment, was given shares of Facebook after his work adorned the walls at the first Facebook headquarters back in 2005. According to Fast Company, "In 2005 Sean Parker commissioned Choe to paint more provocative art, in the form of graphic sexually-themed murals on the walls of Facebook's early Silicon Valley HQ, and in 2008 Mark Zuckerberg asked him to paint more restrained ones on the new HQ's walls." more ›

As expected, Facebook filed for its initial public offering today and the numbers are big: The securities filing places the social network's value somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal this afternoon. That means the young company should debut well above Google's 2004 valuation of $23 billion — a figure that has held the record for the highest U.S. Internet IPO ever since. more ›

A Facebook post by Tracey Hodgson and Cathy Matthews won the Guinness Book of World Record for having received a whopping 1 million comments. It does not, however, make any sense. The update in question was posted to an open Facebook group, called "Ffgpioneers/gwr/attempt," created exclusively to beat the commenting record. It reads: more ›

Maybe you've seen this already, but we hadn't, and it's dern catchy! The song is by Livia Scott and you can find it on iTunes here. more ›

Uptown Almanac brings to light several Facebook posts penned by alleged Mission rape suspect, Fred Dozier, 32. The most chilling part about Dozier's Facebook posts aren't his "Crime City" requests or his "2 thumbs up" for superb parenting, It's how seemingly normal they all are. (Typos notwitstanding.) For example: more ›

As part of his personal challenge to eat only the animals he kills, noted nouveau riche person Mark Zuckerberg has been eating a lot of bison burgers, apparently. Thanks to that newly enlightened diet, the Facebook CEO has grown so attached to one bison in particular that he posthumously nicknamed it Billy and mounted the big fella's head on a conference room wall at Facebook HQ. Also: the bison is wearing a Facebook baseball cap. more ›

A new mobile phone app and a new service/button on Facebook are trying to help the suicide prevention cause. The smartphone app, specifically geared toward soldiers and military vets, is called Guard Your Buddy, and it's being released by the Tennessee National Guard in conjunction with the 375th anniversary of the National Guard. On Facebook, they're adding a feature whereby when a friend spots a suicidal status update or comment, they can click a link next to the comment that immediately puts the person in touch with a suicide prevention hotline via Facebook chat. (For the record, we still cannot find this feature on the site, but it's supposed to launch today.) more ›

Here's another way Facebook will keep you from getting work done on a daily basis: according to a report released yesterday, Facebook's growing campus at 1 Hacker Way could pose a major traffic problem for Highway 101 and the surrounding streets in Menlo Park if the company doesn't limit the number of employees driving to work. Facebook started moving its 2,000 employees to the new digs over the summer, but Zuckerberg and Co. hope to eventually fill out the offices with 9,400 total employees split between the former Sun Microsystems HQ and the Facebook East Campus across the Bayfront Expressway. more ›

In Silicon Valley, vanity street names by tech mammoths are as common as racial disparity, wasteland boredom, and Chevys. Apple has 1 Infinite Loop, Genentech has 1 DNA Way, and Sun Microsystem used to call 1 Network Drive its home. Now Facebook, that social media platform where friends try to tell you how to vote and think, is getting a head-scratching new address. It came up with Hacker Way, Menlo Park, 94025, reports to TechCrunch. more ›

Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the short story "Memento Mori" (which later his brother, Christopher, turned into Memento) and helped pen The Prestige and The Dark Knight, has created some of the greatest cinematic works over the last few years using paranoia as a key theme. It should come as no surprise, then, that the envy-inducing writer has some major concerns with social media and Facebook -- brilliantly paranoid concerns, we might add. more ›

Two weeks after hacker group Anonymous threatened to "kill" Facebook for releasing private information of some of their 750 million users to the federal government, the social media monolith has taken to paying hackers to try and break into their system. Worried about the site’s security in the wake of the BART data leaks, the social media monolith has so far compensated individual hackers between $5,000 and $7,000 since the original threat. more ›

In an effort to become the most boring place on the world wide web -- or maybe it's just us? Since our friends post the most meh stuff now, we've resorted to following Arbor Mist's spectacular, frighteningly honest updates. Seriously. "Sparkling Raspberry put the sparkle in my smile ;)" beats the umpteenth pretentious Kanye West song lyric -- Facebook will "work with law enforcement agencies nationwide to remove accounts set up by inmates or posted on their behalf." Why? Well, according Associated Press, "prisoners are using the social networking site to stalk victims and direct criminal activity." more ›

One of Facebook's earliest employees, Randi Zuckerberg, sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, resigned from the social networking company. Randi "is leaving her position as director of marketing at the Palo Alto-based website after six years with the company," reports the Oakland Tribune. more ›

Perhaps because of their ongoing litigious efforts in a Massachusetts federal court, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss simply could not stay silent about some recent public remarks by former Harvard president Larry Summers in which he referred to the twins as "assholes." Summers was speaking at Fortune's "Brainstorm Tech Conference" earlier this week and, perhaps to amuse the audience, he recounted the meeting he had with the Winklevoss twins and Divya Narendra in April of 2004, which was dramatized in 2010's The Social Network. To wit: "One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they're looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole. This was the latter case." more ›

Tired of blocking followers who post relentless political campaign-related gibberish or blatant Gilt-esque advertising? We don't know about you, but we sure are. (Side note: if you're a campaign director who's hired a "social media consultant" [ick] to advise you that spamming your followers with aimless updates about your candidate is a good thing -- which counterproductively results in you and your updates getting blocked -- you should, one, fire that scam artist on the payroll and, two, stop it this very second.) Which is why (at least for now) Google Plus is a radical shot of fresh air. Like a VIP club or comfy booth inside the noisy, arena-like nightclub that is Facebook, the best part of Google+ is for sharing and discussing with a close circle of friends. more ›

Powered by Skype, Facebook announced a new video chat feature today. Which will be of interest to those of you who chat on Facebook, or to those of you who don't already use GMail's nifty video chat feature. So, what is it exactly? TechCrunch explains: "It’s a feature that’s been rumored for quite a while, and it’s one that Facebook is putting a lot of weight behind. Now, whenever you browse to a friend’s profile, you’ll see a new button nestled between the ‘Message’ and ‘Poke’ buttons that says ‘Call’. Click that, the other user will see a popup asking if they want to accept a call, and you’ll be immediately connected (you’ll need to install a small plugin the first time you use the service)." more ›

At the future site of Facebook's new headquarters in Menlo Park, police are investigating some 1,000 pounds of missing copper wire. Like the mineral-hungry prospectors that made the Bay Area a playground for lonely white men in the mid-1800s, the thieves must have seen a big payoff hidden in the walls of the nine-building, 57-acre campus. The half-ton of copper, which was taken sometime between June 7 and 13th and will henceforth be known as "the Zuckerberg Lode", has an estimated value of $8,500*. more ›

Just yesterday, we reported that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss cut their losses and decided to accept the settlement they reached with Facebook in 2008 now worth about $120 million. The two made a court filing on Wednesday, after a failed appeal to the 9th Circuit. Oh, but it's not over. more ›

Those greedy, seemingly quite stubborn Winklevoss twins (portrayed by the handsome and strapping Armie Hammer in The Social Network), have finally decided to throw in the towel and stop trying to undo the settlement they reached with Facebook back in 2008, which was then worth $65 million. Turns out, as CBS reports, the $45 million in stock that was offered in that settlement would now be worth $100 million, so the poor dears have chosen not to take their fight all the way to the Supreme Court. more ›

Bemoan the exalted Facebook leader all you want, plebeians, but we dig Mark Zuckerberg's newfound gastronomic sensibility. In a recent Forbes article, Zuckerberg explains how he now only eats what he kills, meat-wise. (He maintains a vegetarian lifestyle when it comes to restaurants and daily eating routines.) Which is admirable since... well, we sure as hell can't bring ourselves to do that. Not yet, anyway. Forbes explains: more ›

After becoming the target of the tech paparazzi and moving out of his last residence, the Facebook frontman has finally upgraded himself to a living situation befitting of a real grownup who is also very rich. Kind of like how he finally started wearing a suit and tie, even if it was just a show for the President. According to the RealEstalker Zuckerberg, who is well known for finding reasonably modest living situations on Craigslist (Bazillionaires: They're just like us!), dropped a cool $7 million on this Palo Alto 5-bedroom in the quiet-sounding Crescent Park neighborhood. RealEstalker gives us the verbal tour: more ›

Yesterday, Facebook added more options to their relationship status updates. Namely, the ability to add either "in a domestic partnership" or the more separate-but-equal "in a civil union" to your personal profile. more ›

Rumors are swirling - swirling! - about Google and Facebook conducting clandestine meetings about about buying Twitter. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Executives at both Facebook Inc. and Google Inc., among other companies, have held low-level talks with those at Twitter Inc. in recent months to explore the prospect of an acquisition of the messaging service, according to people familiar with the matter." more ›

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Pradeep Manukonda, 31, of Milpitas has been ordered to stay 300 feet away from Mark Zuckerberg and stop contacting him. It seems the Facebook founder, as well as his girlfriend and family, have been the recipient of unwanted attention from Manukonda since as early as December 2010. more ›

A new study by Atlanta-based AIS Media says that a full 27% use Facebook while on the toilet (or, less advisably, while standing at urinals), a figure which only tells us that at least half of you are probably also doing some kind of texting/Angry-Birds-playing while relieving yourselves. Says Thomas Harpointner, CEO of AIS Media, "The results underscore the proliferation of consumer social media usage and their strong need to stay connected. For businesses and brands, social media offers an opportunity to engage potential customers like never before." Yeah, you hear that brands? Now's your chance to market to us even while we shit. [AdAge] more ›