SF News Facebook Grants Meeting To Drag Queens Regarding Name Policy [Updated] The story that SFist broke last week about Facebook cracking down on drag queens and other performers who use drag names in place of their real names has spread all over and even
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens, Other Performers Outraged As Facebook Forces Them To Use Their Real Names [Updated] Facebook has recently launched a new crackdown on people using stage names, adopted nicknames, or drag names as their primary profile names, forcing local drag queens and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to suffer
SF News Rend Your Garments And Weep: Facebook Goes Down Yet Again [Updated] Remember when Facebook went down on August 1? Well, it's happened again, as of around 12:41 p.m. PT. What the hell are you going to do, instead? Work, like some sort
SF News 14-Year-Old Fatally Stabbed Over Rumored Social Media Dispute A freshman at San Francisco's Sacred Heart Preparatory School was fatally stabbed yesterday, over what the school's head football coach says were "social media issues." 14-year-old Rashawn Williams was stabbed by an as-yet-unidentified
SF News Facebook And Twitter Tweaking Timelines And It's Sure To Be Annoying Apparently people on Facebook don't know what the Onion is or can't bother to look past a headline to realize the story they're outraged about is satire. BBC News reports that now Facebook
SF News Facebook Shuttle Drivers Speak Out About Low Pay, Long Days, And Feeling 'Held Hostage' Sitting behind the wheel of one of San Francisco's primary targets of protests, annoyance, and all-out aggression, you'd think these two Facebook shuttle drivers interviewed by USA Today might plead "Please stop attacking
SF News Facebook Donated $10K To Anti-Gay Candidate In Utah The political-lobbying arm of Facebook recently made a cash donation of $10,000 to anti-gay-marriage Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes's re-election campaign, sparking some fury in the LGBT community. Reyes is currently fighting
SF News Ex-Facebook Guy Confirms Frat-House Vibe Of Company's Early Days In New eBook This should come as a shock to absolutely no one, but in the early days of Facebook, a very fratty, and uninviting-to-women vibe prevailed at Facebook HQ, which included a mural that dubbed
SF News After A Brief Outage, Facebook Returns To Suck Away Your Productivity [Updated] A nation of slacking workers released a collective gasp Friday morning, as Facebook started throwing error messages, displaying "network errors," and telling users "Sorry, something went wrong." There's no news yet from the
SF News Westboro Baptist Church To Protest 'Fag Media' Next Month At Facebook, Google, And Apple The infamous idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, who always know a good media-attention-whoring opportunity when they see one, are turning their homophobic attention to the entire tech sphere next month and will
SF News Why Won't Twitter Announce Its Diversity Numbers? File under a positive trend, but depressing news: Facebook is the latest tech company to reveal its workplace diversity demographics and the breakdown is as white and male as data recently released by
Arts & Entertainment Why Facebook Likes Don't Equal A Life That friend who is always running 10 miles in the morning and posting about their seemingly carefree, glamorous lives? It's probably mostly lies. The great short film above illustrates the negative correlation between
SF News Uber Valued at $18.2 Billion, Now One Of The Biggest Companies In Bay Area With a new valuation on Friday that came with a $1.2 billion influx of cash, Uber is now second only to Facebook in terms of the pre-IPO investment sum that it has
Arts & Entertainment The 21 Least Amazing 'Viral' Posts That Never Blew Anyone's Mind One of the more tiresome, repetitive, and egregious trends clogging our feeds these days is the scourge of the purposefully share-worthy headline. You would think that by now people would stop falling for
SF News Twitter Gets More Facebook-y With Rumored 'Whisper Mode,' Group Chats In a new interview with Bloomberg, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo hints that the ubiquitous public-conversation venue will offer something akin to Facebook's private group chat function, and an in-between "Whisper Mode" option for
Arts & Entertainment Madame Tussauds Unveils Barefoot Mark Zuckerberg Wax Figure Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has had his image cast in wax by the famed Madame Tussauds. But the giant doll of this typical Missionite is missing something significant, and we're not talking about
SF News Jerk.com Called Out For Dickish Personal Data Practices A formal complaint filed by the FTC on Monday alleges Jerk.com and its proprietor/ Napster co-founder John Fanning took personal data from 73 million Facebook users, called them "jerks" and then tried
SF News Twitter Is Just A Quirkier Facebook Now Rumors that Twitter would completely re-do its look for the benefit of the less tweet-savvy folks came true today as the company began rolling out a new design and profile look meant to
SF News Greenpeace Shames Twitter And Pinterest Via Blimp Greenpeace flew a blimp over Silicon Valley today to champion tech companies that have gone emerald green and shame those who are more of a tea green. The latter? Amazon, Twitter, Netflix and
SF News Bored With Reality, Facebook Buys Virtual Reality Startup For $2 Billion Facebook announced Tuesday that it would blow through another $2 billion in cash and common stock to acquire start-up Oculus, makers of Oculus Rift head-mounted virtual reality display. In a Facebook post today,
SF News Zuckerberg And Kutcher Working Together To Create The Terminator Elon Musk, SF resident Mark Zuckerberg, and Ashton Kutcher just put $40 million into Vicarious FPC, a secretive artificial-intelligence company working toward creating a computer that may be able to think like you,
SF News Facebook Funding $200,000 Cop's Salary On Tuesday, the city council in Menlo Park, Calif. unanimously approved Facebook's offer to pay $200,000 per year for a "community safety police officer." According to experts, the plan will make Facebook
SF News You'll Never Guess What Facebook Lets You Block Now, But The Answer Could Save Friendships In a move that really should have happened sooner, Facebook will now let you block articles and content from individual sites that you'd just rather not see in your news feed anymore. It
SF News Facebook To Buy Messaging Service WhatsApp For $19 Billion In Menlo Park today, the 800-pound social networking gorilla announced today that it would acquire popular messaging app WhatsApp for a cool $4 billion in cash and $15 billion in Facebook stock. The
Arts & Entertainment San Franciscans Are Allergic To Relationships, Says Facebook Here's a heartwarming statistic dredged up from Facebook's data mines: San Franciscans are the least likely people in the country to commit to a relationship. (Or commit to updating their relationship status, at
