SF News Facebook Looks To Monetize Teenagers' Posts By Easing Privacy Rules Barely a week after we learned that Google Plus is going to start making us opt out of having our thoughts and personal reviews used by corporations in "social ads," Facebook has turned
Arts & Entertainment Haunted House Ups Fright Factor With Start-Up Theme Halloween is coming, and assorted ghouls, goblins, and Miley Cyruses will soon stalk the streets in search of blood. However, the scares this year will come from a different source: a new haunted
SF News Facebook Quietly Ditches Privacy Setting Because You Probably Didn't Know How To Use It Anyway Speaking of Facebook Privacy, the ubiquitous social network is quietly killing off a privacy setting that allowed users to set who could search for their profile and Timeline by name. According to Facebook,
SF News Google Will Splash Your Face On Sponsor Endorsements Unless You Opt Out Google wants to make you the new face of [insert brand name here] via a new revision to their terms of service. Basically, the company plans on taking anything you review or rate
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Buys Neighboring Houses So He Can Set His Own Privacy Settings Silicon Valley boy king Mark Zuckerberg dropped $30 million total over the past nine months to buy up four houses surrounding his five-bedroom home in Palo Alto. Zuckerberg reportedly snatched up the homes
SF News Facebook Temporarily Disables User Account For Gay Kiss Pic Well, the gay blogs are making quick work of this one: A Boston-based porn star posted an innocent photo on Facebook, taken yesterday, of himself kissing his husband, and because it was two
SF News Facebook Dating Ad Features Girl Who Committed Suicide Oops. Facebook had another little PR snafu this week when it was discovered that an ad being promoted on the site by an online dating concern featured the image of a dead girl.
SF News Hacker Updates Zuckerberg's Facebook Wall With Extremely Nerdy Status Last week, Palestinian security expert Khalil Shreateh tried to alert Facebook's security team to a hole in the social network's privacy settings, only to be met with tech support crickets. So Shreateh decided
SF News Study: Facebook Makes People Sad Another study confirms what we've always believed: Facebook makes you feel lonely and bad about yourself. The study followed a group of 82 young adults and monitored them at different points throughout the
SF News Man Shoots Wife, Posts Photo Of Body On Facebook A truly disturbing low in the Era of Facebook today: A Miami man allegedly shot his wife this morning and immediately posted a confession on Facebook, followed by a photo of her bloodied
SF News Facebook Stock Climbs Back Up to Its IPO Price Well, listen up now, all ye who delighted in the tumbling share price of Facebook stock after it hit the open market in May 2012 at $38 per share: It took a little
SF News Popular App Tinder Had a Huge Privacy Flaw, Now Fixed And in further proof that privacy barely exists anymore, a popular new hookup social media app turns out to have had a huge security flaw that was broadcasting your GPS location and all
SF News Facebook Security Bug Caused Private Phone Numbers and Emails to Be Public for About a Year Well, great. Not only has the NSA been watching our every ill-advised tagged photo on Facebook, but apparently the site itself was giving away our contact information to any number of people for
SF News Get Ready To Record Your Life In 15-Second Snippets: Facebook Announces Video For Instagram This morning at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom took a moment to discuss the heart of Instagram before introducing a video tool for sharing your life in "beautiful" 15-second
SF News Facebook Is Down, Feel Free To Panic [Update: Nightmare Over] Nope, it's not just you, Facebook is currently experiencing some technical difficulties. Around 6 p.m. PST, the site was merely showing an error page, denying scroll-happy users immediate access to their friend's
SF News Sean Parker Faerie Wedding Trashes Big Sur Campground According to The Atlantic, Internet rich person Sean Parker's $10 million faerie fantasy wedding took its toll on more than our credulity and forebearance. Unpermitted preparations for the wedding also trashed an ecologically-sensitive
SF News Zynga Lays Off 500+ Employees, Some Of Whom Learn Via Facebook It was a bloody Monday for Zynga, the San Francisco-based gaming company with the friendly dog mascot. Yesterday the company announced massive layoffs which cut 18% of Zynga's workforce and totalled 520 employees.
SF News Facebook Acknowledges It Didn't Know What Misogyny Looked Like After allowing troublesome Facebook fan pages like "Violently Raping Your Friend Just for Laughs" and "Kicking your Girlfriend in the Fanny because she won’t make you a Sandwich" linger on their social
SF News Photos: Facebook HQ Overrun With Adorable Fox Infestation While we don't often find ourselves wishing we had a daily commute down the Peninsula, this adorable news we just can't even deal with: A mother fox and her adorable litter of pups
SF News S.F. Pride Facebook Post Causes Uproar With a simple Facebook post (it's always a Facebook post, isn't it?), the San Francisco Pride commmittee sparked further outrage over the weekend within the local LGBT community. The update in question had
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Behave On Facebook Welcome back to Etiquette Week on SFist. Yesterday, we taught you how to drive in San Francisco without being a jerk. You're welcome. Now we tell you all about your mom's favorite social
SF News Zuckerberg Launches Political Action Committee For Immigration Reform, Education Standards Fresh off the announcement of a slick new way to text your friends, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday that he has gathered a group of Silicon Valley luminaries to form a political
SF News Facebook Launches Home (So You Can Spend More Of Your Time On Facebook) Thursday morning at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Mark Zuckerberg gathered members of the press to finally break the seal on a long-rumored Facebook phone. More accurately: Zuckerberg and company unveiled Facebook Home
Arts & Entertainment Sigh: Photographer Insists On Meeting All Of His Facebook 'Friends' "We all have these so-called friends out there..." begins twee, earnest photographer Ty Morin in his Kickstarter pitch for an art project we hope none of you gave money to. "So I thought,
Arts & Entertainment New Fbook Page Helps Berkeley Undergrads Identify Drunken Hookups If you haven't already heard, the kids are extra slutty these days. And yes, we're sex-positive and everything. But we'd like to point you to this fine new servicey Facebook page called UC
