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
SF News Facebook On Your Browser Will Now Look Like Facebook On Your Phone In Menlo Park today, Facebook unveiled a new look for the newsfeed that everyone hated so much and then grew to love because, really did we have any other choice? The new look
SF News Hope For Youngsters Renewed As Teens Grow Weary Of Facebook There might be a chance for today's overly connected, sext-fiending youngsters yet: teenagers are not that in to Facebook anymore. Facebook's annual report to investors and one tech CEO with a 15-year-old sister,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Facebook Employee Proposes To His Twitter Bride In Dolores Park Earlier this month, Facebook employee JP pulled off a coordinated social media/real life stunt proposal by enlisting friends, coworkers and his Twitter-employee-girlfriend's Facebook stalking habits to successfully sneak up on her in
SF News Should Your Mom Have Access to Your Facebook Account After You Die? Stop and think for a minute about what would happen if you die suddenly. Say, today or tomorrow. Your world would end but Facebook's world would just keep on truckin', and that means
SF News Apple Becomes Latest High-Profile Hacking Victim After high profile hacking jobs hit Twitter, Facebook, the New York Times and, uh, Burger King — Apple came out yesterday to admit it too had become the victim of a cyberattack. In their
SF News Facebook Removes Breast Cancer Survivor's Tattoo Photo, Now Everyone Can See It Anyway Now that we are all digital immigrants living in a corporate town called Facebook, this is what neighborly favors look like in the year 2013: A tattoo shop in Ontario wanted to recognize
SF News Protesters Converge Upon Mark Zuckerberg's Fundraiser For Gov. Chris Christie As Hurricane Sandy turned New Jersey Governor Chris Christie into everybody's favorite heroic schlub — his donut-chomping shtick on Letterman was particularly odd — many forgot about his pockmarked leadership skills when it comes to
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Mark Zuckerberg Probably Went To Rave, Danced Awkwardly In 2009 Scandal has rocked — or at least gently swayed to a pulsing beat — Mark Zuckerberg this week as a British tabloid has dug up this ancient photo from 2009 which allegedly shows the young
