SF News A Quarter Of You Are Facebooking While In The John 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
SF News Facebook Displays Amber Alerts In a smart move from the social media giant, Facebook will now display relevant alerts from the 15-year-old child-abduction alert system to users who opt in to the program. Just remember you won't
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Facebook Page Did we say Ed Lee had no Facebook page? Scratch that. San Francisco's nascent mayor does, in fact, have a Facebook page. A fan page, actually, with not much on it. Yet. Let's
SF News Deleted Comments from Sarah Palin's Facebook Wall Re: Giffords Shooting We must give credit where credit is due, and the kids over at The Awl put together a terrific and upsetting collection of screengrabs of comments that were deleted off of Sarah Palin's
SF News Adios, MySpace? Myspace, if you remember, once stood as the social media platform for GIFs, autostart, sparkly animation, bands, and misunderstood types with eyeliner. Now, according to Valleywag, it's halfway in the grave. Just two
SF News Facebook Gets Big Investment From Goldman Sachs, Russians Zuckerberg has yet another reason to celebrate today as Goldman Sachs and a Russian investment firm fork over $500 million in a deal that puts Facebook's current valuation at something like $50 billion
SF News Facebook Ranked Best Place To Work Facebook, according to "professional community site Glassdoor.com," ranks as the top place to work among the 50 best places to work this year. According to The Chronicle, "To qualify for a ranking,
SF News Shares of Facebook & Twitter On Sale Hey, rich people with nary a care in the world! Listen up: Although they have yet to go public, Facebook and Twitter (as well as San Francisco-based Zynga) have shares to sell. According
SF News Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via Mission Mission editor Allan Hough: "Okay, I can't do this. Going for a bike ride. Somebody call me when Tumblr is back on its feet."(If you haven't heard, the microblogging service
misc George W. Bush, Taking Questions Live from Facebook HQ Today Yesterday afternoon, Facebook announced they will be hosting the most recent George Bush in their Palo Alto headquarters for a livestreamed Q&A session at 2 p.m. PST this afternoon. The
Arts & Entertainment Did You Know Today Is "Make Someone Feel Uncomfortable Day?" Notice more people than usual clipping their toenails on Muni today? Receive any random hugs on the street, or prank phone calls asking for Seymour Butz? Well, it could be because 446,505
SF News Facebook to Launch Its Gmail Killer; Apple Incorporates Twitter Into Ping Today in techie news: Facebook's secret product, known as Project Titan and blogged about since February, is launching Monday with a big special event at the St. Regis. There were hints that came
SF News Brian Wilson To Host <em>Saturday Night Live</em>? Following in the footsteps of Betty White, Giants star Brian Wilson (who, we should point out, is just as stupendous as many of this teammates!) might get the chance to host Saturday Night
misc 'Like,' Follow SFist, Won't You? Have you heard of this newfangled Facebook thingamajig the kids talk about these days? Sticky privacy issues notwithstanding, it's pretty neat-o. And that Twitter? That sure is fun. Have you also heard that
SF News Why Did Facebook Yank Marijuana Ads? Although Facebook claims to have removed the pro-marijuana legalization ads so users wouldn't, you know, get baked, public health might not be the real reason. (Shocking.) As Valleywag reports, Facebook, quite possibly, wanted
SF News Facebook Conversation Between Union Square Shooting Eyewitnesses While we can't make out exactly what these young adults are saying, Domo Logan, friend of former murder suspect Phil Stewart and self-described eyewitness, had a public conversation on his Facebook page about
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Stalked With a a movie about the 26-year-old Facebook CEO's life due in theaters this year, it makes sense that Mark Zuckerberg, a billionaire-cum-celebrity who made millions off of your privacy, would have his
SF News PostSecret and Facebook Users Unite to Save Life PostSecret -- an art community art site that in which people mail their secrets in on homemade postcards, anonymously, then said secrets get posted online -- has joined efforts with Facebook to save
misc The Me Me Me Generation In a column yesterday, local ranter Mark Morford takes on a new study that says that college kids these days are 40% less empathetic than their peers of 20 or 30 years ago.
SF News Facebook Switches to Non-Union Shuttle Drivers Horrors! In addition to privacy erosion, Facebook stopped using union drivers to shuttle their geek-chic brethren to and fro the Palo Alto office. SFist's contributor Cedric sent us this flyer he picked up
misc Photo du Jour 616 Looking the part of a rhythm nation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers this morning's keynote address at f8, the Facebook developers conference, in San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay • Looking for new music? Secret Seven Records releases a new compilation of SF bands on March 2nd. [The Bay Bridged via SF Weekly] • Drunk crashes, flips SUV on San Mateo bridge, dog escapes
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Chelsea Tucker "Starting today, Facebook will automatically start plunging the Earth into the Sun. To change this option, go to Settings -> Planetary Settings -> Trajectory and then UN-CLICK the box
SF News Facebook Bans Valleywag's Guide to Restoring Your Facebook Privacy? Ever since Facebook altered its privacy settings in a ploy to get more traffic, users have been confused as to how re-privatize their profiles. So, Valleywag came up with this handy guide to
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The FarmVille Theme, by Oakland Composer Steve Kirk FarmVille, for those unaware, is one of those time-sucking Facebook apps that drive us, personally, insane. But hey, we all need a little distraction sometimes, and it turns out the theme song to
