Does Facebook Hurt Relationships?

Last year, more Facebook users changed their status to single than in a relationship — 24 percent versus 31 percent.

That juicy tidbit counts among many that lie in this infographic on how Facebook affects our relationships, rendered by our friends at Online Dating University.

Only three out of every five users show their relationship statuses at all, and such listings appear more frequently among Facebookers in the U.S., South Africa, Iceland, the U.K. and Canada.

Let us know in the comments section what you think about these statistics and the other facts appearing in the infographic below.

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Mark Zuckerberg Is NOT Shutting Down Facebook On March 15

A silly, fictitious article on WeeklyWorldNews which is a tabloid-style website and was formerly a weekly newspaper, exploded on the internet this weekend by making claims of Mark Zuckerberg to shut down Facebook on 15th of March, 2011.

According to the article:

“Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants his old life back and desires to put an end to all the madness.”

The news is fake because:

• WeeklyWorldNews is best known for its similar past scoops such as “Alien Spaceships to Attack Earth in 2011“, “Michelle Obama Pregnant” and “Megan Fox Is a Man“.
• A company estimated at being worth over $50 billion has got all the reasons to stay alive and active.
• No official declaration from the Facebook.
• 500 Million+ Facebook Members wouldn’t let that happen – trust me.

Ironically, despite being a foolish rumor the news spread like fire on the internet with thousands of people sharing it on their facebook walls throughout the world believing it to be true.

But now take a chill pill and relax Facebook is here and it is going to stay for a long long time.

Is Facebook Turning Into a Scammer’s Paradise?

Facebook is being overrun by scam surveys, fake applications and bum links, according a new report by an Internet security firm. And it’s getting worse by the day as scammers figure out clever new ways to trick unsuspecting users.

Here are three of the most popular scams on Facebook, all of which have become more pervasive in recent months, according to the report by Sophos Security:

How Facebook is Becoming the Next Myspace

Facebook was once a website limited to Ivy league students whom CEO Mark Zuckerberg hacked for the thrill of collecting private data. Now it is a massive website habited by users from all parts of the world, from your grandma to your third grade teacher and back again.

Some predicted the downfall of Facebook a couple years ago. Some are predicting that it will happen any moment now. Others foresee the end in the distant future. Whether it comes fast or slow, Facebook will fade when the next best thing comes along. The question is: what will be the cause of Facebook’s demise? Below are the things we foresee being the force that drives users away.

Broadcast By Default, Hunt for the Off Switch

A fairly universal understanding of life is that things should be opt IN, not opt OUT. For example, credit cards. You opt in when you get one. Imagine if banks could decide that, since you have a checking account with them, they’ll automatically enroll you for credit cards, without publishing any sort of notice on your account when you log in, and if you don’t want it, hey, you can simple opt out.

10 Cool Facebook Status Tips and Tricks

With Facebook’s ever-changing layout, and the fact that other social sites are encroaching on its real-time update strangle-hold, it’s easy to forget that there are some pretty nifty tricks you can pull using your humble Facebook status.

We’ve pulled together 10 great how-to tips that will help you get the most out of your status update, from official features to apps, Easter eggs, jokes and more.

Perfect for newer Facebook users, or anyone who is looking for a refresher, read on and let us know the ones you like in the comments below.

Fun Facts about “The Social Network” Movie.

The Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the Internet social networking website Facebook. Released on 24 September 2010 (New York Film Festival) and had some chronological errors & fun facts like-

Some Fun facts:-

• Jesse Eisenberg’s cousin actually works for Facebook, apparently near the real Mark Zuckerberg.

People Who Changed the Internet Forever!!!!

From its birth in the labs of Tim Berners-Lee back in 1992, to its interaction with the Napster in 1999, and its 2004 induction of Wikipedia: the Internet as we know it, has evolved drastically, been around the world literally, and changed the way humans live permanently.

Nothing can replace it, nothing is like it, and it has no alternative. The internet is like a diamond mine for the people who wish to acquire wealth, a profound lake of information for those who have an insatiable appetite for knowledge, and an eternal form of entertainment for those wish to amuse themselves.

With the passage of time, people from amongst us have emerged with the craziest of ideas to test and enhance the potential of this God’s gift to mankind. And it is due to the efforts of these noble souls, that we have the entire world at the simple tap of our fingers.

In no particular order, Kozar provides you with a list of those people who have influenced the Internet greatly.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google Inc.

Two PhDs from Stanford University started work in the garage of a friend’s. And they were defiantly not building steam engines!

They were, however, creating the internet’s most powerful search engine. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are arguably the world’s most successful Internet entrepreneurs and developers in history. This enabled them to earn billions, while assisting everyone from high school students to particle physicists have an easy time searching for information over the internet.

Google was first launched on Stanford’s website (google.stanford.edu) and then finally on Google.com in 1997. It is estimated that GOOGLE is worth about a staggering $25 billion dollars.

Is Internet Ok??

During the past 10 days or so, most of the sites are showing totally erratic behavior. They’re either not opening up or only some pages are working for them. When you click on the links, they refuse to work. Or text appears but pictures disappear. And after sometime, everything is suddenly normal. No, it’s not any evil spirit. I don’t believe in that. Then?

First, I thought the interruptions are happening to high-traffic content sites. But no; it’s true even for one-visitor-a-day kind of company sites also. As I couldn’t find any pattern in this change, it seems to be all random. This could be a local problem also in my area (I live in New Delhi, India and use a Wi-Fi connection for Internet access.)

If other users are also facing such a problem, they may use the “Comments” section with this article to share their experiences