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You may have strong political opinions, but new research finds that those hardcore rants you've been posting on Facebook lately just might be losing you some friends in your social media circle.

Did you see this?  Over the past week - an apparent Facebook bug has supposedly  allowed your private messages from before 2009, to be POSTED on your public newsfeed for the world to see.  Facebook is saying that these posts are just older wall posts - but many users are saying that their private messages were in fact posted...

No wonder Lady Gaga started her own social networking site with LittleMonsters.com. If she wants to rule to a digital roost other than Twitter, she’s going to have to do so in her own space, since Facebook is clearly Eminem‘s domain. Even though the rapper has been quiet for much of 2012, he is the first person to nab 60 million likes on Facebook. Time for a status update, Marshall Mathers! Read

Facebook admits they are violating your privacy by monitoring who you are friends with and what you talk about. They claim that they only monitor at-risk behavior with a  very low false-positive rate. How do you feel about this?

According to a new study published yesterday by Reuters, 1 in 3 Facebook users are reportedly "bored".  Here are some of the actual numbers released - Four out of five respondents have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network ... Read More ...

As of this point in Facebook land, children under 13 are not legally allowed to have an account.  HOWEVER, lots do. A recent Consumer Report said that 7.5 million kids under 13 have accounts anyway, and have lied about there age. Facebook has identified the problem, and are working on a solution...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan after the Facebook IPO and his 28th birthday. So, how did we find out that this lucky woman made an honest man out of one of the most talked about billionaires? We just checked out his relationship status on Facebook.

A while back, we told you about the Jewish girls’ school in Brooklyn that instituted a Facebook ban for its students, saying using the social media site violated its religious tenets. Now an elementary school in Australia is following suit, but its demand that kids delete their Facebook pages has an entirely different reason: it’s an attempt to wipe out cyber-bullying.

Have to many friends on Facebook?  Thinking of cleaning your friends list out?  Well, you may not have to ever have that "why are we not friends anymore" conversation.  Facebook now has a new feature which lets you demote 'friends' to just being 'acquaintances'...

According to cnnmoney.com - there is one password that surpasses all other passwords, and hackers know it!  They use is all the time to gain access to your account, and in many cases they can have this access for months before you know it...

I don't know about you, but I got rid of my Myspace account about 2 years ago.  Now, Justin Timberlake has invested a ton of money in it, and it looks as if so far it's working.  Last month, Myspace got 1 million new users.  What do you think...

Unless you have a lot of spare time on your hands and enjoy reading privacy policies and terms of use, there are probably many things about Facebook that you aren’t aware of. Here are ten things you probably didn’t know about the agreement between you (the user) and Facebook.