Facebook Offers Tool To Help Prevent Suicide

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and Facebook is sharing a new infographic and a site-wide public service announcement to help users find the resources they need when a friend makes troubling posts on the social network.

Facebook Facial Recognition Under Scrutiny

U.S. officials will examine changes to Facebook Inc‘s privacy policy to determine whether they violate a 2011 agreement with federal regulators, a Federal Trade Commission spokesman confirmed after certain changes drew fire from privacy advocates.

Facebook And Twitter Are Mingling

The two largest social networks are becoming more similar, as they borrow each other's features, and search for profit. Facebook and Twitter were different places to socialize online. One was public to the world, the other (mostly) just between friends.

How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy

No one joins Facebook to be sad and lonely. But a new study from the University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross argues that that is exactly how it makes us feel. Over two weeks, Kross and his colleagues sent text messages to eighty-two Ann Arbor residents five times per day.

11 million Nigerians on Facebook... and counting

Nigeria has overtaken South Africa to become Facebook's largest user base in Sub Saharan Africa with over 11 million users. For many years, South Africa had the largest user base in Sub Saharan, but were recently surpassed by Nigeria and by quite a margin of over 2 million people, with South Africa boasting of 9.4 million people. Egypt still has the largest Facebook user base in Africa with over 16 million people. But given our population and the rate at which Nigerians are getting on Facebook, that number will dwarfed in a few years time, and Nigerians being in the lead... Like they say in Nigerian slang 'Naija no dey carry last'.