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One of the most popular and most used feature of Facebook is its photo albums. Apart from updating status, playing Farmville and interacting with others, almost everyone on Facebook takes advantage of Facebook's unlimited photo album feature. Recently, the social networking giant has announced that it now shows larger photo in less time.

Published in Facebook's official blog, Justin Shaffer wrote, "Now, the photos you share on Facebook are bigger (720 pixels to 960 pixels) and load twice as fast, giving you quicker access to more detailed images."

Users don't have to worry about photos that have been already uploaded and share with friends as Justin added that the existing photos will appear larger as well.

Another update in the Photo feature is that Facebook is replacing its black old theater look with a white photo viewer that is significantly larger than previously the theater was.  The Theater look was released back in February when Facebook officially started supporting high resolution photos.

Let us know in the comments if this change means anything to you.

Ever wondered how many page views does the largest social networking platform attract every month? If you're curious, there are information. According to Google's DoubleClick, in June 2011, Facebook attracted as much as 1 trillion page views and 870 million unique visits.



Interesting thing is that, Facebook attracted ten times more page views then the second most visited website, YouTube. According to data, YouTube 100 billion page views (only) and about 790 million unique users on the site. However, the stats were shown excluding sites that don't load properly, ad networks, adult websites and a few of Google's very own websites.

Earlier we reported that a new law passed in Missouri and effective from August 28, 2011 prevents teachers from becoming friends with their students on Facebook. Latest on that matter is that the teachers in Missouri has filed a lawsuit against this Amy Hestir Student Protection Act.

As reported by ZDNet, the lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the concerned act claiming it to be unlawful. According to the act, any kind of private communication between teachers and students -- that includes text messaging or online communication -- are prohibited to protect children. However, Missouri State's Teachers Association believes this goes against the teachers' first amendment rights of free speech and association.

One of the two things the largest social networking site Facebook does is regularly changing its privacy settings (still not being satisfactory to end users). It happened again. As expected, Facebook came up with seven deadly changes on how users are exposed around the world.


The changes are mainly focused on its tagging system and sharing policy. Here is a list of six new features (along with our fancy rating) Facebook is rolling out to its 750+ million users soon:

If you are a social gaming fan and if you have been on Google+, chances are you have already started to miss some games on the site. Lately, the search giant has announced that some popular games are being brought on board with a separate page called 'Games'.

Games like "Angry Birds", "Zynga Poker", "Sudoku" and so on are very popular and well-known in other social networking sites specially Facebook. Google, in a blog post, said that it will bring these games including some other in a separate section inside Google+ called Games. The page, or tab called Games, will be accessible from the top of the page on Google+.

Facebook faced some criticism from its users after few weeks ago it revamped its chat system to show up the most contacted list on its sidebar. Now, the social networking giant is testing a redesigned chat sidebar that is more like the very old way of chatting.

The new sidebar shows up the most contacted friends on top of it and adds a separator called "More Friends Online" below which other online friends from your list appear. Unlike the old chat navigator, the new sidebar goes all the way up to the top of the browser's screen to show as many contacts as possible.

The new feature reportedly hasn't been rolled out to all Facebook accounts yet. But apparently it's going to be stick and permanent chat style for a while.

It's Anonymous again, and this time, it says it's next target is Facebook, the largest social network on the planet.



Hacker group Anonymous has become famous over past months by successful hacking, data theft and website take-downs on many websites including PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, etc. It also successfully took down the entire Play Station Network and hacked into many law enforcement websites including the CIA and police. But this is the first time the hacker group is targeting any mainstream social networking platform.

According to its self theory, the group Anonymous performs 'ethical hacking' for the sake of humanity. For example, last time it took down a Syrian website in its message to remove the Syrian president that they say the Syrian people don't want.

Anonymous said in a video statement (only voice is heard after a fancy animation to Anonymous' logo), Facebook is selling all personal data despite any privacy settings users apply. Anything a user does on Facebook remains on Facebook forever. Even if the uploader deletes certain information, it's stored on Facebook. That said, Facebook is the biggest threat to privacy of general people, and that's why the group is going to "kill" Facebook on November 5, 2011.

If you are a regular Facebook user, you may have already noticed that two things change way too often in Facebook: Privacy settings and News Feed. If you loved the current format of the news feed, bad news for you. The Wall Street Journal reported that the social networking giant is working for a new format of news feed.

According to the reports, Facebook is building an unfiltered news feed which will increase the amount of content users see on their homepage (news feed). Not only that, the company is adding severe functionality to its much-appreciated "Like" button. While there are no clear clues as to what the changes might be, a Facebook representative told CNET that the company is testing redesigned News Feed; but the representative didn't comment about changes in the Like button.

However, it is thought that the changes in the Like button will somehow interest businesses as the social giant is now targeting business owners to use Facebook for marketing and other purpose. Facebook has a dedicated a special landing page for businesses that might already be interested in investing Facebook.

If you are a teacher, and you want to add your students in Facebook as friends, there's a bad news for you. You cannot. Apparently, you can do so because Facebook won't prevent you. But if you're living in Missouri, then the law will prevent you from doing so.

Although Facebook says a person needs to be at least 13 years of age in order to use the social networking site, there are lots of profile belonging to children that are a few weeks old. Now, the social networking giant adds another feature that lets you add your unborn child on Facebook.

The concept is simple. If you have been on Facebook, you already know that you can add/mention other people as Mother, Father, Brother, Sister, Daughter, Son etc family member or relatives. That drop-down menu has a new option called "Expected Child".

With the new feature, you can show your expected child with a name on your Facebook profile. Not to mention the month that you're expecting your baby will be shown on your friends' news feed immediately.

If you are really expecting a child within next year (right now you can't set an unborn child  that is not expected after 2012), you can show it on your Facebook. To do so, simply do the following:

It's not Facebook's official announcement, but when Facebook's marketing director says so, we feel tempted to say it's said by Facebook.

Randi Zuckerberg's photo from her Facebook album [facebook.com/randi].

Named Randi Zuckerberg, the youngest billionaire's sister and Marketing Director of Facebook argues that anonymity online has to go away in order to stop cyberbullying. She says people put anonymity as their identity to talk and behave like being behind closed door. People behave much better when they use their real name.

Marie Claire magazine hosted a panel discussion on social media this Tuesday evening where Randi Zuckerberg said her thoughts on cyberbullying.

Facebook had launched a new technology that would scan the photos after you upload them and then try to find a match between them and previously uploaded photos, if a person exists in both photos, Facebook would suggest user to automatically tag them in the new photos.

While many have enjoyed the new technology, others are having privacy concerns. Exactly that's why Facebook has made it easy for you to opt out of this technology so that your photo will never be stored under that technology in order to find a match in newly uploaded photos of your friends.

Facebook seems to be constantly suffering from privacy concerns raised by its huge number of users. However, we are quite amazed to see Facebook's quick response this time.

Remember Palo Alto, the place where Facebook had its roots?

Now Mark has chosen another place as the headquarters for the biggest social networking site on the planet.



According to sources, as well as the new Facebook page, Facebook is transferring its staffs to Menlo Park, California. At the first force, Facebook has transferred about 20 employees to its new location. Another transfer is supposed to take place in the beginning of the next week.