In an attempt to become more of a public forum, Facebook is apparently taking a page out of rival Twitter's book, by revealing that support for hashtags is being added to its site to enable users to keep an eye on popular topics being discussed.

Hacker News and Vice magazine recently discovered a sparse-looking `Angelfire' website from the year 1999 --- a website which allegedly belonged to the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

After a series of cyberattacks having recently affected bigwig tech companies like Apple and Facebook, a late Friday statement by Microsoft has revealed that the company's computers had also been hacked in the same way as the other attacks.

In a move which marks the most significant product revamp for Yahoo ever since the CEO Marissa Mayer took over the reins of the company last year, the Yahoo website is being overhauled such that some of the familiar Facebook features - including newsfeed and people's "Likes" - will be incorporated into it.

With there being different assumptions about the reasons behind older people - most of whom are parents with children - have been increasingly using social networks, such as Facebook, in recent times, an Education Database Online survey has revealed that nearly one-half of the parents have joined Facebook to keep a discreet watch over the activities of their children.

In its Friday ruling in the court case involving Facebook and a German privacy watchdog, Administrative Court for Schleswig-Holstein sided with Facebook; arguing that the social network cannot be forced to allow the use of fake names by its users.

In a move which marks an extension of the barriers which Facebook already has in place between adults and children, as well as its policy to ban public posts by minors, the social network is now introducing certain restrictions for teenagers who use its Graph Search feature.

According to an interesting February 6 Inquisitor report, a 14-year-old girl Rachel Baier has decided to quit Facebook after her father, Paul Baier, said that he would pay her $200 if she stays away from the social network.