According to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, even though the use of Facebook is pervasive in the US, Facebook users have been taking weeks-long breaks from the social network time and again, due to different reasons.

According to a Bloomberg report, social network Facebook is apparently working on a new app which will keep a track of the location of the users; and share that location with friends who are in the vicinity.

According to reports, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's new Facebook page - www. facebook. com/www. Khamenei. ir - created on Friday, December 13, has already garnered nearly 6,000 `Likes.'

The Kiel, north Germany-based Unabhaengiges Landeszentrum fuer Datenschutz (ULD) data protection agency has recently ordered social network Facebook to change its real name policy.

In a move which apparently is aimed at taking on rival services like Foursquare and Yelp, social network Facebook updated its apps for iOS and Android on Monday, introducing changes to the `Nearby' function which enables users to locate nearby businesses with the help of their Facebook friends.

In a move which marks Facebook's newest attempts in the direction of addressing users' concerns about who can view their personal details, the popular social network commenced the roll out of a range of privacy controls on Wednesday.

In a move which is apparently an upshot of Facebook's alleged failure to make adjustments in accordance with the restrictions of European data protection law, a group of law students in Austria revealed on Tuesday that it intends challenging the social network's privacy policies in Irish court.

Facebook, the world's most popular social-networking platform, is reportedly preparing to jump into the videogame-development arena.

A recently revealed regulatory filing made by the social-networking giant stated that Facebook would not be prohibited from creating its own games, with effect from March 31 next year.