In what apparently is the latest of Facebook scams, a fake $1 million lottery ticket picture was uploaded by Nolan Daniels on Thursday night; within a day of a $550 million Powerball lottery drawing going to two winning tickets.

In the midst of increasing business strains on their association, and with the recent divergence of their business interests, the two social partners - social network Facebook and game developer Zynga - have loosened their ties and signed a new agreement.

In a move which is evidently an upshot of the supposedly derogatory comments made on Facebook, against the Tajikistan officials and President Imomali Rakhmon, the authorities in the Central Asian country have blocked users' access to the popular social network.

In an evident move to promote the new Facebook Gifts digital offering among the Cyber Monday shoppers, Facebook said in a Monday announcement that it was adding iTunes gift cards to its Gifts catalogue.

Within weeks of reporting that Hurricane Sandy was the most well documented incident of all time on Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site has now revealed that the Thanksgiving event this year gave it a new record-high number in terms of shared pictures.

According to a recent discourse by Facebook's photo-sharing service Instagram said that it had witnessed a record number of uploads of photos which were tagged with words related to the Thanksgiving theme.

Facebook has initiated a privacy education tour for all of its new users to guide them with a step-by-step instruction procedure making them learn about Facebook's various security settings and tools.

Since sometime, the popular networking site has been facing several criticism over its constantly changing settings, which has somewhat forced the website to take such actions.

Facebook launching a select e-mail address, [email protected], to allow users to report any phishing they see on the social network.

Phishing ads, such as "Win a free iPad," or Get free tickets to Jamaica," have long been a nuisance for users of the site. Phishing can be described as attempt to acquire users' personal information via impersonation or spoofing.