Quite on the lines of its ‘Birthday’ feature which helps the Facebook users remember the birthdays of their friends, the popular social network has now come up with a new "Weddings and Celebrations" feature which will allow users to celebrate special occasions.

The new "Weddings and Celebrations" feature will work basically like the ‘Birthday’ feature, and will show any update which the Facebook users’ friends make to their status - on the top right-hand side of the page - by changing it to “engaged” or “married.”

Facebook's decision to replace personal e-mail addresses on users' profile page with @facebook.com e-mail address will make them more attractive to cyber criminals, such as spammers, a computer security expert has warned.

Graham Cluley, a senior tech consultant at security software firm Sophos, noted that Facebook's decision to make the @facebook.com addresses users' default addresses will allow cyber criminals to send an email to anyone at the default address.

Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook on Monday named Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg as the eighth member of its board.

Ms. Sandberg, the No. 2 executive at Facebook, is the first lady to join the company's board of directors. The social-networking giant had long been under fire for not having a single lady director in its boardroom.

Menlo Park, California-based Facebook has finally brought its popular `Like' button to third-party mobile apps.

Integration of Facebook's "like" button into third-party apps will provide a great relief those who had been feeling restricted to the Facebook mobile app to "like" something.

In what apparently is an evident attempt to assuage users' concerns about privacy and the way in which their personal information is used, social networking giant Friday unveiled a new set of proposed changes to its “Statements of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR),” which the company calls its ‘terms of service.’

A video uploaded to the YouTube video-sharing site on Monday has claimed that the next target for the Anonymous hacking group was the popular Facebook social networking site, which will be attacked on January 28.

Threatening to shutdown Facebook, the video, released in the name of the Anonymous hacking network, has claimed that the hacking outfit’s recent attacks on public sites are a clear indication that an “online war” has kicked off between Anonymous, the people, and the US government.

Following a precedence of sorts set by a number of Silicon Valley firms that have established a presence in Manhattan in recent years, the popular social network Facebook is also planning to open an engineering office in New York, for attracting technical talent.

According to the information shared by Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, the social networking company - which is reportedly preparing for a potential $10 billion initial public offering - will open its NYC engineering office early next year.

While net savvy’s are enjoying good time on Facebook, Germans would have to bear another jolt, as recent reports have confirmed that owing to issues surrounding user’s privacy, a meeting was held between the Schleswig-Holstein agency's chief, Thilo Weichert, and a representative from Facebook, Richard Allan, recently.