On Saturday, February 6, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a new video on the social network, wishing the world a happy Lunar New Year, in Mandarin Chinese language. The video message posted by Zuckerberg to send out greetings for the Lunar New Year -- which falls on February 8 -- was subtitled in English.

In a report released on its blog on Thursday, social network Facebook highlighted the fact that the 'human social world' is steadily shrinking; with people having come much closer than the traditional "six degrees of separation."

In a blog post published this week, social network Facebook has revealed that it is making some tweaks to its algorithm, to bring about a change to the users' News Feed. As a result of the tweaked algorithm, stories will show up at the top of a user's News Feed in accordance with their actual relevance to the individual user.

The latest data from Bloomberg's Billionaires Index has revealed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now the sixth-richest person in the world.

At an event hosted by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim in Mexico City on Friday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social network will continue to pursue its objective of bringing the whole world online --- an effort for which the company is ready to spend billions of dollars over the next decade.

At its annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, social network Facebook unveiled a new 'anonymous login' feature which will give users greater power and more control over their personal data online.

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.

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.