Facebook is set to fix a bug that nuked comments and likes on sites that integrate the social media giant’s service.
The confirmation comes via an article from TechCrunch which says that Facebook has acknowledged the problem and said that it will rollout a fix soon.
The problem started appearing on March 25 as site owners and administrators noticed that their likes and comments for certain pages have been reset to zero.
The bug primarily affected sites that do not sport the www prefix in …

A man has from Massachusetts is getting a life-saving kidney transplant from a woman from California who he connected with through Facebook.
According to the Boston Globe, Eddie Beatrice suffered from septic shock which decimated both his kidneys after an infection in 2011.
Every week, he now has to go three times to the hospital to get dialysis treatment but what he really needs is a kidney transplant.
Initially, his siblings were tested for a possible donation but both turned out not …

Facebook, in a bid to improve conversations among its users, has introduced a “reply” feature for comments made on Pages and popular accounts.
This means that people will not need to tag other people in a comment to reply.
They just need to click or tap on the “reply” button and directly comment on a certain comment.
This solves the problem of leaving a reply to a certain comment way down the thread because time has passed and new comments have been added.
Replies to comments on …

Results of a study conducted by Cornell University show that people go to Facebook to be reassured that people care about them.
Jeff Hancock, professor of communication and computer and information science at Cornell, said that despite the common knowledge that Facebook is just a waste of time that leads to many negative outcomes, the social networking site can also give a deep sense of happiness to

Redesigning the world’s largest social network is a grueling task, or any task for that matter when the working team has to find the right balance between its investors and users.
A great way to improve user experience is through informational interviews, user feedback, and comments from analysts and experts.
But a presumed fact is not always what users expect to see.
Sometimes an organization has to come up with new, creative ideas to unveil surprising features that users will find …

According to a recent study conducted by Global Market Insite, ten percent of Facebook users have experienced being insulted or abused through messages sent via the social networking

Bullying is never a good thing; often, it can lead to harmful effects, both physically and emotionally.  Teenagers who are bullied, in particular, are greatly affected as they are in that sensitive stage when various things can have a tremendous impact on their

Facebook still mulls over support for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protecting Act (CISPA), a moot bill reintroduced by the U.S. Congress.
The social network has not completely dropped support for the controversial bill, because it wants to take caution on how lawmakers navigate CISPA.
The bill debuted last year, and Facebook was on its initial list of warm supporters. But the updated list of firms that fervently endorse the bill no longer includes the social network and a few other …

According to sources familiar with the following development, Facebook will add the hashtag marker in its service soon. This marker, which has always been associated with Twitter, will be used in the largest social networking site to group

Nir Goldshlager, an expert in Web security, received a huge prize from Facebook for exposing a network flaw for the second time, just 3 weeks from the first time he saw a bug on the social networking