Facebook has another reason to celebrate this year: the world’s largest social network has made it into the Fortune 500 list.
The social networking company only needed nearly nine years after launch to break through the illustrious list of U.S. companies.
Excluding spun-off companies, Facebook is the fastest company in history to enter the Fortune 500 list after it went public.
The previous titleholder was Google, as it made the list 16 months after its initial public offering.
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Authorities in Michigan have revealed that a woman from Comstock Park used Facebook to harass herself in an effort to frame up her former boyfriend.
According to MLive.com, 52-year-old Cheryl Nelson has admitted to using fake Facebook accounts which featured the personal information of her former boyfriend Kevin Haarsma to make it appear that the man’s new girlfriend was threatening her.
Nelson is facing charges of false report of a felony and unlawful posting of a message, the publication …

What type of content should you post on Facebook and when should you post it?
The answer to that is that it depends.
However, what is certain is that if you are a tech savvy business looking to take advantage of the tools social media offers, you should post on Facebook.
According to Pagemodo in the infographic, “When you post great content, your followers will engage with it by liking, sharing and commenting.”
“Aside from endearing people to your brand, engaging content drives social …

When in the future you get yourself locked out of your Facebook account, you can get the keys from your trusted contacts.
Facebook has just launched Trusted Contacts, an account recovery feature that lets friends you choose verify your identity before giving you a security code to regain access to your account.
The feature was first named Trusted Friends and was piloted way back in 2011.
Using the feature, Facebook users will choose three to five Trusted Contacts to help them in case they are …

 
Facebook has just been awarded a big win against typosquatters.
The U.S. District Court for Northern California awarded the social networking giant statutory damages amounting to $2,795,000 and the handover of 105 domains.
Typosquatters are people or organizations who register domain names similar to popular domain names.
Facebook recently launched a case against several typosquatters under the U.S. Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.
It appears that the world’s largest social …

Just recently, Facebook removed the feature called “posts by friends,” which let users see the posts that a user had about a certain Facebook page, or inside that

Budweiser, with its new Buddy Cup, has come up with an easier way for people to make friends on Facebook over a drink.
The Buddy Cup was developed for a marketing campaign by the brewer in Brazil by ad agency Agencia Afria and creative outfit Bolha.
People who are drinking together, if they are not Facebook friends yet, can become Facebook friends by toasting using their Buddy Cup.
In the video description from the BudBrasilOfficial account, the firm says: “Budweiser Brazil just launched The …

According to a report by Social Bakers, social media monitoring companies, close to 400,000 Facebook users in Australia have left the site since December

According to a Wolfram Alpha Facebook data analysis, the average number of friends that a Facebook user has is 342. In addition, as it turns out, it is very common for teenagers to change their relationship statuses to married, even if they really are

Facebook announced last Thursday that the company acquired Parse, a platform for developing mobile apps using services and tools on the