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Facebook has threatened to terminate member accounts that show photos of mothers who are breastfeeding their babies. The social networking site started removing the photos, which they say violates their policies, labeling them as unsafe. Facebook is now in the midst of a growing controversy.

Facebook Opposes Breastfeeding Photos

Facebook - Dec 31, 2008
Social networking site Facebook is banning photos of mothers breastfeeding their babies. The Web site has entered a new policy stating that the pictures are obscene.
Internet Web users on Facebook are receiving the Koobface virus through friends and e-mails. The offending message tricks the user by opening an e-mail. The enticing message contains a link informing users that they were caught on video and are on YouTube.

Facebook On Alert Over Spreading Koobface Virus

Facebook - Dec 5, 2008
Facebook is warns users of a new Koobface virus that is spreading on the social networking site. The social Web has 120 million users who are vulnerable to the spreading malware. The virus was first detected in early 2008.
The average Internet user visits two social networking sites while maintaining multiple profiles. Facebook will change that with its new networking portal that will migrate login credentials. Facebook unveiled the new platform at the second annual F8 developer conference last summer.

Facebook Migrates Social Networking With New Connect Platform

Facebook - Dec 2, 2008
The new Facebook Connect platform will migrate to multiple social networking profiles into one. The new service is similar to Microsoft's Passport login. Facebook is promoting the platform as data portability.
Atlantis Blue Capital and 25 other unnamed people had set up fake Facebook pages to bait people into entering their login details for the social networking site. The spammers then logged in into the Facebook accounts and sent spam to everyone listed as their friends. The suit was filed under the CAN-SPAM Act.

Facebook Wins $873 Million Suit Against Social Network Spammer

Facebook - Nov 25, 2008
Facebook sued and won a $873 million judgement against a social networking spammer. The Canadian spammer used the company's social Web site to bombard users with explicit messages. Facebook hopes the size of the judgement will ward off other potential spammers.
The founder studiVZ, a social networking site located in Germany, never made any secret of his admiration for Facebook.

Facebook sues German social network site

Facebook - Jul 23, 2008
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against studiVZ, a social networking site in Germany, for copyright infringement.
Facebook will let users share tidbits of their lives with a selected group of friends and colleagues.

Facebook Aims to Make User Profiles More Dynamic

Facebook - Jul 21, 2008
Facebook is going through a complete redesign to give users more control in an effort to reduce new forms of spam.
Face and other social networking sites can also be used by people who want to damage someone else's credibility or reputation.

Facebook can be a tool to send people to jail

Facebook - Jul 19, 2008
Prosecutors are using Facebook and other social networking sites as a tool for critical character evidence.
Facebook goes open to compete against Google.

Facebook Developer Platform Goes Open

Facebook - May 27, 2008
Facebook goes open to compete against Google.
Facebook users can use a new tool, called Blog it, to blog directly from the social networking site. The tool was developed by Six Apart which has developed other applications such as Movable Type and TypePad.

Facebook Gets Six Apart Blog It

Facebook - Apr 16, 2008
Facebook users can now use a blogging tool, a tool named Blog It which is developed by Six Apart, to blog straight from the social networking site.
New profile security features for the social network site will be available to its 67 million members starting on Wednesday.

Facebook Privacy Controls Unveiled

Facebook - Mar 19, 2008
Privacy controls for Facebook will be available to its 67 million members. The group private lists allow users to set profile information.
Facebook Disables Beacon System

Facebook Disables Beacon System

Facebook - Dec 3, 2007
Social networking site Facebook said it will no longer save online activities. The Beacon system saved personal surf activity on Facebook users for online retailers and published the details on a person's Facebook friends to see.
Anti-piracy Outcry Over Facebook Ad System

Anti-piracy Outcry Over Facebook Ad System

Facebook - Nov 22, 2007
Facebook is becoming more of a viral marketing scheme has upset users worldwide. MoveOn has started a Facebook group for a new campaign - Facebook must respect my privacy - the petition reads.
Facebook could face privacy legal woes

Facebook could face privacy legal woes

Facebook - Nov 9, 2007
Facebook and MySpace have come under fire from various state attorneys general for not doing enough to protect minors. A new ad program offered by Facebook could violate privacy laws.
Facebook may consider bids from Microsoft and Google

Facebook may consider bids from Microsoft and Google

Facebook - Oct 24, 2007
In what will determine Facebook's value and future, Google and Microsoft have made a bid to buy 5 percent of the social-network site to boost their advertising and awareness.



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