Facebook won't be taking user's photos without permission.

A New York police officer has been praised after a tourist photographed him buying a pair of boots for a barefoot beggar, thought to be a military veteran.

Just hours after a judge ordered a Facebook page set up to monitor paedophiles to be taken down, a page with an almost identical name has appeared on the social networking site.

Lord Justice Leveson forgot one of the elementary rules of journalism when he compiled the section of his report that covered the history of this newspaper. Journalism students are taught at college that when researching on the internet, they should not assume that the first site they come to is reliable.

With stricter Facebook settings, it's much easier to identify whether people know you or not before accepting their friend request.

But what if someone who looked, posed, and had the same name as you asked to be your friend?

We're always being told that Facebook knows everything there is to know about us, so the social network's latest gaffe may come as something of a surprise. Apparently, the whizzes over at Facebook towers can't tell an arse (or in this case, breast) from an elbow. Moderators removed the above picture on grounds of obscenity, mistaking a nude pair of elbows for exposed breasts.

Facebook post prompts speculation that mother may have named newborn baby after Twitter function...

I suffered from anorexia from around 12 or 13, and then from bulimia from the age of 17. But I began looking at pro-ana sites at the age of about 11.

Tajikistan has blocked access to Facebook in response to a slew of comments spreading "mud and slander" about veteran President Imomali Rakhmon and officials in the Central Asian republic.

Independent Voices has written before on the foolishness of Facebook copyright postings. But it appears some of you weren't listening.

Investors pinning their hopes on a New Year windfall with a Twitter IPO may have to wait a little longer yet as the market grows more cautious about social media investments in the wake of Facebook's rocky path to life as a public company.

Amid all the coverage of the recent outbreak of violence in Gaza, The New Yorker has zeroed in on the aspect of the conflict which though seemingly insignificant, may have far reaching consequences: Israel's announcement via Twitter of the start of their military campaign and the subsequent spat between the Israel Defense Force's @IDFSpokesperson and @AlqassamBrigade, the official account of Hamas's military arm.

Investors pinning their hopes on a New Year windfall with a Twitter IPO may have to wait a little longer yet as the markets grow more cautious about social media investments in the wake of Facebook's rocky path to life as a public company.

Mercury Prize-nominated band Friendly Fires are staging a star-studded charity gig after the death of their friend Adam Connolly last week.