Facebook announced some new features to the site along with the introduction of the revamped newsfeed, Ticker and Lists. During the f8 conference yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg and his team announced a new feature called the Timeline – which is a visual representation of your life and the events surrounding it.

You might have come across blogs indicating the trick to get back the old Facebook UI by changing the preferred language to English (UK), and indeed the trick stopped working as Facebook fixed the issue. However, there is still a way to get back the old UI, and interestingly it works in a similar fashion by changing the preferred language.

Facebook rolled out some major changes to the news feed, which breaks it down into two columns – top stories and recent posts, and also included a new ticker-like column with live updates from friends on the right-had side of the page. People are annoyed with the new features, and are expressing their annoyance by posting hate message.

A new hoax that is spreading on Facebook, which indicates that hackers are trying to compromise user accounts by posting adult content along with a link to a virus, which will automatically download on the user’s computer after clicking on it.

When a user clicks on an image, the lightbox appears with a dark background along with the comment box. However, I noticed a different lightbox today, and I guess Facebook is experimenting and will probably change the appearance of the lightbox. The new “expected” lightbox which I noticed today had a white background instead of black, and along with it, the image had a “Like”, “Comment” and “Tag Photo” links embedded on it.

A new scam on Facebook is underway, which claims to show a sex video of the hip hop and R&B recording artist, Nicki Minaj who recently rose to fame after becoming a member of the rapping group Young Money.

While Yahoo’s former Chief Executive Carol Bartz who didn’t really deserve the post and had to be ousted, there are a lot of speculations that are cooking up all over the web. A U.S. based business/internet news blog Business Insider noted a rumor that Yahoo’s co-founder and one-time CEO is planning to buy the company – most probably by acquiring 50 percent of the shares, and take control over it, again.

While I was on Facebook today, I noticed a post shared by a friend of mine stating that he won a “free Facebook T-shirt”. It took me no time to identify it as a scam, and it was confirmed when I noticed a link to a bogus webpage attached to the post.

Social media giant Facebook, in collaboration with The National September 11 Memorial & Museum are seeking users on Facebook to post photos or messages dedicating and honoring the 3,000 men, women, and children who perished in the attacks of 9/11 with the help of the app called the 9/11 Memorial.

According to a source that is claiming to possess knowledge on Facebook’s financial, who Reuters did not reveal the name, stated that Facebook has impressively doubled its revenue to $1.6 billion in the first half of 2011, with a net income of almost $500 million.

Carol Bartz was removed from the Chief Executive post by the Yahoo Board of Directors after 2 years of holding it. They have now appointed Timothy Morse for the post until a permanent CEO is appointed.

I thought that hoax messages like “Professional Hacker Named ‘Faceb Hu’ Trying to Hack Facebook Account” and “Worst Ever Virus” are usually created to scare users on Facebook, but today I came across a funny hoax message indicating that there is a new issue related to Facebook privacy which will peek into your bathroom and steal your towel while you shower.

Earlier this week, it was reported that an Apple employee lost yet another iPhone prototype in a restaurant and bar in San Francisco. Now that Apple is working with the police to recover the missing iPhone prototype, scammers have already started to create pages and post updates on Facebook, trying to trick users by offering them free iPhone 5.

Google today is celebrating Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday, one of the greatest rock starts of all times and a brilliant songwriter. Google honored Freddie with an amazing music video doodle on its home page.

Although users are annoyed with the recent changes that Facebook has made, cyber criminals are taking advantage of it by creating pages like “Need Old Profile back”, which has already attracted over 59,000 people to “like” it. This is an attempt by cyber criminals to hack your Facebook account, so DO NOT “like” or share the page with your friends.