The purpose of the “Safety Center” section is to educate the users on their profile security, responding to objectionable content and teach the kids to use Facebook in a safer way.

Cassandra is widely popular and is used in services like Cisco WebEx, Cloudkick, Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, Reddit, and Twitter. Facebook is an integral part in the development of Cassandra.

Fluff Busting Purity is a GreaseMonkey script to clean the clutter off Facebook. Facebook has accused the script for using the name Facebook Purity.

Facebook has started to show a growing inclination towards India, firstly by opening up an operations office in Hyderabad, and now by cozying up to Cricket and promoting the IPL 2010 extravaganza and cricket in general.

Facebook is now sending out email updates to Facebook page administrators which contains a summary of all the basic activities a fan page has had during a week.

Mixero is an Adobe Air application that brings Twitter and Facebook to your PC, Mac or iPhone desktop. It offers speed, plenty of functions and lots of ways to filter the content.

Facebook has beaten Google at pageviews in some earlier instances. It beat Google last Christmas and New Years eve but this time, the days on which Facebook pageviews crossed Google pageviews are the unexpected weekdays!

This post compiles a list of a few hilarious Facebook parodies bound to make you laugh!

Facebook has rapidly grown to become the biggest social networking sites in the world and now have over 400 million users across the world. They are opening up new offices in Hyderabad, India and Austin, Texas.

Facebook limits status updates to 420 characters unlike Twitter which has a 140 character status update limit.

Facebook is reportedly launching a location-sharing feature soon. Telling the world where you are can have a lot of implications.

Google now displays snippets containing Facebook Friends and LinkedIN Profile details while search for a name in the Google Search results.

A new scam on Facebook entices users by saying that they would give away a Free Apple iPad if users register to beta-test the iPad, however, this is a new Facebook scam in order to get cellphone information from users.

Facebook has quietly made a small acquisition buying a Malaysian startup Octazen. Octazen developed technologies allowing users to import contacts from other services.

A new update from Compete says that Facebook has toppled Yahoo as the 2nd larges website in the United States. According to the compete stats for January 2010, Facebook had around 134 million page views as compare to the 132 million by Yahoo. Also 11.6% of all online time in US was spent on Facebook as compared to 4.25% for Yahoo and 4.1% for Google.