The Social Network

A desire of millions of Facbook users to have a dislike button is finally coming true. Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg announced the company is planning to include a dislike button on its page. Zukcerberg announced Wednesday that the social media network will soon adopt a dislike button for users to express their negative opinions on posts or comments.

Facebook, pressed for years by users to add a "dislike" button, announced Sept. 15 it was working on the feature and will be testing it soon.

Facebook boasted of a new benchmark Aug. 27 in its seemingly inexorable march to Internet ubiquity: a billion people used the social network in a single day.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that he and wife Priscilla Chan are expecting a baby girl on – where else – Facebook. The candid announcement shared personal information about Chan’s three miscarriages and their efforts to have a child.
Here’s the message:

Priscilla and I have some exciting news: we’re expecting a baby girl!

US tech executive David Goldberg, the husband of Facebook?s Sheryl Sandberg, apparently died after falling on a treadmill and striking his head at an upscale resort in Mexico, authorities said on May 4.

Facebook said April 22 that profit in the first quarter plunged 20 percent from a year ago but revenues got a lift from robust growth in mobile advertising.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has pointed to defamation laws protecting modern Turkey?s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as an example of the ?different legal and cultural environments? in which the world?s largest social network operates amid updates to the site?s community standards that inform users what types of posts are permissible.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was on hostile turf on March 2 as spoke to executives at the world?s biggest annual gathering of the mobile industry, renewing attempts to win their backing to help reach billions of users with no Internet access.

Mark Zuckerberg wants to add a little more "book" to Facebook.

The Facebook founder and CEO announced on his page recently that he has vowed to read a book every other week in 2015, with an emphasis on learning about different beliefs, cultures and technologies.

Facebook's move to fulfill its ambition to be the personal "newspaper" for its billion-plus members is likely to mean more woes for the ailing news media.

The huge social network has become a key source of news for many users, as part of a dramatic shift in how people get information in the digital age.