A Facebook group has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records, thanks to the interest shown by over a million users in one of its posts on the social networking site.

The post  was made by US woman Tracey Hodgson to have a short at the world record for most comments  on October 30 last year.

“A new record has been set for the most comments on a single Facebook item after a post about the game Frontierville became the first to receive over a million responses,” Guinness said on its website.

“As of the 31 January, 1,001,552, comments had been made in response to a post on 30 October 2011 by Tracey Hodgson (UK), on the Facebook page "Ffgpioneers",” it added.

Tracey was quoted as having said that her interest in Frontierville began after her daughter “started playing it using my Facebook account"

"I began to play myself, and then got involved in helping with the game's community groups as an administrator," she said. 

Authortities in the United States have arrested a  woman for allegedly trying to profit from Facebook’s decision to go public by selling fake stock in the social networking site.

Hailing from Oshkosh, Wisconsin , Marianne Oleson’s  alleged fraud came to the fore after several people complained that she sold them fake Facebook stock over four  m

Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are among 15 major internet companies who have joined hands in the fight against fishing and spam mails.

AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail , Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, PayPal , American Greetings, Facebook, LinkedIn, Agari, Cloudmark, eCert, Return Path and Trusted Domain Project  under a working group called DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) have come up with a policy to combat the threats of phishing and  spam.

“ (DMARC)  draws upon a history of private industry collaboration with 18 months of dedicated work, to outline an enhanced vision for email authentication that can scale up to today's Internet needs," the working group said .

"Email phishing defrauds millions of people and companies every year, resulting in a loss of consumer confidence in email and the Internet as a whole,"  a top member of  DMARC.org  said.

"Industry cooperation - combined with technology and consumer education - is crucial to fight phishing," he added.

Posting pictures of himself , partying and drinking,  on social networking sites Facebook and Myspace  has cost an injured worker in Arkansas a compensation claim.

Zackery Clement  suffered a hernia in March of 2009 during an accident at work.

Although he was compensated for medical expenses and reportedly received temporary total-disability benefits for more than a year, Clement was seeking an extension of benefits following three surgeries resulting from his injury , according to media reports.

But the Arkansas Court of Appeals treated as evidence pictures on Facebook and Myspace, showing  Clement "drinking and partying", submitted by his former employer and insurance company ,  turning down Clement’s appeal for an extension of the benefits.

Even as Celement’s counsel reportedly argued that the photos were unrelated to medical treatment since having a hernia wouldn't prevent someone from drinking, the Judge David  Glover said the photos questioned Clement's credibility.

"We find no abuse of discretion in the allowance of the photographs," he said.

Posting pictures of himself , partying and drinking,  on social networking sites Facebook and Myspace  has cost an injured worker in Arkansas a compensation claim.

Clement suffered a hernia in March of 2009 when a refrigerator fell on him at work
Although he was compensated for medical expenses and reportedly received temporary total-disability benefits for more than a year, Clement was seeking an extension of benefits following three surgeries resulting from his injury , according to media reports.

But the Arkansas Court of Appeals treated as evidence pictures on Facebook and Myspace, showing  Clement "drinking and partying", submitted by his former employer and insurance company ,  turning down Clement’s appeal for an extension of the benefits.

Even as Celement’s counsel reportedly argued that the photos were unrelated to medical treatment since having a hernia wouldn't prevent someone from drinking, the Judge David  Glover said the photos questioned Clement's credibility.

"We find no abuse of discretion in the allowance of the photographs," he said.

Following in the footsteps of micro-blogging site Twitter, Google has announced plans to make content on its blogger platform available according to  the local rules of each country.

The rules will be applicable in many countries such as India, Brazil, Honduras, and Germany, the internet giant said.

This will means Google will  be able to restrict content in individual countries , in case there are requests by the local legal authority. The move will not require blocking worldwide access to a blog. It means, for example, that if a blog breaks an Australian law, Google can now block it in Australia but leave it up in the rest of the world, the company said.

"It will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law," Google said.

Facebook has helped reunite  two Indonesian- born   sisters after nearly 30 years.

Emilie Falk and Lin Backman, non-identical twins, were separated just weeks after their birth when two Swedish couples adopted them from an Indonesian orphanage  in 1983.

Ironically, the two were living just 25 miles apart from each other in southern Sweden, for decades  .

Lin initially ignored a message she received on the social networking site from a woman claiming to be her sister.

Finally, when curiosity got the better of her, she asked her adoptive mother if there was any chance of the message being true.

She was told that the when she was being taken to Sweden from the orphanage , the taxi driver asked the Backman’s about the “other girl( Emilie)”, prompting the Swedish couple  to note down the twins’ Indonesian names.

Lin responded to the Facebook message , expressing interest in meeting the sender.

Following several meeting,  Emilie and Lin decided to go for a DNA test , which confirmed what they had thought at their first meetings: they were twin sisters.

Few people using Facebook are impressed by  the Timeline feature on the social networking site  , a poll by opinion website SodaHead has revealed.

70 percent of respondents said they disliked the Timeline feature , urging Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg , to “lose it( Timeline)."

Only 20 percent of people polled by the SodaHead said they liked the Timeline while 10 percent said they didn’t use Facebook at all.

Those who polled against the new changes includes an equal 77 percent of men and women.

Compared to countries like India and Brazil, where 32 percent respondents approved the Timeline, only 23 percent in the United States said they were fine with the new feature.  

The Timeline feature which is likely to become a mandatory upgrade for Facebook users will reveal the entire history of wall posts and other activities of users on the social networking site. 

The number of people using Facebook in India have more than doubled in the past one year.

"We have achieved varying levels of penetration within the population of Internet users in different countries," the popular social networking site has said, while noting that its penetration rate in India was estimated to be 20-30 per cent.

"We experienced growth across different geographies, with users in Brazil and India representing a key source of growth," it added. 

"... we had 46 million MAUs in India as of December 31, 2011, an increase of 132 per cent from the prior year," Facebook said, noting that growth in the US was 16 per cent and 268 per cent in Brazil for the same period.

Facebook said it would "continue to focus on growing our user base across all geographies, including relatively less-penetrated, large markets such as Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, and South Korea."

"We compete broadly with Google's social networking offerings, including Google+, and also with other, largely regional, social networks that have strong positions in particular countries, including Cyworld in Korea, Mixi in Japan, Orkut  in Brazil and India..."