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Online music streaming service Spotify is now requiring its users to sign up using their Facebook accounts, instead of creating a new Spotify account. In the past, new subscribers should create a unique login that was not tied to the social network in any way. At the F8 developers conference last week, Mark Zuckerberg has announced a number of media partnerships that will bring content directly to pages. One of the social network’s music parters is Spotify. When users connect their accounts to Spotify, their activities will become...

Facebook users have been posting status messages over the weekend, saying that the social networking giant will charge a $9.99 gold membership unless they forward a message before midnight. The following is one of the messages that float around the social network: “FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP,$9.99 PER MONTH FOR GOLD MEMBER SERVICES,$6.99 PER MONTH FOR SILVER MEMBER SERVICES,$3.99 PER MONTH FOR BRONZE MEMBER SERVICES, FREE IF YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. WHEN YOU SIGN ON TOMORROW...

At the F8 developers conference in San Francisco, Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has announced a number of new features for the social network, including the Timeline that enables users to record their entire lives through photos, status updates, activities, apps and the places they have traveled to chronologically. Zuckerberg said that these new features will make the site not just a place to share links, photos and messages with friends, but also a place to preserve precious memories. The young CEO wants Facebook to...

A new feature of Facebook’s highly-anticipated music service has been revealed thanks to a Twitter post from a high level employee. Ji Lee, a Google creative director that was pirated by Facebook in April, prematurely tweeted about a new, unannounced feature of the social network’s music service. “The ‘Listen with your friend’ feature in ticker is blowing my mind. Listen to what your friends are listening. LIVE,” the Facebook employee posted earlier. Within minutes, the tweet was deleted, but not before...

Facebook is reported to be undergoing a massive makeover that will bring mobile advances and music services, along with an update in video sharing to its service. These features are expected to be announced by the company on Thursday at the F8 developers conference. The social network company will be introducing the new “ticker” stream, alongside the site’s partnerships with major media companies. Mark Zuckerber, Facebook’s founder and chief executive officer, is also expected to introduce some changes to the “Like”...

Photo sharing site 1000 Memories revealed just how big Facebook, which now has 375 billion photos, is as a photo site compared to other services such as Instagram and Flickr. In a revealing article posted in the site, it states that around 375 billion photos could be captured in a year if everyone took at least 150 photos in that one year. It goes on to say that around 70 billion photos will be uploaded to social networking site Facebook this year, which amounts to around 20 percent of all photos that will be taken by people. The article...

Three out of four (around 73 percent) internet users in the United Kingdom interact on social media platforms, a study showing social networks’ impact on people has revealed. A study conducted by InSites Consulting, a market research firm that has offices across Europe, show that about 73 percent of British internet users use social networking platforms, like micro blogging site Twitter and social network giant Facebook. The result is slightly lower than the 74 percent average in Europe. The study shows that out of the 37 million...

Facebook has issued an update to its app for the Apple iPhone a few days ago. While the social network introduced numerous new features, it also removed the code related to the iPad version. This means that users can no longer install the Facebook app for iPad, which was included in the previous version and can be installed via a hack, before it is rolled out. In the app’s previous update, version 3.4.4, Facebook included some hidden code for its iPad counterpart. The moment it was discovered, hackers immediately developed ways to...

A man from Northern Ireland has sued social network company Facebook after his 12-year-old daughter posted lewd photos of herself to the site. According to the BBC, the lawsuit called into question if the company does enough or has the capability to verify its users’ age. Facebook bars any person under 13 years old to join the service. “My own personal view is that Facebook isn’t suitable for under-18s, but the company isn’t even able to uphold its own policy of keeping under-13s out,” said Hilary Carmichael, the...

According to a Facebook enthusiast site, a translate feature for comments are being tested by the world’s largest social networking site, Facebook. The Inside Facebook website said that Facebook users have spotted “Translate” buttons in some parts of the service that use other languages. “In tests that we and others are now seeing on some parts of the site (only on Pages, at this point), comments in languages other than your account’s current one now include ‘Translate’ button next to them,”...