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If ongoing early talks turn out as hoped, the Aaron Sorkin-scripted Facebook movie will roll with David Fincher in the director's chair.

Facebook has begun tapping a new revenue stream with the introduction of an internal payments system, a move that might help the fast-growing social networking website achieve profitability while being less reliant on advertising.

Facebook sells a 1.96% stake to a Russian internet firm, a move that values the social networking website at $10bn.

Jackie Chan's comments that freedom may not be good for China were taken out of context, his spokesman said Tuesday, while Facebook users and Chinese scholars condemned the veteran actor on the Internet in a spreading backlash.

The words "I wish I could quit you" take on a whole new meaning when you want out of a relationship with an online service.

Sure, you once thought you and Facebook or MySpace would be together forever, but eventually terms of service change, end-user license agreements mature, and, well, you're just not in the same place anymore.

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Facebook made a number of announcements today about changes to its home page, profile pages, and activity streams. Taken together, these represent a concerted response to the rise of Twitter as a real-time message broadcasting system that goes beyond members' personal circle of friends.

One of the biggest changes is that it is getting rid of the distinction between private profiles and public pages. The 5,000-friend limit will be dropped from the public pages.

Five security alerts are issued for Facebook as security firms say social networking sites are tempting targets for hackers.

After a wave of protests from its users, Facebook said it would withdraw changes to its so-called terms of service concerning the data supplied by its users.

Watch out Google and Facebook. Twitter has no revenue and no business model, but it could soon be highly disruptive.

Man divorces wife on Facebook without telling her.