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Google took its biggest leap yet onto Facebook’s turf on Tuesday, introducing a social networking service called the Google+ project — which happens to look very much like Facebook.

With Facebook, if you think your child needs you to find a birth parent, you are fooling yourself.

When the Rockville Central blog wanted to increase its readership, the owners looked to Facebook’s 750 million members and thought: Let’s move everything there.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Harvard University classmates and former business partners of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, have decided not to further appeal a settlement in their long-running dispute over the origins of Facebook.

It's been a scrappy day on social media for Roger Ebert.

Police in Philadelphia say a 20-year-old woman posted an open offer of $1,000 to kill the father of her child and a man responded that he'd do the killing. Investigators say London Eley posted a message last month on Facebook saying, "I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father."

If you don't want Facebook to automatically identify you in photos posted by friends, you must opt out. It's a bit tricky, so we'll walk you through the process. If you haven't seen it yet, Facebook's new facial-recognition software is a crafty feature.

Like many expectant mothers these days, Autumn Yates posted updates about her pregnancy on Facebook. “It’s nice for my extended family to see pictures from time to time of me getting bigger and little comments like, ‘34-week check-up went well!’ ” said Yates, 29, a Spanish teacher from Oakton. “I don’t see anything wrong with that. I think there is kind of a line sometimes, though.”

European Union data-protection regulators will probe Facebook after it started a rollout of its new face-recognition photo-tagging system.

A young woman from Texas described how Mr. Weiner used Facebook to direct sexually charged comments.