Have you forgotten or lost your Facebook password? Relax. You can now turn to friends for help. Facebook on Thursday rolled out Trusted Contacts account recovery, a feature it has tested with a limited number of people as the Trusted Friends capability since 2011. Users can select three to five trusted contacts from their security settings at any time. These contacts should be available via phone or in pers ...

Media use is a serious distraction for college freshmen, with a new study finding young women devote up to 12 hours daily on pursuits such as texting, posting status updates and surfing the web. And the more time spent using media, the research suggests, the worse their academic performance. "The implication of these results would seem to be that reducing college students' media use might improve their acad ...

Facebook announced a family of Android-based smartphone apps called Facebook Home, which can be downloaded from Google Play. "We're going to talk about how you can transform your Android phone into a great social phone," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a company event. He also told that the company doesn't want to build "a phone or operating system that only some people are going to use." However, HTC ...

It appears Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is plunging into the controversial national debate on immigration reform. An issue-advocacy group he formed has hired two lobbying firms: Peck Madigan Jones; and Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock. It is unclear exactly what Zuckerberg's goals are, but he reportedly wants to push for comprehensive immigration reform, possibly including a path to citizenship for undocumen ...

Last spring, the future for Viddy, a video-sharing Facebook app, seemed as sunny as southern California's skies. Based a block away from Venice Beach, the 30-person startup impressed prospective investors with skyrocketing user growth figures and won funding from them at a $370 million valuation. The tech press hailed it as the "Instagram for video," potentially ripe for a billion-dollar-plus buyout. Justin ...

Facebook on Thursday announced a major makeover of its News Feed page with an emphasis on bigger images, more user control and a recognition that more members are accessing the social network on mobile devices. "News Feed has become primarily about visual content," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during an event at company headquarters announcing the changes. It's "about 50 percent" photos and videos. The new News ...

Facebook Inc will unveil a new look for its popular "newsfeed" next week, the latest move by the Web company to revamp key elements of its 1 billion member social network. Facebook will showcase the newsfeed makeover at a media event on March 7 at its Menlo Park, California headquarters, the company said in an emailed invitation to reporters on Friday. The event will be Facebook's second high-profile produc ...

Facebook is developing a new app that keeps track of user location, and reports that information to friends when they're nearby, according to a report. The app will be released mid-March, and will run even when it isn't open on users' phones, Bloomberg reports. For example, Facebook user Shirley may get a notification that says Bob is around the corner — even if neither of them happens to be using the app a ...

Instagram has started releasing its usage figures following reports that the photo sharing site was hemorrhaging users over privacy concerns. In December, the Facebook-owned company announced that it was changing its terms of service to allow it to sell photos and data to advertisers. Although Instagram later attempted to talk its way out of the scandal, many users weren't persuaded, and quit the site. Inde ...

Facebook's launched its long-trailed social search service, allowing users of the site to answer queries such as 'which restaurants do my friends like?' While Facebook says it now hosts, for example, more than 240 billion photos Graph Search only reveals information that the user would be able to access anyway through existing privacy settings. It's currently available as a beta, in English only, and only w ...