If you’ve noticed your mobile bill steadily climb the more you use Facebook on your phone, you’re not alone. According to the website MoneySavingExpert.com, Facebook’s auto-play function for videos could be causing users to burn through their data plans quickly and incur extra charges without realizing it. “It’s worrying that Facebook is auto-playing videos by…

A Florida preschooler allegedly got expelled because of something his mom posted on a private Facebook page. The woman, Ashley Habat, took to Facebook to vent about the school, Sunshine Christian Academy, and she claims that her son was kicked out of the school the next day. Habat said that she was upset with the…

Facebook is currently testing a feature that allows users on mobile devices to search through their friends’ old posts by keyword using the controversial Graph Search functionality introduced last year. As originally pitched, Graph Search would’ve allowed users to search through posts and comments by keyword, though as pointed out by TechCrunch, that feature remains…

It’s a classic first day of school tradition: the proud mother seeing her children onto the school bus and taking photos to mark the occasion. Since it’s 2014, many of those precious pictures now end up on Facebook and other social media sites. But, as The Washington Post asked this week, is that a good…

A member of the Facebook Advisory Safety Board said this week that he would raise the issue of beheading photos being allowed to remain on Facebook at the group’s next meeting. The photos, which come from Syria, purport to show victims of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS), the group whose offshoot (ISIS) is currently…

According to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center, about 86 percent of adults were at least somewhat willing to discuss the information Edward Snowden leaked about government surveillance in person, while only 43 percent said they would discuss it on Facebook. Perhaps most troublingly of all, the report also suggests that the social…

A developer for Danish company Airtame found a potentially devastating flaw in Facebook’s new (and mandatory) Messenger app that could have let hackers force your phone to make a call if you clicked on a link. However, Facebook responded to the threat quickly, and has already prepared an update that they will push out to…

A Facebook page in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called Rent Houses, has been listing available properties in the area. There’s only one problem: the houses it’s advertising aren’t actually available at all. People are actively living in many of the places listed, and were unpleasantly surprised to discover their homes for sale. One woman, Kenyetta Turner, has…

A 34-year-old Michigan man, Chad A. Monroe, was arrested this week for allegedly posting nude photos of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook in an attempt to get her to commit suicide. He also (somehow) thought that his actions were legal. Monroe’s ex had already reported him to police for harassing her with incessant phone calls and…

Washington Post writer Tim Herrera meticulously tracked and cataloged his Facebook News Feed content for five or six hours on July 17, noting 1,417 status updates, photos, links, likes, event invites and more. However, he was confused by what content he was seeing. So he combed through every piece of content posted by his friends…