Facebook founder updates status to 'married'

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has updated his status to "married".
Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot on Saturday at a small ceremony in Palo Alto, California.
It caps a busy week for the couple. Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history on Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, the same day Zuckerberg turned 28.
The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years.
A company spokeswoman said Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring "a very simple ruby" himself.
The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg's backyard before fewer than 100 guests, who all thought they were there to celebrate Chan's graduation.
Even after the stock market launch, Zuckerberg remains Facebook's single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares. He also controls the company with 56 per cent of its voting stock.
Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004. The site was born in a dorm room and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people. He was named as Time's Person of the Year in 2010, at age 26.

Facebook Builds Network of Friends in Washington

Members of Congress accept asked: How do I get added Facebook followers?

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CU-Denver Student Examines The Reasons For Facebook Unfriending

A University of Colorado-Denver business student claims to have conducted one of the first comprehensive studies on the causes and etiquette of "unfriending" on Facebook. Christopher Sibona surveyed over 1,500 Facebook users and says his findings point to "frequent, unimportant posts" as the number one reason for unfriending.
"The 100th post about your favorite band is no longer interesting," Sibona said in a.
Making politically polarizing and inappropriate posts on friends' walls are the next-most prevalent reasons for unfriending, according to the study
According to the CU-Denver Business School press release:

The study showed 57 percent of those surveyed unfriended for online reasons, while 26.9 percent did so for offline behavior. Sibona found a sort of online hierarchy of dominant and subordinate relationships. For example, those making friend requests stood a much higher chance of being abruptly unfriended. At the same time, those doing the unfriending seemed to hold the upper hand in the relationship. It's a delicate dance with its own rules or "nettiquette," far different from face-to-face interaction.

Sibona is working twoard his PhD in Computer Science and Information Systems. In January his research findings will be published by the Hawaii National Conference on System Sciences.

ABC News Partnering With Facebook For Midterms

ABC News announced on Tuesday that it will partner with Facebook to cover the midterm elections.
On Election Night in November, ABC News will feature reports from Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto. The channel's coverage of the elections will also be streamed live on Facebook, as well as on ABC's website and iPad app.
In addition, in the weeks leading up to the election, Facebook will be seeking out voters in congressional swing districts, and soliciting questions for local debates.
ABC also announced that Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos will be anchoring the channel's Election Night coverage on November 2nd.