Whoops, Facebook changed again and somehow you didn't notice. Maybe it's because Scrabulous is gone and there is no longer a reason to be on Mark Zuckerberg's crazy merry-go-round of high school and college acquaintances?

Or maybe you did notice, and in protest of your precious social-networking site getting revamped and all your widgets dissapearing, you joined the fifth most popular group on Facebook right now: "I Hate the New Facebook." Yeah, no big deal, you're basically just standing up for your Internet rights, you know, like the hippies, or like those Spartas in the 300. You're a freaking hero with your signing of online petitions.

You know what the Facebook executives do when you join your little groups in protest? They laugh at you:

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Facebook, the brainbaby of weasel-faced Aaron Sorkin subject Mark Zuckerberg and waster of 500 million employer hours per annum, will be going through another mandatory face lift. Nobody is safe — it will affect everyone's account, whether they approve it or not. And no one likes it.

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Aaron Sorkin, scribe of fast-paced quips and nervous political banter, might be writing a script about the history of Facebook, according to, um, Facebook. This whole "story" is based around the fact that some guy claiming to work for Aaron Sorkin created a Facebook group early this morning to do "research" on the site.

Sorkin has his own personal message on the board, full of clever one-liners that one would expect for someone who penned Sports Night, and he ends the post by saying "I feel about this introduction the way I felt about Sophie's Choice–It could have been funnier." Ba-dum-dum.

Calling bullshit right now, it's too much a sequel to The Farnsworth Invention, Sorkin's Broadway play about the men who stole the idea for television. Besides, what would a movie about Facebook be about? Mark Zuckerberg writing in his blog and calling people bitches would be hard to translate to film.

Here's a video clip of a SXSW interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, hosted by Business Week tech columnist Sarah Lacy … that's been panned by every geek with a Tumblr account.

Audience members, it appears, did not appreciate Lacy's interjections with her own anecdotes, her inability to form a question, and her general fawning over her interview subject.

After the interview, which drew outbursts from the audience, Lacy explained what the hell went down. Hint: She blames attendees for causing such a commotion that SXSW will never get high-profile guests again!

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Bill Gates has been knocked off the top of Forbes' billionaires list after a 13-year run. In his place? Warren Buffett. (Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú is No. 2.) For what it's worth, Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook, the social network that Gates recently removed his profile from, is No. 785.

DEMOGRAPHICS 60 Minutes had season-low ratings this weekend for its feature on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Young people don't watch old people TV. [Silicon Alley Insider]

So, after a month of civil liberties complaints, Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the execution of Beacon, its advertising program out of a dystopian novel, was no good.

Beacon originally was an automatic opt-in program that sent data from external websites to the Facebook feed. Civil liberty groups like MoveOn.org, and their spokesman Adam Green, freaked out, and yesterday Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the program’s befuddled launch.

But who did Zuckerberg really apologize to?

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Facebook is livid with Harvard-centric magazine 02138, which published what are likely sealed documents (PDF here) from the case filed against the social network by three Harvard grads who say founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their code for Connect U. The documents in question – supposedly obtained by a student reporter who simply asked the court records office for them – include a copy of Zuckerberg's online journal (we think they're called "blogs" now) where he calls another student a "bitch" while writing how "I’m a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it’s not even 10pm and it’s a Tuesday night? What?"

Which is followed by: "The Kirkland facebook is open on my computer desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive. It’s not such a great idea and probably not even funny, but Billy comes up with the idea of comparing two people from the facebook, and only sometimes putting a farm animal in there."

Zuckerberg's diary was yanked from the web, probably because Facebook is worth like $13 billion and something like that post might not please investors. That, or they didn't want to give away upcoming features, like Hot or Not: Farm Animal Edition.

Every few months, an article comes out to make you worried your most precious internet commodity, Facebook, is under attack. Harvard programmers and entrepeniers have long been accusing Mark Zuckerberg of stealing programming ideas in Facebook's developmental stages.

02138, the magazine for Harvard alums who are not over it yet, has devoted 5000 plus words on the issue.

We can't really blame them for the inflated coverage: After all, it's not as if a Yale dropout could have come up with Facebook.

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In real Facebook news yesterday, (as opposed to the fake Facebook news that Derek Richardson added you as a top friend) Mark Zuckerberg announced the start of the SocialAd network.

The new ads are not exactly what was expected. Instead of installing cookies into web browsers, they will place profiles photos next to online ads. Facebook will sell ad space against users’ profile pictures for products they have bought or recommended. (Think your cousin’s latest Amazon purchase next to a picture of him doing a keg stand.)

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Facebook is caught in the middle of the Microsoft and Google’s rivalry, and is set to benefit handsomely from their competition.

After a few months of speculation, a deal between Facebook and Microsoft or Google is set to come to fruition in the next 24 to 48 hours, according to The Post.

Both companies are looking for a 5 to 10 percent stake in the company, which would value Facebook as $10 to $15 billion procrastination service. (While this high price might imply that MySpace was a steal at $580 million, for our money, the inflated value of Facebook just reflects the impending total irrelevance of Murdoch’s place for friends.) Google is hoping to outspend Microsoft, like it did with its partnership with AOL. Microsoft is staying in the bidding for now, despite once describing social networking as “faddish.”

Um, what’s faddish about reconnecting with your middle school ex who had recently found Jesus?