Week in Facebook news: New privacy tools, unfriending study and making spammer pay up

08.10.2010
As if the opening of  to start the month didn’t give people enough to talk about regarding Facebook, the company this past week hasn’t been able to stay out of the headlines through actions of its own and others.

Zuckerberg meets Lisa Simpson

Facebook CEO on Sunday Oct. 3 in which the famous Harvard University student dishes on careers and education. He’s the latest in a to geek up The Simpsons. 

Why Facebook friends unfriend

examined why people unfriend each other on Facebook and found the No. 1 reason to be the result of getting too many boring posts. 

"Researchers spend a lot of time examining how people form friendships online but little is known on how those relationships end," according to Christopher Sibona, a PhD student in the Computer and Science and Information Systems program. "Perhaps this will help us develop a theory of the entire cycle of friending and unfriending."