You may have noticed tonight exclamations of “Tainted meat!!” all over Facebook and Twitter. No, it’s not the latest game for breast cancer awareness. Here’s why people are shouting “Tainted meat” all over social media.

There are a million worries surrounding Facebook, ranging from its privacy policies to its stock price, but every so often the social media leviathan introduces a new feature that is (probably) unambiguously good. It’s called “Safety Check,” or more expansively “Facebook Safety Check,” and it allows users to report their status if they are located in a disaster zone. It could potentially go a long way in providing crucial information to account holders who have loved one’s in an area of upheaval – social, natural, or otherwise. Here is how Facebook Safety Check works.

The Supreme Court of Oklahoma has ruled that telling someone on Facebook that they are the father of your baby is not sufficient notice of paternity to then be able to put the baby up for adoption without their consent. The ruling came in the case of Billy McCall and Marshall and Toni Andrews, the putative adoptive parents of his two-year-old daughter, who was surrendered to them by her unnamed teenage mother (identified in the case only as “T.Z.”) with no notice to McCall.

We recently posted an article on how to find (and remove) all of the Facebook groups to which you belong. In response, one of our readers asked us how to find a list of all of the pages you have liked on Facebook. So, here you go.

Recently we discovered that somehow Facebook had started including our location in posts, even though we were sure we had location tagging turned off. So we started searching for how to disable location tracking on Facebook. And guess what. At the time of this writing, there is no way on Facebook to set Location by default to “off”. That’s because you have to turn it off on your computer or smartphone, not on Facebook.

“Facebook To Begin Charging Users $2.99/mo Starting November 1st” says the headline that has many Facebook users in a tizzy. So is it true that Facebook is going to start charging $2.99? No! That headline, and the article that appeared under it, were written and published on the National Report website, which is a satirical website similar to the Onion. So, put another way, imagine the Onion printing an article about Facebook to begin charging – how seriously would you take it?

Not since Basher, the photobombing squirrel, has such a tiny animal made such a splash on the Internet. Until now. Sneezy, the Penn State squirrel, whose friend Mary Krupa dresses her (or him) up with hats and props, now has a Facebook page with nearly 20,000 “likes”.

Yes, it’s true – today, August 1, 2014 – Facebook is down. No word yet from Facebook on whether Facebook was hacked, or someone tripped over a power cord, or just what the problem is. Within moments, it was all over Twitter, and apparently around the world, as people in all language started posting that Facebook was down, Facebook es mort, etc.. UPDATE: At 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST Facebook came back up. No word yet on what the problem was.

Police selfies, cop car selfies, and the Duck of Justice (DOJ) all feature on Bangor, Maine PD’s Facebook page. And while you may think that cop and police car selfies are unusual, not to mention the Duck, what is perhaps most unusual is that this small town (population 33,000) police department’s Facebook page has over 22,000 “Likes”!

Nicholas “Nick” Wig broke into James Wood’s home, and while there, he used Wood’s computer. To log into Facebook! And when he left Wood’s house, he left the computer logged in to his Facebook account!!

Facebook has admitted to intentionally experimenting with its users’ emotions. How did Facebook experiment with and manipulate Facebook user emotions? Read on.

Qulia Hyman, born Qulia Marie Lynn Daviston, is searching for her father Michael. Her mother, Betty Jean Lemmons Daviston, met Qulia’s father while he was stationed at Grissom Air Force Base (AFB), Indiana, in the 80s. That is all she knows about her father Michael (picture below), and she has turned to Facebook as her platform for attempting to find and meet the father she never knew.

Facebook says that they are “improving Facebook ads” – but for whom? For themselves, of course, because remember, you are not Facebook’s customer – you are their commodity. This new development means that Facebook is now using what is known as ‘behavioral advertising’ (when it’s on their website), or ‘remarketing’ (if their ads are following you around). Basically Facebook is using your data from your browser use – and your mobile app use – when you are not on Facebook – to target ads to you.

Coincident with the Reset the Net effort, in which they are taking part, Google and Yahoo, along with Microsoft and Facebook, and others, are moving at speed to block the NSA’s snooping, and to tighten up their systems to make it more difficult for the NSA, and others, to eavesdrop on their data.

When you read a private Facebook message, the person who sent it sees it marked as ‘seen’ or marked as ‘read’. But have you ever wished that you could go ‘unseen’, that is to read a private message on Facebook without the other person knowing you’ve read it? Here is how to read a Facebook message without the person who sent it knowing.