With a new patent issued this week, Facebook is now able to give lenders access to information about who is in your social circle, and when you apply for a loan the lender will look at your Facebook friends’ credit ratings to determine whether or not to give you a loan! That’s right, approval for your loan will be based on your Facebook friends’ credit worthiness.

Did you know that Facebook is keeping you from seeing some of your Facebook friends Facebook updates and Facebook status messages? Even though you are seeing regular Facebook notifications on your Facebook news page, you are not seeing everything from all of your friends. In fact, you are only seeing the Facebook stuff from your Facebook friends that Facebook thinks you’ll want to see. Facebook is making that choice for you. (“We’re Facebook .com, we know your mind better than you do.”) This gives rise to some Facebook problems, most notably that you are missing a large portion of your friends’ Facebook updates, not to mention that their Facebook status ideas as to what you want to see from your Facebook friends – and from which Facebook friends, at that – may be wildly different from what you really want to see. Fortunately, there is a way to override Facebooks selections, and to see the Facebook status updates from all of your friends.