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It's no shock that people love to hate Facebook.

Friends may be priceless. But 'friending' is worth $38 a share.

Flush with cash and drunk with power after its $100 billion IPO, Facebook could be caught secretly brainwashing millions of new users into signing up (mind-control hoodies, anyone?) -- and still I might not quit the world's largest social network.

So, let's say you're doing a Google search for "Kings." Did you mean the L.A. hockey team or the Sacramento basketball team? Maybe the TV show? Or maybe you actually wanted to know something about monarchs.

It sounds like one of those weird, grainy late-night infomercials: "Get money for your projects NOW for FREE! There are people out there just WAITING to put REAL MONEY in your hands! Don't wait, apply TODAY!"

Benjamin Nugent says Facebook's CEO is a brilliant salesman precisely because he doesn't act much like one

Aaron Sorkin, the celebrated screenwriter whose punchy dialogue propelled TV's "The West Wing" and the Facebook movie "The Social Network," will write and direct an upcoming film on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Every post you "like." Every friend you add or fan page you join. Every place you check in, and every Web page you recommend.

Recording travel expenses is a pain for business travelers, but portable scanners and smartphone apps could revolutionize the process.

To quote "The Social Network," if Abraham Lincoln had invented Facebook, he would have invented Facebook. But in a tall tale that would have made the Great Emancipator proud, a blog post fooled some media outlets by saying he did just that.