The company’s reportedly putting the finishing touches on a separate app for composing intimate updates, designed to be an entirely different experience than what we have now: the kludgy toggling of the sharing settings on one composer interface in order to create both intimate content and blasted-out-to-the-universe Newsfeed updates. 
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Facebook meets with LGBT community over real-name policy
Facebook’s recently been cracking down on stage names, locking drag queens and transgenders out of their accounts until they switch accounts to their legal names. After mounting protests, Facebook reps scheduled a meeting with San Francisco activists and city officials over its real-name policy, which many say discriminates against the LGBT community.
Facebook predator charged after posing as teenager to stalk girls online
A 22-year-old man from New Jersey has been charged with stalking one teenage girl and soliciting sexually explicit photos from another via Facebook.
Facebook wants to know why you hate specific adverts
Facebook’s not happy to just let us hide ads anymore; now it wants to know why we hid a given ad so it can purge newsfeeds of super-cruddy ads. 
Target tops the list of most epic privacy fails
Our readers ranked Target’s data breach ahead of Adobe, Snapchat, Google Glass, and Talking Angela for the biggest privacy failure of the past year.
Facebook tests Snapchat-like vanishing act for posts
Faceboook’s going Mission: Impossible, ephemeral-message on us, having confirmed that it’s testing an auto-delete feature that will let users schedule their posts’ demise. 
Teen’s open Facebook invite leads to 500 unexpected gatecrashers
Maybe there’s a better way to impress a girl than hosting a party where she invites all her gazillion Facebook friends to trash your mum’s house. 
Review your settings with Facebook’s new privacy checkup tool
Facebook has now rolled out its dinosaur-led privacy tool to everyone. So you can either wait for your dino-popup to appear, or click on the padlock icon in Facebook, go to Privacy Checkup, and follow these 3 simple steps. 
How dare you use my camera! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s this week’s 60 Second Security. A week of news distilled into a swift minute of amusing but informative video…
Facebook wants you to know that Messenger is not spying on you
After a long build-up of rumors surrounding the Messenger app’s required permissions to access the device’s camera and microphone, Facebook is finally attempting to set the record straight.