Close on the heels of Facebook's last-week announcement that it intends making some revisions to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and its data-use policy, two privacy groups - the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) - have urged the company to withdraw the proposed changes.

In what evidently is an indication of Facebook's dramatic `droidfooding' attempts, the social network's Menlo Park headquarters is splashed with some hard-to-miss porters which are urging the employees to "switch" from the iPhone to the Android devices.

In a move which underscores social network Facebook's compliance with the December 2011 recommendations of the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Facebook has recently suspended its facial-recognition tool in Europe.

According to a Forbes report, citing information obtained from a financial document of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has sold nearly 20 million of his shares in the social network; and has netted approximately $400 million in the process.

In what apparently is the latest addition to the services which largely aim at perking up sales from mobile devices users who use their smartphones and tablets for socializing, social network Facebook recently introduced a new tool which gives developers a new capability to advertise their products and services.

The release of a new `Unbaby Me' photo-replacing plug-in last week gives the Facebook users the ability to remove the pictures of their friends' babies from their Facebook newsfeed and replace them with other images.

On Thursday, popular social network Facebook launched a new `facebookstories. com' website, which will give its over 950 million users the opportunity to share "some of the most extraordinary, quirky and thought-provoking stories and ideas."