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Facebook users was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 16 June 2011 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Facebook. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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dating

is this free? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.14.56.75 (talk) 08:37, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Written in Hack?

Some sources from Facebook: [1] ("we have migrated nearly our entire PHP codebase to Hack"), [2]. Wired: [3] ("the new language is called Hack, and it already drives almost all of the company’s website"). I don't really edit articles, so I'll let someone else decide if these are sufficient references to add it to the infobox (etc.). πr² (t • c) 19:51, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Arjayay: is this ok to add? πr² (t • c) 17:31, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bump. πr² (t • c) 21:22, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Messaging

Can the following be added to the messaging section ?: Facebook chat can also be used with 3rd party, multi-protocol [[instant messenger]s, like Pidgin, Miranda IM, ... ^[1]^[2] To do this, it is necessairy however to have a username, which itself requires a verified account. A verification for your facebook account can only be done with users that have a mobile phone, and an active subscription with this mobile phone.^[3]^[4] 109.131.244.18 (talk) 16:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison with MySpace is dated

The comparison with MySpace section is only interesting now from a historical perspective. It might be good to include a few sentences in the History section giving features that made Facebook distinct from MySpace, but there's no reason to have such a large section on it anymore than there is to have a similarly sized comparison of Facebook with Friendster or Classmates.com.—140.153.24.26 (talk) 17:31, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Correction to title of Chris Cox

Chris Cox was selected as Chief Product Officer(CPO) of Facebook, but the article still mentions him as VP of product. - Sagar Chordia [4] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chordiasagar14 (talk • contribs) 04:50, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks for pointing this out.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 06:40, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar Mistake ?

In March 2012, Facebook announced App Center, an store selling applications that operate via the site.

Thanks for pointing it out. I have fixed the mistake. Bilorv (talk) 21:14, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Details about Facebook Bug Bounty program

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This article must contain more details and records about Facebook Bug Bounty program and so requesting to grant permission to edit this article.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Premcharan2011 (talk • contribs) 10:50, 3 June 2014

Not done: Raising an issue for attention is fine, but when making a formal edit request you should provide "a complete and specific description of the request, that is, specify what text should be removed and a verbatim copy of the text that should replace it. "Please change X" is not acceptable and will be rejected; the request must be of the form "please change X to Y"." --McGeddon (talk) 09:54, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 3 June 2014

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i want to see protected article W32TAA (talk) 15:29, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: unclear request, no edit specified. --McGeddon (talk) 15:33, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php

[2] ttp://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12527/easily-add-facebook-chat-to-pidgin/

[3] ttp://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12527/easily-add-facebook-chat-to-pidgin/

[4] ttp://allfacebook.com/create-facebook-username_b17137

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