Perhaps nostalgic for its Harvard days, Facebook is testing a feature that allows users with authenticated .edu email addresses to create groups for students at their universities.

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Facebook made a minor change to its Events feature, replacing “Attending,” “Maybe Attending,” and “Not Attending” with “Join,” “Maybe” and “Decline.”

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As if the ability to post a 60,000-character status update isn’t enough, Facebook users can also create text-only documents for sharing among groups, and collaborating on edits.

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Facebook has redesigned group administrators’ pages to look a bit more like profiles.

Navigational links have moved up the page to pulldown menus within buttons in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

The rightmost button has the exact same design as the link on personal profiles for the pulldown menu containing the poke button.

Additionally, the page displays the number of photos and documents toward the top left side of the page the top, beneath the name of the group.

These changes together open up enough space in the right-hand column for two advertisements and two panels suggesting other parts of Facebook, according to our most esteemed sibling blog Inside Facebook.

Readers, what do you think of the new layout for group administrators’ pages?

If you’re friends with your boss on Facebook, now is a great time to reboot your relationship.

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UserTesting asked a panel of U.S. Facebook users aged 20 through 40, all with at least 100 friends, to suss out the site’s usability. Here are the findings.
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A 50-year-old unemployed woman has filed a $8,386.88 lawsuit against a 35-year-old man who humiliated her after ending their Facebook relationship.

Cheryl Gray of Michigan and Wylie Iwan of Washington state met through the game Mafia wars on Facebook and eventually developed an online relationship. She booked a trip to visit him, and about a week before her scheduled departure he revealed that he’d met someone else.

At first she was okay with the news, but then things deteriorated — according to The Tri-City Herald, both parties claimed the other had posted nasty things on Facebook. A few weeks later, an attorney representing Gray asked Iwan for $956.88 to reimburse her for the trip she didn’t take, plus gifts and flowers she’d sent him.

A week later, an email said that claim was dropped. Almost one month after that, on May 18, Gray filed a civil lawsuit in Michigan asking for $8,368.88 for misrepresentation, promissory estoppel, defamation of character and intentional infliction of emotional distress,” according to the Herald.

An attorney who spoke to the Herald said that he expected the court to dismiss this suit as frivolous. But if for some reason the civil court did decide to hear the case, any ruling would set an unusual precedent.

Readers, what do you think about this particular case?

So, you want to organize a flash mob but don’t know the first thing about getting started? Facebook makes it really easy to do — and you don’t even need a large friend list to pull one off.
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Ali Kapadia, a Pakistani filmmaker who’s based in San Francisco, recently released a documentary covering the perception of various Pakistanis’ take on the “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” group that was eventually pulled from Facebook.
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Facebook will begin archiving all groups created using the older format, in a push to get everyone onto the newer version of the feature.
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