Facebook today improved its search with the addition of a drop-down list that instantaneously appears while you’re typing in your search query at the top search box. It will display people, events, groups and pages you’re connected with, but “also the connections of your friends and globally relevant results”.

Submitted as an entry for a local parody music video contest, Facebook State of Mind takes the Jay-Z and Alicia Keys song to a whole new level. Unlike Empire State of Mind’s love declaration to New York City, this Facebook version of the song, written by Alexander Miller and Justin Lang, pays tribute to everyone’s favorite social networking site of the moment.

I love New York t-shirts. You’ve seen them on friends, celebrities, and also braggarts who’ve never visited New York City. But the problem with the 80s I ♥ NY logo, printed on millions of plain white t-shirts worn around the world, is that the pop-style heart symbol is so last decade. In the Facebook age, we don’t “heart” things or people, we “thumbs up” them.

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland was the inspiration for this week’s Facebook Status Saturday so we turned a few of the movie’s most memorable quotes into status updates.

What animal does soy milk come from? In favor of our Facebook Fail series on Friday, little miss know-it-all doesn’t get the joke.

Fortunately, Facebook doesn’t have any annoying pop-up dialog windows, but Cracked.com wondered how the site would look like if it came with warning labels. What kind of disclaimer would a first time visitor see when arriving at the Facebook login page? And what would happen if you wanted to take a peek at your ex-girlfriend’s profile page?

Confirming the previously rumored check-in feature, the New York Times has learned from anonymous sources that Facebook will take the wraps off a new location-based feature in late April.

The Orange Guy, a brainchild of illustrator Leo Blanchette and the official mascot of Answers.com, is now available as a Facebook tag picture featuring the entire Orange family. His crazy aunt Betty, his hippie older sister, the detective he hired 2 years ago… They’re all here and waiting to be uploaded to your Facebook so you can tag your friends.

A new batch of Facebook viruses is currently annoying thousands of users of the social network. One of these pests is spreading through the link: http://youtube.torrent-galaxy.in/

Now that the official golden Oscar statuettes have been handed out in Hollywood, here’s your chance to award your Facebook friends with accolades in ten slightly similar categories.

– Who the heck is he hanging out with? An undertaker?
– Oh no. Just a guy who hangs a yoo-ee, dances the pee-pee and sees a man about a horse.

You often find yourself using Facebook to stalk on potential future girlfriends/boyfriends, but it’s not your fault. It’s all because of the hidden message on Facebook’s front page, you know, the homepage where everyone has to log in.

We already told you about the Mad Hatter Yourself application last week, but thought it was worth mentioning that fans of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland can also send the Hatter’s hat as a free Facebook gift, no credits required.

Forget about our Valentine’s Day Status Updates! Enough with the romance already! It’s been two weeks already so now’s the time to touch second base with these 21 sexy Facebook status updates. Some of them are funny, some of them clever, but they’re all suggestive and naughty!