“I have friends who are white,” says 19-year-old Diego Luna. “They are my white people friends and they are mostly on Facebook. That’s why I use Facebook. My brown people are on MySpace.”

A real, yet only slight Facebook redesign is just around the corner, so we prefer to dream about a more exciting, completely new approach to the social network’s user interface. Kudos to the guys at Thinking Out Loud for creating the Facebook Facelift project, a fingerlicking smooth UI prototype I bet you’ll want to spend hours playing with.

Pro tip: if you can’t say it in 140 or less PUT IT ON FACEBOOK.

Gizmodo, among other selected bloggers, was given a sneak peek at the Facebook integration on Xbox Live coming this Fall update. Here’s what they shared with us about their hands-on experience.

Barack Obama’s Facebook Feed is a satirical series by Slate’s political reporter, Christopher Beam, and assistant editor, Chris Wilson. The most recent feed of course starts with the Nobel prize, and ends with the Balloon Boy Hoax…

Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things are on Facebook. Well, sort of. Warner Bros Pictures made a simple Wild Things application for Facebook which allows you to become little Max, the King of all Wild Things in the official poster for the just released Spike Jonze movie adaptation.

If you ever took the Which neuropsychiatric disorder do you have? Facebook quiz and the answer was “Tourette syndrome”, then the following quiz is totally your thing.

Even if you’re not a burglar in the middle of a crime, it’s highly advisable to log out after each of your Facebook sessions, especially when you used a public or someone else’s computer. Why? Well, this is what could happen if you have polite friends such as Jes.

Are you doing every Facebook quiz there is? Have you poked someone earlier this week and counting every second until this person pokes you back? Do you have the unstoppable urge to write on every wall, even those in your bedroom? Then you might want to join the Social Media Addicts Association (S.M.A.A.), founded by Jerry.

According to data collected and analysed by Brian Solis, chicks rule almost every social network on the planet, including Twitter, MySpace and, you guessed it, Facebook (57%)! Only Digg has a predominant male audience, while there’s a gender equivalence on LinkedIn and YouTube.

No inspiration for your Halloween costume yet? What about dressing up as an interactive Facebook profile page? Since the early days of Facebook -when it was still pretty geeky- people have been paying tribute to their favorite social network, as you can see in the Halloween pictures we collected. Can you guess from the layout of the costumes what year they were made?

Tens of thousands of people were deprived access to their Facebook accounts for the past days, some even more than a week! By now, forunately, most accounts are available again and have returned unharmed (save for a crop in FarmVille here, and a bankrupt restaurant in Restaurant City there). Photos, wall posts, and other Facebook data should all still be there, but as a downside, Facebook had to reset privacy settings to their most restrictive settings for the recent updates of those affected.

Girl at work- “I just joined facebook!” me-“You joined facebook? with a face like that? .. it should be called horse book”. I got the bird.

When you post an URL to your profile, Facebook embeds it as a video, picture or website depending on the content it’s linking to. So if you want to include a hyperlink in your status update, you’ll have to disable Facebook from automatically sharing it as a link or piece of content in your news feed by clicking the X button before posting.