Building on the Bing’s social networking play, which began when Bing started serving up Twitter real-time search results eight months ago, Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s senior VP for Bing, Thursday announced the search engine’s new integration with Facebook data fan pages and publicly shared links.

The Employers and Manufacturers Association is trying to persuade all the employers to take legal action against employees, who post criticizing remarks against them on social networking sites, such as Facebook.

The Association's Employment Services Manager, David Lowe, says that the organization gets a call almost every day from businesses asking them to tackle the instances where their employees posted derogatory remarks on them, which are made online.

In a move that will take the last-December struck partnership between Yahoo and Facebook, some new features will soon be introduced by Yahoo which will give its users an increased accessibility to updates from the popular social networking site. The introduction of the new features highlights the efforts that Yahoo is making to tap Facebook’s popularity.

It has been reported that two children missing from Southern California since 1995 were tracked down in Florida using Facebook.

The children were kidnapped 15 years ago when they were 2 and 3 years old. Their mother found them after searching for their name on the social networking website, Facebook.

An official said Saturday that the now 17-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy have been placed in the custody of the state of Florida.

In what the San Bernardino’s Deputy District Attorney Kurt Rowley described as a one-of-its-kind case handled by his office, an unnamed San Bernardino mother has, via the social network Facebook, been able to locate her children who went missing 15 years back!

With the roll out of its new Facebook and Privacy Page, the privacy-issues-plagued social networking company has apparently attempted to quash the backlash that it has been facing as a result of its contentious privacy policy changes.