A wife and mother of two children has discovered through a people search on Facebook that her husband has another wife and another life.

Lynn France was married to John France in 2005. After suspecting that her husband was cheating on her, Lynn checked her their computer to find a hotel website he had visited before leaving on a business trip.

Lynn and a friend went to the hotel to discover her husband with another woman. The woman told Lynn that they were engaged.

At the request of a friend, Lynn decided to find out if the woman had a facebook page. Lynn found her facebook page which had pictures of her wedding to Lynn’s husband at Disney World.

After the shocking Facebook findings, Lynn filed for divorce in 2009.

Her husband now lives in Florida with his Disney World bride and Lynn’s two sons.

[ Source: NY Daily News ]

Thanks to a people search on the Facebook social network a wallet lost in 2005, along with the $650.00 inside, has been returned to its rightful owner.

Jack Wagster and his friend Nick Gorman were searching for a lost cell phone inside the cushions of the couch when they found a wallet containing $650.00.

The used couch had been purchased from some people in Kirkland, Washington by Nick’s mother.

A people search on Facebook located the rightful owner, Alanna Jensen, who now lives in Arizona.

Alanna lost the wallet at a party in 2005 and was never able to figure out what happened to it until the boys located her on Facebook’s people search and contacted her.

[ Source: The Daily Herald ]

A free people search on the Facebook social network has led to the reunion of a couple after 50 years apart.

Melody Longino, from Louisiana, met William McCrary while travelling on a Greyhound bus to Texas in 1957.

The two people stayed in contact for several years after meeting, but lost contact after that.

William recent did a people search on Facebook by searching for Melody’s name on the social network.

After finding her profile, William sent her a friend request through Facebook.

Now through the power of online social networking the two have been reunited after 50 years of lost contact.

Finding lost friends and family online has become easier than ever with social network searches and other online people search sites.

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Stung and chastened by an onslaught of privacy problems, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has promised to fix mistakes at the world’s number one social network.

In an email exchange with tech blogger Robert Scoble on Sunday, Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook has made mistakes and will fix user privacy controls.

Zuckerberg reportedly stated in the email that –

“I know we’ve made a bunch of mistakes, but my hope at the end of this is that the service ends up in a better place and that people understand that our intentions are in the right place and we respond to the feedback from the people we serve.”

According to Zuckerberg, Facebook is set to start speaking publicly this week about user privacy control changes that they have been working on.

Facebook is planning to simplify privacy options to please privacy critics.

Facebook maintains that users like their latest social networking options, but want easy ways to opt out of sharing personal details with third-party websites and data collection companies.

[ Source: Breitbart.com ]

Facebook passed the 500 million visitor mark in the month of April, according to ComScore.

ComScore’s site traffic measurements show Facebook in fourth place with 519 million visits in April. Google was in first place with 921 million users. Microsoft landed in second-place with 728 million and Yahoo came in fourth with 588 million.

ComScore’s site traffic numbers include non-registered site visitors who can view Facebook pages through public profiles.

Facebook has recently seen crititicism over its complex and ever-changing privacy practices as well as new services that share its user data with other social media sites.

The ComScore traffic rankings are from April. The growing controversy over Facebook privacy policies started in May, so it’s possible that the social network could have a slowdown in traffic as a result.

However, traffic data from Hitwise tracks site visitors on a weekly basis and hasn’t recorded a drop in Facebook traffic. Facebook’s US traffic has been growing around 3% per week for the three weeks since the privacy problems hit the news, which is in line with its the weekly traffic growth from earlier this year.

In the past, Facebook’s traffic continued to grow despite privacy concerns.

Continued growth in Facebook’s registered users would support the company claim that people aren’t worried about changes to the privacy policy.

Facebook believes people are using the new social networking features in spite of the privacy criticisms.

Facebook has had world-wide traffic growth of 69% from last year.

Over 75% of Facebook visitors are from outside the U.S.

The U.S. has over 115 million registered Facebook users.

In the past year, Facebook has had its strongest growth rates in Latin America ( 102% ) and Europe ( 74% ).

User growth in the United States is still strong at at 83% since last year.

[ Source: WSJ.com ]