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Facebook has changed its policy regarding the posting of mastectomy photos, permitting the controversial images amid a recent firestorm of debate.

It may seem like a minor change, but women behind the once-banned photos say it's a win in their quest to make the truth about breast cancer visual.

“We want the world to know that breast cancer is not a pink ribbon ... it is traumatic, it is life-changing, and it urgently needs a cure,” wrote Scorchy Barrington.

With a Change (dot) org petition, Barrington (who uses an assumed name) is a cancer survivor who was the force behind Facebook’s updated policy.

She felt compelled to act after learning that Facebook had removed several of them and banned SCAR Project photographer David Jay for 30 days.

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Dear MySpace: Facebook will see your $20 million relaunch and raise you... hastags!

Yes, the social network has finally joined Twitter in making it easy for users to take part in a public discussion of television shows, politics and everything related to Kim Kardashian.

“To date, there has not been a simple way to see the larger view of what’s happening or what people are talking about,” wrote Facebook product manager Greg Lindley in a company blog post yesterday.

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For fans of George Takei's hilarious, thought-provoking Facebook page may be disheartened to learn that it's actually ghostwritten. Is nothing sacred?!

Journalist Rick Polito recently revealed that he'd been jokes for Takei's feed at $10 each. It was just a quick aside, but it stunned Takei's fans nonetheless.

Wired got in touch with Takei, who was taken aback at the uproar.

"What is this hoo-ha about my FB posts?" Takei said in response.

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Facebook has changed our lives, and not just because it's helped Kim Kardashian stay in the news.

The website enables users to update friends on their new babies, their latest vacations of whatever meal they just cooked for dinner.

We can stalk our exes, we can investigate potential love interests, we can pretend as if we can easily live without this social media apparatus... but we know we'd be lying.

This addiction is covered in Facebook: The Musical, an impressively produced video that has already garnerned hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube. Watch it here.

Facebook: The Musical

When Christina Aguilera returns to The Voice in Season 5, fans will see quite the transformation. She's been shedding pounds and flaunting it on Facebook.

Not that we're complaining:

After embracing her curvier figure, which we loved, in recent years, the 32-year-old singer has been slimming down of late, as the above image shows.

Wow. Well done, girl.

The star shared the photo while filming a music video with Alejandro Fernandez. One can only hope the finished product includes shots like this one.

In other weight loss news ... Mo'nique lost 80 pounds. 80!

The Facebook page of an Arizona bakery became a national story after the owners of Amy's Baking Company were featured on Gordon Ramsay's FOX show.

But the insane-seeming duo now says they had nothing to do with the EPIC rants that followed their Kitchen Nightmares appearance, which was ridiculed online.

Instead, they're playing the "hacking" card.

The couple’s behavior on the show was beyond bad - it was even too much for Ramsay, who walked out before renovations in the May 10 episode.

The Scottsdale, Ariz., establishment was accused of stealing tips from employees, selling desserts from elsewhere and being rude to customers.

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On last week's episode of Fox's Kitchen Nightmares, loudmouth UK chef Gordon Ramsay paid a visit to Amy's Baking Company in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Owners Samy and Amy Bouzaglo were apparently such a “nightmare” to work with that Ramsay canned them. Customers aren’t exactly fond of Amy’s either.

Yelp reviews call the restaurant itself “horrible” and accuse the owners of stealing waitresses’ tips ... and of being tyrannical nut jobs on social media.

Not even Ramsay could convince the stubborn owner to change her behavior, which only became more evident after their exploits aired on Fox.

The show caught the attention of Reddit, whose users slammed the restaurant's Facebook page with comments, triggering an epic social media meltdown.

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Ever wondered what a Facebook update would look like in real life?

We don't mean your status update, but one of Facebook's actual updates - of which there many, and which often flummox and frustrate a billion-plus users.

According to the video below, it would basically boil down to some annoying dude inundating you with changes he made to your home and lifestyle.

Ones you didn't ask for, no less, and don't necessarily care for.

Check out the fun video below, and then immediately go check your privacy settings to see how Facebook jerked you around during the last update:

Facebook Update in Real Life

Vin Diesel says Facebook, upon which he has 41 million Likes, owes him "billions of dollars" for helping spark the social network's popularity.

It's hard to tell if he's half serious.

“What Facebook didn’t realize is something very big was about to happen," he tells EW.

"For the first time in history, and it’s kind of a fluke they didn’t see this coming - when I jumped on that page in April 2009, I started talking to people. In the realest ways."

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In a world so often besieged by violence and uncertainty, can always use more heroes, more positivity and more random acts of kindness toward others.

Oxnard, Calif., Police Officer Michael Kohr did his part.

Responding to a report of child's stolen bike Monday, Kohr ended up fixing the problem then and there for Nina Sanchez and her daughter Bella.

How did he do that? Read on to find out ...

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