Two California high school students became one of the first lesbian couples crowned homecoming king and queen in the United States of America this weekend.

Rebeca Arellano, a senior at Patrick Henry High School, was made the school’s first female homecoming king, while Arellano’s girlfriend, Haileigh Adams, who also attends Patrick Henry High School, was made homecoming queen at Saturday night’s dance.

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“I was happier than when I won, my little Haileigh has just been announced Homecoming queen and I couldn’t feel happier! Thanks to every single one of you! You guys made this happen and we are all part of something huge. I can’t fully express how grateful I am. I am in completely shocked that this happen. My girl looks absolutely flawless,” wrote Arellano on Facebook Saturday night.

The two girls told ABC News that they’re thankful for the abundance of support they’ve received from family, friends, and students and staff at the school.

“They were chanting my name and it was one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had,” said Arellano.

Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ has vowed to kill the social networking site, Facebook, citing privacy concern and security violation of user information.

The day (November 5th, 2011) is celebrated as Guy Fawkes Day in Britain as a commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot in which Fawkes placed explosives in the House of Lords in 1605.

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The speaker in the video, invites people to join the cause and kill Facebook for the sake of protecting their own privacy.

“If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill Facebook for the sake of your own privacy,” the speaker added.

Mentioning privacy concerns and Facebook’s ability to store and sell personal information about its users, the group said, “Everything you do on Facebook stays on Facebook regardless of your ‘privacy’ settings, and deleting your account is impossible.”

“Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from around the world,” ‘Anonymous’ said.

One lakh Britons and six million users in the US have shut down their Facebook accounts because of privacy threats and fatigue.

The same pattern is expected to follow in other countries too.

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Facebook’s growth rate has slowed for a second month in a row, ironically, when the social networking site was aiming to reach its goal of one billion active users.

Canada saw a fall of about 1.5 million users of the website, while in Russia and Norway numbers fell by more than 100,000 users.

The company is now relying on developing countries to boost its numbers.

Blogs are abuzz with speculations that the website could one day ’sputter into oblivion,’ fearing the fate of its failing rival MySpace.

There is a point at which the site can no longer grow, once it has established itself in a country, according to Eric Eldon, from the website ‘Inside Facebook’, which obtained the figures.

“People get terribly excited about something new and after a while the novelty wears off,” said Internet psychologist Graham Jones.

Facebook is joining hands with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to launch a new system called Amber alerts for issuing bulletins about child abductions.

Each state has its own Facebook Amber Alert page and users who will become a fan will get immediate alerts in their news feeds when there is a missing child in their area.

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Facebook is teaming up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to launch a new system called Amber alerts to issue bulletins about child abductions.

Each state has its own Facebook Amber Alert page, and users who become a fan will immediately get alerts in their news feed when there is a missing child in their area.

Facebook is donating 50 million advertising impressions to publicize the system, the company said, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The social networking giant wanted to make sure that the system was something that users wanted and believes that the message will be most effective if it is spread virally – by people posting on their wall, said Chris Sonderby, the lead security and investigations counsel for Facebook.

The service could serve as a model for state and cities get information out in other emergencies, if successful.

The MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) is planning to set up a similar page like the Delhi Traffic Police page on the popular social networking website, Facebook.

The MCD is all set to start operating on Facebook from January, offering a unique focus on monitoring garbage removal in the national capital.

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“The page will be aimed at monitoring cleanliness and garbage removal in the city. The citizens can also interact with us. They can upload pictures, videos or file a complaint about sanitation condition in their area which will then be addressed fast,” MCD Additional Commissioner (Engineering) Anshu Prakash said today.

He said the Facebook page will become active from the first week of January. The permission for this has already been given by the Municipal Commissioner.

There are a total of 2,500 garbage dumping sites in the areas under MCD’s jurisdiction and their locations will be listed on the page. People can register their complaints and suggestions online. Officials said NGOs will also be approached for their cooperation and they may also contribute in making the capital cleaner.

Out of the MCD’s 12 zones, sanitation has been privatised in eight. The private agencies responsible for these areas will have to take action on complaints posted on the site.

Officials said the move will help the civic body interact with citizens in a better way and ensure transparency. The Facebook page will help fix accountability and responsibility, they said.

The civic body is expected to include more areas like public health and roads on the upcoming Facebook page if the experiment is successful.

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