But it's inevitable that Zuckerberg has transformed from hostile nerd to nonstop chatterbox. His inane conversation with Oprah and her pals was the same kind of spew that Facebook is enabling through a redesigned homepage, the product of Zuckerberg's strange obsession with the much-smaller Twitter, a messaging service which counts some 6 million users against Facebook's 175 million.

One of those Facebook users is Kirby Bumpus (left), the 22-year-old daughter of Oprah pal Gayle King, who graduated from Stanford last year. King asked Zuckerberg if he'd be "interested." He demurred, saying that he was sure plenty of people would want to date Bumpus, who's also Oprah's goddaughter.

What Zuckerberg was too polite to say on air: Last we heard, he was already taken.

What would have happened had Rachel Marsden was left with more than just a few articles of clothing after those steamy days with Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales? Nothing good.

I have to admit, out of all the babies, Marissa Mayer and Zack Bogue's faux-offspring is the least horrifically ugly.

"IT Girl" Julia Allison is ostensibly dating Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman. But with that lack of resemblance, could Allison be covering for another lover?

Because Forman and Tumblr founder David Karp are very, very close. Looks like Allison is just the beard and Karp is the Forman baby's daddy.

One date per week, a minimum of a hundred minutes of alone time, not in his apartment and definitely not at Facebook.

Chan recently squired Zuckerberg to his sister Randi's wedding. No word on who caught the bouquet, and Facebook insiders are mum about the couple's prospects of an engagement. Come to think of that, perhaps that's a good thing. If dating was this tough, can you imagine working out the prenup?

Twizzlers, of course.

In November 2005, Zuckerberg told Harvard he was leaving. But before he left for good, Zuckerberg approached some of his computer science professors and asked them to recommend students who might be a good fit to work at Facebook. The Harvard Crimson caught wind of the story and reported on some of the interviews.

The media has since picked up on tidbits from the story, including Zuckerberg's controversial, now disavowed preference that all Facebook developers should be in college or just out. "The job lends itself to people with raw intelligence rather than industry experience," Zuckerberg said. "And if you're coming out of college, you have a really good idea of what Facebook is."

But we all missed the sweetest part, casually thrown in at the end of the Crimson's story.

"Hey Priscilla, do you want a job at the facebook?" Zuckerberg asked a passing friend. "I'd love a job at facebook," Priscilla Chan '07 responded, offering him a Twizzler.

How was I able to obtain this photo, which was found in a private album on Mark Zuckerberg's profile? A tipster sent it to me, and provided me the Web address where he found it. But here's where it gets interesting. Unlike LiveJournal, which allows users to restrict not just blog posts but pictures to specific groups of friends, Facebook provides no real security around its pictures. With the right URL, anyone can see any photo on the site, "private" or not.

So here's a question for Facebook's executives: Is your time better spent bullying reporters, or getting your programmers to fix the site's glaring privacy holes?

Certainly, you can threaten to revoke reporters' Facebook accounts, but they'll simply get material sent to them by tipsters with active accounts. In fact, bullying the press is a sure way to make sure that we get a steady stream of material from sympathetic sources. Correcting Facebook's flaws, on the other hand, would improve all of your users' security and privacy.

The answer is obvious. But Facebook has failed to see the obvious before. How they handle themselves in this latest controversy will be telling.