Last week Facebook ordered a restraining order on three spammers Sanford Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw for collecting user names and passwords and then logging on to their account and posting some shady content. These men broke the law by violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse act, the California Anti-Phishing Act and the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM). If any of these three men are ever caught using Facebook they could face some serious jail time.

Today a court in San Jose Calif. awarded Facebook a grand total of $711 million in a case against hacker and spammer Sanford Wallace. This man accessed many peoples accounts and sent wall posts and messages. The judge then refereed Wallace to the U.S. Attorney’s office where he will be prosecuted with criminal and federal crimes which could land him in jail.

This isn’t the first time that Facebook has gone to court regarding spam. In November Facebook won a settlement for $873 million made against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital for sending unwanted messages to users of Facebook. Facebook says “we’re hopeful that this kind of persistent pressure will act as a deterrent against those attempting to trick and annoy people on Facebook”

Today Facebook rolled announced its new front page design. This design will feature real time updates, which according to Facebook will hopefully “Put them ahead of twitter”

The old system that they used for updates used to take hours to update on all of your friends homepages. But now with the new system (which I am assuming is Ajax based) the updates will appear instantly.

Personally, I don’t need to get my friends status updates instantly. Well, actually at the moment with all the photo tagging and comments I get updates and notifications plenty fast.

Do you realy think that this new system is realy nescicary?