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Deals site Eversave spoke to nearly 400 women about their feelings about their Facebook friends (men were inexplicably excluded) and found that out of the set of friends participants have, women were often judgmental or viewed their ...
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A new study published in the medical journal Pediatrics examines the psychological effects of Facebook on teens prone to depression, and the mixed findings report slight dangers for certain kids.
Researchers admit that the kids who seem to ...
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Don't try to deny it.
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Social media tools like Facebook are lauded for, among other things, making contact with diverse groups of people in your life streamlined and easily accessible, an utterly simplified way to express shared joy at a new baby ...
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Facebook ads are a constant source of humor and confusion for users, if my friends list is anything to go by.
Facebook users seem to be baffled and often insulted by the suggestions that pop up in the ...
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Supertooth wants you to rethink the notion that visor clip-on bluetooth speaker phones should be left in 2008...2005? To make their point the company is pushing out three times more power than a standard clip-on option, while ...
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"It’s like permanently showing off vacation photos with everyone you work with, “You see this? I’m jumping off a giant rock into a gorgeous hidden bay in Oregon. Oh you were here working and eating ramen noodles ...
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Before I get into this I need to make a bit of a disclaimer. I am not a Facebook fan. I have a Facebook account, a fan page (or whatever they are calling it these days) for ...
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If they like, wanted to be accurate or something.
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A fifteen-year-old boy in St. Paul, Minnesota used Facebook cleverly to summon police for his mother surreptitiously without making a noisy phone call.
The teen's mom explains how a 2 AM status update during a violent domestic incident ...
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Today in puzzling Facebook changes sweeping the nation is across-the-board removal of the "Comment" button, which has been replaced with the "enter" key.
If you get email notification for Facebook comments, you might notice an increased amount of ...
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Self-appointed 'core' gamers might point and scoff from their high horses at Facebook gaming, but hey, publishers of 'core' game franchises plainly see social network gaming as a big chunk of their future.
Take Epic Games. Speaking to ...
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On Tuesday Facebook users had the option to stream a full Dodgers vs. Rangers game from their Facebook account. The game, seen in the screenshot above is a pre-season matchup and users couldn't increase the games display ...
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Social media movements are again being discussed as possible pivotal evidence in a high-profile murder case, this time with a defense lawyer claiming Twitter updates prove his client's self-defense claim.
18-year-old Shanterrica Madden stands accused of the murder ...
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Ever wondered if adding a whole bunch of likes to your Facebook profile would apply in some way in real life?
A new app launching today for iPhone and Android aims to use your Facebook likes to assist ...
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In the general run of the mill business world trademarks make sense but when it comes to the web company world it seems like no-one has any sense at all.
According to the Fusible blog Zynga has decided ...
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A family in England was able to get their child diagnosed and treated for a serious illness after the kid's dad posted a picture of the boy's rash on Facebook.
Four-year-old Ted Rice's dad, 34-year-old Philip, said he ...
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Although it's kind of like blaming cars for transporting people to affairs more easily, Facebook has again been named as a factor in one out of five divorces in the United States.
We first posted about this particular ...
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It seems your Facebook profile represents an idealized version of you to you, one that has the effect of boosting self-esteem when you review it.
A recent study at Cornell University divided 63 students into three groups. All ...
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Bullying is a childish activity that can have all kinds of bad effects on the people being bullied. Nowhere does this have a detrimental effect than when it comes to our children. Trying to navigate that path ...
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A new Facebook group is calling on consumers to boycott Nintendo's 3DS handheld console because it fuels human rights abuses in the Congo.
The 3DS is due to hit North America on March 27th, but group creator Ben ...
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Remember the good old days of the Facebook Share button (still used on some sites), where you would push the button and rather than one little line saying "so and so likes Inquisitr" you would ...
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