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Wave Your Paws to a Techno-Kitten Beat, Lolcat-Style

If flying around as a kitten with a jetpack, a “butterfly” kitten, or even a kitten wrapped with bacon as techno music plays is your idea of a good time, then Techno Kitten Adventure is the app you’ve been waiting for. This music game mashes the popular lolcats internet meme with techno music, creating one…

Tech News Paris Hill - Evolver.fm Feb 17

This Guy Is In Jail For Using Facebook to Skip Jury Duty

If you are a juror and you try to use Facebook to contact a defendant, you will get be dismissed. And if you’re an imbecile like the guy in this photo, then you will get in jail. He is 29-year-old Jacob Jock and he has been sentenced to three days in jail by Circuit Judge…

Social Media Jesus Diaz Feb 17

How 17 High School Students’ Facebook Pictures Ended Up on a Child Porn Site

And this is why you don’t share your Facebook photos publicly. Unless of course you want them to turn up on the Internet’s seedy underbelly. Seventeen high school girls—some as young as 14 years—from the Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical School in Massachusetts have reportedly had their Facebook profile pictures and other personal information—including names,…

Social Media Andrew Tarantola Feb 16

Facebook Debuts Verified Accounts for Social Celebrities

Finding and following your favorite celebrity on Facebook is about to get easier. The social network has announced that it will allow public figures to verify their accounts and display their stage names as Facebook attempts to beat Twitter at its own game. People like Stefani Germanotta aka Lady Gaga will be able to submit…

Social Media Andrew Tarantola Feb 16

Update: How (Not) to Find a Last-Minute Valentine Using Social Media

I seem to have struck out. After 2+ hours, my quest to find a last-minute Valentine using social media has come up dry. There’s reason for you to be hopeful on your own search, though. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-place-to-get-a-last-minute-internet-valentines-5884771 For one, it’s not exactly romantic to include terms and conditions of your proposition. And for another, I probably…

Social Media Kyle Wagner Feb 14

How an Agoraphobic Visited Her Facebook Friends to Conquer Her Fears

In 2011, agoraphobic ArLynn Presser made a New Year’s resolution. To combat her anxiety disorder, she vowed to visit all 335 of her Facebook friends, across 51 cities in 13 countries, in just one year. The resulting journey, now dubbed the Face to Facebook project has been captured on film by Benjamin Gonzales, and is…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe Feb 14

A Lot of People Thought Oprah Was Whitney Houston on Facebook

Whitney Houston, the diva of divas, passed away yesterday at the too young age of 48. It’s a depressing end to her story of galaxy bending talent, sun magnifying limelight and cursed frailty. Anyone who has ever heard Whitney in her prime will always remember the singular power of her voice. I mean, we all…

Social Media Casey Chan Feb 12

Facebook Already Knows What You’ll Be Listening to the Next Time You Get Dumped

Facebook knows when you’ve met someone and it knows when you break up. We tell Facebook these things. For some, a relationship doesn’t officially start until it’s reflected in the Relationship field on Facebook, and it’s not really over until Facebook says it is. The data team at Facebook can see this data for hundreds…

Social Media Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Feb 10

The 19th Century Version of Facebook

Looks like Mr. Zuckerberg has some explaining to do—he clearly stole the entire idea for Facebook from this 19th century girl’s “friend urn”—or, if you will, Vasebook. The eBay seller says the vase is likely “a graduation present for the young lady in the center.” Yeah, you see her? That’s her profile picture, with a…

Social Media Sam Biddle Feb 10

Facebook Is Killing Friendships and Causing Fist Fights

We usually think of Facebook as a place to either keep in touch with real friends or cryogenically freeze old and artificial ones that wouldn’t otherwise exist. But a new Pew study says FB can actually end relationships, too. Naturally! According to the study, “The tone of life on social networking sites,” 15 percent of…

Social Media Sam Biddle Feb 9

Dad Shoots Daughter’s Laptop With .45 Because of Facebook Post

So this happened. It’s a father reacting to a post his daughter made on Facebook. He wasn’t happy. You can skip ahead to 7 minutes for the big reveal. I’m not convinced this is real, but it’s an interesting look at modern parenting. The link to a Facebook page that appears at the beginning of…

Social Media Mat Honan Feb 9

Mark Zuckerberg Buys Control of Facebook Shareholders, $100 a Time

Now Facebook’s IPO is filed, soon anybody will be able to buy a piece of a Facebook. But going public won’t stop Zuckerberg having control — especially given that he buys out the voting rights of current shareholders, $100 at a time. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-files-for-5-billion-ipo-fb-should-trade-this-5881424 According to the New York TImes, Zuckerberg owns 28.4 per cent of…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe Feb 9

Two People Are Dead Because They Unfriended This Man’s Adult Daughter on Facebook

A Tennessee man, Marvin Potter (on the right), is in police custody tonight, charged with two counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on the popular social site. The murderous spat began when Billy Payne Jr. and his girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth, unfriended Potter’s…

Social Media Andrew Tarantola Feb 8

How a Single Student Is Transforming Facebook’s Privacy Policy in Europe

To most people that know him, Max Schrems is a typical law student from Austria. To Facebook, he is a massive pain in the ass. Outsmarting their attorneys, bombarding them with legal complaints and forming activist groups, he plans to transform Facebook’s privacy policy in Europe. https://gizmodo.com/sharing-with-friends-of-friends-on-facebook-exposes-y-5882027 https://gizmodo.com/government-forcing-facebook-to-not-suck-at-privacy-5858460 While Schrems was a visiting student at…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe Feb 8

Study: We Love Facebook Because It Tricks Us Into Thinking We’re Doing Something Important

When you’re perusing your Facebook account, your brain might be fooling you into thinking you’re doing something incredibly creative and productive that will improve your life. If only that were true! Scientists in Milan and at M.I.T. examined the various physiological states of 30 people using Facebook compared to when they were relaxing looking at…

Social Media Kristen Philipkoski Feb 7

Facebook’s (Huge) New Photo Viewer Is Its Best Ever

Facebook is the place we look at photos online. And for years, those photos have been constrained to tiny boxes and ugly, low-resolution uploads. No more! Facebook’s new picture browser is here: your life is now giant and pretty. The new format also takes comments and tags and swings them over to the righthand side…

Social Media Sam Biddle Feb 7

7th Grade Idiots on Facebook: The Play

Theater has entertained man since the days of marble columns and poisoned philosophers. But what if the art were inspired not by medieval betrayal or star-crossed lovers, but by annoying middle school kids? Behold: Facebook tweens, a dramatic reenactment. The video, by funniness group The Navy Seals of Comedy, is wonderfully inspired. If you try…

Social Media Sam Biddle Feb 7

How to Hack Your Facebook Profile Photo with Timeline

We love Timeline for Facebook. Maybe you don’t. Doesn’t really matter since Facebook is forcing everyone to switch. So what to do? We say have some fun with it! Since Timeline adds a big, splashy picture to your profile page, you can easily hack that big picture with your original profile picture to give your…

Social Media Casey Chan Feb 6

Your Deleted Facebook Photos Still Aren’t Really Deleted

Three years ago, Ars Technica discovered that when you “deleted” your photos, they were still kept on Facebook’s servers, and anyone with a static URL could still access it. Three years later, Ars Technica revisited the matter and found little has changed. But Facebook says that things will be different…eventually. Ars Technica’s Jacqui Cheng got…

Social Media Adrian Covert Feb 6

A Congressman Thinks The Onion Is a Real News Source

John Fleming, a Republican US representative from Louisiana, made a dimwitted mistake on his Facebook page last week. Hell, it might be even more embarrassing than naked pics! Here’s what happened: Fleming missed the obvious humor of a satirical piece by The Onion and posted the fake piece to his Facebook followers as a real…

Social Media Casey Chan Feb 6

Wave Your Paws to a Techno-Kitten Beat, Lolcat-Style

This Guy Is In Jail For Using Facebook to Skip Jury Duty

How 17 High School Students’ Facebook Pictures Ended Up on a Child Porn Site

Facebook Debuts Verified Accounts for Social Celebrities

Update: How (Not) to Find a Last-Minute Valentine Using Social Media

How an Agoraphobic Visited Her Facebook Friends to Conquer Her Fears

A Lot of People Thought Oprah Was Whitney Houston on Facebook

Facebook Already Knows What You’ll Be Listening to the Next Time You Get Dumped

The 19th Century Version of Facebook

Facebook Is Killing Friendships and Causing Fist Fights

Dad Shoots Daughter’s Laptop With .45 Because of Facebook Post

Mark Zuckerberg Buys Control of Facebook Shareholders, $100 a Time

Two People Are Dead Because They Unfriended This Man’s Adult Daughter on Facebook

How a Single Student Is Transforming Facebook’s Privacy Policy in Europe

Study: We Love Facebook Because It Tricks Us Into Thinking We’re Doing Something Important

Facebook’s (Huge) New Photo Viewer Is Its Best Ever

7th Grade Idiots on Facebook: The Play

How to Hack Your Facebook Profile Photo with Timeline

Your Deleted Facebook Photos Still Aren’t Really Deleted

A Congressman Thinks The Onion Is a Real News Source

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