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10% of Facebook’s users are not human – including Mark Zuckerberg’s dog Beast who has 1.5 MILLION followers

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Van Gogh , the cat has a Facebook page 10% of Facebook’s users are not human – including Mark Zuckerberg’s dog Beast who has 1.5 MILLION followers Facebook currently has more than one billion ‘monthly active users’ At least 100 million of these users are pets, brands and companies Biggest growth [...]
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Snapchat Stores “Deleted” Photos In Phones’ Data: Forensic Experts

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Snapchat Stores “Deleted” Photos In Phones’ Data: Forensic Experts Data engineers can retrieve images simply by removing a file extension. By: Addy Dugdale Snapchat, that clever app that allows friends to send photos that automatically disappear after several seconds, may not be disposing of the [...]
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Can Facebook lead to psychosis? One study says so

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Can Facebook lead to psychosis? One study says so Researchers at the University of Tel Aviv say social networking can have seriously deleterious effects on the psyche. Sometimes, normal humans take a liking to clinical terms and adopt them. You go out on a date, and when your friends ask how it [...]
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Friendships cut short on social media as people get ruder: survey

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Friendships cut short on social media as people get ruder: survey By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON | Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:35pm EDT (Reuters) – Rudeness and throwing insults are cutting online friendships short with a survey on Wednesday showing people are getting ruder on social media and two in five [...]
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Ridgewood officials hope lessons learned from social media incident

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Ridgewood officials hope lessons learned from social media incident Thursday March 21, 2013, 4:33 PM BY  LAURA HERZOG STAFF WRITER The Ridgewood News As the investigation into the online posting of nude photos of Ridgewood High School (RHS) students continues, Ridgewood police said they are still [...]
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While “scary text messages are a concern , readers have more of a problem with 9 year olds having IPhones

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While “scary text messages are a concern , readers have more of a problem with 9 year olds having IPhones Correct me if I am wrong – In order to receive a text message one has to have a mobile phone, right? Since when do fourth and fifth graders have cell phones? Its lala land here. not only do [...]
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SnapChat photo app in Ridgewood nude photos case not making money, yet

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SnapChat photo app in Ridgewood nude photos case not making money, yet Last updated: Saturday March 16, 2013, 10:29 AM BY  MARY DIDUCH STAFF WRITER The Record Snapchat, a free smart-phone application that sends photos that disappear 10 seconds after they are opened, is gaining followers and [...]
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Facebook reveals secrets you haven’t shared

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Facebook reveals secrets you haven’t shared By Bede McCarthy and Robert Cookson The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study. Such programmes can discern undisclosed [...]
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Pew Research Center : Twitter lies

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Pew Research Center : Twitter lies March 5, 2013 | 7:28 am A remarkable year-long study by the Pew Research Center finds that what’s trending on Twitter, often used by national reporters to gauge immediate public opinion of news events like President Obama’s election, exaggerates to the point of [...]
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It is official: Even Facebook admits that teens are tiring of the social network as they turn to newer ‘cooler’ apps such as Snapchat

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It is official: Even Facebook admits that teens are tiring of the social network as they turn to newer ‘cooler’ apps such as Snapchat By James Nye Facebook has made the startling admission that teenagers are becoming bored with the social networking giant. Facing competition from younger, more [...]
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Hacker Anonymous has twitter account hacked

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Hacker Anonymous has twitter account hacked February 26, 2013 the staff of the Ridgewood blog Ridgewood NJ, The hacking group Anonymous got a taste of its own medicine, when its Twitter account was hacked by little-known group called Rustle League. Anonymous’ Twitter account was down for around [...]
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Twitter says hackers compromise 250K accounts

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Twitter says hackers compromise 250K accounts By TERRY COLLINS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO The social media giant Twitter acknowledged that it has become the latest victim in a number of cyber-attacks against media companies, saying hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of [...]
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Is Facebook envy making you miserable?

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Is Facebook envy making you miserable? By Belinda Goldsmith updated 1/22/2013 10:48:20 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) – Witnessing friends’ vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers. A study conducted [...]
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Online postings troublesome for teachers, staffers

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Online postings troublesome for teachers, staffers Jan 20, 2013 1:11pm WOODLAND PARK, N.J. (AP) — Teachers and other school employees across the country are discovering — often the hard way — that they can get into hot water for what they say and post on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, even when [...]
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Catmoji: Cool cats now have their own online social network

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Van Gogh Catmoji: Cool cats now have their own online social network Published on Monday January 07, 2013 Lesley Ciarula Taylor Staff Reporter Social networking for cats has arrived. Two tech geeks with a fondness for felines and an eye for niche marketing have created Catmoji,( [...]
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Why Online Privacy Is a Big Oxymoron

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Why Online Privacy Is a Big Oxymoron By Javier E. David, Special to CNBC.com Memo to social networking junkies: In the digital age, there’s no such thing as online privacy – especially if you’re not paying to remain anonymous to advertisers or other users. Instagramand Foursquare recently revamped [...]
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The Tyranny Of Stupid Popular Things

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  It’s Not OK To Be Shitty: Guy Fieri, BuzzFeed, And The Tyranny Of Stupid Popular Things Will Leitch Will Leitch, contributing editor at New York Magazine, “media” columnist for Sports on Earth, and editor emeritus of Deadspin, is filling in for Drew Magary on today’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick [...]
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