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The anatomy of a 4chan hoax
When the 4chan imageboard community helped make #cutforbieber a trending topic on Twitter and the subject of more than a half dozen news stories Monday, the world collectively gasped at the thought of...
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Are DDoS attacks an effective form of protest?
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have gained a new prominence in the last several years, due in large part to the actions of the collective hacking activist group, Anonymous, who have...
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Visiting the ruins of Mayan apocalypse fansites
Now that we're more than a week into 2013, it feels safe to say the world did not end in December 2012. Planet Earth and human civilization aren't the only things that stubbornly refused to end last...
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Paying tribute to the troops—1 photo at a time
They post the message on billboards, Santa caps, placards, and hand-painted signs. They write it in football eye black, in floral wreaths, in legos and crayons. They get their children to pose, drape...
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8-year-old Facebook whiz reunites long-lost siblings
Two long-lost siblings from America's heartland were reunited after 65 years apart this week thanks to a quick-witted 8-year-old and his ability to run a Facebook search. Clifford Boyson had spent the...
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Lost camera card returned after global Facebook campaign
After racking up more than 30,500 shares on Facebook, a picture of a couple from a lost camera memory card has been identified. South Australian resident Susan Templer spearheaded a Facebook campaign...
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Sammy Sosa's sweater should be in Pinterest's hall of fame
Baseball slugger Sammy Sosa may have struck out with MLB Hall of Fame (HOF) voters Wednesday, but he's still hitting home runs on Pinterest. Sosa's hilariously bad Pinterest page, which has about 250...
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Facebook app tries to help you figure out who gave you the flu
It turns out it's a good week to be my friend. I mean, I sort of feel that way every week. But apparently this week, it's particularly good to be a buddy of mine. Despite being in the midst of the...
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"Classes are pointless" quarterback turns new leaf on Twitter
The Ohio State University quarterback who notoriously claimed on Twitter that "classes are POINTLESS" and that he “we ain’t come to play SCHOOL” has apparently turned a new leaf. In a drastic...
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Rosario Dawson accidentally tweets address to 360,000 fans
Who needs open-top bus tours around Los Angeles to see the stars' homes when they tweet their addresses instead? Actor Rosario Dawson accidentally tweeted her apparent home address to more than...
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Redditors share disturbing, haunting, real-life horror stories
When link5688 asked r/askreddit subscribers to share real-life horror stories, an array of powerful and haunting responses resulted. "Either embarrassing or actually horrifying" shares were welcome....
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Graphing Facebook's biggest trends of 2012
In 2012, chances are that you invested yourself in the 2012 Presidential Election, visited Times Square, and watched a lot of Duck Dynasty—and that you shared this with your Facebook friends. These...
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Fight hunger and gain a celebrity Twitter follower for just $10
How many celebrities follow you on Twitter? For $10, that number can increase by one, with the money going to a worthy cause.Joshua Malina, who starred in the Aaron Sorkin series The West Wing and...
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LGBT organization fights YouTube over video takedown
An LGBT rights organization in North Carolina is incensed after learning that YouTube will not restore a video the organization believes does nothing to violate any of the video sharing site's Terms...
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U.K. feminists stir up Twitter row over transphobic comments
On Tuesday of last week, left-wing British columnist Suzanne Moore wrote an article in the New Statesman that has sparked debate about transphobia in the feminist press, inspired an uprising of...
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Wikipedia is becoming less politically biased, study finds
The naked partisanship of cable news outlets and the vitriolic rhetoric from Washington, D.C. make it seem as if America's political divide is constantly growing. But there is one place where common...
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Adam Lambert takes on bullying on Twitter
There might not be a better person to speak out against bullying than openly gay singer Adam Lambert.On Friday, the season eight American Idol runner-up took to his Twitter account and said bullying...
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Same-name couple who met on Facebook divorcing after 3 years
Kelly Hildebrandt and Kelly Hildebrandt have divorced. The couple who met on Facebook because they had the same name are ending their three-year marriage. They made headlines in 2009 for marrying...
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Did an 11-year-old really create his own social network?
A year from now, Grom Social will no doubt look back at January 2013 as the month it made a big splash. The site, which bills itself as "social networking for the youth," has been favorably covered by...
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Social media helps mobilize Aboriginal protests in Canada
Social media is giving voice to those in some of North America's most remote corners as part of the ongoing Idle No More protest. Since November, Aboriginal peoples of Canada have been protesting...
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