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How Super Bowl fans used Vine
Twitter's new video-sharing app Vine had its first real test this weekend, as the Super Bowl hit just 10 days after the service was unleashed. Fans shared videos from within the stadium and elsewhere...
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OB-GYN under fire for mocking patients on Facebook
So much for doctor-patient confidentiality. Dr. Amy Dunbar, an OB/GYN at a St. Louis hospital, is facing calls to be fired after she posted disparaging comments about a patient on her Facebook account...
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Facebook debate rages as Boy Scouts rethink anti-gay stance
With the announcement that the Boy Scouts of America might repeal their controversial ban on gay members, the organization’s Facebook page has become ground zero for a heated debate on the policy. A...
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Sci-fi author's "racist dips**t problem" prompts charity pledge
Every time fantasy author Vox Day insults John Scalzi on his blog, hundreds of dollars are donated to human rights charities such as the NAACP and RAINN. Scalzi, who is almost as well-known for his...
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Activist behind 49ers' "It Gets Better" video slams team
Sean Chapin convinced the San Francisco 49ers become the first NFL team to produce an "It Gets Better" video. Now he's demanding to know why two players denied taking part. Chapin, a San...
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Bang With Professionals: How LinkedIn can get you laid
Welcome to the only online hookup network that won't let you lie about your job.Bang with Professionals, the first website to actually use the business-oriented social network LinkedIn as a facility...
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eBay could drastically reduce bike theft with this simple policy
As any urban cyclist will tell you, bike thieves are bad, bad people, on par with puppy-kickers and those who want to make the elderly cry. But a groups of Brits with an online petition at Change.org...
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Brony documentary blasted for sexism
What do you get when fans decide to make a documentary about their own fandom? In the case of the Bronies—fans of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic—the answer seems to be erasure and exclusion. So...
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"No tweets are publishable": Useless disclaimer goes viral
You can’t guarantee what will become an Internet meme and what won’t, but if you want to become Internet-infamous, combining cluelessness with hypocrisy with the Streisand Effect will greatly increase...
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Activision gets violent North Korean propaganda pulled from YouTube
YouTube has removed a controversial North Korean propaganda video after a videogame publisher in California filed a copyright claim that the clip had used some of its material. The video, which...
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Here's the Instagram rant Chris Brown doesn't want you to see
Update: One of Chris Brown's representatives told GossipCop that the Instagram post was fabricated and that the singer is not currently on the photo sharing social network. The Internet's favorite...
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New Tumblr showcases Instagram's most desperate pickup lines
In the 2005 hit "My Humps," noted anatomists the Black Eyed Peas coo earnestly about the hypnotizing effects of a lady's trunk. "I'ma … get you love-drunk off my hump," preaches Fergie. Eight years...
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Weird Wednesday: The creepiest pickup-artist lines on the Web
There are few Internet subcultures ickier than pickup artistry (PUA), the science of targeting women for casual sex using a combination of manipulation, ridicule, and magic tricks, then bragging about...
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Please stop sharing this idiotic Facebook shut-down hoax
.teaser img { display: none; } Are you French? Do you have Facebook? Have you been sharing posts that say the social network is shutting down for maintenance from Feb. 29 to Feb. 31? Please stop....
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Dad pays daughter $200 to quit Facebook
.teaser img { display: none; } How much money would it take for you to finally kick your Facebook addiction? For one teenager, that threshold is $200. Rachel Baier, a 14-year-old high school student...
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Woman loses 44 pounds to become "Taiwan's cutest cosplayer"
For many people trying to lose weight, it's all about trying to fit into those pants that are just a few sizes too small. For Rolan Ajo of Taiwan, the inspiration was a Lum Invader-inspired pair of...
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Yale students somehow find non-sexy uses for Snapchat
The Ivy League has a reputation for being on the cutting edge of social media. Harvard was, of course, the home of Mark Zuckerberg and the birthplace of Facebook. Now Yale students are setting the...
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Stop Bullying's "CEO" is a con man, but Facebook doesn't care
Benjamin Byerline is not a gifted con man. In April 2012, the Fort Wayne, Indiana, resident, who runs a lawn business ("home of the $27 gutter clean outs," says his LinkedIn), posted a swing set for...
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Man gets 7 years for ruining ex-girlfriend's life online
A Massachusetts man was sentenced to seven years in prison after spending the better part of the past year tormenting his ex-girlfriend online, according to a WLJA report. Boston native Bruce Stimon,...
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High school beatdown video gets teenage bully arrested
Here's one advantage of technology's iron-fisted grasp on teenagers: When bullies bully, someone might whip out a smartphone and film them, then upload the video to Facebook. The result? Bullies in...
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