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On The Rebound: A Creepy Facebook App to See Which Friends to Date

Dennis Foley — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:15:07 +0000

Facebook is a great place to reconnect with old friends, stay in touch with family, or even quickly communicate with a colleague or classmate. But what if it was just one big pool of potential dates?

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Mother Banned from Mentioning Her Kids on Social Media After She Insults Son with a Dirty Word

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:11:48 +0000

A judge didn’t throw the book at one upstate New York mom as much as he threw the Facebook at her.

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How Many Facebook Friends Should One Person Have?

Angela Thomas — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:26:59 +0000

How many Facebook friends is TOO many?

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Teen Arrested After Making Facebook Threats

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:35:15 +0000

Eric Rizley of Portage, Indiana was having a bad day. So the 19-year-old got on Facebook and started issuing threats. Unfortunately for him, that was actually a very, very bad idea. Now he faces criminal charges

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30 Christmas GIFs to Post on Facebook

Emerald Catron — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:30:06 +0000

Here. Have these Christmas gifs. Consider it a gift. Or forget we made that terrible joke. Your choice. Happy Holidays!

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Is the United Nations Planning an Internet Sneak Attack?

Danny Fox — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:41:16 +0000

Do you ever wonder who runs the internet? The answer at the present time is no one and no government. But the answer could change to the United Nations by next week according the the Wall Street Journal.

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Facebook Makes You Spend More and Over-Eat — Dollars and Sense

Mike Adams — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:30:11 +0000

Facebook may be giving people a false sense of self-esteem, leading to overspending and gluttonous behavior, according to new research.

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Do You Use Facebook or Twitter?

Justin Massoud — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:49:08 +0000

Are you a Facebook fanatic or manic Tweeter?

Woman Jailed For Failing To Delete Facebook Account

Carl Pettit — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:54:02 +0000

You know it’s a bad day when a judge decides you need to spend some time behind bars because you didn’t delete your Facebook account. Is having a Facebook page now a crime? It seems that if you irk the wrong judge in the state of Kentucky, it just might be.

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Could Not Being On Facebook Cost You A Job?

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:00:50 +0000

Between falling stock prices, continued privacy concerns and an admission that a good chunk of its profiles are fake, Facebook has had a rough few months. But before you drop your Facebook account, consider this: employers may view potential hires who aren’t on the social network as suspicious.

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Facebook Just Gave You a Facebook Email Address – Here's How to Change It

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:10:22 +0000

You probably don’t check out the “about” section of your Facebook page a whole lot, being that you already know everything there is to know about yourself. But if you happened to do so today, you would have noticed something different — your listed email address has been changed to one with your Facebook profile name and then @facebook.com. Yes, Facebook gave you a Facebook email address without your permission.

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Is Facebook Ruining Marriages?

Shauna Wright — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:24:53 +0000

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently got married — but ironically, he may want to keep his new wife off the social media site he founded. A new survey shows divorce cases mentioning Facebook are on the rise.

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Should Young Children Be Allowed on Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg Says Yes

Shauna Wright — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:08:33 +0000

Facebook only allows people 13 and over to sign up for an account — but the social site’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, wants that to change.

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Mark Zuckerberg Marries Girlfriend Priscilla Chan, Updates His Facebook Status

Nick Romano — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:07:37 +0000

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan after the Facebook IPO and his 28th birthday. So, how did we find out that this lucky woman made an honest man out of one of the most talked about billionaires? We just checked out his relationship status on Facebook.

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Mark Zuckerberg (Predictably) Announces Facebook IPO With Status Update

Kathy Landin — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:52:16 +0000

As of Friday, Mark Zuckerberg is officially in a relationship with everyone. Facebook’s IPO became available Thursday with shares now being traded for about $43 a piece. And, of course, the occasion was marked with a status update by the founder himself.

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Would You Pay to Promote Your Facebook Posts? – Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Sun, 13 May 2012 19:59:51 +0000

Posting a Facebook update and making sure it gets the maximum exposure could soon be as simple as opening your wallet, if you can believe it. The social media giant is rolling out a new program that will allow its members to pay a small fee to highlight or promote their posts.

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Who Spends More — Facebook Users or Pinterest Users?

Mike Adams — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:33:42 +0000

Which social media site do you think drives more consumers to make actual purchases, Pinterest or Facebook?

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Study: Facebook Users Access Site Through Smartphones More Than Computers

Danny Gallagher — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:49:32 +0000

Some of the world’s smallest computers now make up a big part of Facebook’s traffic.

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Facebook Has A New Organ Donation Tool

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:00:15 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg wants to use Facebook to help those languishing at the tail end of organ donation lists.

So, starting today, the close to 200 million Facebook users in the United States and the United Kingdom will have the option to add that they are organ donors on their Facebook timeline.

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Who Got Rich When Facebook Bought Instagram? — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:06:23 +0000

News broke on Monday that Facebook had acquired the popular photo-sharing service Instagram for the princely sum of $1 billion in cash and stock.

It’s the biggest purchase in the history of the world’s largest social network, and it made new multimillionaires of Instagram’s chief executive and the company’s handful of employees.

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