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When a celebrity dies, social media blows up and follows an amazingly consistent pattern.  Keep in mind, I have done some of these myself. I think most of us have at some point or another: More »
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When this father discovered his daughter's bratty rant about him on Facebook, he decided to make a rant of his own. The only difference is his (which he thankfully decided to videotape) ended with him shooting a round of hollow-point bullets into his entitled kid's laptop to ensure that she doesn't do it again. Texas forever. More »
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"I get pretty girls all the time and you've never kissed anyone ever so you shut up." This is modern Shakespeare. More »
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Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and soon to be one of the richest self-made women in the world, has a message for all those women struggling up the corporate ladder that she echoed at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week: take responsibility for your careers and stop blaming men for holding you back. Sandberg has become something of a lightning rod for women in business who are searching for a powerful role model, and though many businesswomen appreciate her call for them to "keep your foot on the gas pedal" during their careers, some have criticized Sandberg for failing to acknowledge that her path to success was paved just as much with hard work and ingenuity as it was with powerful mentors and just the right amount of good fortune that positions someone to reap a $1.6 billion windfall when a once-in-a-generation company files a $5 billion IPO. More »
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There's been a lot of excitement surrounding Facebook's IPO filing this week, but here's a little Facebook news that's not as exciting: There are zero women on its board of directors. In fact, it's all rich white guys—not terribly representative of the wide open world Facebook claims to represent. More »
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It's tempting to think of Facebook as a place you go to feel good about yourself. After all, you're surrounded by friends, people "like" what you say, and it makes you feel like you're socializing, even though you're alone in your apartment not wearing any pants. But a new study has found that actually Facebook brings out the worst in people with low self-esteem. More »
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From the perspective of most people over the age of 21, the way teenagers use technology seems like some unsolvable puzzle from the future. Predictions about which products they'll flock to inevitably turn out to be wrong, and that certainly seems to be true in the case of Twitter. More »
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Hate-reading is an activity that's, well, exactly what it says it is. Have you ever found yourself visiting a website, Twitter feed, or Facebook page for the express purpose of ridiculing — or indulging your disdain for —the author and/or content? Then you're hate-reading. And unless you're a saint with limited Internet access, you're probably guilty of doing it at some point. More »
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Based on the specious data collected from a new Stanford University study, researchers have determined that girls between the ages of 8 and 12 who spend "considerable" time using social media are likely to be "less happy" than their unplugged peers.   More »
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Here's a heartwarming story to get you through your day. ArLynn Presser is a 51 year-old romance writer and mother of two who has suffered from debilitating agoraphobia for nearly three decades. On December 31, 2010, ArLynn resolved to begin proactively managing her disorder by hitting the road to meet all of her 325 Facebook friends for the very first time. One year later and she has met 292 of them. More »
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If you're worried about what will happen after you die you may want to make out a will, but that takes effort and is actually important. Instead, why not concentrate on posting a final message on your Facebook wall? The app If I Die allows you to leave a sweet farewell for loved ones or heap guilt on your enemies in a post that will be seen by everyone you know — unless of course, Facebook isn't quite as popular six decades from now. More »
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A Colorado school district is embroiled in sexy, sexy scandal after a senior girl's picture was barred from the pages of its yearbook on the grounds that it depicted the dress code being violated and was therefore too sexy. She's organized a protest, asserting that she has a right to be sexy in the yearbook. If only schools banned yearbook photos for being too hilarious in 10 years. More »
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Fifteen-year-old Amanda Cummings stepped in front of a bus two days after Christmas, suicide note in her pocket. Her family's understandably heartbroken by their loss, but they're even more heartbroken by the response Amanda's death has gotten on the internet. Online forum 4chan, notorious for targeting dead kids for some good, old fashioned, hilarious postmortem bullying, have decided that she's the current object of their impish derision, and Amanda's family doesn't understand why. More »
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Have you broken your New Year's resolution yet? More importantly, if you made a New Year's resolution (or more than one), did you share it on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, or some other form of social media? If you're like many of my friends, you've done both. But what are the costs of sharing our resolutions, our triumphs, and our setbacks with so many more people than we would have in a less-wired era? Does New Year's online inspiration help or hurt? More »
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A recent survey found that one third of married couples splitting up in the UK last year mention Facebook as a costar in their divorces. Facebook: is there anything it can't help fuck up? More »
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An activist for the Dutch women's rights organization Women on Waves posted instructions for a home abortion as her profile picture on Facebook. The social networking site then took the picture down — is this censorship, or an understandable reaction to potentially dangerous advice? More »
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Yesterday was especially unkind to Michele Bachmann. First, news broke that her Iowa campaign director, Kent Sorenson, had defected to Camp Ron Paul. Then, she lost another top staff member, her political director Wes Enos, who resigned after he had the nerve to publicly defend Sorenson against charges that he'd illegally accepted money from Ron Paul's campaign. More »
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What do you when you have more money than Christ and an appetite for fried foods? You head to Red Vietnam for a getaway replete with lavish meals, private yachts, helicopters, and goat-catching. We have Mark Zuckerberg's exclusive holiday itinerary. More »
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A new chart issued by Nielsen reveals that the reason people defriend others on Facebook is pretty much the reason the same reason they cut them off in real life — making obnoxious comments. More »
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A new study shows that celebrity endorsements may be a waste of money. Simply advertising a product on our personal Facebook pages could be enough to convince us we like it. More »
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Look, I'm no PR expert, but it can't be good for your brand to have folks writing stuff like, "I proudly admit to hating Islam" on your official Facebook page. After pulling ads from TLC's All-American Muslim, Lowe's issued a tepid apology on Facebook, which read, in part, "It appears that we managed to step into a hotly contested debate with strong views from virtually every angle and perspective – social, political and otherwise – and we've managed to make some people very unhappy. We are sincerely sorry. We have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, across our workforce and our customers, and we're proud of that longstanding commitment." More »
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Recently, some men in Brazil received friend requests from babies who shared their names, with "Jr." tacked on the end. Sounds like a creepy anti-choice tactic, but it was actually a marketing campaign for a condom company. Still pretty creepy though! More »
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Few things have greater potential to be irritating than post-wedding Facebook posts from newlyweds, but it looks like one dude has really taken things to an unprecedented level, posting an image of bloodied sheets and proudly telling the whole world that he and his new wife had just had awkward, hymen shredding sex. Mazel vom. More »
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Your favorite/least favorite social networking site is nearing a settlement with the FTC that would require Facebook to obtain the approval of individual users before making changes that expose their profiles and activities to, well, whomever they like: More »
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The generation currently entering the workforce can barely even remember the dark days before Al Gore invented the internet. These "digital natives" would — nay, will — have their phones implanted into their arms someday, and if they're forced to go more than 20 minutes without checking Facebook they may start shaking uncontrollably and begging you to "like" them. It's all terribly frightening for adults who spent their formative years playing tic-tac-toe in the dirt with a stick, but thankfully Cisco has performed a study to bridge the generational gap in the workplace. More »
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Since forever, suffering through chicken pox has been a childhood rite of passage to be suffered once and never again. Parents of children who hadn't had the virus would even go so far as to request playdates with diseased children in hopes that their child would get the damn sickness over with. Now, the internet is simplifying the process, allowing tech savvy parents to skip the whole playdate step and just focus on what counts— finding parents of children with chicken pox on Facebook and paying them to send contaminated objects to them through the mail. More »
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Age requirements are in place to protect some of society's youngest members from the ugly side of social networking and comply with federal privacy laws, but some parents don't find them necessary. A new survey shows that a surprising amount of totally awesome parents lie to make sure their precious underage snowflake can interact with all the wonderful wholesomeness that Facebook has to offer. More »
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A Chapstick ad featuring a woman's butt made some people unhappy. But when they followed Chapstick's instructions to "be heard" on Facebook, they found their comments deleted. More »
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Social networking is changing our lives in a variety of ways, and now it's entirely revolutionized how you get hot soup into a sick friend's belly. Heinz has launched a U.K.-only Facebook app that lets users send real cans of Cream of Chicken or Cream of Tomato to a friend for about $3 per can. The package features a "Get Well Soon" message and your ailing friend's name, but as it still relies on a series of humans to convey the can to your friend's doorstep, the process could take three or four days. Heinz, please alert us when you've invented a Star Trek-style replicator that can instantly put this vital medical treatment into our loved one's hands. More »
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Today's New York Times profile of Randi Zukerberg — 29-year-old older sister of Mark, the founder of Facebook — is a little odd. It appears to be about Ms. Zuckerberg starting a new business venture, R to Z Media. But this business profile is in the Fashion & Style section. Also, this business article begins with a quote from Ms. Zuckerberg: "Who wants a tequila shot?" More »
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Good news, New Yorkers! You can now use facebook to stalk not only your college boyfriend's new girlfriend who sort of creepily looks like you, but also high risk sex offenders who sort of creepily live by you. Well, the ones compliant enough to register, at least. More »
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Many have said Facebook's "poke" function is pointless, but at least it hasn't been at the center of any actual violence. Alas, the same cannot be said for the "like" function. Benito Apolinar of Texas was arrested last week and charged with battery for allegedly punching his estranged wife in the cheek over failing to "like" a post. After posting about the anniversary of his mother's death, he drunkenly confronted his wife saying, "That's amazing everyone 'likes' my status but you, you're my wife. You should be the first one to 'like' my status." He pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to appear in court in December. More »
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Thirty percent of teens and young adults have had their email, Facebook, or other online accounts hacked into or spied on. But many think of the practice as harmless. More »
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A new study shows that undergraduates' Facebook accounts may reveal whether they suffer from alcoholism. The shocking clue to problem drinking: lots of posts about getting wasted. More »
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Last week, Mark Zuckerberg held a press conference announcing Facebook's latest redesign, Timeline, but as this video proves, it wasn't the most original idea in the world. Behold: the poignant ad pitch by Don Draper in Mad Men to the makers of Kodak Carousel with the forthcoming social media changes about to be instilled upon all Facebook users. Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg isn't quite innovative as he thinks he is. More »
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We all have a friend who uploads an excessive amount of baby photos to Facebook, and one woman in Wales found a use for them. Unfortunately, it was incredibly dishonest and cruel. Victoria Jones took baby photos from her friend's Facebook page, uploaded them to her own page, and concocted an elaborate story for her ex-boyfriend about their fake child. Somehow, none of this is illegal, but now the question is whether or not Jones should lose her job for what she did. More »
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Oprah sat down with Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg yesterday, and showed her trademark balance of accessibility and all-powerful confidence. More »
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A 12-year-old girl in Northern Ireland has been uploading nude photos of herself to Facebook, and giving out personal details on the site. Though Facebook requires members to be 13 or older, her father is suing the site for negligence because he says it has no way of verifying users' ages and put his child at "risk of sexual and physical harm." More »
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Facebook is already annoying young an old alike by allowing friends to upload unflattering photos and provide updates on their virtual farming endeavors, but now the site has finally gone too far. It seems that thanks to the social networking sites, America's youth have discovered alcohol and drugs. More »
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