A popular street artist who's rubbed elbows with Anthony Bourdain and graffitied the walls of Facebook's headquarters used his sex-talk podcast last month to describe a forceful sexual encounter with his massage therapist that sounded an awful lot like assault.
No need to be weirded out by video conference meetings, Skype or FaceTime anymore guys, there’s a robot for that. The Socibot will translate the faces you’d make in person, just, you know, on a robot.
Everyone loves to complain about the great late-20s baby boom and the Facebook takeover that follows. But it turns out that the great infant plague is maybe, just a little bit, all in your head.
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I was chatting on Facebook today with a couple of friends, and one said "Can I vent for a sec?" Naturally, we accepted her request because it's Monday, and everyone feels bitchy on Monday.
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A pair of new studies out this week indicate that Facebook makes people feel terrible about themselves and too much Twitter can lead to breakups. Is the internet a series of tubes that does nothing but suck all of the joy out of people's lives? Probably.
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Starbucks wants a Louisiana teacher to know they are very, very sorry that a barista drew a pentagram and a "666" in the foam of two coffee beverages. Satanic lattes? Satattes!
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Yesterday, Facebook bought a virtual reality company called Oculus VR. Shortly afterward, the internet exploded.
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The beautiful thing about the Internet is its limitless ability to bring people together. Like, for instance, anarchist cat lovers.
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Feeling a little cranky this morning? Well, your Facebook friends and Twitter feed probably aren't helping.
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Well, this is disgusting: Reddit has a subreddit called r/FacebookCleavage, dedicated entirely to sharing "sexy pictures" of members' "hot Facebook friends." Currently, it has 16,655 subscribers.
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In a delightfully bizarre local story, Santa Cruz City Council candidate Tim Goncharoff has gotten a lot of encouragement on Facebook from his female constituents when he was a Santa Cruz County resource planner. Too bad they're fake.
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Guess what ladies? We've taken over the social web. The average American spends thirty-seven minutes each day on social media, and over half of those people have vaginas. We also share more news bits than men. We're number one!
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Is your Facebook NewsFeed cluttered with outraged links to disgusting websites peddling sexist, racist nonsense? Time for a little spring cleaning, ladies!
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With all of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s talk about leaning in, few are talking about the mental cost of climbing the corporate ladder while balancing family life and, you know, sanity. But Georgetown Law professor Rosa Brooks is all about work-life balance because she did lean in and it was bullshit.
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Anyone who's ever been a #teen surely remembers those days of door-slamming and loudly asserted rights to privacy. But social media has opened up a whole new front in the endless adolescent war for space to brood. Cue the flourishing of anonymous messaging apps!
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Valentine's Day is over and while everyone is done rushing to Jared at the last minute to pick up a chocolate diamond and a marshmallow rose (I got a marshmallow rose yesterday; I was not amused), for some people Valentine's day can be a reminder that one may want to try to find love, or at least a person to pay for…
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Facebook is ten years old, and at this point, it's practically a Christmas party at the local VFW hall—it's heavy on the grandparents and most kids know to be on their best behavior. Meanwhile, new sites and services are springing up like mushrooms after a rainstorm.
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Great news: Facebook, the public cyber-mask most people put on when interacting with the world, will no longer require its users to adhere to a gender binary. Today the company has unveiled a customizable gender option with over fifty different terms, as well as three different preferred pronoun choices: him, her or…
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A breast cancer survivor in Australia is making headlines after she stripped down on Facebook to show just how the disease impacts a woman's body.
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American Apparel CEO Dov Charney, aka the guy pictured in the wikipedia's definition of "sleazy," recently said that he’s not so into the one thing that makes his company redeemable — the practice of making his clothes in America. For the most part, sans that immigration scandal.
