The other week, I got a random Facebook friend request from a suspiciously modelesque shirtless dude who sent me a message that read "I wish to accept friendship." We had no friends in common. My coworker Dodai got a similar request with the same message but from a totally different person. Were we among the chosen few…
Facebook has taken some flak recently for removing photos of women breastfeeding and gay people kissing (it says these were mistakes), but now it's using its passion for weeding out offensive photos for good. Today Facebook announced it's the first site to start using a new technology that can search through databases …
The latest battle on the teens-and-Facebook front concerns advertising: parents are mad that just "liking" something essentially turns their kids into advertisements for it. They're asking if this is even legal. Turns out, nobody knows.
Lawyers are now using Facebook to weed out potentially problematic jurors. UFO enthusiasts, amateur sexperts, and keg-standing college students, you'll never have to do jury duty again!
It appears Christopher Hitchens has finally seen Clueless, because he's come up with a decades-too-late analysis — and mild condemnation — of the word "like."
According to a recent poll, "whatever" is the most annoying word in America. Runner-up words and phrases included "anyway" and "it is what it is" — but the Jezebel staff have our own unfavorites.
