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A "tanorexic" New Jersey mom, Ashton Kutcher's Popchips' Bollywood brown-out, hipster racism, Facebook organ donation and Instagram and Pinterest meet cute and Pinstagram is conceived. That's just some of what people are talking about online this week. 
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Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debating that today’s teens are more wired than ever.
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It's good to not have Klout score, or a very low one, or better yet, not know what the heck Klout even is. But, should you one day become obsessed with your "online influence", a new app that mocks Klout will help bring you back to earth. It's called Klouchebag and it measures how much of an asshat you are on Twitter.
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A conservative politcial group led by Karl Rove has produced an ad that implies Barack Obama is too cool to be President. It targets younger voters who supported Obama overwhlemingly in 2008 and will probably do so again in 2012. It asks the question "After four years of a celebrity president, is your life any better?" and then offers undocumented facts like "1 in 2 recent college grads are jobless or underemployed" and "85%" of said former students have had to move back in with their parents. The ad, posted on YouTube, has a less than 200,000 views.
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A University of Colorado student had her photo snapped with President Obama on Thursday and it's an Internet sensation. We predict as social media goes, so goes the 2012 election. Obama in a landslide.
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Do you start your day checking your Facebook account, email or text messages? Before you even get a splash to your face, do you find yourself answering to tweets? Do you consider yourself to be a power user? If you answer is yes, you’re a seriously distracted person, gripped by the deadly talons of social media addiction. It might be time to wake up and get a grip on reality!
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Have social media and reality TV simply made the one-time restless, grumbling and needy neurotic personality mainstream? Now that we all wear our neuroses on our sleeves, or at least emit them from our fingertips, occasionally even broadcasting them via video or podcast, is the neurotic personality (think: Woody Allen, George Costanza, Fran Leibowitz) a person of the past?
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Marine Sgt. Gary Stein first started a Facebook page called Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots to encourage service members to exercise their free speech rights. Then he declared that he wouldn't follow orders from the commander in chief, President Barack Obama.
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There [are] 30 million accounts on Facebook for people who have died. ....[P]lease, think twice before unfriending the deceased. That connection can't ever come back.
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A study suggests more people are eating alone with their computers, laptops, tablets and mobile devices.
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Research from the University of Aberdeen’s School of Biological Sciences suggests the way we talk or share links on social networks mirrors the way animal groups, like dolphins, share information. Have you friended Flipper yet?
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Patricia Krentcil, a New Jersey woman, was arrested for allegedly putting her five-year-old in a tanning booth. But the scariest part of this story is Patricia Krentcil herself. Her bronzed-beyond-believable face has been this week's hottest shot. And the story has given way to some of the year's cleverest headlines in old school media joints like the New York Post: "Toast of the Town: Half-baked mom in kid tan 'abuse'".
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Facebook turned an important social media corner yesterday when it announced a new feature that would let users declare their intent to donate an organ in the event of an unfortunate circumstance (i.e., death).
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Madalyn Starkey, ‘Dive Bar Girl,’ tells The Daily Beast about her now-famous picture with the president.
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Social media can become a source of irritation for couples. Some spouses have started insisting their partners ask for approval before broadcasting comments and photos.
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The biggest social media experiment with 150 million participants ends in a massive failure and no one's talking about it (it didn’t trend on Twitter anywhere). Why?
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A Pew report says 72% still follow local news regularly turning to various sources including T.V., word-of-mouth data, the radio, social media and search engines.
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What do men and women say they want on social media? Analytics firm NetBase looked at 27 billion conversations over 1 year to discover that the sexes definitely have one thing in common: food!
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Customers and listeners have taken to social media to inundate advertisers, stations and sponsors of Limbaugh's radio show with calls to boycott after he made incendiary comments last week about a Georgetown law student who testified before Congress in favor of having birth control covered under insurance plans. Limbaugh called the student, Sandra Fluke, a "slut" and a "prostitute."
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At a fund raising event in New York the first social media President called out "Parks and Recreation" star Aziz Ansari, saying he had more Twitter followers than the comedian.
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Data suggests that anywhere from 25 percent to 75 percent of people watching TV today are engaging with another screen at the same time
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A comScore report released this week finds social networking accounts for 1 in every 5 minutes spent online. Of the networks, Facebook dominates, taking 3 of every 4 social networking minutes.
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