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Cint Eastwood and the empty chair upstage Mitt Romney. Barack Obama says Ask Me Anything online. You can't stop the march of Time(line) on Facebook. Offline friendships in the shadow of social media, text snooping and blue moons. It's all here. Click now and join the conversation. 
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The company is trying to find ways to show lucrative ads to mobile users without cluttering up their hand-held screens and driving them away in frustration.
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Tired of photos from overly proud new parents? Block their photos with Unbaby,me, which replaces the baby pictures on Facebook feeds with things that people prefer to see, like photos of cats, sunsets and bacon.
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Mitt Romney's Twitter account is creating controversy not because of any actual tweets, but because of a sudden and dramatic spike in followers. Are they real followers? Or did the Presidential hopeful's team purchase them?
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The "crazy busy" existence so many of us complain about is almost entirely self-imposed.
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Just weeks after Facebook's less-than-epic IPO, naysayers of the world's largest social network have been piling on with stories about its inevitable demise. One such story even went so far as labeling Facebook boring(!). Yet, there are compelling arguments in favor of Facebook's dominance and long-range success.
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There's lots of talk this week about how much Facebook is worth, but how much are you worth to Facebook? Answers 7 simple questions and find out how much you're worth to the world's largest social network.
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Neighborhood identity has not been destroyed by the Internet. Social networks, in fact, can be harnessed to facilitate local interactions. One of these networks, Nextdoor.com provides social networks for neighborhoods, offering members a chance to exchange ideas and recommendations with those who live nearby.
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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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Facebook makes sharing easy — too easy, some would say. Some newer social networks are focusing on the idea that one's real "network" is no more than 150 people (the average Facebook user has 245 "friends"). Some networks are so small they are just two - you and your significant other.
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More than 16 percent of all online messages in China get deleted, according to a study by the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. But crafty bloggers use terms like "buying soy sauce," "Mayor Lymph" and "minor collision" as a way around the censorship.
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Craigslist is suing companies for using housing ads posted by its users to create maps, Legal experts are divided as to whether Craigslist’s claims of copyright infringement are valid. Craigslist claims, “Each user-generated posting on the craigslist website is itself an original work of creative expression, as it includes unique written descriptions ....” If you've ever read some of the Missed Connections or other works of prose on the site, surely, you'd have to agree!
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Our soldiers are being devastated on an unexpected front: Facebook. Troops who have survived shellings and shootings can find themselves emotionally wounded by online photos of spouses partying with strangers and innuendo-laden updates that betray a very different “status” than that of a devoted girlfriend back home.
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Investors remain disappointed this week, despite second-quarter results meeting Wall Street expectations, with revenue one-third higher than last year. Many analysts hold positive long-term views about the company, and its stock, expecting things to turn around when newer advertising models kick in.
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A major security breach at LinkedIn. A Russian hacker claimed to have stolen 6.5 million passwords. While LinkedIn quickly subverted the breach, you might want to change your password, just in case. Especially if you're using one of these most common ones.
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This is awesome. What are you doing today, Zuck? Oh, nothing much, just listing a company on NASDAQ that's all. Going public etc. No biggie but thought I'd share. Screenshots for posterity...
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Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounced his American citizenship in what seemed to be a transparent ploy to escape a hefty bill from the IRS in the wake of Facebook’s upcoming IPO. But the truth is a little more complex than that. Saverin, born in Brazil, came to America in 1992 and was educated at Harvard. He now lives in Singapore, and claims U.S. laws make it too difficult for its citizens to invest in other countries.
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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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Over 150 million Americans are on Facebook, and while only 6 percent of Facebook users get their political news from Facebook , if you're reading this, it probably means that a much higher percentage of your friends are political junkies. Here's a guide to the five different types of political friends on Facebook. Do any of them sound familiar?
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To paraphrase "The Social Network" - "You know what's really cool? A trillion dollar company." Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire Instagram. The compensation will be approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram will remain a standalone app from Facebook, but the services will have increasing ties to each other.
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A judge orders an Ohio man to post an apology to his ex-wife every day for 30 days in response to comments the man made about the ex-wife on Facebook.
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