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Facebook Skits Are Finally Funny (Well, Just This One)
Skits about the Internet are always about a 7; finally here comes, eh, I'd say a 9. The British comedy troop (troupe?) "Idiots of Ants" presents a "What would Facebook be like in real life" sketch with actual jokes.
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Animated Social Networks Have Exactly The Fruity Voices I Expected
Remember that one funny show on Current? Super News, the animated series that brought you Perez Hilton's giant vagina, has an episode about Facebook, MySpace, and Second Life. A little dated but still funnier than that Internet Party skit. My favorite bit is site founder Tom's first principle of MySpace: "Skanky pictures of skanky people doing skanky things." More »
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Kids Keep In Touch In Funny Ways These Days
Hey guys, big news from the University of Oxford Press Blog today. Big news. The internet and cell phones have changed—possibly even revolutionized—the way kids keep in touch with one another. Instead of catching up with acquaintances, people just follow their away messages. (Note: I'm almost positive away messages have something to do with Instant Messaging, which is like a faster form of email, but I'm not 100%.) And sometimes people use their cell phones not to talk but to send text messages, a form of written communication sent through phones. Oh, and also this is rotting the very foundations of civilized society. More ground-breaking news after the jump. More »
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LiLo Facebook Recap, Now With Wall Postings!
So yesterday we published screenshots of blurry actress Lindsay Lohan's Facebook page. The page has now been either deleted or hidden behind lots and lots of privacy walls, but our images will linger on forever! What can we learn from them? Well, she used her friend/maybe lover DJ Samantha Ronson's last name, she was friends with a reality star Lauren Conrad, a "Hiilary Duff," supermodels Jessica Stam and Lauren Hastings (with whom she is having some sort of spat), former prostitute Jason Preston, internet socialite Cory Kennedy, and lots of other infuriating people. She also tried to explain away some recent drunk-looking photos, by reporting that it was "430 am!!!" In case you haven't had enough, after the jump we've included screenshots of "Wall" postings that Lindsay Ronson left on other people's pages. According to these, she WILL be at Coachella. More »
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Eleven Ways The Internet Can Kill You
While I was pulling an all-nighter this weekend watching YouTube, my stomach started to growl even though I'd had like a whole thing of goldfish crackers and a bottle of Kahlua, and as I popped a diet pill and scratched a couple scabs off my forearm, I had a vision of the eleven ways the Internet could kill you. (Please don't sue: Of course not all the sites and practices listed below are directly responsible for any deaths. But if you're already at risk, you might just get yourself killed when you use them.) More ».jpg)
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Statistical Proof That Drinking Isn't Worth It
When Facebook isn't invading privacy, it's occasionally rolling out features we don't despise. Their new application Lexicon culls words and phrases from users' walls to create fun charts. In the "party tonight" "hangover" match-up, the latter curiously tends to spike shorty after the former. (Click image to enlarge). Another comparison reveals that people "lol" way more than they "omg." Well, if the kids don't have god, at least they have laughter. Hit up the comments with other fun conclusions about the modern era drawn from the Facebook lexicon. [via Fimoculous]
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Forbes' Billionaire Bachelors Ready to Sign Prenup with YOU
O, hai! Had no idea that you, 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, were on the list of Forbes' richest people. But your net worth is... $1.5 bil? Forbes helpfully lists which of the men on its Rich List are bachelors. But don't get too excited: the thing about the rich is that they tend to be squirrely. And they'll make you sign a prenup, which is always a total bitch. Forbes has a slideshow of the billionaire bachelors, and as they saying goes: the odds are good, but the goods are odd. [Forbes]
Awful Facebook Invitations
The official site for parodying the Internet makes up Facebook apps that seem truer than the real ones. My personal fave is the Fat Girl Escapism Quiz about fantasy author Neil Gaiman. [Something Awful]
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Facebook's "People You May Know" Creeping Everyone Out
Another day, another New York Observer trend piece, which like most journalism, has basically been reduced to a long diary entry. (Full disclosure: We used to work there!) This week Gawker alum Doree tackles Facebook's new "People You May Know" feature, in which the social networking site mines your friend list and then matches people up with other friends on your list. It's the cyber equivalent of being at a party and the host awkwardly pushing you over to someone and saying, "Have you met Donna?!" More »
Memo To Martin Scorsese: MySpace Is For Spammers And Pedophiles
People use Facebook for social networking. Everything else is a joke. Oh, Marty. You want to be my "friend" on MySpace now? This is more embarrassing than New York, New York. [via AdRants]
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The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up Is Changing Your Facebook Status
The Marc Jacobs and Jason Preston break-up has been très tragic for the two of them, but quite amusing for those interested in another form of meta-reality after this week's très boring Parisian Hills. The two of them are sort of famous, so we can delight in their misery, but since they're only sort of famous, they use Facebook just like the plebs. And their respective relationship mini-feeds are the stuff of pure Web 2.0 tragedy. (Click to enlarge the image) More »
Sad quote of the day
"'Facebook!' is the new 'Cheese!'" — 19-year-old Dean White, who will now be unfairly blamed for this slang "trend" when it gets mentioned in a Times trend piece. [Aaron White]
"'Facebook!' is the new 'Cheese!'" — 19-year-old Dean White, who will now be unfairly blamed for this slang "trend" when it gets mentioned in a Times trend piece. [Aaron White]
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Obama Locks Up The Idiotic Facebook Vote
Perhaps the only thing sadder than seeing a friend with a Facebook broken heart in their mini-feed is spotting a friend who has Barack Obama as their Facebook picture. It's one thing to be a "fan" of Barack Obama, or even Michelle Obama, who is admittedly quite fierce. But when a friend changes their profile picture to Barack Obama and joins the supplemental Facebook group, one has to wonder what they're thinking. More »
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Crotchety Journo Has a Point
Former Chicago magazine media critic and founding editor of The Beachwood Reporter, Steve Rhodes, doesn't want to join your stupid Facebook fan page. He especially doesn't want to be notified every time some inky hack publishes another article, according to a ranty email he sent all his "friends" this week. Rhodes is doubly outraged by "You newspaper people who are ruining Facebook for everyone." Here's the rest: More »
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Studies About Happiness Fail to Make Us Happy
We humans are a fickle bunch. Take Eliot Spitzer: besides the receding hairline, the guy had everything going for him. And yet he threw it all away to make the career of some hot piece of Jersey trash. And we're always trying to figure out what makes us happy. There all always studies coming out about how religion makes us happy, how cats help your heart and whether cigarettes can do anything for your psyche. And that's just this week's batch of articles. Cigarettes, sex, and meaningless studies aren't doing it for us apparently. So what does make us happy?More »
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