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The Facebook Doppelgänger Meme Is Embarrassing

Please, everyone, for the love of God: Stop changing your Facebook profile pictures to your famous "doppelgänger." It's revealing some uncomfortable truths about our friendship. More »

02/05/10

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By Doree Shafrir

#facebook

Facebook's Plan to Build a Real Email System and Attack Gmail Is Brilliant

Mike Arrington brings us news that Facebook is working on a full-fledged email product, with the aim of eventually killing Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail and other web-based email systems. More »

02/05/10

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By Henry Blodget : The Business Insider

#truecrime

Dad's Murder-Suicide of Infant Son Documented on Facebook, Personal Website

Hours after Stephen Garcia and his 9-month-old son's bodies were discovered on a San Bernardino hiking trail, dead from an apparent murder-suicide, his Facebook profile announced activity: Stephen Garcia had uploaded a suicide note and video tribute to his family. More »

02/03/10

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By Maureen O'Connor

#cubicleculture

Facebook Cultists Liken New Video Feature to Moon Landing

02/02/10

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#technosexual

Facebook's iPhone App: The Best and Worst Thing to Happen to One-Night Stands

You'd think this iPhone app would be a juggernaut from booty call heaven. You'd be wrong. One man's cautionary tale from the trenches of tech-savvy casual sex. More »

02/02/10

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By Maureen O'Connor

#facebookmovie

Zuckerberg's Sleepy Pants Inspire Timberlake's Swear-Finger Happy Dance

New pictures from the Facebook movie's set have none other than script-originating novelist Ben Mezrich uncertain how he feels. With clips from corresponding portions of the script, we decipher Mark Zuckerberg's sleepy-time befuddlement and Timberlake's alpha male "fuck you." More »

02/01/10

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By Maureen O'Connor

#romance

Did One of the Louisiana Buggers Date Scott Brown's Daughter?

Did Joe Basel—one of the gentlemen arrested for attempting to bug Senator Mary Landrieu's office—go on a date with one of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown's daughters? He bragged about it on the Facebook! More »

01/27/10

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By Pareene

#protocelebrities

Facebook CEO's Sister Wants To Be a Pop Star

Randi Zuckerberg insists this was a "spontaneous" performance of George Gershwin's "Summertime" at a digital lifetsyle conference in Germany. We think the camera-loving Facebook fameball doth protest too much. More »

01/26/10

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By Ryan Tate

#science

Science Offers Little Hope for Facebook, Anything Else

Science: Your brain's too small to grasp more than 150 Facebook friends, unless you're very old in which case you'll remember every useless thing, but you'll never be old if you're a NYC minority, because you'll die after surgery. Science!

01/25/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#socialnetworks

Ricky Gervais Freaked Out by Facebook's Celebrity Campaign

Twitter has become a magnet for Hollywood celebrities, which explains why Facebook's clearly jealous flacks were conducting interviews on the Golden Globe red carpet last night. Next step: Convincing stars like Ricky Gervais that users are worth the trouble. More »

01/18/10

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By Ryan Tate

#dramaticconclusion

Facebook Fugitive Caught! An Ode to Generation Overshare's Folk Hero

Click here to read Facebook Fugitive Caught! <em>An Ode to Generation Overshare's Folk Hero</em>

After 112 days on the run, Craig 'Lazie' Lynch—who escaped prison, then taunted the cops on Facebook—has been caught. We will miss him, the man who looked the social-media panopticon in the eye, then raised his middle finger. More »

01/14/10

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By Maureen O'Connor

#youlikethis

Gitmo Guard and Detainee Bury Differences on Facebook

Ex-Guantanamo guard feels bad about the abuses he witnessed. Friends ex-detainee on Facebook. Ex-detainee responds. BBC flies guard to London to meet and apologize. They crack jokes. I think we've found a 10 pm show for NBC.

01/12/10

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By Pareene

#venturecapital

Lust for Another Bubble Leads to IPO Porn

The hottest fantasy in Silicon Valley involves a big, hot... tech bubble. Facebook and Yelp supposedly want one, so they can IPO in 2010; even Penthouse publisher FriendFinder Networks wants to go public, despite a sex harassment scandal. More »

01/11/10

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By Ryan Tate

#yourprivacyisanillusion

Why You Shouldn't Trust Facebook with Your Data: An Employee's Revelations

The abuse of private data by Facebook employees was pretty much inevitable; the simple act of amassing data tends to lead to corruption. What's sad is how lightly the social network reportedly controls its employees. More »

01/11/10

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By Ryan Tate

btrovo 01/11/10

There used to be a master password on Facebook that let you see everyone's profile. And they can see everything that's ever been posted, deleted or not.

[therumpus.net]

Facebook now officially evil.

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on Your Erased Privacy: 'These are the Social Norms, Now.'

This is fun. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a cameo onstage at the 2010 TechCrunch awards—or "The Crunchies"—yesterday and had a nice little chat with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. And—typically—sketchy things about privacy were noted. More »

01/10/10

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By Foster Kamer

#geeklove

How a Rich Facebook Playboy Proposes to a Googler

The attached picture, of a Facebook playboy's sweethearted proposal to his Googler girlfriend, did not come cheap: It was shot in a private air taxi above the Maldives, a remote haven for wealthy tourists. Dave Morin has struck again. More »

01/06/10

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By Ryan Tate

#crime

How Silicon Valley Rationalizes Its Scammy Profit Center

It's hard to say what's more pathetic: That the social networks at the center of Silicon Valley's growth derive so much money from online scams, or the way one venture capitalist excuses the whole sad scene. More »

01/04/10

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By Ryan Tate

#yearinreview

The Most Popular Gawker Posts of 2009

They weren't necessarily the best, just the most popular. You saw our least popular posts before getting trashed on New Year's Eve. Before you stop caring, here are the 20 most clicked on posts of 2009. More »

01/02/10

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By Gabriel Snyder

#yearinreview

2009: Gawker's Year in Pictures

Pictures may only be worth a thousand words, but they can certainly sear an image onto your brain for all eternity. Here are the pictures that defined 2009 on Gawker. More »

12/30/09

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By Brian Moylan

#testicleterrorist

Panty Bomber's Online Musings Were Lonely, Angst-Ridden, and Uncomfortably Normal

Good news: The Feds are finally savvy enough to scoop the blogosphere. Bad news: Now we'll never get a screen grab of his Facebook profile. Panty bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's social networking persona is emerging, and it's startlingly banal. More »

12/29/09

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By Maureen O'Connor

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