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10 Tech Savvy Gifts That Will Blow Mom Away This Mother’s Day
As much as your non-smoking mom claims to love the handmade ashtrays and hand-picked bouquet (from her garden, no less) that you’ve given her every Mother’s Day for the last two decades, this is the year to shake things up.
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Study Reveals Lots of Parents Use Facebook to Spy on Their Kids
Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter may have eroded levels of privacy by giving people a place to post every facet of their lives and the people around them. However, it’s also given parents a way of doing some sneaky snooping into their children’s lives.
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Photoshopped (VIDEO)
A friend reposted this on facebook today. Originally written in 2010, it shows that everything you see is not what it seems.
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Facegram or Instabook? Facebook Buys Photo App Instagram [VIDEO]
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Beyonce Tweets for the First Time
Welcome to the tweet age, Beyonce. The Queen B has finally used Twitter. She joined a while back and was verified, but never tweeted.
Many of her fellow pop divas like Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Katy Perry tweet multiple times a day, sharing images from photo shoots and offer reports while in the studio, since they were raised in the digital generation and are a bit younger. But Bey, like Madonna, didn’t engage in 140-character conversations with fans. Until now. #Amen.
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School Forces Students to Delete Facebook Pages
Schools these days seem to have no compunctions about policing students’ use of social media. An Indiana teenager was recently expelled for swearing in a tweet, and now a Brooklyn, New York school is forcing its charges to delete their Facebook accounts — or face expulsion themselves.
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Google’s Best April Fool’s Day Pranks
Every year since 2000, except 2001 and 2003, Google has treated netizens to at least one, sometimes 17, April Fool’s Day pranks and easter eggs. And, since we know they love to play (check out their new Google Play offering), we’re hoping 2012 will be no different.
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Spike Lee Issues Apology for Mistaken Tweet in Trayvon Martin Case
As the outrage over the death of teenager Trayvon Martin continues, film director Spike Lee has had to issue an apology for a tweet he posted in relation to the case.
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6 Camera Apps for Your Phone That Will Turn You into a World-Class Photographer
Being able to have instant professional quality photos used to mean lugging around a truckload of filters and lenses, not to mention a portable darkroom. Not anymore.
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Fake Will Smith Tweet Causing Controversy
A recent Tweet comparing the tragic Trayvon Martin shooting with the Kim Kardashian flour incident went viral because it was seemingly sent by actor Will Smith. Except it wasn’t. The Tweet was from Twitter user @RealWillSmith, who is not, in fact, the real Will Smith.
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Madonna + Deadmau5 Battle, Then Make Up on Twitter
Madonna joined Twitter for one day yesterday (March 26) to converse with her legion of fans about ‘MDNA’ and other assorted topics.
Well, internationally acclaimed DJ Deadmau5 took to the social networking sphere to rip her for her antics during her surprise appearance at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami over the weekend.