Internet
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Teenage Instagram star who quit social media talks about backlash
Jan 09, 2016 6:41 am - Essena O'Neill, a teenage Instagram star with more than 500,000 followers who decided to shut down her social media career in late October, said that her exit from chasi...
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The surprising Internet forum some alcoholics are choosing over AA
Jan 09, 2016 6:40 am - Nearly five million Americans woke up on New Year's Day with champagne headaches and a new resolve to renounce drinking. Traditionally, that would involve pouring out th...
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These apps, devices help teens drive safely
Jan 09, 2016 6:38 am - About 10 percent of the 32,675 traffic fatalities in 2014 involved distracted driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Although the agen...
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An hour-by-hour look at how a conspiracy theory becomes 'truth' on Facebook
Jan 09, 2016 6:37 am - Conspiracy theories, hoaxes and other variants of baloney have become so prevalent and intractable on Facebook that we no longer bother to debunk them. But a new study p...
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Founder of White People Meet: Don't call me racist, 'I dated a black woman once'
Jan 09, 2016 6:35 am - Sam Russell suspected his dating startup, Where White People Meet, would ruffle a few Internet feathers. It's why the site's "About" page carefully avoids mention of Rus...
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Facebook is saying you and your friends go back 46 years
Jan 02, 2016 6:35 am - Like many of you out there in Internet land, I woke up Thursday morning to an interesting bug on my Facebook page. According to my own account, I had a lot to celebrate,...
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These apps can save you from drunk textingJan 02, 2016 6:32 am - It's happened to the best of us. Despite our better judgment, once alcohol enters our system, we want to talk to people we shouldn't be contacting in an altered state, w...
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Why hoaxes flourish on Facebook
Jan 02, 2016 6:31 am - If you are a chain letter hoax, then heaven is for real and it is Facebook. The site has hosted an army of copyright and giveaway hoaxes in recent years with a fury not ...
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Netflix socks may be just something to talk about
Dec 26, 2015 6:23 am - With so many news organizations writing about the amazing Netflix socks, you may have had trouble avoiding stories about them. The socks have cute designs and will pause...
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The 'Dogist' blog and book makes dogs look humanDec 25, 2015 6:19 am - LOS ANGELES - Elias Weiss Friedman has photographed thousands of dogs for his blog and book "The Dogist." What sets his pictures apart is how human he makes his canines ...