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Shocker! People Like Drinking and Having Sex More Than Facebook and Getting Sick
Sex and drinking alcohol are the most beloved of all pastimes, according to a new survey from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Stunning, we know.
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Should Parents Use the Internet to Check Up On Their Kids? — Survey of the Day
We're probably at the point where just about every parent with a school-age child has a certain level of Internet sophistication. This means that it is fairly easy for most parents to check up on what their kids are getting into online. But are they?
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Your Facebook Copyright Notice Status Update Is Bogus
If you've been on Facebook over the last few days, you've probably seen that some of your friends have posted a copyright notice as their status update.
The message suggests that the poster has copyrighted all the material on their Facebook page thanks to the authority of something called the Berner Convention. Here is the full text of the update:
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The Funniest Photo Captions of the Week (Created By You!)
It seems like just one week ago we were posting a picture of a dog in a garbage can on our Facebook page. Since then, we've shared lots of stuff with you, and in return, you make us LOL with your witty, sometimes disturbing (looking at you, guy who said he take his time killing a cat) comments. Here are our favorite captions you provided for our weekly photo contest. Congratulations to our winners, who will receive...bragging rights. Awesome, awesome bragging rights.
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Facebook Can Now Help You Get a Job
Don't just update your status—update your résumé. Facebook has just released a Social Jobs App that will allow people to search job listings from a multitude of sites like Monster and DirectEmployers.
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Nine-Year-Old’s Dying Wish Granted Thanks to Facebook
There is nothing worse than a story about a nine-year-old dying of cancer. The best we can hope for out of one is something like this -- overwhelming humanity from strangers in the face of tragedy.
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Facebook Game Leads to Life-Saving Kidney Donation
You can waste a good chunk of your life playing Facebook games such as FarmTown, FarmVille and FarmFarm (okay, we made that last one up). However, in the case of an Idaho woman in need of a new kidney, FarmTown ended up saving her life.
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Parents Embarrass Teen With Hilarious Facebook Pics
We love our parents; we really do. It's just that during those early years, they can seem like the most embarrassing people on the planet. It's tough enough growing up (kudos to you if you can read the word "puberty" without wincing) without lame-o parents humiliating you, but when it comes to two parents in Wisconsin, we have to admit they've surpassed "embarrassing" and jumped straight to "awesome."
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Selling Something Online? Use Pinterest, Not Facebook — Dollars and Sense
Marketers all over the world are using social media more and more to sell their products, but new research shows that it may be more advantageous for them to utilize Pinterest rather than Facebook to lure in clientele.
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Spend Too Much Time on Facebook? Hire Someone to Slap You in the Face
We all know it’s easy to get distracted and waste a ton of time on Facebook (or GuySpeed) but one guy is getting serious about his social media addiction -- he hired someone to slap him in the face every time he logs on to Facebook.
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