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Snapchat Turns Down Facebooks $3 Billion Dollar Offer

There have been reports today stating the Facebook’s offer to acquire Snapchat for $3 billion was declined.  Snapchat is a photo-messaging service that is very popular among the teenage crowd.  It’s no surporise Facebook’s trying to acquire Snapchat after recent studies show that teens are spending less time on Facebook and more time elsewhere. Facebook […]

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Study Shows Teens Turn to WeChat & Vine Instead of Facebook

It seems we are about to experience the biggest decumbent in the contemporary social media paradigm. Facebook, being at the pinnacle of social media industry for years was considered as the single most authoritative player but this was before its CFO officially confirmed the much rumored trend of teenagers becoming less active on Facebook. The […]

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Facebook Removing Restrictions on Teen Photo and Content Posting

Facebook recently announced provocative changes to their underage privacy policies that could have serious implications for child safety. In mid-October of this year, the social networking site began allowing underage teens to post text and pictures publicly for the first time. According to Facebook, these changes are being implemented to allow youth’s freedom of expression […]

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Boston Marathon Runner Costume Sparks Social Media Outrage

Alicia Ann Lynch, 22, posted a picture of herself wearing a Boston Marathon Victim Halloween costume on her Twitter account.  Now she is paying for her stupid, heartless, disgusting costume idea.  There are some costumes that push the edge, but why would someone even think about something like this?  The backlash is intense and happened […]

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Facebook Giraffe Riddle – Why your friends are now giraffes

Over the past few days there has been a viral riddle circulating the internet called “the Great Giraffe Challenge”.  The Facebook Giraffe Riddle has been an internet phenomenon, leading some to think the riddle may be linked to a virus by hackers who want to steal Facebook accounts.  The riddle goes like this: “3:00am, the […]

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Web page shows profile photos of 1.2 billion Facebook users

Facebook was launched by Mark Zukerberg, a sophomore at Harvard College in the 2003. Initially it was called Facemash. He managed to hack into several campus servers to download the first profile pictures. In January 2004, Zukerberg began writing code for a new website which he launched in February 2004. He named it The Facebook […]

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Facebook Makes You Lonely (Depending on How You Use It)

Using the social network Facebook can reduce dramatically affect the well being and contentment of teenagers. A study conducted by the University of Michigan, which involved over eighty teenagers, has shown that the more they used the online platform, the worse they felt. The social network has over a billion users, and half of them […]