Human nature is a fascinating thing to watch and yet when it comes to Social Media there seems to be a total lack of understanding about human nature. As much as the Web 2.0 proponents want to desperately believe in the kumbaya moments as they get all warm and fuzzy over ideals like openness and transparency the fact is that human nature abhors warm and fuzzy. Whether we want to believe it or not part of human nature is the insatiable need to climb to the top of the pile
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Social Media – turning into a failure it didn’t need to
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Remember last week when Facebook had that problem where an undetermined number of users received messages in their Facebook inboxes that belonged to complete strangers and they said it was no big deal? We told you about the love, loss and sex chat many users had unwittingly delivered to the inboxes of random other users
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Misdirected Facebook messages to be read at NYC bar
Thanks, Daddy! [Failbooking]
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Fatherly advice, Facebook style
From Amazon’s One Click patent to the myriad of other absolutely stupid patents that seems to letter the online world none of them come even close as to the one just granted to Facebook.
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Facebook gets a patent on ‘news feeds’ – are you frikken kidding me
The ongoing obsession with censorship by the Australian Government continues with two new targets coming into view: Facebook and game review sites. The interest in Facebook comes after a number of tribute Facebook groups for killed kiddies were defaced.
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Australia’s Latest Censorship Targets: Facebook And Game Review Sites
Granted this is only US figures given that it is based on stats collected by compete.com but damn who would have thought eh.
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Holy Crap! Facebook has passed Google
Point/counterpoint, I have to say Bethany does have one… [ Lamebook ]
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Baby pics on Facebook, edgy edition
This massive flash mob lightsaber fight took place in Bristol’s Cabot Circus (a UK shopping mall), after being organized on Facebook by some crazy kids. Apparently, over 100 Star Wars fans took part, and the end result definitely looked epic, and not at all like a load of barnabies waving inflatable colored tubes about
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[VIDEO] The world’s largest light saber fight
Okay. Here’s a really simple question for everyone. When you look at the image above do they even come close to looking like the same site?
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There are some seriously stupid people on the web
In the dearth of tech ambiguity following the iPad announcement last month, Google has stepped forward to provide us with a day of speculation. Since we’ve only got until 10am PDT tomorrow (1pm Eastern) we’d better cram it all in now.
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Google set to “make GMail social” with announcement tomorrow
