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Find out how people with your name make a living with the LinkedIn Name Game

The Name Game is part of LinkedIn's 2015 Bring In Your Parent event to encourage taking your parent to work with you.
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Thousands of pros on LinkedIn have fake degrees and aren’t even trying to hide it

Thousands of profiles on LinkedIn include professionals whose degrees were purchased from degree mills among their educational credentials.
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The ultimate silver lining — Jack Dorsey gives a third of his shares back to Twitter employees

Those who survived Twitter's cuts have now been rewarded with a third of CEO Jack Dorsey's stock, valued at around $200 million.
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Mancunian or Cockney? British Airways survey finds few can tell the difference

Mancunian or Cockney? British Airways survey find that few can tell the difference
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Facebook app draining your iPhone battery? Company says it’s fixed it

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Instagram releases Boomerang because GIFs are taking over the world

If you're inexplicably hypnotized by one-second videos played on loop ad nauseam, Instagram has a present for you, and it's called Boomerang.
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perv_magnet Instagram account documents a decade’s worth of one woman’s online harassment

For the past decade, Mia Matsumiya has been the recipient of an endless barrage of online harassment, clogging up her email, MySpace, and Facebook inboxes.
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Hungarian camerawoman plans to sue Facebook and the refugee she tripped

Petra Laszlo, the camerawoman caught on film tripping Syrian refugees, plans to sue one of the refugees and Facebook.
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Janet Jackson fans find their Instagram content and accounts deleted, artist reponds

Instagram users who shared video and pics of Janet Jackson's Unbreakable concert lost photos and video for copyright infringement.
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YouTube’s makeup superstar Michelle Phan moving away from beauty videos

Beauty guru Michelle Phan announces plan to move away from beauty videos and on to other business ventures.
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Study suggests link between weight gain and #foodporn on social media

Food porn on Instagram and other platforms is causing our brain to think we're hungry even when we are not, and possibly contributing to obesity.
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Snapchat users beware: Android screen-recording apps can immortalize your Snaps

Snapchat messages expire after a few seconds, but some Android users with screen recording apps can save them forever. The trick doesn't work on iPhones.
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Joe Biden says he is ‘out of time’ to run for president in livestream

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Heading to the ER? Use Twitter to find hospitals with the best care

CrowdClinical analyzes tweets by patients to determine which hospitals in the nation provide the best experience.
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Survey shows many European Facebook and Instagram users embellish their posts

A new study conducted by HTC in Europe suggests that Facebook and Instagram's users routinely embellish their social media posts.
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First Lady launches ‘Better Make Room’ social media site for teens

First lady Michelle Obama launched a new initiative, Better Make Room, to encourage an interest in education via social networking.
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Want a great work-life balance? Consider one of these 25 careers

You may want to consider a career on Glassdoor's list of 25 Best Jobs For Work-Life Balance.
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CNN gets into streaming with new socially distributed network, Great Big Story

CNN has backed Great Big Story, a newly launched streaming-video network that plans to utilize social networks and word-of-mouth distribution.
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Haters call for Star Wars boycott because new movie has too much diversity

A group of Twitter users seek to boycott the new Star Wars movie because of the diversity of the actors taking leading roles.
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New York Times’ Marcus Mabry is joining the Twitter team to head Moments

Twitter is bringing aboard new talent, including New York Times editor-at-large Marcus Mabry, who will now be heading Twitter Moments.
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Smart caskets of the future could live-stream social media tributes

In the future of funeral planning, caskets may include a screen for streaming social media tributes.
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No surprise, Trump and Clinton have the most fake Twitter followers among candidates

According to recent data, Bernie Sanders has the most authentic Twitter followers among the presidential candidates with a social media presence.
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To grow e-commerce further, Pinterest makes ‘buyable’ pins available to bigger retailers

Pinterest will start allowing bigger retailers to use its new buyable pin to push for more e-commerce on its site.
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Millions believe actor Richard Gere’s ‘moving’ Facebook hoax about homelessness

The recent Facebook hoax of Richard Gere going undercover and handing out hundreds of dollars has millions of likes and shares.
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Millennials don’t think personal data is secure online but offer it anyway

A recent survey indicates that millennials don't trust anyone online with their personal information, despite their heavy use of it.
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Facebook will now alert you if your account is targeted by ‘state-sponsored actors’

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10 stories you missed: Digital rat brains, YouTube tycoons, Die Hard 6

It's hard to keep track of everything that happens in the tech world. We compiled a list of the top 10 tech stories: coming out on Facebook and more.
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Teens prefer Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat (in that order), says new survey

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As Periscope’s popularity increases, so will dumb and illegal activities

A woman in Florida was arrested for drinking and driving, while live-streaming with Periscope.
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A chicken called Betty is trying to tweet her way to a world record

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More people are coming out on Facebook than ever before

In a blog post today, Facebook pointed out that a record number of Americans have "come out" on the platform.
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South Park ridicules entitled Yelp reviewers who think their words matter

The latest episode of South Park pokes fun at self-absorbed and entitled Yelp users who think they are important critics.
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Astronaut Scott Kelly is tweeting amazing photos of the Earth from space

Scott Kelly uses Twitter to share stunning photos of the Earth from space while aboard the International Space Station, as part of NASA's twins study.
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The highest paid YouTube stars for 2015 made over $54 million last year

The top ten YouTube channels combined to earn over $54 million dollars last year, a feat that was acheived by 13 young people with diverse interests