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Culling your Facebook flock? Prepare for the 5 stages of ‘unfriending’

Are your Facebook friends delete-able? Before you do anything you might regret, take time to reflect and go through the 5 stages of unfriending.
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What’s a Facebook shadow profile, and why should you care?

If you're wondering if you have a Facebook shadow profile, you do.
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Twitter starts targeting ads based on Web history, but you can opt out

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Like Snapchat, Instagram, and Vine videos? Well you might want to check your cache clutter

Everytime you watch a video on Instagram, the more space you're unwittingly filling up with caches on your mobile device. Here's how to clean your phone.
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B-Day Chair gives out hugs when you get Facebook happy birthday posts

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U.S. State Department spends $630,000 to boost Facebook ‘likes’

How do you get 2.5 million Facebook followers? Spend $630,000 of course.
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Fliike is a machine that shows the real world your Facebook ‘likes’ in – naturally – real time

If you've ever wanted a way to show people around you how many 'likes' your Facebook page has, there's a large French mechanical counter for that.
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Stickers are now available via Facebook’s Web platform

Can't say it in words? Plain old photo not doing the trick? Now you can say it with stickers on Facebook.

Surprise! Twitter is still teeming with fake accounts

The Twitter spam and bot problem is a well known one, and a new study says it hasn't been fixed.

The TSA joins Instagram to post all the weapons people still bring to airports

If weekly blogs weren't enough to discourage people from bringing weapons and explosives to airports, could the TSA's Instagram efforts do the trick?
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Spammers can make your Instagram account automatically follow them [UPDATE]

Did a strange new account show up in your Instagram feed recently? It appears a new spam attack is plaguing the platform.
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Turns out ‘delete’ doesn’t quite mean the same thing to Facebook as it does to you

Deleting something on Facebook doesn't exactly mean that the content has been "deleted" as some users have discovered.

Obviously, we need to talk about ousted Groupon CEO Andrew Mason’s new album

The artist formally known as Andrew Mason, ousted Groupon CEO, has released an album that defies definition.
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Is Spotify Discover the music-social mashup we’ve been waiting for?

Spotify has taken over the streaming scene, but it's still missing that certain something that propels it into a higher social status. Could Discover be it?
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Want to avoid hipsters, frat boys or yuppies? Yelp can help

New app will allow you to create more reaction selfies than the world needs

To spice up your boring day so far, here's a site that will turn your face into a snazzy animated GIF. Enjoy!
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Is Vine really being killed off by video for Instagram?

Reports of Vine's death may be greatly exaggerated.

Facebook’s Graph Search flaw exposes names with phone numbers

Facebook claims that phone numbers on Facebook are public, but scraping these numbers ironically merits getting chased by Facebook's lawyers.

On the day of Google Reader’s death, Bloglovin adds new social features to fill out its RSS service

With Google Reader gone, plenty of RSS readers are filling in the void. Bloglovin' is one of them with brand new social and content discovery features.
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All you #nofilter liars on Instagram, prepare to be outed by this new site

If you want to find out if a photo on your Instagram feed really is filter-free, you can find out by submitting a link to FIlter Fakers.
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How to record silent Instagram videos

If you want to make an Instagram video without background noise, try this surprisingly simple trick.

Alec Baldwin hatequits Twitter in spectacular fashion

The Twitter career of Alec Baldwin is apparently over (again) after the actor went on a tear against a journalist, threatening to "straighten out."
Google Reader is dead but the race to replace the RSS feed is very alive

Google Reader is dead but the race to replace the RSS feed is very alive

Today marks the death of Google Reader, but the market is bursting with new options.

Fruit invasion: Instagram hit by spammers selling ‘miracle’ diet

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Google launches photo, badge updates to celebrate Google+ 2nd birthday

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WTF, Internet? It’s not OK to turn a murder into a meme

WTF, Internet? This week's Web indiscretion comes courtesy of Hernandezing - the meme that should never have existed.
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Miss Netiquette’s guide to recovering from social media party fouls

Social media can be a tricky thing to navigate and no one has written the rules on codes of conduct.
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This week in Snapchat privacy issues, turns out iOS 7 kills the app’s screenshot notification

Once iOS 7 rolls out to iOS users, Snapchat is in for a PR nightmare since iOS 7 doesn't support screen shot notifications.
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Want to browse random Instagram videos? Look no further, Gramfeed’s got your fix

If you want a good overview of what people are up to using Instagram's video feature, Gramfeed shows you snippets from Instagram users around the world.

Yelp sues business selling fake reviews

Yelp continues its crackdown against spammy, scammy reviews.
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Facebook is testing a chat room feature, so it must be 2001

Facebook is reportedly building a chat room function to further entrench the social media site into our digital lives.

Imgur releases its own meme generator, and we’re worried the Internet might break

Imgurians all over the world can now rest easy, for their favorite go-to place for funny photos has developed and released its own meme creation tool.

Digital secret keeper PostSecrets is not impressed with new app Whisper

Post Secret is probably THE online hub for secret telling, but it's not taking kindly to Whisper App, an upstart that offers an arguably similar service.

Researchers say Facebook security breach affected more users than the social network admits

Facebook claims only 6 million users were affected by a bug in the Download Your Information tool, but researchers discovered it did a lot more damage.