Tara Miller of Westville, New Jersey Would Like Her Boyfriend to Change His Facebook Relationship Status
Hamilton Nolan · 03/13/12 04:10PMPopular online social networking website Facebook boasts a "relationship status" setting, in which Facebook members can indicate whether or not they are "In a Relationship" with another person. This is often considered a formal social indicator that a couple is officially "together." Sound simple? Not for Tara Miller of Westville, New Jersey.
Student Sues School District Over Illegal Search of Her Facebook Page
Louis Peitzman · 03/10/12 04:39PM
A 12-year-old Minnesota girl has joined forces with the ACLU to sue her school district. Minnewaska School officials penalized the girl, known only as "R.S.," for information she posted off of school property to her private Facebook page. At one point, she was "intimidated" into giving up her password so that administrators could see the rest of her posts.
The Idiot Who Mixed Up Joseph Kony and Predator's Carl Weathers
Max Read · 03/09/12 11:37AMWant to have some fun on Facebook? Put a picture of Carl Weathers from Predator on your wall and write "I'll always be on this guy's team." With any luck you can find someone who doesn't look too closely at Weathers' face and assumes they're looking at the mustachioed black guy with a green military cap in the jungle that everyone's been talking about this week: Joseph Kony. As happened in this (ostensibly real, though who knows) screen shot that's been making the internet rounds.
The Juggalos Now Have Their Very Own Facebook, JuggaloBook
Emma Carmichael · 03/05/12 07:01PMThe Tech Industry's Asperger Problem: Affliction Or Insult?
Ryan Tate · 03/01/12 10:00AMSomewhere north of 15,000 American children are conservatively believed to be afflicted with Asperger Syndrome, a disorder characterized by obsessive and rigid behavior, poor communication skills, clumsiness, and a lack of empathy and reciprocity. Cases of Asperger's and a related disorder, autism, exploded in Silicon Valley over the past 20 years, according to state-funded outreach workers — an assertion that will come as no shock to users familiar with pedantic, apathetic, tight-lipped and self-serving tech companies. How, exactly, does Asperger's work, and has it had a material impact on how the technology sector relates to its customers? Below, find a quick guide to those questions, and a look at why one of the Valley's most famously infuriating pedants, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is rumored to have it.
How I Became Amazon’s Pitchman For a 55-Gallon Drum of Personal Lubricant on Facebook
nick bergus · 02/27/12 07:00PMFacebook Profiles Found to Predict Job Performance
Maureen O'Connor · 02/21/12 11:25AMThree research universities combined their forces to prove that a person's Facebook page is, more often than not, an accurate predictor of future job performance. Apparently Facebook pages that portray "traits such as conscientiousness, agreeability, and intellectual curiosity" have a "strong correlation" with good job performance.
In Portlandia, Facebook Can Literally Save Your Life (Almost)
Matt Toder · 02/18/12 12:13AMTonight's episode of Portlandia was especially strong, crafting great sketches from the subjects right in its wheelhouse: the inability to remain cool as we age and the infantilization of male hipsters. This sketch brought them both together superbly, as Fred and Carrie swapped genders to bring back Nina and Lance. It's a great bit of commentary about our reliance on technology and the power struggle inherent to any relationship. Also, that completely superfluous fart sound effect is perfect.
Where Did That 'What People Think I Do' Meme Come From and How Can It Be Stopped?
Adrian Chen · 02/17/12 11:33AMFacebook Releases New Content Guidelines, Now Allows Bodily Fluids
Adrian Chen · 02/16/12 06:00PMInside Facebook's Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where 'Camel Toes' are More Offensive Than 'Crushed Heads'
Adrian Chen · 02/16/12 03:45PMWeird Internets: The Branded Facebook World of Bill Hitchert, 'Chief Visionary Officer' of BH Ideas
Max Read · 02/15/12 03:45PMBizarre Teen "Twitching" Epidemic: Toxic Chemicals or Brain Chemistry?
Louis Peitzman · 02/12/12 04:30PM
The small New York town of LeRoy has had its fair share of news coverage lately following the unexplained "twitching disorder" of several residents. Since October, 16 people — 14 of them teenage girls — have been struck with uncontrollable physical and verbal tics. And no, it's not Tourette's, which isn't contagious. There are two major conflicting opinions: either the patients' twitching is psychosomatic, or it's the result of environmental factors.