Facebook Introduces New Way To ‘Prioritize’ Your Best Friends

If you have a lot of friends on Facebook, your News Feed can be a confusing jumble of status updates, links and photos. A new update to the social network’s mobile app should alleviate that problem, though. Facebook on Thursday announced new settings that allow users to prioritize which friends and pages are featured in their News Feed. At the

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Two NBA Draftees Learn The Hard Way That Their Tweets Are Public

Ah, the NBA Draft. A night for fun. A night for family. A night for friends. A night in which a lifetime of hard work culminates in hearing your name called by the commissioner of the National Basketball Association. And a night for realizing that tweet from four years ago was a pretty stupid idea. Not one but two first-round

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Cory Booker Responds To Twitter Trolls In The Best Way Possible

As a politician and Twitter celebrity, it’s no surprise that Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is bombarded by abuse from Internet trolls on a regular basis. But trolls seem to be no match for the former Newark mayor. On Sunday, Booker tweeted that he would appear on “Meet The Press” to discuss last week’s fatal Amtrak derailment. The tragedy of Amtrak

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How One Blog Is Working To Change The Way We Talk About Mental Health

Research suggests that social media can be a source of negativity and loneliness — but what if we started putting a positive spin on the conversation? That’s what the microblogging platform Tumblr is hoping to do with their new Post It Forward initiative. The company partnered with influential people as varied as Vice President Joe Biden and “Pitch Perfect” actress

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‘SNL’ Has Nothing On The Way The Middle East Mocks ISIS

All the videos are set to one song — the soundtrack frequently used by the Islamic State group in its propaganda videos meant to lure in recruits and spread terror. But these particular videos don’t show ruthless murder or threats of senseless violence. Instead, there are singing chipmunks, airport flash mobs and gleeful orangutans shaking their rears to the beat

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