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At last! Facebook is embracing animated GIFs. To make them work, simply paste the URL of an animated GIF into Facebook’s “update status” field. You can then add text as usual. (Gorburger not included.) Uploading an animated GIF from your computer using the “add photos/video” function does not work at this time. A representative for Facebook did not say why
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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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If you needed a reminder about watching what you post on social media, here’s yet another cautionary tale. According to reports this week, a woman in Texas was fired from a daycare center because of an all-too-candid Facebook post. “I start my new job today,” Kaitlyn Walls, a 27-year-old single mom, wrote on Facebook last week about a new gig
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Hope, 17, says three years ago, she was abducted by someone she met online and forced into prostitution. “It all started because I posted on a social media site that I hated my mother,” she recalls. “A woman messaged me back telling me that I could go stay with her, and we’d go partying. She showed up within the next
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A mother, who describes her teen as out-of-control and violent, gets a wake-up call from Dr. Phil that she should think twice about the message her photos on Facebook send to her kids. On Friday’s episode of Dr. Phil, watch as Dr. Phil explores this conflict and attempts to help this troubled family. But will they be brave enough to
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