It’s Time For Your Doctor To Get On Social Media

We communicate with our friends, our families and our coworkers via email and Facebook, and apparently, most Americans also wish that they could keep in touch with their health care providers this way. A national survey of 2,252 pharmacy customers conducted by Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health highlights the gap between what patients want from their health

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How To Get Rid Of Abusive Posts In Your Facebook News Feed

It’s healthy to consider perspectives that don’t perfectly match yours — but there might be times when you feel threatened by posts you see on Facebook. If you’re seeing abusive posts on Facebook in the wake of, say, the Supreme Court’s historic decision to legalize same-sex marriage across the country, there are a few things you can do. Facebook makes

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Your Obnoxious Facebook Statuses, Only In Real-Life Situations

Further proof that most Facebook statuses are terrible. What if, instead of simply writing your next emotion-filled Facebook status for all your friends too see, you say exactly what you were going to write directly to their faces? How freaking awkward would that be? Yeah, because no one talks like that. And yet we all have no problem doing it

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Facebook Knows Your Face Even When It’s Not Visible

If you’re worried about facial recognition technology tracking you, you’re not going to like this. NewScientist reported Monday that Facebook has developed an experimental algorithm that can automatically recognize an individual based on unique traits like “hairdo, clothing, body shape and pose.” According to NewScientist, the algorithm proved accurate 83 percent of the time when Facebook’s artificial intelligence researchers applied

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If Your Friends’ Vague Facebook Statuses Were Said IRL

“Well, that was interesting.” WHAT WAS? Is everything okay? What’s happening? These are just a few of the questions that usually arise after one of your friends post one of those vague, rather ominous Facebook statuses, providing absolutely no information and worrying the hell out of everyone. Comedy writer Jason Horton imagines what real life conversations would be like if

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