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| Clean up Your Facebook Profile With FaceWash | | Friday, January 25, 2013 10:57 PM | Camille Bautista |
| We've all been there. Your grandmother just joined Facebook, your boss sent you a friend request or you're applying for that dream job. Suddenly, you're scrambling to purge your profile of last night's pictures plus everything else you wouldn't want Grams to see. Painstakingly filtering through your Timeline isn't going to cut it, but FaceWash makes it easier.
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| Facebook, Twitter, Stop Fighting! | | Friday, January 25, 2013 8:53 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Guys, please. I know you've got serious differences, but you still love us users, right? Right? A Cold War has been brewing between the two major social media services for the better part of a year — and it heated up Friday. That's when Facebook effectively sent Twitter a little passive-agressive note about why it was blocking access to the Facebook Friends list on Twitter's Vine app.
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| The 25 Most Buzzed-About Universities of 2013 | | Friday, January 25, 2013 6:02 PM | Zoe Fox |
| The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ranked the most buzzed-about university on the Internet for the second time in a row, ahead of Harvard, Columbia and Stanford. The Global Language Monitor's TrendTopper MediaBuzz survey measures the schools with the most Internet clout. One major trend this year is the rise of public universities on the list, as 13 of the top 25 schools ranked are now state institutions.
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| How Social Media Can Reunite Lost Children With Their Families | | Friday, January 25, 2013 5:30 PM | Zoe Fox |
| In November 2011, Tony Loftis's 13-year-old daughter Allie ran away from their suburban hometown of Wayland, Mass. Allie was last seen boarding a Peter Pan bus to New York from downtown Boston, and Loftis assumed she'd headed to Brooklyn where Allie had frequently visited family. Not a stranger to social media, Loftis took it upon himself to spread word that he was looking for his daughter on email, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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| Facebook Explains Why Vine Can't Access Your Friends | | Friday, January 25, 2013 4:58 PM | Christina Warren |
| Facebook has clarified its platform policies in response to the news that it has shut off friend-finding access to Twitter's new video sharing app, Vine. Within hours of Vine's launch, the ability for users to find Facebook friends also using Vine disappeared. The move was not unlike a decision Twitter made in July to prevent Instagram users from continuing to find contacts using Twitter.
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| John Tesh Thanks 500 Helpful Tweeters With $5 Gift Cards | | Friday, January 25, 2013 3:04 PM | Matt Silverman |
| Imagine our delight last Wednesday when media mogul/New Age music megastar/omnipresent radio voice guy John Tesh was pulled into a Twitter "slap fight" with comedian Patton Oswalt. It was all about Tesh's quest for a new hashtag to accompany his signature pearls of 140-character wisdom.
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| 18 Facebook Fossils We'll Remember Forever | | Friday, January 25, 2013 1:26 PM | Dani Fankhauser |
| In 2004, a site called Thefacebook appeared on what we used to call the World Wide Web. Initially it resembled an interactive, year-round yearbook for kids at elite universities. But then came new features.
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