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Still deciding what you'll bring to Friendsgiving this year? Consider an extremely large number of McDonald's hash browns.Despite it being prime Thanksgiving anticipation season, we currently have potato ovals on the brain thanks to a truly stunning viral photo shoot. On Saturday, @FLJBieber, whose
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We hate to break it to you, but posting perfectly-edited photos on Instagram during "prime time," writing a few advice pieces on Medium, and posting Gary Vee inspired updates on LinkedIn do not exactly constitute as social media marketing.Real social marketing involves a deep understanding of the i
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Before we begin, we'd like to clarify that we do not live "inside the earth." We live on the surface of the earth. Should we have to spell this out? Probably not, but better safe than sorry.On Wednesday, Twitter user @LoveMahalHappy tweeted a video of her sister realizing that, in fact, we do not l
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You think you're good at Instagram lurking? There's always room to be sneakier.The most proficient lurkers among us — people we both revere and fear, to be honest — have devised truly impressive ways to Insta-skulk without being detected. We're not talking basic stuff like "use desktop
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Last year, Instagram was rated as the most damaging social network for one's mental wellbeing.It's unsurprising all those vanity and #influencer posts weren't really doing us any favours, and now the app is rolling out a way to track your usage, and to limit it if need be.SEE ALSO: The preferred me
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Most internet challenges are bad, but Dog Cheese is good.Dog Cheese, since you asked, is a fun game where you throw a piece onto your dog and see what happens. There are very few rules: the cheese must land on the dog, certainly, but we understand that what occurs next is outside your control.Dog C
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The great Tide Pod panic was nearly a year ago, but Tide is still at it. This week, they announced yet another forbidden treat: Tide Pod boxed wine.Obviously, don't drink it. It is laundry detergent. And its real name is the Eco-Box, which Procter & Gamble unveiled last Friday in an attempt to
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In a world increasingly obsessed with social media, today's politicians have found a secret weapon: Instagram stories.By documenting their daily activities using Instagram's Stories and Live features, rising political stars like Beto O'Rourke and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have given supporters a rar
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump ended the midterms news cycle by effectively firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The acting Attorney General is now Matt Whitaker, Sessions' former chief of staff and a man who used to mooch WiFi from a taco restaurant.We know the latter thanks to his old tweets, which
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In this episode of Technically Speaking with Michael Nuñez, we analyze how Techtober hype feeds into holiday gadget shopping and increasing e-waste culture, unregulated election meddling via social media platforms, and Amazon’s media stunt to find a home for its new HQ2. Read more...More
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Hell hath no memes like those made by Beto O'Rourke fans after learning Ted Cruz was re-elected to his Senate seat in Texas.On Tuesday night, as the results of the 2018 midterm elections were being tallied, Americans learned that Republican candidate Ted Cruz — the man who jokes about being t
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John King wowed CNN viewers on election night with his deft map skills and his constant references to America's suburbs. But he also caught the internet's attention for something else: lurking.In desk shots of Wolf Blitzer and Jake "Not A Blue Wave" Tapper, King was hanging out in the background li
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Election night 2018 has only just begun in earnest, but the memes are already here.Among them, unsurprisingly, is a Photoshop battle. It began when Jordan Uhl tweeted CNN screenshots featuring two blank lists: the "liberal agenda" if Democrats win big tonight and the "GOP agenda" if Republicans com
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This is An Ode to..., a weekly column where we share the stuff we're really into in hopes that you'll be really into it, too.The internet is rife with touchy viral debates, from the serious to the profoundly stupid. But the one with perhaps the most staying power is one meaty question: Is a hot dog
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Instagram is unsurprisingly trying to make its platform more attractive for students to hang out on.As spotted by computer science student Jane Manchun Wong and reported by TechCrunch, the photo and video sharing app is looking into school Stories. SEE ALSO: Instagram adds 'I voted' stickers t
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A lot can change in two years — just look at the meme taking over Twitter feeds in the day before the midterm elections.The meme encourages people to think back to the day of the 2016 presidential election — a time when millions of Americans happily went to the polls to cast their ballo
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On this day we congratulate Nate Silver, who has discovered that it is frustrating when a man explains your own area of expertise to you.On Sunday, the FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief logged on to complain about "dudes (it's almost *always* dudes) who spend 15 minutes on something you've been study
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Donald Trump played "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses at his West Virginia rally on Friday. Axl Rose is not cool with that.The GNR frontman clarified the band's stance on Trump in a Twitter thread on Saturday. Turns out, they've "formally requested" that the Trump campaign stop using their mus
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Not all memes are relatable. In fact, the best ones are the opposite.The niche meme community has spread like UNIF-brand wildfire on Instagram, with dozens of mostly teenage users posting personalized collage memes every day. (Think starter packs.) These posts aren't meant to make you think "that's
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Far-right group Proud Boys and its founder Gavin McInnes have been banned from Facebook and Instagram.The thinly-veiled white nationalist group used Facebook as a recruiting tool, with numerous groups and pages to organise and attract members.SEE ALSO: Milo Yiannopoulos' Facebook rant shows that de
