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Facebook Bans the Town of Effin, Ireland for Having an Obscene Name
A woman in Ireland is unable to list the name of her hometown on her Facebook profile because it’s Effin, Ireland. Not “f***in’ Ireland”… Effin, Ireland.
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Comedian Patrice O’Neal Has Passed Away, Twitter Is First with the Scoop
Comedian, radio personality and actor Patrice O’Neal passed away at the age of 41 on Monday night. He suffered a stroke in October and never returned to good health.
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William Shatner Wants To Help You Recover From ‘National Unfriend Day’ [VIDEO]
If you got rid of some of your Facebook friends on Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘National Unfriend Day,’ you might be depressed or have second thoughts. William Shatner wants you to know that you’re going to be OK.
In this clip from ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live,’ Shatner guides you through the steps on how to recover from the feelings of denial and fears of being alone that come with Facebook “un-friending.”
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Fun Thanksgiving Greetings To Put On Your Friends’ Facebook Page
The turkeys staff members here at TheFW are thankful for our fabulous readers and want to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving! In the spirit of the season, we’d like to offer a cornucopia of Thanksgiving greetings for you to post and share with the butterballs loved ones in your life. Gobble Gobble!
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Biz Markie and Drew Carey Remind You to ‘Just Unfriend’ Excess Facebook Pals [VIDEO]
Jimmy Kimmel’s 2nd annual ‘National Unfriend Day’ was a success. We’ve already shown you how the Peanuts gang wants you to dump some friends on Facebook, now it’s Biz Markie’s turn.
But he’s not the only celebrity that gets involved.
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Facebook and Twitter Are Harming Our Kids, Says Majority — Survey of the Day
Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media sites have changed the way young people interact with each other, but according to a survey from Poll Position, the majority of Americans don’t think this has been a change for the better.
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10 Things We Wish We Could Opt Out of on Facebook
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Facebook may have changed the way we communicate, keep up with long lost friends and pretend that we're doing actual work in the office, but it has come at a great cost to privacy. Now t
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Ashton Kutcher Abandons Twitter Over Joe Paterno Tweet
Just when we’ve finally gotten over the Kim Kardashian/Kris Humphries split, it looks like there’s a new national nightmare to keep us up at night — Ashton Kutcher has quit Twitter.
Deep breath. We’ll get through this together.
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NFL PLayer Kirk Morrison Gives College Student Free Game Tickets in Exchange for His Twitter Handle
Buffalo Bills’ linebacker Kirk Morrison traded a 20-year-old Canadian business student with the same name as his to an NFL game experience in exchange for the Twitter handle @kirkmorrison.
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Nextdoor Is the Private Social Neighborhood Network [VIDEO]
Despite being called “social media,” sites such as Facebook and Twitter are often used by people who have little face-to-face interaction with one another — even if they’re in the same city. But a new social network called Nextdoor is hoping to change that.
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Jimmy Fallon Teaches Samuel L. Jackson How to Use Twitter [VIDEO]
Though it was once derided as a platform for oversharing geeks, Twitter‘s become so big amongst celebrities, we find ourselves surprised when a boldface name doesn’t have a corresponding Twitter handle. Be-Kangol’d movie star Samuel L. Jackson is the latest celeb to join the social network, and signed up with a little help from prolific tweeter Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s ‘Late Night.’
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Jimmy Kimmel Debuts ‘People Who Farmville’ Movie Trailer [VIDEO]
Are you one of the approximately 75 gazillion people who are addicted to Farmville, cluttering Facebook news feeds with posts about finding a pig or tending crops? Then you might be interested in the Farmville movie Hollywood is developing based on the popular game. Not content to wait, Jimmy Kimmel debuted a (fake) teaser trailer last night on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live.’