An Investigation Into Which Websites Your Favorite ‘Star Wars’ Characters...
LucasFilm For all of the technological advances in the galaxy far, far away, the inhabitants of the Star Wars universe have probably managed to avoid becoming internet addicts since they’re constantly...
View ArticleThese Brands Got In The Spirit For ‘Star Wars’ Day
Lucasfilm Star Wars Day is here and there’s no denying that this year’s holiday (Unfortunately it’s not a national holiday yet) is bigger than ever. Everyone from our new favorite lightsaber wielding...
View ArticleLouis C.K. Let His Daughter Lock Him Out Of His Phone For The Greatest Reason
Comedian Louis C.K. surprised everyone with the sudden appearance, then disappearance, of his online-only show Horace and Pete. Although the show took quite the financial toll on its creator, it was...
View ArticleThe Rock Is Launching His Own YouTube Channel To Maintain His Total Social...
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is looking to expand his dominant social media presence by taking the next logical step: his very own YouTube channel. It seems that The Rock and his Seven Bucks digital...
View ArticleTwitter’s New Rules, Explained
Twin Design/Shutterstock After months of rumors, Twitter has revealed the new look of your timeline today. And it’s going to be very, very different. The social-media app is trying to simultaneously...
View ArticleYour MySpace Was Likely Hacked And Nobody Reported It
Getty Image When was the last time you went on MySpace? Maybe it was ten years ago when you finally abandoned your Top 8 for Facebook, or perhaps it was just a few days ago and you wanted to find a...
View ArticleYour Facebook Password Might Be For Sale, And Not Even Facebook Knows About It
Shutterstock Any website is only so secure, and passwords and usernames being leaked to the public have become, unfortunately, a matter of course. Generally, websites quickly inform their users of...
View ArticleFacebook Is Trying To Become More Like Snapchat With A New Timeline Feature
Facebook/Snapchat Facebook just can’t stop messing with its own site, even when that ends poorly for everyone involved. The good news is that their latest change is optional, but it’s also as harmless...
View ArticleFacebook Wants You To Download Its New App Or They Will Delete Your Photos
Shutterstock The still-reigning king of social media is changing rapidly. From recently becoming more like the cool kid on the block to the addition of reaction buttons, Facebook wants to stay relevant...
View Article‘Suicide Squad’ Is More Popular Than Even ‘Star Wars’ Online
Warner Bros.The face of a lady listening to the Frotcast. Suicide Squad is quickly shaping up to be DC’s bid to win back the crowd after everybody went to see Batman V. Superman and nobody really loved...
View ArticleSave Yourself From Embarrassment By Avoiding These Selfie Sins
NBC It’s time to come clean: you definitely take selfies. You can deny it all you want, but I know the truth. Listen, we’ve all had moments when we know that we look fresh to death, and that moment...
View ArticleInstagram Stories V. Snapchat: Just How Alike Are They?
Instagram/Snapchat Facebook wants to be more like Snapchat, since Snapchat is the new hotness among teens, which advertisers crave the attention of. Nowhere, though, is this more obvious than the newly...
View ArticleThe New Frank Ocean Isn’t Out Yet And Social Media Is Reacting Just How You’d...
Getty Image As I sit here writing this sentence, Frank Ocean’s new album, Boys Don’t Cry has yet to be released. A report came out Tuesday morning saying that it would be released Friday, Aug. 5 on...
View ArticleA Woman Parodied Engagement And Baby Announcements By Posing With A Job Offer
The majority of people know what it feels like when you log onto Facebook hoping for the an easy way to distract yourself from work or procrastinate a big project, only to be confronted with every...
View ArticleWhy Can’t Snapchat Solve Its Racism Problem?
Snapchat Snapchat has gone through a bad 24 hours. The popular image-sharing app debuted a new filter, “anime,” that was swiftly criticized for its racist depiction of East Asians and just as swiftly...
View ArticleTwitter’s ‘Quality Filter’ Gets Rid Of Trolls, But There’s A Major Catch
Getty Image Abuse has been a massive problem on Twitter from day one. The harassment campaign against Leslie Jones is the most recent example, and the company finally booted one of its most notorious...
View ArticleCan Instagram’s New Tools Stop Online Harassment In Its Tracks?
ArthurStock / Shutterstock.com Instagram, like any social media service, is no stranger to online harassment. And as we’ve seen before, spotting and stopping harassment is difficult for robots to...
View ArticleTwitter’s New System For Counting 140 Characters Is Coming On September 19
Shutterstock Starting September 19, Twitter is about to see a pretty drastic change. Once limited to 140 characters, Twitter will now go much further, as the company plans to begin rolling out changes...
View ArticleCarrie Brownstein’s New Branded Comedy Sketch Dissects Celebrities And Social...
Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, also of Portlandia fame, recently wrote and directed a short film that focuses on fame, superfans and social media. The story centers around a social media savvy...
View ArticleUnderstanding The Power Of Instagram Over How And What We Eat
Social media has become essential to our daily lives. We use it to chase pikachu (pikachi?) on our phones, we use it to order pizza, and we’re using it to find love more than ever before. So it...
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