Bang With Friends Meme Makes An Appearance At SXXXSW

bwswsxThe one night stand is proof that human beings, despite our fancy computational glasses and smart fridges and our affinity for “higher learning,” are still animals. And where else to live like an animal but the Wild Wild West of Austin, TX, host to yet another very sexy SXSW conference?

Luckily for SXSW attendees, Bang With Friends is bringing a new product to SXSW, called (you guessed it) Bang With SXSW. A quick trip to www.sxsw.bangwithfriends.com lands you back at BWF, and after connecting you’ll see available SXSWers who’ve registered with the service, along with your usual Facebook friends.

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The Science Behind Why The Harlem Shake Is So Popular

Harlem Shake Cat MemeA five-minute video? Ain’t nobody got time for that. Not to watch one, or to make one. But the Harlem Shake dance videos are capped at 30 seconds. That’s why we’re so willing to watch just one more incarnation, and why it’s easy to recruit friends to make them. The result is one of the most pervasive gags in history. A “Symbiotic Meme”, the Harlem Shake has a lesson to teach all content creators.

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Bald Beliebers Remind Us: Just Because You Read It On Twitter, Doesn’t Mean It’s True

bieberbaldMy mom always said that the most dangerous lies are the ones mixed with truth. That’s why the internet, namely Twitter, can be such a spurious environment. We sometimes forget that with the real-time, viral benefits of the short-winded social network come the same negative effects. Truth can spread like wildfire, and so can lies.

Today, the Bieber nation has learned that lesson. Behold, dear readers, the horror.

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Bald Beliebers Remind Us: Just Because You Read It On Twitter, Doesn’t Mean It’s True

bieberbaldMy mom always said that the most dangerous lies are the ones mixed with truth. That’s why the internet, namely Twitter, can be such a spurious environment. We sometimes forget that with the real-time, viral benefits of the short-winded social network come the same negative effects. Truth can spread like wildfire, and so can lies.

Today, the Bieber nation has learned that lesson. Behold, dear readers, the horror.

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_______ Are Like Facebook: The Simple, Effective Parody Site For Facebook’s Glitzy Ad Campaign

Screen Shot 2012-10-16 at 11.47.42 AMDoes Facebook’s first major video ad campaign confuse you? You know, that commercial that compares Facebook to chairs?

You’re not the only one. Not only has there been a video send-off of the ad using toilets instead chairs, there’s now a dead simple site that now lets you generate your own parody of one of the shots from the commercial.

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Facebook Hid Your Real Email Address, Change It Back Before Your Friends iOS 6 Contact Sync

Facebook EmailMillions of people are downloading iOS 6 right now, and many will use the Facebook contact sync feature to pull in photos and current phone numbers. But rather than your real email address they’re going to pull in hundreds of @facebook.com addresses. These addresses don’t actually deliver to your email, but instead to your Facebook Messages Inbox.

Why? Because with little notice, Facebook changed everyone’s email address visibility settings in June to hide the Gmail or other addresses we purposefully shared with friends, leaving just our @facebook.com addresses. If you don’t want to miss out on email from friends, here’s how you undo Facebook’s change.

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How To Undo Facebook Hiding Your Email Address Before Your Friends Use iOS 6 Contact Sync

Facebook EmailMillions of people are downloading iOS 6 right now, and many will use the Facebook contact sync feature to pull in photos and current phone numbers of friends. But rather than your real email address, they’re going to pull in hundreds of @facebook.com addresses. These addresses don’t actually deliver to your email, but instead to your Facebook Messages Inbox.

Why? Because with little notice, Facebook changed everyone’s email address visibility settings in June to hide the Gmail or other addresses we purposefully shared with friends, leaving just our @facebook.com addresses. If you don’t want to miss out on email from friends, here’s how you undo Facebook’s change.

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