The never-ending evolution of words
As more people embrace new methods of communicating, language must evolve to describe those methods. I admit that I do more communicating via Facebook and online instant messaging than I do by phone or even in person. Even the payday loan store is being replaced by [...]
Apostrophes, colons and dashes, oh my!
National Punctuation Day is a holiday like no other. Unlike most holidays that are invented seemingly out of the blue, National Punctuation Day wasn’t created as a business promotion.
It’s sort of like Talk Like a Pirate Day. It doesn’t make anybody any money. It doesn’t [...]
Charles Gibson announces retirement
Charles Gibson, who has worked for ABC News for 34 years and currently anchors “World News” has announced that he will retire at the end of this year. At age 66, the former Congressional correspondent and co-host of “Good Morning America” will retire. Charles Gibson said:
“It has [...]
First things first: Get Facebook friends
I am sure everyone has noticed all of the Facebook profiles popping up that are solely for the purpose of selling something. As you can probably imagine, people see through those pretty quickly. When a company poses as a person and tries to get Twitter [...]
Get free lasagna on National Lasagna Day
Finally, it’s National Lasagna Day! Of course, I had no idea this day even existed until I started reading about places handing out free lasagna. Like most totally arbitrary-sound holidays, this holiday does appear to be totally arbitrary.
I don’t know how long National Lasagna [...]
Baja Fresh free burritos today only
You can get a free burrito at Baja Fresh if you get there before 9 p.m. tonight. Of course, you do have to purchase a drink, but still, who could pass up that deal? Wait, wait! Don’t run out the door yet.
To get your free [...]
This time, it’s Heather Zeo
What is going on here? At what point did our schools become battlegrounds where teachers adopt the roles of sexual predators who take advantage of our youth?
Oh, right. It’s always been that way. However, the perpetrators today are generally more bold – and a heck of [...]
Everyone’s heard of Acai Berries
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Efusjon.com has a great energy drink and compensation plan
I am sure you’ve seen those ads for Acai Berries on your MySpace page or Facebook profile — the ones that say they can help you lose weight.
Although there isn’t a lot [...]
What would I do without the Internet?
I planned for this story to be about how much I love Craigslist. Then I realized that Facebook had a hand in this event as well. Because of these web sites, I now have the perfect couch, and it was downright cheap.
About a month [...]
Huge layoffs at MySpace
This week, social networking giant MySpace eliminated 30 percent of its workforce. Who knew the once-biggest, most well-known and first “major” social networking site would fall victim to the economy?
Perhaps it doesn’t have anything to do with the economy. Maybe the company really did just want to [...]
Job applicants must reveal log-ins, usernames
If you’re reading this story on this Web site, I might assume one of three things:
You have used or are currently using online social media like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.
You are interested in obtaining personal loans and cash advances to give your budget a boost [...]
Whitemart.be wants your login information
Today, if you get a Facebook message that says “check whitemart.be,” don’t do it.
In case you haven’t been faced with this situation before, and thus haven’t read up on how this whitemart.be scam and others work, here’s a little rundown.
Just your run-of-the-mill password theft
So in these [...]
Areps.at wants your Facebook password
Hello, and welcome to round who-knows-how-many of the Facebook phishing scam saga. Today, if you get a Facebook message that says “check areps.at,” don’t do it.
In case you haven’t been faced with this situation before, and thus haven’t read up on how this areps.at scam and [...]
Ignore ‘check 121.im’ messages
I have lost count of how many Facebook scams have been conducted in the past couple of weeks. Facebook users, news readers and anyone who likes a good scam knows already that ponbon.im, 121.im, 151.im and other similar variations are dummy web sites looking to steal your [...]
Keeping tabs on Congress
Americans live in a society where they vote on who they want to represent them in local, state and federal government. This democratic system works well in principle, but the sad truth is that many people either don’t vote or cast their vote without having a good [...]
Internet everywhere
Verizon wireless has launched Novatel’s portable MiFi 2200 personal hotspot gadget, which allows users to carry access to wireless broadband Internet just about everywhere with them.
Anywhere you can pick up a Verizon signal, which is just about everywhere in the country, you can use the MiFi. You don’t even [...]
Phishers steal personal information
Reports have been flooding in about phishing site fbstarter.com. The dummy web site poses as a Facebook login page to get users to type in their usernames and passwords.
We all know that online scams set to steal personal information such as passwords are the first step on [...]
What does it do?
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For $10 per month, My Mobile Watchdog and programs like it document SMS messages and other data sent via smart phones that can be used in court in cases of predation. Hardly personal loan or credit card material, [...]
Good deal for April
For the rest of the month, Snapfish is offering 50 free prints and a 20 percent discount on photo books to its customers, new and returning.
Snapfish, run by Hewlett-Packard, is an online photo storage and printshop. It offers inexpensive photo prints and items such as calenders and [...]