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A 2015 survey of UK divorce lawyers found Facebook cited in over a third of cases — as evidence of infidelity, hidden finances, and rekindled old flames.
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In 2014, Suchitra Sharma asked why parents perform their children's achievements on Facebook. The humblebrag is older now — and bigger. From the TI archives.
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In October 2014, Mark Zuckerberg visited India to address the Internet.org summit and meet PM Modi — his bid to connect the world's 5 billion offline.
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In September 2014, Facebook tested scheduled post deletion on iOS — borrowing Snapchat's core idea. TI's 2014 take on ephemeral social media, from the archives.
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Facebook made us put our 'game face' on all the time — and a 2013 University of Michigan study found the more we used it, the worse we felt.
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A 2013 CNNMoney report revealed startups like Lenddo and Kreditech were weighing your Facebook friends when deciding whether you get a loan.
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Employers screen candidates on social media before hiring. Here's what to never post — and what actually helps your personal brand.
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Cambridge researchers predicted users' sexuality, politics, and more from Facebook likes alone — with startling accuracy. What the 2013 study found.
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Hyderabad CID arrested a Mahindra Satyam software engineer at Shamshabad airport for allegedly hacking a former colleague's email and making fake Facebook
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Bravery-award winner Henna Bakshi was booked under the IT Act for allegedly abusive posts on Chandigarh traffic police's Facebook page after her stolen-car
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In July 2012, reports said Facebook would launch a job-postings board aggregating listings from BranchOut, Jobvite, and Work4 Labs — a light step into
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The 2012 internet loved 'never post this on Facebook' lists. The unasked question was harder: what is social media actually for?
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Mark Zuckerberg cashed out 30.2 million Facebook shares in the May 2012 IPO — about $1.15 billion, most of it earmarked for the tax bill on his stock options.
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After a flat debut, Facebook's stock fell 11% on its second day of trading in May 2012 — and Wall Street's verdict on the bungled IPO was blunt.
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Facebook's $16 billion IPO debuted in May 2012 to Nasdaq glitches and a flat close at $38.23 — and the Drudge Report's verdict was brutal: 'IPO gives no
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Former Harvard president Larry Summers finally said what he thought of the Winklevoss twins at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference — and the twins answered
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By the end of 2010, Facebook had crossed 500 million users and left MySpace behind. The network effect made leaving a genuine social cost.
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A darkly comic 2010 meme linked Goldman Sachs, the Nigerian scam, and Facebook quizzes. Its point was serious: information asymmetry all the way down.
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Facebook Addiction Disorder was a 2009 media invention, not a real diagnosis. Compulsive social media use is studied - but FAD was never in any manual.
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With Facebook nearing 500 million users, one feed now reaches your boss, your clients, and your grandmother. What not to post to all of them at once.
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At 26, the Facebook founder was named TIME's 2010 Person of the Year. Why the choice was right — and why it made so many people uncomfortable.
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Admissions officers were checking applicants’ Facebook profiles by 2010. On privacy, protected characteristics, and the channel that was never meant for
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Project Titan revealed: Facebook Messages — unified inbox, no subject lines, @facebook.com addresses. Zuckerberg said it was 'not an email killer.'
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In November 2010 Google blocked Facebook from importing Gmail contacts — the opening shot of the data-protectionist wars between the two giants.
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