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Anonymous Wants To Destroy Facebook

Twitter​Anonymous, the shady-yet-principled hacktivist group that has previously hacked into Iran's government emails, the Pentagon, possibly the IMF, News Corp, Anders Breivik's Twitter account, and much more, has a new target in its crosshairs: Facebook. The hackers have set the date for Fac ... More >>

Food Trucks Have Now Been Appropriated by the Solar Industry

Sungevity/FacebookIce pops, and geese.​Even if the city has decided it hates food trucks, the solar industry still loves them.

Naked Bike Ride Set for Sunday

via​Because we know you've all been waiting for it, we are happy to report that the World Naked Bike Ride is happening Sunday. Postponed in June because of inclement weather, the ride will depart from East River Park near Houston Street at 4 p.m. The event's Facebook page declares: "Bare as yo ... More >>

Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!

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Facebook Facial Recognition Technology Being Probed By EU; Plus, How to Turn It Off!

via​Facebook will be investigated by the European Union's sector on data protection, Bloomberg reports this afternoon, because of new facial recognition technology added to profiles that users have to opt out of through a typically convoluted security settings process. Yes, again. Facebook's l ... More >>

Facebook Feelings Are Contagious

​Of the many powers of Facebook, one you might not have guessed is that if your friends are feeling sad or happy or cranky or whatever on Facebook, you will probably feel that way too. This is an argument for only having awesome, happy friends on Facebook, so that you can catch only awesomenes ... More >>

Grubwithus Allows You to Pay to Eat With Strangers Without Difficulty

​Do you hate your friends and would rather eat with a bunch of strangers instead of them? Would you like to shell out thirty dollars to do so? There's a new application called Grubwithus which is built just for you. Basically, it lists a bunch of meals organized by people using the service, for wh ... More >>

Facebook Tried to Plant Negative Press About Google

​A secretive story has been bubbling in Silicon Valley this week, in which the PR firm Burson-Marsteller pitched anti-Google articles to national newspapers on behalf of some unnamed client. Google, they claimed, has privacy issues that the American people should know about -- but it was far f ... More >>

R.I.P. Mia Amber Davis, Plus-Size Model and Road Trip Comic Seductress

via FacebookMia Amber Davis, plus-sized model, size-positive blogger, and the underwear-clad full-figured seductress from Road Trip, has passed away. Earlier today, the subject of our recent feature Guys Who Like Fat Chicks chose the actress, model, and producer as one of the Fat Community's most be ... More >>

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Xi'an Famous Foods Will Go Big With a Second Chinatown Location

Robert SietsemaPlentiful and pungent savory lamb noodles.​A few months after sending out a Facebook message asking its fans for information on available storefronts in Manhattan and Williamsburg, Xi'an Famous Foods has officially announced the imminent opening of its fifth location.

Facebook Triggers Hormone That Makes You Feel Like You're Falling in Love

​Here is incontrovertible proof that Mark Zuckerberg is an evil, evil man: Scientists now believe that Facebook triggers oxytocin, also known as the "love" or "cuddle" hormone, which basically makes you feel like you're falling in love and that the world is a beautiful place full of butterflie ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg Might Have Promised Someone 50% of Facebook in Emails From 2003

​Everyone giggled a little bit when Paul Ceglia said he was the rightful owner of half of Facebook based on a promise from founder Mark Zuckerberg back in 2003. "If you had invented Facebook, you would've invented Facebook," and all that. The plaintiff waited until 2010 to file his lawsuit and ... More >>

Anti-Gay Activist Actually Loves Gay Marriage

​There's an adage about intelligent people changing their minds, so maybe anti-gay activist Louis J. Marinelli is smarter than we thought. He formerly served as the National Organization For Marriage's tour organizer and social media expert, and writes that he "spent the last five years puttin ... More >>

Winklevii Row Out of Court Losers; Zuckerberg Wins Again

​It's a sad day for millionaire identical twin Olympians everywhere: Forbes reports a federal appeals court has ordered Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to accept their $65 million settlement with Facebook. That means no more suing Mark Zuckerberg. This is the part of the post where we are legally ... More >>

Teacher Faces Lawsuit After Friends Mock Student's 'Jolly Rancher Hairdo' on Facebook

via​Have you heard of the Jolly Rancher Hairdo? This is a hairdo in which Jolly Ranchers are tied to the ends of the hair. How could any kid, or candy fanatic, not love this hairstyle? When a seven-year-old student at a Chicago school excitedly sported it for picture day after seeing the style ... More >>

Your Facebook Friends Hate You

​Being on Facebook can be an exercise in self-punishment, whether that means obsessively spying on your friends' baby pictures and envying their "perfect life" or constantly monitoring your ex's wall. We all know this, and yet no one really talks about it. Until now. There's a survey that has ... More >>

Facebook Sued By Grieving Staten Island Parents

​Caroline Wimmer was murdered by Calvin Lawson in her home in 2009. While Lawson was sentenced to 25 years to life this past summer, Wimmer's parents' legal battles continue over the photos of Wimmer's dead body that were posted onto Facebook by the EMT who handled her corpse. Mark Musarella, ... More >>

Facebook Ads To Get Even More Invasive

​Mark Zuckerberg's personal mission to sell thing you things is now even more next-level than it was previously, as Facebook has long delivered "targeted ads" to users based on anything you put into the site, from interests to wall posts to status messages. Now testing with 1% of Facebook user ... More >>

Facebook Apps Will Hook You Up With Your Friends, Painlessly

​After Facebook rapidly pulled stalker app Breakup Notifier, which would notify you whenever the objects of your affection changed their relationship status (i.e., became free to date you), it seems like new Facebook dating apps are popping up all over the place. Once of them, called iWould, a ... More >>

Yes, You Can Order Di Fara on Facebook, as Long as It's a Day in Advance

Paul Lowry/Flickr​Earlier today, Slice noticed that Di Fara, the Midwood pizzeria whose legendary pies are matched by its legendary lines, had started taking orders over Facebook.

Drag Star Laments Reality Show Editing

​ RuPaul's Drag Race's beauty Manila Luzon just posted this wail of woe on Facebook: "Puh-leeeezzzzz! Why do they show me crying my eyes out cuz I bombed a joke? "Firrrst, you can take a guess why I am crying my eyes out in the interview room. Second, I didn't bomb no jokes. "Thirrrdly, wh ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg's Dog Has a Facebook Page; We Actually Just Wrote That

via Forbes​Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend have a new pooch you can man's-best-friend! [Christ, these words are going to be recorded for posterity.] Forbes reports that his name is "Beast," and the precocious Puli has his very own Facebook page. He's the most adorable on-li ... More >>

You Might Want to Take Your Phone Number Off Your Facebook Profile

​Facebook is about to make you mad. Facebook is about to make you storm off to your computer (oh, wait, you're already here?) and go into your profile settings, and very nearly delete yourself from Facebook, except how would you live with yourself not knowing which of the popular girls from hi ... More >>

Facebook Now Useful Tool for Hookers

​So Facebook is essentially a seedy motel in Times Square now, what with the spammers crowding your wall and all the prostitutes hanging out. Because according to a Columbia sociology professor, Facebook is the new Craigslist for hookers. So -- Facebook can't deal with arty nude drawings, but ... More >>

Runnin' Scared Liveblogs the Oscars

These aren't blurry Facebook photos or anything.​Hey -- the Oscars are tonight. Jen Doll and I will be liveblogging it here, so read it or else. We have a lot of opinions even though we've seen four of the Best Picture nominees between us, and I'm the one who has seen those four. White wine wi ... More >>

Facebook Stalker App Creator Launches "Crush Notifier"

​The inventor of the creepy Facebook Breakup Notifier, Dan Loewenherz, will not be censored in the wake of Facebook's ban of the app. His new project, the Crush Notifier, allows you to "crush" your friends without their knowledge. If they "crush" you back, you are both notified of the mutual c ... More >>

Facebook Shuts Down Breakup Notifier. Here Are 7 Other Ways to Stalk the Person You Love.

​Damn. Just when we had the object of our unrequited affection all picked out and ready to begin one-sidedly and creepily interacting with on the Internet, we've learned that Facebook has dashed our fondest hopes of sweeping in immediately pending his breakup and making him ours, all ours! [Di ... More >>

10 Rules for Reacting to Facebook Break-Up Notifications

​Last week, an old friend we hadn't spoken to for a long time announced on Facebook that she was getting a divorce. She didn't do so by writing a message. Rather, she simply changed her relationship status from "married" to "single." (She also dropped her husband's last name for her maiden nam ... More >>

Egyptian Man Names Daughter 'Facebook'

via​A young Egyptian man has honored Facebook's important role in the recent protests by naming his daughter after the social network. According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, newborn Facebook Jamal Ibrahim "received many gifts from the youth who were overjoyed by her arrival and the new name ... More >>

Digitally Inclined Hookers Choose Facebook

​Just because you're a prostitute doesn't mean you're on Facebook, and just because you're on Facebook doesn't mean you're a prostitute (it doesn't!), but there does seem to be a link between the two, at least according to a sociology professor at Columbia. Sudhir Venkatesh says that 25 percen ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg Has a Facebook Stalker

​Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has filed a restraining order against Pradeep Manukonda, 31, after a series of very dark Facebook messages -- "please help me, then I am ready to die for you... Please understand my pain" -- and repeated uninvited visits to the Facebook offices in Palo Alto, T ... More >>

Runnin' Scared Is on Facebook. Like Us! Please?

​Mark Zuckerberg may have a Facebook stalker in real life, but we're still waiting for ours to show up! You'd do a better job of stalking us IRL if you become our friend first. So, like our Facebook page. Follow us on Twitter: @RunninScaredNYC. And make sure to write us creepy letters about ou ... More >>

It Is Hard to Get Over Someone When You Keep Online Stalking Them

​Boy, does technology make stuff complicated these days! For instance, in the old days, you'd get dumped by someone and then never have to see his face again, except on the off-chance that you were scavenging about the grocery store having not showered for the past two days, and he was shoppin ... More >>

Your Mom Is Bogarting Your Facebook Friends

​Have you ever had the rather awkward, mortifying experience of realizing that someone far older than you -- someone who should, at least stereotypically, be far worse at technology than you, and someone who may, in fact, be related to you -- has way more Facebook friends than you? According t ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Again Tries to Shock, Threatening to Picket 9-Year-Old Shooting Victim's Funeral

Christina Taylor Green​The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas -- the hate-mongering funeral protesters who've picketed or threatened to picket the funerals of Elizabeth Edwards, soldiers who've died in Iraq, and people who've died of AIDS, among others -- are taking their efforts to pis ... More >>

The Facebook Craze Is Skipping Japan

​The New York Times has addressed Mark Zuckerberg's apparent global domination in an article called "Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan," which points out that Facebook has actually failed to win Japan. Although Goldman Sachs just valued the company at $50 billion dollars, the Japanese ... More >>

Facebook, LinkedIn Racing to Go Public

​Facebook, which the Wall Street Journal calls "one of the world's hottest technology companies" (have you heard?), will likely go public this year as its shareholders surpass 500 in number, forcing the company to either disclose its financial information "or go public by April 2012." This com ... More >>

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Vows to Lose 57 Pounds, Will Facebook and Tweet All About It

​Just a week ago Newark Mayor and "social media darling" Cory Booker was digging out his own citizens a tweet at a time, subsisting on Diet Coke and Advil, and becoming the hands-down hero of Snow-pocalypse 2010. Now he's taken to Facebook and Twitter with another cause: He plans to hit 240 ( ... More >>

Facebook Crashes Site With Test of Profile Update, New "Memories" Feature

​Facebook went down a little while ago (it seems to have been restored) due to a test of a massive update to the site, Mashable and numerous Twitterers are now reporting. All profiles will ultimately be updated to the new version with the row of pictures on top. Of course, there are a bunch of ... More >>

90-Year-Old Nom Wah Tea Parlor Is Being Renovated, Has a Facebook Page

Nom Wah Tea Parlor/Facebook​Nom Wah Tea Parlor has sat on Doyers Street since 1920, surviving both DOH closures and the opening of nearby theme bars. According to Bowery Boogie, the parlor is currently undergoing a renovation that will hopefully reinvigorate it for another 90 years. It's being ... More >>

McSorley's Cat Is Being Sued and Has a Facebook Page

via Minnie McSorley/Facebook​It has come to our attention via awesome East Village blogger (and our Best Neighborhood Blog winner) EV Grieve that Minnie McSorley, the cat who lives at McSorley's Ale House (who's recently been sued by a woman who claims that Minnie attacked her and left her wit ... More >>

Walmart Sends the Jews Glad Chanukah Tidings

Origin uncertain/Facebook​ Hey, at least they spelled 'Chanukah' correctly. Have a tip or restaurant-related news? Send it to fork@villagevoice.com.

Columbia University Warns Students Against Mentioning WikiLeaks in Public

Not a Columbia grad​The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University sent out an email warning students not to talk about WikiLeaks on the internet if they hope to ever work in the State Department. The school, which aims to construct new diplomats from scraps of old diplo ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg to Debut New Facebook Profile Page Tonight on 60 Minutes

​Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will use Sunday's episode of 60 Minutes like one giant commercial for his company, unveiling the new profile page design on the air. Above is a screenshot of the episode's preview, giving us the pleasure of a first glimpse. In the clip Zuckerberg is described ... More >>

Sound of the City Is Now on Facebook!

​Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we've finally joined the 21st Century--please like us on Facebook, where we've just signed up, after seeing a little movie called The Social Network. And, as always, you can follow us on Twitter too, at @soundofthecity. If you don't, we'll shoot this adorable baby p ... More >>

Facebook to Introduce "Gmail Killer" Email

​Facebook is the place for your friends, your farms...and starting soon, it will be the place for your email. According to TechCrunch, the email client is expected to be announced on Monday during a special event Mark Zuckerberg is hosting in California.

Prude New York Times Blows Chance For Killer Internet Slideshow

Krystal Ball, Politican​Sunday's paper includes a fascinating Style section think-piece entitled "The Facebook Skeletons Come Out" about all of the 2010 politicians with embarrassing photos floating around online. "I think all of us know that politicians would have to confront the Facebook ske ... More >>

Must-Reads: Is Technology Bringing Us Down? Zadie Smith and David Carr Discuss

​This weekend, essays in the New York Review of Books and the New York Times tackle giant questions about the hold technology has on our daily lives. Zadie Smith's "Generation Why?" is ostensibly a review of David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network, but it is much more. It is a disc ... More >>

Nursing Is Gay, and Other Things Marketers Know About You Via Facebook

​Online advertisers target Facebook users based on information Facebook claims not to share, according to two new research papers reported on in today's New York Times. The most jarring of the findings indicates that online marketers "cater" to users based on criteria like sexual preference, d ... More >>