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Stuff you didn’t know you could do on Facebook

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Did you know you can add a pronunciation guide to your name on Facebook? Overlay colorful text on the photos you post? How about mark the end of a relationship without your 500 closest friends getting notified? Many of these tips and tricks aren’t well known, even to veterans of the 1.5 billion-strong people-connector and time-waster. Facebook is constantly updating its service, adding new features or tweaking old ones. A lot can slip through the cracks even if you are…

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Pinellas gymnastics coach accused of duct-taping student’s mouth shut and posting pictures to Facebook

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If you’re a coach and you decide to duct tape a kid’s mouth shut and then post pictures of it to Facebook and that kid’s mom used to be a lawyer, you’re going to have a bad time. That’s what Lori Palmieri accuses her daughter’s gymnastics coach of doing. Palmieri is now suing Tracy Maggiacomo, the coach, and her employer, Victory Gymnastics Training Center in Oldsmar, for damages suffered by her daughter, Marisa Palmieri, from being “exploited” by the photos.…

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Facebook expects to be major player in 2016 political advertising

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Pretty much every Facebook user has by now realized the ads on the sides of the page aren’t random. They’re for vacation spots you may have Googled or clothing similar to something previously purchased online. Gearing up toward 2016, those ads, and sponsored posts embedded in news feeds, will likely become increasingly political. Facebook has reached out to every single 2016 presidential campaign and even some down-ballot ones in anticipation of $1 billion in political advertising. Those ads will target…

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Rainbow Facebook photos: Armchair activism or shifting tide?

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You may have noticed your Facebook friends getting considerably more colorful. More than 26 million Facebook profile photos have taken on a rainbow hue in the days since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that marriage is a right guaranteed under the Constitution regardless of a person’s sexual orientation. People have been covering their profile photos with the Facebook-supplied overlay that uses the best-known symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights movement: the rainbow. Call it armchair…

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Twitter’s twists and turns – can it keep flying?

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The Pope is on Twitter, along with the Dalai Lama, world leaders and, of course, Kim Kardashian. The short-messaging service can bring fleeting fame, instant ignominy and get you fired. It has been credited for sparking revolutions and, like Facebook, transforming the way the world communicates. But despite the buzz generated by thousands of chatty journalists, athletes and celebrities, Twitter has never turned a profit. Its user base of 302 million is dwarfed by rivals such as Facebook, which counts…

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Millennials use Facebook for politics more than older generations

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Facebook is the most used source for political news among the Millennial generation, according to a new Pew Research report. More than 60 percent of people between 18 and 33 surveyed said they get their political news from the popular social media site during any given week. That number nearly mirrors the source of political news for the older Baby Boomer generation (50-68) who turn to TV news. Meanwhile, only about 39 percent of Baby Boomers rely on Facebook for…

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Internet companies oppose Florida proposals to regulate web

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Some Florida lawmakers want to impose state-level regulations on the free-wheeling online world, and are drawing opposition from some of the nation’s biggest Internet companies including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Ebay. The conflict is over two proposed laws. One would affect who controls a person’s email and social media accounts and the secrets they may contain when the owner dies or becomes incapacitated. The other would make the state a combatant against Internet piracy of music and movies. The bills’…

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