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Joanna Weiss

Facebook update: it's become boring, so we need a break

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Joanna Weiss This is a milestone in our growing relationship with social media.

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Like it or not, Facebook posts could cost your job

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Emeline Gaske With technological advances have come greater intrusions into the private lives of workers.

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Dannielle Miller

The toxic message in Facebook teen health and fitness sites

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Dannielle Miller Thousands of girls are being sucked into an online trend to be skinny.

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Danny Katz

Lonely life of a Facebook widower is enough to make anyone feel so :(

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Danny Katz She won't get off her flipping Facebook. She's on it first thing in the morning, she's on it at the end of the day, she's on it every spare moment she can find, and we don't know what to do about it.

Annabel Crabb

You might not like it, but you and Facebook are worst friends forever

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Annabel Crabb Your funky pal is copyrighting the words Face and Book - and using your life for commercial gain.

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Annabel Crabb

With friends like Facebook ...

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Annabel Crabb The news last week that Facebook had bumped millions of unsuspecting users on to new and unwanted ''Facebook'' email addresses reminded me to remind you of something: Facebook is not your friend.

Paul Sheehan

Facebook's new baby is picture perfect

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Paul Sheehan The company makes no profits. It has little revenue. It has just 13 employees and they have not yet worked out how to make money from their product, which they give away.

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Heckler

Oh, the skills I had in the days before Facebook

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Heckler I'M ''RAMPING ON'' at present - that's the new jargon for looking for a job after not having had one for a while.

Lachlan Riches

Facebook and the office: Drawing a line

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Lachlan Riches Two people, in this big wide interconnected online world of ours, start a weblog every second. Add this to the phenomenal growth in Facebook, Twitter and other online forums and it’s clear that the...

Peter Hartcher

Facebook, thymos and the triumph of the individual

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Peter Hartcher Eleven months ago Facebook Inc was valued at $US11.5 billion by a marketplace for shares in companies that, like Facebook, are not publicly listed on the main stock exchanges.

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Paul Sheehan

Fake or fact? Shining the light on the Facebook phenomenon

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Paul Sheehan Fifteen hundred friends! He wouldn't know 1500 people! The insecure little p----.'' This is my hairdresser, harrumphing last week about one of his friends, a flight attendant, who lists 1500...

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Heckler

Facebook cull is a hard task

Heckler CULLING Facebook friends is like quitting smoking. Friends who you care nothing about are quite obviously not good for you.

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Lisa Pryor

Warning: Granddad's on the Facebook with daggy snaps

Lisa Pryor Like a plague of package tourists stumbling on to a beach during a full moon party, old people have found Facebook.

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Peter FitzSimons

Too many nutters spoil political broth

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Peter FitzSimons But who is to take the mantle now that One Nation has imploded?

We're stuck with a ticket to deride

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Adam Carey After a long, excruciating gestation, myki finally became Melbourne's only ticket to ride last Saturday.

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Simon Castles

Alone together with the Kindle

Can you judge a person by their book cover?

Simon Castles The woman opposite me on the tram is reading. Instinctively, I look to see what she is reading. This is a public transport pastime, after all, something commuters have been doing for as long as there...

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Andrew Darby

Bushfire tweets rival traditional warnings

Twitter picture of bushfire east of Hobart posted by Tasmanian MP, Rebecca White.

Andrew Darby Tweets by ordinary Tasmanians provided some of the best graphic early warnings. So what does that mean for emergency warning systems?

Simon Chapman

Whiff of desperation as tobacco lobby loses its puff over packaging

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Simon Chapman Australia's historic plain packaging became law on December 1, with the quinella seeing us graduate to also have the world's largest graphic health warnings.

John Birmingham

Rice and shine, your sleep-ins are over

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John Birmingham Man, what was Steph Rice thinking? All those medals and sponsor bucks not enough for her?

Jen Vuk

What if your daughter's idol is a porn star?

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Jen Vuk James Deen may be cast as a romantic, but the reality is much uglier.

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