GROSSE POINTE SHORES, Mich. (AP) — Marguerite Joseph can be forgiven for lying about her age on Facebook. The 104-year-old Michigan woman’s granddaughter says Joseph is unable to list her real age on the social media site. Gail Marlow says when she tries inputting her grandmother’s birth year as 1908, Facebook changes it to 1928. […]
Christopher Castillo, the Florida man who made death threats against President Obama back in November was in court facing jurors this week. In the post, Castillo said he would “hunt” the President down and then “kill him and watch the life disappear from his eyes.” This week in court, his attorney James Smith, argued that […]
Whether it’s your boss, co-worker or workload that drives you crazy, employers can no longer penalize you for venting on social media. The New York Times reports that federal regulators recognize workplace complaints and comments on sites like Facebook and Twitter as protected speech. Although it may irritate coworkers and superiors, it is illegal for […]
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man and his sister have reunited 65 years after being separated in foster care thanks to a 7-year-old friend’s Facebook search. Clifford Boyson of Davenport met his sibling, Betty Billadeau, in person Saturday. Billadeau drove up from her home in Florissant, Mo., with her daughter and granddaughter for the reunion […]
Employers in California and Illinois will no longer be able to force their workers to provide their Facebook passwords. The new law is one of 400 state measures created in 2012 that are expected to take effect in 2013. The social media policy will prohibit bosses from asking for password to personal employee accounts as […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A new movement has taken off to honor the 26 people killed at a school in Newtown, Conn. The campaign sparked from a question NBC News correspondent Ann Curry asked herself after Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School: “What can I do?” The answer she arrived at was performing 26 acts of kindness. […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook says it is testing a service that will charge users $1 to guarantee that messages they send to people they are not connected to arrive in users’ inboxes, rather than in an often-ignored folder called “other.” Launched in 2011, the “other” folder is where Facebook routes messages it deems less […]
For many people, social media has become just as essential as toilet paper when going to the bathroom. A new study found that many Americans are so addicted to social media that they can’t even go to the toilet without it. Nielsen’s “State of the Media: Social Media Report” found that a third of Americans […]
ATLANTA (AP) — The parents of a south Georgia college student first learned from Facebook that their daughter had been found dead in a dormitory study room shortly before Thanksgiving. Now, they hope that Facebook and other social media sites can help solve the death of 17-year-old Jasmine Benjamin, which police are investigating as a […]
Chris Paul loves the idea of having a video game based on Beyoncé. Plus more on Facebook, David Petreaus’ sex scandal, and more. Click here to listen to the full Morning Minute. ———- This is Chris Paul from the TJMS running through the top stories in roughly sixty seconds with The Morning Minute. How low […]
After facing an embarrassing loss during the election last week, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is starting to lose supporters. According to DisappearingRomney.com, Romney lost 817 Facebook likes per hour this weekend. Originally, the former Massachusetts governor held 12,135,920 fans as of Election Day. At the time of this posting, the number sits at 12,022,685. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — In Facebook's second quarter as a publicly traded company, the world's largest social media site is juggling the challenge of growing its advertising revenue while maintaining the loyalty of more than 1 billion users. Facebook is expected to report earnings of 11 cents per share on revenue of $1.23 billion after […]
