Sorry, singletons, but dating-site algorithms are fairly meaningless
Tinder released an updated version of its matching algorithm Wednesday, a "big change" that CEO Sean Rad has been hyping for the past week. In a blog post, Tinder offered...
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Behold the weird, transgressive world of Halloween makeup blogging
Beauty blogging is a massive, multibillion dollar industry that consumes the time and eyeballs of millions of people. There are nearly 15 billion beauty videos on YouTube, alone — with...
Google is making you more forgetful
Quartz flagged an interesting report with an ominous name on Thursday: According to research by the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, "digital amnesia" is gradually blotting out our brains. The report...
Everyone you know will be able to rate you on ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not
You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online. So the most surprising thing about Peeple - basically Yelp, but for humans - may...
How to see everyone who’s unfriended you on Facebook (and everywhere else)
In the era of the quantified, commodified "friendship," there are few slights so keenly felt as the unspoken, unacknowledged unfriend. Now, for better or worse, you can revel in your...
Always click the first Google result? You might want to stop doing that
When you go to Google for anything, be it a weather report or a phone number or an explanation of string theory, you assume that the top results will always...
More than 26 million people have changed their Facebook picture to a rainbow flag
In the wake of a landmark Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a right nationwide, a whopping 26 million people slapped a rainbow flag over their Facebook photos to...
If you use Facebook to get your news, please — for the love of democracy — read this first
Facebook's 1.44 billion users rely on the site for lots of things: keeping in touch, sharing photos, casual stalking. But if you get your political news through Facebook, as more...
2 million misinformed Internet-shamers just upstaged a bride at her own wedding
Two weeks ago, an Iowa man committed the wedding faux pas seen — quite literally — around the world. A single photo, posted first to Imgur and later to Reddit,...
2 million misinformed Internet-shamers just upstaged a bride at her own wedding
Two weeks ago, an Iowa man committed the wedding faux pas seen — quite literally — around the world. A single photo, posted first to Imgur and later to Reddit,...