Topic: Facebook
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Maps
Researchers Can Tell How Healthy Your Neighborhood Is From Your Facebook Page
Tracking obesity rates based on your interest in outdoor fitness, health and wellness, and television.
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Toilet Tuesday
A Startling Number of Americans Use Social Media in the Toilet
Also in this Toilet Tuesday: researchers discover that men experience more "stress" than women when using public bathrooms.
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How Facebook and Twitter Are Making Developing World Cities Better
The governments of virtually all large Latin American cities now use social media to engage with citizens, and smaller cities are quickly following suit.
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Videos
A Jacket That Hugs You For Getting Facebook 'Likes'
Say hello to the saddest clothing in the world.
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What Facebook's New Campus Design Tells Us About the Company
It explains a lot about how the tech giant sees itself.
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How Facebook and Twitter Are Helping the Homeless
Connecting through social networks can make it easier to be homeless and easier to escape homelessness.
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The Book-Burning Campaign That Saved a Public Library
A social media hoax outwitted an anti-tax group and galvanized voters in Troy, Michigan.
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Graphic of the Day: The World's Most 'Social' Landmarks
The locations where Facebook users check-in the most.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Italian Town Outlaws Death
Also, Boston hates moshpits; an Illinois town repeals Prohibition; New York City's teachers should stay far away from Facebook.
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The Social Media Avalanche and the Mayoral Communications Office
As criticism over the handling of Occupy camps heated up, not every mayor's office was prepared to deal with an international outpouring of negative opinion
