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Teen(ager)s, Social Media, and Privacy

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Pew Internet has a few reports showing that "Teens are sharing more info(rmation) about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties (such as businesses or advertisers) accessing their data ..."

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1A4 Studio's Animated Movie Videos

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1A4 Studio's YouTube channel shows a few short animated videos based on old movies with spoilers.

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Epic Rap Battles of History

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Epic Rap Battles (ERB) of History and its YouTube channel (not all of them are there) have a bunch of funny, cussy, and offensive rap/hip hop music videos that "features comedic rap battles between historical and/or pop culture figures..."

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GeoGuessr -- A game that uses Google Maps Street View...

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MrILoveTheAnts shared GeoGuessr -- "a game that uses Google Maps' Street View. Basically it puts you somewhere randomly in the world and asks you to guess where in the world you are. Points are awarded based on how close you were to being correct."

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Back2Back Commander / Battle Cards

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Blue's News shared a turn based Flash card game titled "Back2Back Commander" on Games For Work and its official web site, Battle Cards, which has more features like online multiplayer -- "Play your cards right to defend and attack rockets. Kill enemy or lift off to win." and "Massively multiplayer realtime card strategy game."

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TV.com's Autumn/Fall 2013 Television/TV Schedule, Day by Day

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TV.com assembled a day-by-look at the overall schedule for Americans' television/TV autumn/fall 2013 to compare what goes against what, and made a few predictions with regard to how things will shake out.

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The Inbox -- If Spam Messages Were Delivered By Real People

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HardOCP shared an almost 3.75 minutes hilarious YouTube video titled "The Inbox" showing what "if spam messages were delivered by real people".

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What did you think of The Office (United States/U.S.) series finale?

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43 Things That Will Make You Feel Old

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Blue's News shared a BuzzFeed article, with images, showing "43 Things That Will Make You Feel Old

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Lost Fluid -- A simple and short Flash game.

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Blue's News shared a very short Flash puzzle game titled "Lost Fluid" on Free Web Arcade and its official web site, JJWallace Games -- "Crash land on a lonely planet!"

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Shorpy -- Historical Photo Archive | Vintage Fine Art Prints

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Lucky760 mentioned Shorpy showing its collection

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Please Remain Calm -- A simple Flash game.

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Reddit shared a simple addicting Flash game titled "Please Remain Calm" on Newgrounds -- "Navigate from the top of each level to the door located at the bottom. Avoid being killed by enemies, falls, and the black hole. Coins can be used as a projectile, killing enemies and stunning the black hole as well as offering a small boost when shot downwards. After level 5, you will have to climb upwards for 5 levels. Beating level 10 will be the overall goal, with # of coins and time spent being used as criteria for scoring."

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A Facebook Update In Real Life

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Symbolset's /. comment/reply shared a hilarious 2.5 minutes YouTube video titled "A Facebook Update In Real Life

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Clowns?

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Star Wars Informercials! (Parody/Spoof)

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Dorkly shared a funny 2.5 minutes YouTube video parody/spoof showing "Star Wars informercials! ...

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Game Fails

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Game Fails' YouTube channel has a collection of YouTube videos (some have cussings and not suitable for sensitives due to what were shown) showing "the finest in video game fails submitted ..."

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Words that last ...

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Boing Boing shared The Washington Post with very short Flash audio clips -- "Words that last ... identified 23 'ultraconserved words' that have remained largely unchanged for 15,000 years. Words that sound and mean the same thing in different languages are called 'cognates'. These are five words that have cognates in at least four of the seven Eurasiatic language families..."

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The "CSI Effect"

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Auric_dude's /. comment mentioned an over two years old Economist article on "The 'CSI effect' -- Television/TV dramas that rely on forensic science to solve crimes are affecting the administration of justice ..."

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Do you still use instant messages (IMs)?

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