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An Argument For Not Blocking Your Ridiculously Stupid And/Or Racist Facebook Friends

The last two weeks of November produced a vortex of news stories (Ferguson, Cosby, Ray Rice) everyone seems to have an opinion on. And, when everyone seems to have an opinion on something, that “everyone” includes “stupid and/or insensitive and/or racist motherfuckers.” Nowhere was this more evident than it was on Facebook, as these weeks…

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Damon Young

Published

December 1, 2014
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Facebook Testing "Satire" Tag, And It's All Because Of Your Cousins

One of the many micro-aggressions that regularly occur for Black folks on Facebook is having to witness several shock-inducing status updates with “exclusive” news on their timelines, linking to shady websites and claiming it as truth. George Zimmerman selling a Trayvon Martin painting. Some “hidden” video of a rich Asian man exposing Black folks and…

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Roll Call

Published

August 19, 2014
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Facebook Goes Down, Eduardo Saverin Does Shmoney Dance In Celebration

Ok. This didn’t really happen. Facebook did really go down at around noon, but there’s no footage of Eduardo Saverin or the Winklevoss twins doing the Shmoney Dance in celebration. But…there’s no footage of them not doing it either. So, who knows? Still, we can dream. Roll Call is a daily collection of interesting news stories,…

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Roll Call

Published

August 1, 2014
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True Life: My "Twitter Friends" Are My Real Friends Too

One night while scrolling my TL, I came across a meme with the caption “Facebook is for all the people you know but never talk to, and Twitter is where you hang out with the real friends you’ve never met.” Immediately, I focused all my energies into retweeting the shit out of that post. Truer…

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Ryan Sides

Published

July 30, 2014
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VSB Roundtable: Is It Okay To Like Your Own Pictures?

It’s time for another VSB roundtable. This time we turned our attention towards social media and the question that possibly only Sway can answer: Is it ever okay to like your own pictures on IG or Facebook? Heeeeeeeeere we go. Social media is a narcissists playground. We post pictures of ourselves doing shit that everybody…

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VSB Staff

Published

July 24, 2014