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Should professional matchmakers use Facebook as a database? | Digital Trends

Should professional matchmakers use Facebook as a database? | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — Recent studies claim that the Internet is quickly becoming a tried-and-true way of uniting soul mates - I personally owe my marital bliss to online dating and I'm pretty vocal when asked about how I did it. But anyone hoping to find love online should know the truth: That whole "there's a lot of fish in the sea thing" is no joke. And some of those fish are horrible. An estimate of 40 million loveless hopefuls in this country alone have tried online dating - that's 40 million potential first dates that don't always end well.
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Instagram is unwittingly becoming a puppy mill advertiser | Digital Trends

Instagram is unwittingly becoming a puppy mill advertiser | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — If the Internet loves anything, it's cats. And dogs. Just animals in general, really. Pet lovers are so dedicated to their furry companions that sometimes they even go and create Facebook profiles for them or enroll them in their very own social petwork. Not that that's OK ... just that it is a real thing that real people do. But sometimes social media's animal adoration can take a disturbing turn. Some users are taking to Instagram to sell their animals.
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How digital detoxes prey on the confusion about Internet addiction | Digital Trends

How digital detoxes prey on the confusion about Internet addiction | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — The space between our online and offline lives is vanishing. We instant message or video chat instead of meeting up in person. We fire up our iPads or Kindles instead of turning pages of an actual book. Our phones are an appendage. We simply cannot help ourselves: If the digital solution is there, we should use it ... right? Maybe not. The surplus of tech in our lives comes with consequences. The uncontrollable tendency to check email, post Facebook updates, tweet random thoughts, and slap filters on snapshots of trees and our feet can turn from hobby to obsession - or even addiction.
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Beyond Verbal: A mood ring for sound that's taking over voice analysis | Digital Trends

Beyond Verbal: A mood ring for sound that's taking over voice analysis | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — The Web and social applications have given us many, many ways to express ourselves. We can update statuses, share photos, stream music; and it's all shareable and can be analyzed to help us understand the motivations behind the things we upload and connect with. So what if our emotions - the ones we keep inside instead of broadcast - could be used this same way? Beyond Verbal is trying to do just that by analyzing people's moods, attitudes, and emotional characteristics - also known as personalities - in real time, using raw vocal intonations.
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'Call in the Night' experiment is creating an actual social network | Digital Trends

'Call in the Night' experiment is creating an actual social network | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — The average phone call is about three minutes and 15 seconds long, and usually happens sometime in the afternoon. Talking on the phone is actually quickly becoming an antiquated act altogether, what with the Facebook Messaging and WhatsApping and Snapchatting and the simpler-yet texting. Why talk when you can text or tweet? But there is a very strange corner of the Internet that is still making use of the phone call: Call in the Night describes itself as "an experimental radio show and telephone network documenting the nighttime experience." Essentially, you sign up to connect with random strangers for late-night chat sessions.
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The 5 Stages of Facebook Unfriending | Digital Trends

The 5 Stages of Facebook Unfriending | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — You log into Facebook, hoping to virtually kick it with your homies from various places. You check out your News Feed to see what's going on in the lives of people that are closest to you. Instead of friendly faces, however, you discover that your feed is filled with strangers you don't recall ever adding. You start to hover over their faces to uncheck "Show in News Feed," in an effort to save your remaining Internet sanity ... until you realize it's been more than an hour and you've effectively shunned 100 Facebook contacts into social network oblivion.
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Google Reader is dead but the RSS feed market is very alive | Digital Trends

Google Reader is dead but the RSS feed market is very alive | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — Today, July 1, marks the end of an era: Google Reader is officially no more. For those of you mourning this loss, we send our deepest condolences - it's difficult, we know. You've grown used to this customized feed that pulls what you want from where you want. The death of Google Reader has, however, instilled a renewed interested in the RSS feed in general in developers, and you know what they say about doors closing and windows opening. What Google might not want to keep alive, plenty are inspired to reinvent - but why? And which will win the race?
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Is this app responsible for Instagram's hashtag problem? | Digital Trends

Is this app responsible for Instagram's hashtag problem? | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — Hashtags are a significant part of Internet culture that are deeply ingrained in the Web's collective psyche. However, not everybody knows exactly how to use the function for good, and one of the breeding grounds of horrible hashtag behavior is Instagram. We've offered a how-to guide for becoming Instagram famous, and one of the tips is the proper (and maybe even stringent) use of hashtags. There are countless of services out there that will offer you insight into the most popular tags to use to ensure that your photo gets the most ? clicks, but there's actually an app that takes it all a step further by telling you exactly what tags to use to achieve popularity.
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Will technology kill handwriting? | Digital Trends

Will technology kill handwriting? | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — One of the very first things you learn to do is to write. In school, you were forced to follow a handwriting rule book along with your peers, so at first every person's penmanship looked the same, but as you got older, your writing started to develop characteristics unique to you. From the very first moment you put squiggled lines on paper, you were already developing a personality that could be tied to what would later on become your regular penmanship.
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18 questions you need to ask yourself before uploading that photo

18 questions you need to ask yourself before uploading that photo

www.digitaltrends.com — This is a shame-free zone: It's OK to love social media to the point of obsession. Go ahead, Instagram your next 24 hours. Tweet about the monotony of your commute home! Check-in to your house on Facebook. We don't judge, because we love that stuff. And just like everyone else living their lives on the Internet, we know that part of the protocol is posting all sorts of photos on the regular, may it be a selfie in the car, a picture of a spectacular sunset, your bagel at Starbucks, a screen grab of a funny chat message, or a stylized inspirational quote.
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How the Internet's love of animals has evolved and knows no bounds | Digital Trends

How the Internet's love of animals has evolved and knows no bounds | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — Here's an exercise for you: Log into your favorite social site (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Vine ...we know you use one of all of these, don't lie) and check out the feed. My gut instinct tells me it won't take you that long before you hit a photo, status, tweet, video clip, or reblog that contains a cute animal in some way, shape, or form. In fact, you probably "liked" some of them, if not personally posted one (or all) yourself. Let's face it - the Internet is pet crazy, and hey, it has every right to be.
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The most comprehensive online dating guide | Digital Trends

The most comprehensive online dating guide | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — The Internet is by far one of my most favorite of man's innovations for so many reasons - but one reason outweighs them all: It allowed me to find, meet, and end up with the most perfect partner I could ever hope for ... all thanks to online dating. Yes, friends, I am one half of a love match made by the Web. Given the many opinions and - ahem - constant evolution of the Internet dating scene, who better than a success story to help guide you through the process, its potential - and many - pitfalls?
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Music app Focus@Will aims to improve your concentration by 400 percent | Digital Trends

Music app Focus@Will aims to improve your concentration by 400 percent | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — While we've previewed Focus@Will before, the app has now officially launched, with more features and focus-friendly updates to keep you working away. To refresh your memory, the company was founded by CEO Will Henshall and Music Supervisor John Vitale in 2010, and Focus@Will is a one-of-a-kind music streaming service that uses phase sequenced instrumental music to heighten listeners' awareness and attentiveness up to 400 percent while immersed in a horde of activities that require mental alertness, such as working, reading, studying, and writing.
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The Internet can find love for each and every one of you weirdos | Digital Trends

The Internet can find love for each and every one of you weirdos | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — Not everybody is cut out for dating - and singledom can be hard, especially if you're not exactly a social butterfly. Fortunately, the Internet has been a great (and inventive) tool for the shy and introverted among us to connect with that cute stranger across the metaphorical room. For anyone who's done it before, those generic, boy-meets-girl (or boy-meets-boy ... or girl-meets-girl ... you get the picture) dating sites are full of options. But what if it's a very unique type of love you're looking for? Well fear not, because the Internet has your back. And then some.
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Turn on, tune in, retweet: How TV and the Internet melted into one world

Turn on, tune in, retweet: How TV and the Internet melted into one world

www.digitaltrends.com — Years ago, the Web transitioned from a utilitarian tool into a place, almost a water cooler, a cool-kids hangout. The more tapped into it you are, the more you know about it and its secret codes and dark pockets, the wiser (and arguably, more jaded) you become. Trolling Reddit, Tumblr, and Tor are like rites of passage for those who want to be as tuned-in to Internet culture as possible. And as more and more of us seep into these once-rather-exclusive places, the secret handshake that comes with them has become less and less of a secret.
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How the Internet and social media are changing healthcare | Digital Trends

How the Internet and social media are changing healthcare | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — You wake up feeling a slight tickle in your throat. You try and shake it off and drink lots of water. After a few hours, it's still there. Instead of calling your mom or making a doctor appointment, you head to the Internet. Today, anyone with a computer and a connection can get online and find a variety of results, ranging from simple sore throat to the more serious, like bronchitis and asthma. But just because we can doesn't mean we should. In a world where almost everyone is online and can easily find and provide medical solace, is it really, truly a good idea to consider social media and the Web a reliable source of healthcare?
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The science and sociopathy of social media celebri-hating

The science and sociopathy of social media celebri-hating

www.digitaltrends.com — It's no secret that social media has boosted our desire to make known our every opinion, because these networks give us a voice to broadcast what we love, and what we hate. Or as the case may more often be, who we hate. And celebrities have become the target of so much of our online ire. But is "celebrihating" really okay? Does that fact that stars have put themselves in the public eye mean it's acceptable for us to tear them new ones on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook? At the center of recent celebrihating is Anne Hathaway.
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Data can predict music's next hit, we should use it | Digital Trends

Data can predict music's next hit, we should use it | Digital Trends

www.digitaltrends.com — In case you missed the movie Moneyball, here's a quick summary: It's based on the true story of Billy Beane - General Manager for the Oakland A's American baseball team - and how he used computer-generated statistical analysis to overcome a tight budget and wrangle a roster of inexperienced players. While Brad Pitt may have been nominated for an Oscar for his performance, the art of sabermetrics managed to steal the spotlight. We've fallen in love with data - look no further than the 2012 presidential election and the triumph of Nate Silver to prove this.
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