NewsTalk 1290 News & Talk of Texoma » facebook http://newstalk1290.com Mon, 20 May 2013 14:09:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Facebook Helps Reunite Man With Dog He Lost After Wrecking Car Months Ago http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-helps-reunite-man-with-dog-he-lost-after-wrecking-car-months-ago/ http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-helps-reunite-man-with-dog-he-lost-after-wrecking-car-months-ago/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:30:38 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=194026 In December, Dave Vitali was going to see his daughter when he got into a serious accident.He flipped his pickup truck, and hung upside down and bleeding with his only comfort being that his trusty dog Max was by his side and okay. Unfortunately, when the ambulances came the sirens scared the golden retriever, and Max ran away

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-helps-reunite-man-with-dog-he-lost-after-wrecking-car-months-ago/feed/ 0 Fox 17 Dad Offers Teen $200 If He Quits Facebook For Five Months http://newstalk1290.com/teen-facebook-contract/ http://newstalk1290.com/teen-facebook-contract/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:12:43 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=184950 Yesterday we learned that more and more people are taking long breaks from Facebook. If they're not getting paid for these social network hiatuses they may be doing it wrong.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/teen-facebook-contract/feed/ 0 PracticalSustainability Survey Reveals Americans Feel the Need to Take a Break from Facebook http://newstalk1290.com/survey-break-facebook/ http://newstalk1290.com/survey-break-facebook/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:30:39 +0000 Drew Weisholtz http://tsminteractive.com/?p=155113 Valentine's Day may be in the air, but it seems like there isn't a ton of love for Facebook

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/survey-break-facebook/feed/ 0 Justin Sullivan, Getty Images 'Actual Facebook Graph Searches' Exposes Weird Facebook Habits http://newstalk1290.com/actual-facebook-graph-searches-tumblr/ http://newstalk1290.com/actual-facebook-graph-searches-tumblr/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:03:41 +0000 Emerald Catron http://thefw.com/?p=181185 Well, this certainly didn't take long. Only a few days after Facebook unveiled their new search engine Facebook Graph Search, a Tumblr mocking it has been made, and it's a hit.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/actual-facebook-graph-searches-tumblr/feed/ 0 Actual Facebook Graph Searches Dad to Buy Daughters Puppy After They Get One Million Facebook Likes In A Day http://newstalk1290.com/dad-to-buy-daughters-puppy-facebook/ http://newstalk1290.com/dad-to-buy-daughters-puppy-facebook/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:51:56 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=179284 It's a scenario which has played out in countless homes over the years. The kids want a puppy, but the dad isn't so sure it's a good idea.

But when the Cordell girls, Cadence, 12, and Emerson, 9, went to their father Ryan with their canine request, he added a social media clause -- he would get his daughters a dog if they could get one million likes on Facebook.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/dad-to-buy-daughters-puppy-facebook/feed/ 0 Facebook Facebook Reunites Sisters After 72 Years http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-reunites-sisters/ http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-reunites-sisters/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:10:41 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=176956 Back when Facebook was just about college students and the recently graduated it was great for getting back in touch with high school friends that you had lost contact with for a few years. But now that everybody and their grandmother is on the social network, the reunions Facebook enables have started to become really impressive.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-reunites-sisters/feed/ 0 Stephen Lam, Getty Images Teen Arrested After Making Facebook Threats http://newstalk1290.com/teen-arrested-facebook-threats/ http://newstalk1290.com/teen-arrested-facebook-threats/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:35:15 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=175018 Eric Rizley of Portage, Indiana was having a bad day. So the 19-year-old got on Facebook and started issuing threats. Unfortunately for him, that was actually a very, very bad idea. Now he faces criminal charges

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/teen-arrested-facebook-threats/feed/ 0 CBS 2 Facebook Can Now Help You Get a Job http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-jobs-app/ http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-jobs-app/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:17:15 +0000 Mike Adams http://tsminteractive.com/?p=150152 Don't just update your status—update your résumé. Facebook has just released a Social Jobs App that will allow people to search job listings from a multitude of sites like Monster and DirectEmployers.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-jobs-app/feed/ 0 Facebook Nine-Year-Old's Dying Wish Granted Thanks to Facebook http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-dying-wish/ http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-dying-wish/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:00:15 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=166156 There is nothing worse than a story about a nine-year-old dying of cancer. The best we can hope for out of one is something like this -- overwhelming humanity from strangers in the face of tragedy.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-dying-wish/feed/ 0 Facebook Facebook Game Leads to Life-Saving Kidney Donation http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-game-leads-to-life-saving-kidney-donation/ http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-game-leads-to-life-saving-kidney-donation/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:39:11 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=165344 You can waste a good chunk of your life playing Facebook games such as FarmTown, FarmVille and FarmFarm (okay, we made that last one up). However, in the case of an Idaho woman in need of a new kidney, FarmTown ended up saving her life.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-game-leads-to-life-saving-kidney-donation/feed/ 0 CBS Atlanta Planning to Tweet or Instagram Your Ballot? You May Be Committing a Felony http://newstalk1290.com/instagram-ballot/ http://newstalk1290.com/instagram-ballot/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:53:35 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=164183 Voting in a presidential election is pretty exciting. And, these days, when we do something exciting we want to tell the world about it through social network sites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

But while there may be a temptation to take a photo of your completed ballot and post it on the internet with pride, it's not a very good idea. In fact in states like Wisconsin it's a felony to let anybody else see your ballot or a photo of your ballot.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/instagram-ballot/feed/ 0 Gizmodo Parents Embarrass Teen With Hilarious Facebook Pics http://newstalk1290.com/parents-embarrassing-facebook/ http://newstalk1290.com/parents-embarrassing-facebook/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:15:52 +0000 Cameron Simcik http://thefw.com/?p=161444 We love our parents; we really do. It's just that during those early years, they can seem like the most embarrassing people on the planet. It's tough enough growing up (kudos to you if you can read the word "puberty" without wincing) without lame-o parents humiliating you, but when it comes to two parents in Wisconsin, we have to admit they've surpassed "embarrassing" and jumped straight to "awesome."

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/parents-embarrassing-facebook/feed/ 0 Revealing Too Much? Undercover Officer Outed On Facebook By Angry Woman http://newstalk1290.com/revealing-too-much-undercover-officer-outed-on-facebook-by-angry-woman/ http://newstalk1290.com/revealing-too-much-undercover-officer-outed-on-facebook-by-angry-woman/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:55:35 +0000 Mike Hendren http://newstalk1290.com/?p=77407 Angry woman, two North Texas men try to out undercover cop

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/revealing-too-much-undercover-officer-outed-on-facebook-by-angry-woman/feed/ 0 flickr Woman Jailed For Failing To Delete Facebook Account http://newstalk1290.com/woman-jailed-for-failing-to-delete-facebook-account/ http://newstalk1290.com/woman-jailed-for-failing-to-delete-facebook-account/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:54:02 +0000 Carl Pettit http://thefw.com/?p=152824 You know it’s a bad day when a judge decides you need to spend some time behind bars because you didn’t delete your Facebook account. Is having a Facebook page now a crime? It seems that if you irk the wrong judge in the state of Kentucky, it just might be.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/woman-jailed-for-failing-to-delete-facebook-account/feed/ 0 owenwbrown, Flickr Mark Zuckerberg Meets Facebook's Oldest, 101-Year-Old User http://newstalk1290.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-oldest-user/ http://newstalk1290.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-oldest-user/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:27:38 +0000 Mike Adams http://thefw.com/?p=147415 While there might not be a spot in ‘The Guinness Book of World Records’ to praise Facebook’s oldest registered user — maybe there should be.

On Monday, Florence Detlor, the social network’s oldest registered user, celebrated her 101st birthday by crashing in on Mark Zuckerberg and his crew of hackers, nerds and programmers at Facebook’s California headquarters.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-oldest-user/feed/ 0 Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook Would You Get a Root Canal Before You'd Give Up Facebook? http://newstalk1290.com/would-you-get-a-root-canal-before-youd-give-up-facebook/ http://newstalk1290.com/would-you-get-a-root-canal-before-youd-give-up-facebook/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:21:21 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=128716 People who love social media really love it — and a new poll shows just what they’d be willing to do before they’d consider giving it up.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/would-you-get-a-root-canal-before-youd-give-up-facebook/feed/ 0 Dan Kitwood, Getty Images Daughter Successfully Sues Mother For Facebook Humiliation http://newstalk1290.com/daughter-successfully-sues-mother-for-facebook-humiliation/ http://newstalk1290.com/daughter-successfully-sues-mother-for-facebook-humiliation/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:29:39 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=138081 Ever since older people have been joining social networking sites like Facebook, they’ve been embarrassing their children. Usually this manifests itself in the same kind of hokey parental sentiments that have been irking kids since way before the internet. But a woman in Germany has gone in the complete other direction by humiliating her daughter with the kind of stunt you’d only expect from junior high schoolers.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/daughter-successfully-sues-mother-for-facebook-humiliation/feed/ 0 Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Does Facebook Make You Feel Inadequate? [POLL] http://newstalk1290.com/does-facebook-make-you-feel-inadequate-survey-of-the-day/ http://newstalk1290.com/does-facebook-make-you-feel-inadequate-survey-of-the-day/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:17:46 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=119528 When scanning the Facebook pages of your friends, you are getting a best case scenario look at their life.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/does-facebook-make-you-feel-inadequate-survey-of-the-day/feed/ 0 Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Facebook Yoga Instructor Fired After Demanding Cell Phones Be Shut Off — Is It Fair? http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-yoga-instructor-fired-after-demanding-cell-phones-be-shut-off-is-it-fair/ http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-yoga-instructor-fired-after-demanding-cell-phones-be-shut-off-is-it-fair/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:37:48 +0000 Amy Sciarretto http://tsminteractive.com/?p=119913 Yoga is meant to be a relaxing and purifying activity, one whose entire purpose can be disrupted by things like cell phones. California yoga instructor Alice Van Ness had one critical policy for her students: turn the cell phones off.

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/facebook-yoga-instructor-fired-after-demanding-cell-phones-be-shut-off-is-it-fair/feed/ 0 Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images 13 Signs Facebook Is Following You a Bit Too Closely http://newstalk1290.com/signs-facebook-following-you/ http://newstalk1290.com/signs-facebook-following-you/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:16:16 +0000 Danny Gallagher http://tsminteractive.com/?p=114643 Social technology, like Facebook, might be a great way for people to keep in touch, but it can also just as easily become a massive hindrance.

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