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Please Don't Tweet that You're Carrying the Olympic Torch While You're Carrying the Olympic Torch [Video]





Not to be outdone by Usher's SNL misstep last week, Will.I.Am took advantage of his free hand while carrying the Olympic torch to live tweet the moment. More »



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Etiquette: Don't Text If You're Co-Hosting SNL [Etiquette]





Ok, Usher. Come on dude. You're co-hosting SNL. I know like 3.5 million people follow you on Twitter, but seriously. At least wait until the tapes are done rolling to check your iPhone. Because you're in s...
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There's One Very Important Time You Should Always Lie Online [User Manual]





Using the internet is only worthwhile if you can show off the perverse and wonderful things you've found on it. So, now that we're always online and always in touch, we're constantly sharing links. But wha...
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THREESOME ETIQUETTE

THREESOME ETIQUETTE
rule no.1 take turns
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Force Smartphone Addicts to Pay for Your Meal with This Ingenious Game [Etiquette]





It's become decorum to place your phone atop the restaurant table before (and while) you dine. But just because it's the status quo doesn't mean it's not annoying and gross. Use this brilliant test of will...
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Gizmodo's Guide to IM Etiquette [Etiquette]






Everyone has an obnoxious instant messenger friend. If you don't, it's probably you. Our parents didn't come of age in the days of AOL, so it's unlikely that they were able to pass on the finer points of ...
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How to Keep Thanksgiving From Being a Family Tech Trainwreck [User Manual]






Thanksgiving is almost here! Pass the turkey. Cut the pie. Oh, ugh, and somebody bring me a USB cable! Being the family gearhead often means you take on a new role as unpaid tech support. More &ra...
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Parents Just Don't Understand (How to Use Email) [User Manual]






I love my parents. But damn, they send some annoying emails. Urban legends. Chain letters. Petitions. Peculiar font choices. Long rambling messages with no clear meaning or point... GAAAAAH! More ...
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Don't Try to Convert Friends to Your Tech Religion [User Manual]






You probably love your phone, tablet, and other miscellaneous touchscreens—that's why you bought them. But now that we anticipate, live, eat, and sleep with our gadgets, they're being deified. Don't...
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The Awkward Horrors of the Knowing Where Everyone Is All the Time [Etiquette]






Riding the orgiastic iOS 5 debut, Foursquare's pushed out Radar. And it's a gamechanger, quite literally: It upends the basic social contract of Foursquare and harbinges the near-future of location-based ...
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When Is it OK to Talk to Your Phone? An Etiquette Guide to Mobile Voice Recognition [User Manual]






Siri will mean a lot of us are talking on our phones, to our phones; a nation of Kirks, barking into communicators. So unless we lay down some ground rules, things are going to get very annoying, very qui...
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How to Use iMessage So Everyone Will Love You [Etiquette]






The sole remaining reason to use a BlackBerry is BBM—and now, the iPhone's got its own version. It's better than texting, but it comes with some potentially terrifying social vortexes to navigate. H...
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How Not to Lie On Twitter [User Manual]






Yesterday, The Onion began tweeting gunfire in the Capitol. The premise was that Congress took America's children hostage. Oh, cruel satire, you are hilarious! Except not everyone knew it was a joke. And ...
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No, You May Not Use My Earbuds [User Manual]






Have you ever had someone ask you to borrow your earbuds? It's gross, right? I typically say yes, but I'm always skeeved out, and reach for the alcohol wipes afterward. Bottom line: earbud sharing is not ...
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Acting Like Animals: Define ‘I Passed Etiquette School…’


By “passed,” do you mean you received a D-? Because that’s not technically failing… but it would go a long way toward explaining why you’re presently face-first in your cup of English Breakfast.
Via Al Bruno III

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Turning Tragedy into Memes for Fun and Profit [User Manual]






A hurricane is barreling down on the East Coast. Earthquakes are everywhere. Steve Jobs is retiring. Everything is fucked! Which means it's the perfect opportunity to cash in with a viral meme. But how? ...
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Why Do You Like Bad News? [User Manual]






Last year, a rental scammer conned my pregnant wife and me out of $5,100 and very nearly left us homeless. I wrote about it on Tumblr. Almost immediately, 50 people "liked" my bad news. Jerks. More&nbs...
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Restaurant Customer Tossed Out for Angry Tweet [Food]






The war of phone wielder against chef rages on: despite today's pro-phone victory in Washington, Texan comrades have been hit with a setback. Allison Matsu was having a drink. She didn't like her bartende...
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Fascist Phone-Banishing Restaurant Liberates Customers [Food]






Dining Instagrammers of the world, rejoice—the totalitarian owner at DC's Rogue24 is no longer forcing you to sign a contract before choosing to eat and pay for his food. So pull out that smartphone...
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Restaurant Forces Customers To Sign No Cellphone Contract Before Dining [Food]






A shout of OHHH MY GODDDD ARE YOU SERIOUS? SHE DID? The LED flash of someone Instagramming their entree, followed by look of smug gratification. Some jerk waving his phone around trying to get a cell sign...
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Talking With Your Earbuds in: Rude or Not Rude? [User Manual]






Slate's Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe had a discussion today about whether or not it's rude to talk with your earbuds in. But is rudeness the issue with this particular practice, or is it another factor e...
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How I Made a 15-Year-Old App Developer Cry [Apps]






When I was 15, I was wearing baggy jeans, chasing girls and listening to hip hop. If I was 15 today, I'd probably do the same things but with skinny jeans on. Not Nick D'Aloisio. He's a 15-year-old kid wh...
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Teens Need to Learn How to Breakup on Facebook [Etiquette]






The NY Times has a story about how a conference was held to teach 200 teenagers from Boston how to have "healthy breakups". Unsurprisingly, a lot of the discussion revolved around proper Facebook breakup ...
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How to Set Up the Perfect Online Dating Profile [Digital Dating]






You were dumped. Or you dumped someone. Maybe you just can't find that new someone to love, or just make out with. Why not try online dating? We pulled our team of experts together to guide you. ...
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So What the Hell Are We Supposed to Put on Google+? [User Manual]






Here's the problem: I hate my friends. You do too. I'm using the word "friends" in the social networking sense. Facebook and Flickr "friends." Twitter and Tumblr Followers. More »



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STFU. I Bought Some Dang Coffee, and I'm Never Leaving This Café [User Manual]






I'm writing this from a café where I've been sitting for hours. I've got an ancient bagel crust and a mostly-empty cup of coffee that's colder than Lebron's greedy little heart. And I'm not leaving anytim...
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Do I Really Have to Set Up Yet Another Social Network? [Social Networking]






My inbox is blowing up with email notifications from Google Plus. I launched Gmail this morning and the damn thing looked like it had been duck-raped by notifications about new followers and new comments ...
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Please Don't Be This Disgusting [Etiquette]






From Food & Wine editor-in-chief Dana Cowin, Jesus Christ this is a disgusturbing trend. Don't do this. Ever. More »






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Eyes Forward, Asshole! Quit Looking at My Screen [Etiquette]






On my flight Tuesday, the dude sitting next to me was staring at my laptop the entire time. Look, I know the middle seat sucks. And true, Gulliver's Travels is a great flick. But knock it off! More&nbs...
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What Not to Do with Someone Else's Phone [Etiquette]






Because I do not live in the 20th century, I keep photos of my baby on my phone, not in my wallet. Which is a problem: While you probably wouldn't rifle through my wallet, you happily invade my phone. Dic...
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The First Rule of Tweet Club [Twitter]






A lot of writers like to see readers react to their work—it's gratifying. But as Tweetage Wasteland's Dave Pell explains, sometimes what happens on the Internet needs to stay on the Internet. Mor...
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How to Text at the Movies Without Being a Dick [Etiquette]






The taboo against talking on your phone during movies is at this point about as socially established as our rules against eating each other alive, socks with sandals, or marrying our parents. But what abo...
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How to Survive the Modern Day Breakup [Etiquette]






Breaking up sucks. It's painful, complicated, and makes you listen to sad MP3s. And technology—Facebook, texting, email—only makes things more complicated. So how do you navigate 21st-century ...
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Basic Email Etiquette; move everybody from the CC to the BCC
Most people are receiving too much email. That is a fact.
One of the most annoying email features as far as I know is the CC field. I wish application builders would have supplied us with a few warnings for that one. Like “You are about to send this...
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Is it OK to Poop on Your Friends' Phones? [Etiquette]






We've all seen it. You're scrolling through Facebook, or Twitter, or Tumblr when you see some varation on the same status message: Poopin'. Ewwwwww. TMI. Is that for real? Nope. It's a prank, and an incr...
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Probably Bad News: Cell Phone Etiquette FAIL

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New York Times Editor Is a Horrible Troll Who Doesn't Understand the Modern World [How We Live Now]






Bill Keller, the executive editor of the New York Times, thinks modern communication technologies make you stupid, destroy your relationships and even your soul. He is wrong. More »

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Do You Have to Be Quiet in a Coffee Shop? [Etiquette]






I live 2,912 miles from the office. Understandably, I don't make it in every day—mostly I telecommute. And, because I like to see more of the world than my kitchen, that means a lot of cafe working....
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How to Respond to Facebook Birthday Wishes [Etiquette]






Today is my birthday. Yeah! But unlike when I turned 18 (old enough to bet the ponies) or when I turned 21 (duh), I don't really care. And like many of us on our *special days*, I'm getting a lot of love ...
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How to Use AirBnb Like a Pro [Etiquette]






AirBnb is more than an amazing site that lets anybody put their spare couch, room, or house up for rent-it's a game. The goal for hosts: to rise through the search rankings, allowing them to get bookings,...
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The Proper Way to Talk with an Internet Helpbot [Etiquette]






The self service world is a beautiful thing. Self-checkout lines. Vending machines. Amazon. Long gone are the days of being afraid to buy, say, a carton of whipped cream chargers, an oversized balloon and...
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Spring Cleaning For Your Social Networks [Blip]


Sure, you're already well equipped to clean up your house or apartment or mega-yacht. But what about your virtual homes? Check out The Next Web's tips and tricks for tidying up your Twitter and keeping Facebook fresh. Spoiler: you've probab...
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Three Phone Tips for Antisocial People Like Me Who Hate Phones [Etiquette]






Like many of us, blogger, MetaFilter creator, and friend of Lifehacker Matt Haughey isn't a big fan of the phone call or of voicemail. Here he offers three effective but not particularly rude tips for lim...
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When To Whip It Out: A Practical Guide to Using Cellphones in Social Situations [Etiquette]






We've been rocking the oh-so-sexy cellphone pocket-bulge for close to two decades. You'd think we'd have figured out how to use the things without pissing everyone off by now. Nope. More »
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How to Respond to Bad News Online [Etiquette]






Times of global disaster are ripe for hyper-social networking. Friends sound-off on their walls, and vigorously tweet and blog of impending doom and gloom. And all these updates raise a tough question: Ho...
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How to Recover From an Email Disaster [Free Advice]






We've all done it before: hit the wrong button or pressed "send" too early and dispatched an email with disastrous results. Here are the most common gaffes and what to do the next time your electronic cor...
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Are Tablets Ruining Watching TV Together? [Etiquette]






TV socializing is something of an oxymoron to begin with. When we sit down to watch the tube together, we're mostly together in the strictest technical sense—couch proximity. We might share popcorn,...
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Is it Ever OK to Leave Voicemail Anymore? [Etiquette]






The ubiquity of voicemail made sense when our phones lived in the kitchen, not our pockets—before SMS and twitter and the dozens of other ways we now stay perma-connected. So when does it make sense...
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OM NOM NOM LEAF!


Sloths are some of the weirdest and most adorable animals ever! From their crazy claws to their wiry hair to their squee little eyes, I just love everything about them. And sure, they don’t move super fast sometimes, but I can’t tell you wha...
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An Open Letter to the Smiley Face Following an Insult [Smileys]






You know that thing people do, when they stick a :) right after a rude comment? Yeah, that's just about the most annoying thing ever, huh? :) Over at McSweeney's, Jade Ologunja spoke her mind. More&nbs...
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