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Earlier this week, Facebook changed all the default email addresses on its users’ profiles to a brand new address, @facebook.com. Sneaky yes, but was it really that big of a deal? Probably not since very few people are ever going to navigate through a Facebook profile to get an email address when it’s so much easier and more reliable to use Facebook’s internal messaging system.

However, the folks at Thank for You for Not Laughing have found other recent tweaks Facebook has made that are far more dubious.

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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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Just because you’re not actually having sex with someone doesn’t mean you can’t pretend you are — and a new Swedish app that promotes safe sex will even mix your voices together so you can hear what it would sound like.

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You probably don’t check out the “about” section of your Facebook page a whole lot, being that you already know everything there is to know about yourself. But if you happened to do so today, you would have noticed something different — your listed email address has been changed to one with your Facebook profile name and then @facebook.com. Yes, Facebook gave you a Facebook email address without your permission. 

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I read the Corasanti results through a tweet by WIVB News 4 Buffalo, but I found Buffalo residents reactions on Facebook seconds after the news broke. What's on your mind, asks Facebook and users have been responding by expressing their shock that Corasanti was found not guilty on all counts. Oh, except for Common Law DWI… Jack FM asks 'Did the Corasanti jury get it right?' Here's our listeners' opinions from our Facebook page. We'll let the comments speak for themselves.

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I read the Corasanti results through a tweet by WIVB News 4 Buffalo, but I found Buffalo residents reactions on Facebook seconds after the news broke. What's on your mind, asks Facebook and users have been responding by expressing their shock that Corasanti was found not guilty on all counts. Oh, except for Common Law DWI… Jack FM asks 'Did the Corasanti jury get it right?' Here's our listeners' opinions from our Facebook page. We'll let the comments speak for themselves.

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The initial public offering of Facebook on Friday (May 18) may not have been as successful as many had expected. But even if it had done better than closing at only 23 cents more than the opening price, it would not have put Bono up with Paul McCartney in the exclusive Billionaire Rockers Club as had been initially believed.

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Everyone’s been buzzing about Facebook’s IPO for weeks. But as shares of the social networking site began trading on Friday, analysts warned that not everyone should jump into the fray.

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Hats off to Bono! it looks like he will follow no more, at least not in terms of financial portfolios, thanks to some shrewd investment in Facebook. The U2 frontman is one of many who cash in once Facebook goes public Friday (May 18) with their Initial Public (Stock) Offering (IPO).

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If you’ve ever been to a bar, you’ve likely had a bouncer check your ID to be sure you’re old enough to drink. But since IDs can be faked, some bouncers in the UK have a new screening method: they’re checking your Facebook account, too.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to use Facebook to help those languishing at the tail end of organ donation lists.

So, starting today, the close to 200 million Facebook users in the United States and the United Kingdom will have the option to add that they are organ donors on their Facebook timeline.

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Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter may have eroded levels of privacy by giving people a place to post every facet of their lives and the people around them. However, it’s also given parents a way of doing some sneaky snooping into their children’s lives.

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