SF News Barack Obama's Special Vine For Batkid How about that. Today's transformation of San Francisco into Gotham City for five-year-old Miles—now known as Batkid—promoted a lot of attention, earnestness, and tears. (Some of them right here at the
SF News Four Auto Burglars Busted Thanks To Instagram Photo Featuring $120 In Hamburgers Cops busted a minor auto burglary outfit in the Sacramento suburb of Rocklin, California last weekend after the four suspects posted an Instagram photo bragging about the $120 worth of Carl's Jr. they
SF News Twitter Owes Me $131 Dollars For All My Hard Work Tweeting Time Magazine, the same one that named you Person of the Year in 2006, has a new empowering interactive tool that shows you exactly how much Twitter owes you based on the value
SF News Instagram Blocks Drug Search Terms To Avoid Becoming Another Silk Road Did you know that Instagram is being widely used as an open-air drug market? It is. Vice just covered the story of the vast Instagram trade of lean a.k.a sizzurp a.
SF News Facebook Changes Course Re: Decapitation Videos The latest hot-button issue for Facebook, as discussed yesterday, is beheading videos, and today Facebook issued a new statement clarifying that, well, maybe not all beheading videos will be appropriate for the site.
SF News You May Now Watch Decapitations On Facebook In what's being described as a "horrible, distasteful" move, Facebook has reversed its ban on videos showing decapitations. The social media company initially had placed a ban on beheadings, but decided to allow
SF News [Updated] You Can't Update Your Facebook Status Right Now It's Monday and you're actually going to have to deal with your work inbox, since Facebook is refusing let anyone to update their status now. Or let them do much of anything else
SF News Facebook Quietly Ditches Privacy Setting Because You Probably Didn't Know How To Use It Anyway Speaking of Facebook Privacy, the ubiquitous social network is quietly killing off a privacy setting that allowed users to set who could search for their profile and Timeline by name. According to Facebook,
SF News Facebook Temporarily Disables User Account For Gay Kiss Pic Well, the gay blogs are making quick work of this one: A Boston-based porn star posted an innocent photo on Facebook, taken yesterday, of himself kissing his husband, and because it was two
Arts & Entertainment A Selection Of Profanity-Laced Bay Bridge Tweets So far so good for the first day of the Bay Bridge's five-day closure. But how are people adjusting to the reality of no Bay Bridge today? We turned to the twitters to
Arts & Entertainment Photos: En Route To Burning Man While the Bay Area enjoys a week of shorter lines and fewer people clogging Dolores Park, festive folks took to the road today to partake in the annual dance-a-thon in the desert. We
SF News Cyclist's Twitter Tip Leads To SFPD Chop Shop Raid [Update] STOLEN bicycle chop shop in FULL effect right now- 13th & Bryant. Can't anything be done @SFPDBikeTheft? (@plattyjo) pic.twitter.com/9QgRL2PKLP— meredithob (@meredithob) August 20, 2013 UPDATE: SFPD tells us that "no
SF News Study: Facebook Makes People Sad Another study confirms what we've always believed: Facebook makes you feel lonely and bad about yourself. The study followed a group of 82 young adults and monitored them at different points throughout the
SF News Man Shoots Wife, Posts Photo Of Body On Facebook A truly disturbing low in the Era of Facebook today: A Miami man allegedly shot his wife this morning and immediately posted a confession on Facebook, followed by a photo of her bloodied
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'The Daily Show' Is Sick and Tired of LinkedIn Spam The Daily Show's summer anchor John Oliver finally came out and said what we were all thinking: "Leave me alone, LinkedIn!" He then attempted to unsubscribe from LinkedIn's constant barrage of job status
SF News Popular App Tinder Had a Huge Privacy Flaw, Now Fixed And in further proof that privacy barely exists anymore, a popular new hookup social media app turns out to have had a huge security flaw that was broadcasting your GPS location and all
SF News Zynga Lays Off 500+ Employees, Some Of Whom Learn Via Facebook It was a bloody Monday for Zynga, the San Francisco-based gaming company with the friendly dog mascot. Yesterday the company announced massive layoffs which cut 18% of Zynga's workforce and totalled 520 employees.
SF News Facebook Acknowledges It Didn't Know What Misogyny Looked Like After allowing troublesome Facebook fan pages like "Violently Raping Your Friend Just for Laughs" and "Kicking your Girlfriend in the Fanny because she won’t make you a Sandwich" linger on their social
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Behave On Facebook Welcome back to Etiquette Week on SFist. Yesterday, we taught you how to drive in San Francisco without being a jerk. You're welcome. Now we tell you all about your mom's favorite social
SF News Twitter Wants To Run More Video Ads Twitter is racing — racing! — to bring more video advertising to the site. The San Francisco-based company is reportedly in talks with NBC and Viacom to add even more TV content to your favorite
SF News Should Your Mom Have Access to Your Facebook Account After You Die? Stop and think for a minute about what would happen if you die suddenly. Say, today or tomorrow. Your world would end but Facebook's world would just keep on truckin', and that means
SF News Facebook Removes Breast Cancer Survivor's Tattoo Photo, Now Everyone Can See It Anyway Now that we are all digital immigrants living in a corporate town called Facebook, this is what neighborly favors look like in the year 2013: A tattoo shop in Ontario wanted to recognize
SF News Top Super Bowl Trends On Twitter Lights out!!! Any questions??— Mr. Carter (@S_C_) February 4, 2013 As everyone at our Super Bowl party in Potrero Hill agreed, Twitter, rather than Facebook, was where it was at last night.
SF News Gavin Newsom's Book On Social Media Channels Farmville, Angry Birds The Lite Gov. is, as you know, an expert on social media. He tweets (sometimes angrily). He blogs. He even has a Google+ account. That's why he smartly (read: questionably) named his long-awaited
SF News Facebook Unveils 'Graph Search' Facebook invited scads of journalists to their headquarters today to reveal graph search, the social media giant's new search feature. What's the difference between graph search and a plain old Google web search?
