Windy Hill has you topped for Mother's Day gifts this year. Hands down. Or should I say hearts down.
Surgeons were supposed to fit the 38-year-old new mom of Kingsport, Tennessee, with a mechanical heart pump at Vanderbilt University Hospital. But when Hill was still under anesthesia, a transplant donor had been found. Her fiancé, Joseph Berry, completed the consent paperwork and when she woke up, it was with a new heart beating inside her.
That innocent video you just posted of your child might not be so innocent, after all. A Texas mom was shocked to learn that the cute footage of her child dancing in his diaper ended up on a private YouTube channel full of nude children.
We all do it, or at least we all did. YouTube and Facebook are staples when it comes to keeping friends and family abreast of your child's magical moments. Especially for loved ones who live far away.
It seems 73-year-old Shirley Barrowclough is one of the growing numbers of pensioners embracing the digital age. With her 'can't beat 'em' attitude, Barrowclough may have taken her first computer lesson at the ripe age of 67, yet in the time since she has not only mastered email and Google searches, she keeps tabs of her daughter, who lives in Florida, via YouTube presentations.
"One of the big goals here is to get the person in distress into the right help as soon as possible," said Facebook's public policy manager, Fred Wolens.
If no press is bad press, then Facebook (FB) is doing well for itself.
If the best way to get the attention of the opposite sex is to be unavailable, then FakeGirlfriend.co is clearly onto something. The new texting service offers single guys a 'fake' girlfriend who will not only text you at random and call you with a pre-recorded message.
With the catchphrase, "Because you don't want to look lame", the service appeals to male pride at its basest.
What's in a name? A lot, actually. Anyone who's ever had kids knows how hard it is to come up with the tag that will likely stick with, and define, your child for life.
Talk about pressure. So what do you do when you and your partner can't agree on what to call baby? Why, you leave it to Facebook, of course.
At least that's what one Illinois couple did to solve their disagreement.
Everyone knows Facebook is guilty of TMI. But for an Irish dad, TMI went one step further when his 12-year-old daughter managed to upload sexually provocative photos of herself onto the social media site. Hello, pedophiles!
The dad in question claims it’s Facebook's has fault for putting the girl at risk, and he’s suing. As it stands, the site doesn’t have any checks in place to ensure that children are over the permitted age of 13 when they open an account.
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According to a presentation at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, there are definite pros and cons to children's use of social media.
Let this be a cautionary tale to all you Yummies out there. One woman thought there was everything to know about her mom -- until she 'googled' her.
Not only did Melissa T. Shultz discover that her mother led a rich online life in counterpoint to her real life, she was something of a double agent, posting reviews, entering competitions, and offering up her opinions on everything under the virtual sun.
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