By: Hillary Ghongil I never thought I'd see the day that having a Facebook profile would be a crime. It's slightly hysterical. A new bill called "Facebook Felon" is working its way through South Carolina legislature these next few weeks, and soon the bill will work its way from…
By: George Hankerill Facebook is at it again, and this time it’s attacking fine art. For those of you not familiar with Gustave Courbet and his highly controversial Realist piece, The Origin of the World, he was the 19th-century Realist painter who made a splash across Paris by rejecting…
Welcome to Ray’s “Boom-Boom” Room. So recently, I came across a facebook post that I was completely in agreement with: "Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took hundreds of billions in TARP money, spilled…
By: Geoffrey Yonil Cairo did it, why can't we? I wonder if that was the thought process behind this new fad to make Facebook groups and events to boycott big oil this March? Obviously it's not that simple; it never is. Sarah Thompson, one of the fad starters, claimed…
By Gina Volpe Like vacations and naps, all good things must come to an end, and so went my love affair with Facebook. Much like a boyfriend who started out so promising, letting you in on his world filled with cool people who knew how to spell, but who…
By: Gina Volpe New studies released show that one in five divorce petitions cites Facebook. Well, duh. Aside from the obvious conclusion that Facebook allows you to spot and then divorce the jerks who feature acoustic guitars in their default photos and post badly-written, inane status updates; communicating with…
Facebook, if used properly, could be such a tool for liberation that the structure of society would be turned on its head and we would all be liberated from our very structured and protected lives.