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See Your Friends’ Facebook Photos When They Call You

Vringo has announced a beta version of its Facetones app for iPhone. Available now in the App Store, the software is designed to deliver a visually exciting social update to a phone each time a user makes or receives a phone call. The app displays a full screen photo of a user's Facebook friends' picture w...

11 January 2012
16:11 GMT

Social Networks Artificially Enhance People Skills

A recent academic study at the University of Oxford in Great Britain has shown that normal human beings are limited in engaging and sustaining social, acceptable relationships at an average of 150 friends. The study also takes a swing at the artificial environment created by social networks and the false illusion tha...

26 January 2010
10:55 GMT

Possible Team Fortress Update to Include 'Friendship' Mode

With all the complaints video games received for twisting and destroying the mind of the young and online games, especially MMORPGs being shoved against the walls and blamed for alienating kids, many developers have taken special steps to protect themselves from further accusations. One perfect example is World of Wa...

8 December 2009
12:01 GMT

Death of the Sisterhood – The Rise of Female Frenemies

It’s no longer a secret that women can hardly stand to be in the presence of another lady, let alone befriend her and be able to be nice to her without stabbing her when she’s not looking. Friendship between women has come to mean nothing today, and it’s ladies themselves who are paying the price fo...

24 February 2009
13:21 GMT

How Attractive You Are in the Eyes of the Other is Linked to Your Personality

Well, it seems that being a good girl or boy really makes you more beautiful/handsome, as it has been revealed by a new research, published in "Personal Relationships". Persons displaying positive personality traits (both women and men), like honesty, kindness or helpfulness, are regarded as more physically attractiv...

30 November 2007
03:43 GMT

Xbox Live Member Sells Himself on eBay as Halo 3 Co-op

It seems that people can sell anything on eBaby, including themselves, but not only as human beings, but also as "lifelong gamer friends" or a trustworthy Halo 3 co-ops. The auction was started by nismofrontier07 and the gamer promises that he's all sugar and honey, being a "great friend to chat with and play w...

5 October 2007
06:35 GMT

Why Are Humans So Friendly?

"He got friendly holding my hand/She got friendly down in the sand". Yeah, humans are the most social monkeys. But we do not establish friendships with anybody, we generally try to find out how trustworthy and compatible with us certain persons are. A new research made by a team led by anthropologist Katerina Semende...

31 July 2007
05:36 GMT

Friends Can Make You Obese!

Junk food is considered to be the cause for the fat epidemics: in just 25 years, the number of obese people boomed in the US from 15 % to 33 %. But nobody sticks fatty food in your mouth. At least not directly. However, mentally this happens quite often. And the main culprits are your obese friends. They can make you...

26 July 2007
03:46 GMT


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