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If you have an urge to always know what your close friends and family members are up to, then Foursquare has the remedy. The popular social network has announced the availability of its new “Always On” option which allows you to receive continuous check-ins from a selected list of people — even if you have notifications disabled. This slick new feature gives you the flexibility to create a list of VIPs that you’d like to keep tabs on opposed to receiving a play by play of everyone else’s weekend excursion. For now, the toggle can only be found on Foursquare’s website, but we wouldn’t be surprised if this toggle headed to the company’s cadre of apps in the near future. The Android app specifically just received a new update that brings back the nearby friends check-in filter users lost in the upgrade to 5.0 (iOS and BlackBerry saw it return in August) plus a “social history” that shows if your friends have visited a location and how many times, as well as a redesigned me card.

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His bio
reads, "I aim to connect and promote great people who will make a
difference by collaborating than individually. . . and my goals are
eradication of poverty and a sustainable economy by 2015." One of his
fervent passions and ongoing initiatives is to help save the Taiji
dolphins from captivity and slaughter. Doesn’t sound like a candidate
for Japan’s harsh immigration-and-detention system, does it? Yet Michael
Q. Todd found himself taken into custody in the Shingu Jail on
September 16h for a lapsed visa. 

He’s done it before. Back in 2010 when the Tea Party Republcans helped overtake the majority in the House of Representatives, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart jumped into the debate ring with
his co-faux newscaster collaborator, Stephen Colbert. Touted as the "Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear,"
the event was well attended in DC. This go-around Stewart has targeted
Bill O’Reilly, the Fox News talk-show host to help iron out some of the
pressing issues of this year’s presidential election campaign.

Online hoaxes are a dime a dozen these days. A pretty cruel one recently made the news. It was in the form of a Facebook hoax that alarmed a mother and made her relatives think that her seven-year-old son had passed away.

However, the reality was that Javier Quintana was alive and kicking and standing right in front of her. Unfortunately, friends and family members didn’t know that and were devastated at the ‘news.’

Pictures, videos, and stories about Javier were posted online on a Facebook memorial page that was dedicated to Javier. His mother Patricia was beyond angry and has since filed a report with the local police.

Authorities looked into the matter and discovered that two teenagers were behind the whole thing. A 14-year-old girl was joking to a 13-year old boy about Javier’s death (which doesn’t sound like much of a joke), when the boy took things too far and created the memorial page. The girl asked him to take it down but by then, messages of grief were already pouring on the page.

No charges have been filed, and Javier, who was confused about the whole fiasco, was quick to assure friends and family: “I am alive and I’m fine… I don’t know why they put it, but I just feel bad for that.”

So guys, just avoid the whole mess and don’t make jokes about death because they really aren’t funny at all.

[Daily Mail via Softpedia]

Apple’s highly-anticipated iPhone 5 is finally here and what do China’s fanatical fanboys & gals get after their long wait? A longer iPhone… Really? Less than impressed with this critical post-Jobs product, China’s clever, creative and critical netizens have logged into China’s social media matrix to call Apple out.