Hasta La Gadget!

Facebook has been adamant that they’re letting users maintain their privacy on their social network by providing robust privacy and access controls. Everything might be all well and good on your personal profile, but don’t be too sure that what you’re saying in a private Facebook group will stay private.

That’s because a service called Storify currently allows users to re-publish posts from Facebook to their Storify feeds, whether they’re marked as public or private.

In case you haven’t heard of it yet, Storify is a free service that lets people save, collect, and publish content that has been posted on social media sites. As reported by AGBeat last week, these posts may or may not be set to private when they were originally published.

This is possible because Storify doesn’t use Facebook’s API to work; rather, it copies any post that a user can view on the social network on to the Storify platform.

Facebook addressed the matter, saying: “The behavior appears to result from Storify users utilizing a browser extension that essentially cuts and pastes content available to that user to the Storify site. This is not a result of the Storify application for Facebook.”

So to everyone out there, you have been warned: private Facebook groups are no longer private at this point.

[via BuzzFeed]

It’s crazy how we’re now living in a world where Facebook plays a larger role than it should. For example, did you know that there’s a site that lets men ‘buy’ fake girlfriends online for just $10?

If you didn’t, then now you do.

It’s a Brazilian website called NamoroFake, and it’s completely ridiculous. The fake ‘girlfriend’ only comes in the form of a Facebook account that will be maintained for a specific number of days. The number of comments that the ‘girlfriend’ will make, as well as how long the account will be valid, depends on how much you’re willing to pay.

I can think of several reasons why someone would pay to have a fake ‘girlfriend’ (piss off an ex-girlfriend, pretend to be a huge stud and boast to friends, or completely mess with a football player’s head), but the whole thing is just pretty sad.

[via MSN]

Like most people who have something they don’t need anymore, Aimi Jones decided to put a yellow skater dress she had up for auction on eBay. She didn’t bother to check the pictures she took of the dress until after she posted the listing – and that’s when she spotted her humiliating mistake.

In one of the listing’s photos, Aimi can clearly be seen in the reflection of her mirror, taking a picture of the dress wherein she was wearing nothing more than a bra. In other words, she was buck naked from the waist down. She quickly ended the listing, but it was still up and viewable online.

Sure enough, some eagle-eyed shoppers spotted Aimi’s listing and the rest is history: it went viral. eBay has since taken down the listing and sellers worldwide have learned an important lesson from this – always check your images before uploading them. You’ll never be able to hit the “undo” key on the entire internet.

Here’s Aimi with her infamous yellow dress, fully-clothed now.

[via Gawker]

It didn’t take long to realize that one thing most guys have in common – regardless of their age, status, nationality, or occupation – is a universal love for porn. It sounds pretty gross, but I’ll just chalk that desire up to hormones and to the fact that that’s just how they were made.

So for the guys out there who feel like they aren’t getting their regular fill of the stuff (and for the women who like it, too), here’s some good news: you can now check out some adult content at work, thanks to PornSFW.com, which features women (and some men) in various poses that are actually safe for work!

How is that even possible? Here’s how:

See what they did there? It’s pretty hilarious, mostly because of the paint overlays. This is probably the first (and only time) I’ll find porn funny. The site hosts a collection of images similar to the one above, showing women in the usual porn poses that have been modified to make them viewable for people of all ages, anytime, anywhere.

Granted, you’ll have to use your imagination if you’re actually using the site at work to, well, you know. But for the rest of us, it’s just some unusual fun to be had from a very unlikely source.

[via Incredible Things]

If you sketchily poked on over to the Pirate Bay to do a little downloading of a legal, quasi-legal, or outright illegal nature recently, you may have noticed you can’t get through. No, your ISP hasn’t started blocking it; it’s down for everyone, everywhere. Proxies too. More »