Results tagged “theinternet”

OMG, says The Globe, have you heard that Facebook can ruin relationships? Apparently, the Internet has developed a new, frightening means by which many thousands of people have been rediscovering old acquaintances, some of whom they want to sex. These "social networking sites" also allow partners to snoop on one another and obsess over real and imagined infidelity, leading to emotional ruin. Next week: Some people post comments to websites without fact checking.

After a group of thugs allegedly assaulted a man in Davis Square, he posted the whole thing on the davis_square Livejournal group. The cops couldn't help him out, but maybe the internet can. LJers are sharpening their pitchforks and giving legal advice. At the very least, prospects look grim for a cashier at the Davis Square Tedeschi's, who may have accepted a bribe from the thug crew.

ROFLCon invaded Cambridge over the weekend, storming MIT's lecture halls and colonizing the bars of Central Square with novelty t-shirts. Bostonist knows that the Internet is always talking to itself, about itself, but it was surreal to be in the room while that was happening.

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Bostonist prefers the tried and true method of shaming people into doing the work they’ve promised. That was our sole intention in calling out Cameron Marlow publicly on not sharing his Weblog Survey data with us (well, us and the rest of the ‘net). It was an idea we’d picked up from Xian. We posed some questions and the seeming lack of substantive response was noted as it quickly made way to other local channels.

Bostonist loves the Inside Track ladies at the Herald. They’ve got their finger on the tiny trickle of celebrity and athlete gossip coming from the Hub. As was pointed out earlier this year, they were the only ones who could keep track of The Departed. But this morning they’re knocking on the Internet and Bosonist’s “Weather or Not” man Todd Gross. Set to make an appearance this morning on WAAF, before Todd went live, the...