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A Coon Rapids man's epic proposal to his girlfriend has gone viral on TikTok for its jaw-dropping creativity, thoughtfulness and view.

Facebook can be a great thing and a bad thing, I quit it for a while and this is my experience.

This is the news we needed to hear today.

The social media app may be going the way of Snapchat. Creeping just got a whole lot harder!

There's a social media phase apparently going around that has people eating laundry detergent pods, for some reason.

What the heck is going on these days?  I got a phone call from a friend that asked if I knew a certain person.  The name didn't sound familiar.  My buddy then told me he found my picture being used as his profile picture in a fishing group.  What the heck?

You can't always take things at face value on the internet. The latest example of this popped up this week, as people mistakenly thought they were doing a good deed by sharing a missing person story on Facebook. The problem is, the story was exactly a year old, and she had been found not long after being reported missing.

This may offend some people.  No, I guarantee it will offend some people because that's all we are anymore.  A collective group of people looking to be offended about something.

While cases of Ebola in the United States can be counted on one hand, there's a palpable fear of the deadly virus around the country. Even though the virus isn't easily transmitted, it is certainly a grim bug that is definitely worth being at least a little worried about. Groups of tasteless jokesters are taking advantage of this fear and using it to stir things up in cities around the country. Re

It's ironic that a viral video about anti-social media is being shared on social media, but that's where I found it.  My daughter had posted it on her facebook page and after watching it and reading her post "makes you think twice", I sent her a message saying "You. Me. The Lakewalk with no cell phones, are you IN?"  To my delight, she 'liked' it!  Honestly, this video showed h

It was eight years ago that Twitter moved onto the social media stage.  To celebrate, the company is inviting users to join its founders for a trip back in time...all the way to their very first tweet.

In a growing trend over the past year, Facebook fan pages have been popping up, offering free items like iPads, phones, computers, and other electronics and prizes. All the pages ask you to do is "like" or share the page or post in order to win. Pages like this are categorically considered fraudulent by social media specialists. Why are these pages being made, and how can you spot a fake