The Men Who Pay To Be Hacked For Pleasure
For more on this story, check out this episode of BuzzFeed’s Internet Explorer podcast. For most of us, the mere idea of handing over our smartphone to another person, or letting someone peep into our...
View ArticleThis Dating Site Matches You Based On Your B.O.
The best way to the heart is through the nose. smell.dating Are you single af and sick of trying to find someone to smash genitals with based on outdated things like looks, personality, or common...
View ArticleHere's Kendall And Kylie Jenner's New Mobile Game
Here’s what the game is like. Kendall and Kylie Jenner just launched their own mobile game on Glu Mobile, the same company that makes their sister Kim's game. instagram.com You start off as a basic...
View ArticleWhy Venmo And PayPal Are Blocking Donations To Syrian Refugees
Syrian Refugee children outside a school at the refugee camp in Osmaniye, Turkey. Adem Altan / AFP / Getty Images In December, Adnan Akil, a 26-year-old working in tech in San Francisco, sent money to...
View ArticleA Complete Guide To The New Facebook Emoji Reactions
What they mean, depending on who’s using them. Facebook now has emojis to select when you "like" something: When your friends use this: They don't care too much about you. When your aunt uses this:...
View Article11 Things People Over 30 Feel When They Read BuzzFeed Posts About Being In...
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View ArticleMeet The Woman With The Worst Name Luck Ever
Many of us can related to the pains of having some ~thing~ about our names. Maybe it's hard to spell or pronounce, or maybe it has some rhyme that people joked about on the schoolyard.And plenty of...
View ArticleTurn The New Facebook Emoji Reactions Into Trump Reactions
A Chrome extension so you can “Haha” or “Sad” to your friends’ posts with with The Donald. You know how Facebook just added those new reaction emojis last week? Here's a Chrome extension that turns...
View ArticleProof Disney Is Actually Marketing "Zootopia" To Furries
A marketing firm contracted by Disney has been reaching out to furry groups asking them to post to Instagram with the movie hashtag in exchange for freebies. Disney Furries have been speculating that...
View ArticleThe Peeple App Is Here, And The Founder Never Doubted It
Julia Cordray Last October, a two-person tech company based in Canada gave an interview to The Washington Post to talk up their new app, Peeple. The idea — “Yelp, but for people” — was, to put it...
View Article27 Things You Won't Understand Unless You Went To High School In The Late '90s
You had mail, but you had to wait ’cause your mom was using the phone. Having your parents begrudgingly agree to allow you to have a pager. And then learning pager code: 3579 : This is weird 1423: I...
View ArticleWe Got Trolled In The Nicest Way Possible
On Super Tuesday, BuzzFeed News experimented with Facebook’s relatively new Live (live-streaming video) feature. This meant letting our homepage editor, Gavon Laessig, get drunk and comment on the...
View ArticleHow The Internet Failed Jessi Slaughter
Damien Leonhardt, who went by the name "Jessi Slaughter" online in 2010. Damien Leonhardt “You dun goofed!” was the line that turned Jessi Slaughter into a meme. It was the opening of a video that...
View ArticleTumblr Replies Are Finally Back!
Replies are back, baby! Tumblr Last year, Tumblr did a redesign that got rid of one of its beloved features: the ability to reply to a post (instead of reblog with comment). The Tumblr community HATED...
View ArticleWe'd Totally Pay Way More For Netflix
NBC If you wanted to watch all 236 episodes of Friends in a month, you’d have to clock around seven to eight episodes a day, just under three hours per night. Any varsity binge-watcher could easily...
View ArticleThe Guy From Blues Traveler Lied About Me In His Book
John Popper wrote about a Twitter fight we had in his new book, and it’s wildly inaccurate. This is John Popper, singer and harmonica player of the band Blues Traveler, known for their '90s hits...
View ArticleType Just Like Shakespeare Did With This Keyboard App
“Shakespeak” is a keyboard that will help you write like a dead guy with an earring. SwiftKey In honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, SwiftKey keyboard app is putting out a...
View Article6 Things That Definitely Sucked About Facebook's New Shopping Bot
Help, I am being bullied by a bot for not wanting to pay more than $100 for sneakers. shopspring.com Yesterday, Facebook announced a new feature within the Messenger app: You can now shop right in the...
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