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Extra, Extra: Duh, Social Media Is Exhausting


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Ben Yakas

Published Aug 11, 2011

Modified Aug 11, 2011


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  • Twitter! Facebook! Foursquare! Google+! WUPHF! Keeping up with social media is really starting to burn people out.
  • Aw, yeah: Sarah Palin is revving up the RV again, and she's heading to Iowa!
  • Take a photo tour of the Tolkien-loving Hobbit House in Montana.
  • The teen who accused Lawrence Taylor of raping her speaks out: "He hit me, gave me a black eye, he kept hitting me, I fell. He stomped on my face."
  • As was expected, disgraced former state Senator Pedro Espada Jr.'s Soundview Health Network has been cut from the Medicaid program, practically ensuring that they will be shut down.
  • Forget Holiday Bandits and One-Gloved Bandits: a barefooted bandit has now been spotted in NoHo.
  • A motorcyclist was killed in Brooklyn when he hit a dump truck turning west on Atlantic Avenue and Hunterfly Place. The truck driver didn't realize he had been dragging the motorcyclist until blocks later.
  • Mitt Romney responded to liberal hecklers in Iowa today by stating that "corporations are people"...which is kind of true, but also, kind of totally wrong.
  • Former students of New York Law School have filed a lawsuit against NYLS because it gave them false promises of high-paying legal jobs.
  • And you can win tickets to see Bright Eyes on the Williamsburg Waterfront on 8/31—just enter here.
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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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