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If you didn’t know it by now, employers are using social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as an active part of their recruiting process. In fact, a new survey suggests that even if you are not providing a recruiter with your social media information, most are still looking at them anyway.

Lady Gaga reigns supreme. With 25 million Twitter followers in her corner, Gaga was named the world’s most popular celebrity, thanks to new statistical data provided by the newly-launched measuring service StarCount.

“Imagine you’ve been diagnosed with an incurable genetic disease and you are told you will not only lose your ability to walk and move your arms, but you will die between now and the next 18 months. What would you do?” The parents of 5-month-old Avery Lynn Canahuati, who’s suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, had to ask themselves this same question. Their answer? Avery’s Bucket List Blog. Read

Twitter has given us a window into just how stupid people's unfiltered thoughts can be.

Twitter is single handedly killing off celebrities on a daily basis. One retweet leads to hours worth of specualtion, further rumors, and confusion and it all started off of a bogus website. Once again, a rumor is just that. Usher is not dead. Neither is Justin Bieber, Adam Sandler, Will Smith, Jon Bon Jovi...the list goes on.

We may live in an era that many feel is dangerously approaching the Big Brother world depicted in the book ’1984,’ but after a high school student was expelled for using profanity in a tweet, lots of people cried foul.

Jennifer Lopez is still in the process of divorcing husband Marc Anthony and now rumors abound that she and her 24-year-old lover Casper Smart are planning a trip down the aisle.

Now that people are getting more used to being on social networks like Facebook they seem to be getting more picky about whom they are sharing their information with. According to a survey from the Pew Research Center, 63 percent of social media network users removed people from their friend rolls in 2011, which was up from the 56 percent of those who did so in 2009.

You know you’re getting older when it seems like nobody on Twitter knows who Billy Crystal is. Yeah, you read that right. Loads of people (and by people we mean out-of-touch teens) took to the Twittersphere after seeing the opening of the 2012 Oscars with utter confusion as to who the iconic actor is.

If you can't fight the constant urge to check what's happening on Facebook or Twitter every waking moment of your miserable existence, you're not alone.

Nick Cannon, who was being treated at an Aspen, Colo. hospital for mild kidney failure this week, tweeted an update from the hospital. The husband of Mariah Carey recently posted: “Currently being transfered to a hospital in LA. Thank you all for all your love, prayers and concern. You know me… I will be a’ight.”

The web has gone crazy with rumors that John Francis Bongiovi has died. Name not ring a bell? The alias Jon Bon Jovi probably does. According to a fake, and poorly, created press release Bon Jovi was apparently 'found in a coma' and 'not breathing'. Calm down. It's just another internet hoax.