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They know deep stuff about you, and that's money. This week researchers at Boston Children's Hospital revealed that Facebook data can even predict if you're fat.

Don't all suck it in at once (besides, Facebook doesn't know you're doing that):

The viral change from blue to red was a success, and the Campaign noted that celebrities George Takei, Tegan & Sara and Lance Bass were among the six-figure numbers of Facebook users who changed their profile photos to reflect the new color of equality. Of course, some took another tact. Enter the equality symbol meme:

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Scary?

The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America looked at ...

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Fly life in San Clemente.

And the University of Vermont found that California was a top 13 happy state and that Napa was the nation's happiest city. They did so by analyzing 10 million geotagged tweets gathered from 373 urban areas and then giving weight to key happy terms such as LOL, good, beautiful and, yes, happy:

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But the ex-LAPD lawman, said to be on a revenge-killing spree in retaliation for his 2008 firing, has also become somewhat of a pop culture icon. Some folks have turned Dorner imagery into internet memes being spread through Facebook and Twitter. (Warning: If making light of this situation could upset you, don't read on). Here are a few of the Dorner meme photos:

In honor of Tebowing, the Tim Tebow-inspired kneel-and-prayer, the twitterverse has taken to Teoing.

In this case, one must pose with one's nonexistent girlfriend. Really:

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Of the social networking site's recently revealed 10 most popular domestic "check-ins" for 2012, three of the locations are in Southern California, beating out any other region.

Top spots include:

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Well, you might want to stop that.

According to Michigan State University assistant psychology professor Mark Becker, multitasking with modern media is bad for your mental health.

It might be making you depressed:

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Yeah. Don't let the drama, vacay boasting and ubiquitous foodie photos get you down -- and, yes, they are getting you down. Not only that, but add in love woes: Most Facebookers have more exes as friends than current partners. Really.

But the most stress is reserved for the most-popular people:

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But for sheer "number of posted tweets" we slide down the global ranking to number 8, with the likes of Jakarta (number 1), New York (5) and Paris (7) beating us.

#WTF you say? #WTF indeed:

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Fire away.

Indeed! The march of progress continues apace here at the Weekly (and throughout the entire Village Voice Media chain)...

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Jason Loose, in his early 20s, was photographed on a Nanjing street corner while sharing his McDonald's French fries and bottled water with a barefoot homeless woman. The photos have since gone viral in China...

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In fact, the daily sighs of a Santa Monica twentysomething living with her girlfriends are so unproblematic as to actually be kind of enjoyable.

From this charmed romantic-comedy lifestyle was born "When in L.A.," the new Tumblr whose posts we can't seem to avoid whenever we open a computer. But take heed:

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Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time.

But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in an attempt to break the record for the largest flash mob in North America.

They performed the awkward "Carlton Dance:"

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The Twitter account is already up and running and tweeting about what was happening that week before the unrest, when the final court happenings in the trial of four LAPD officers accused of beating motorist Rodney King were on public display.

The feed answers the question every newsroom has been asking this week:

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That's right, in the gang capital of the nation, where serial killing is sport, the big crime problem is teens' raging in unoccupied homes.

Beck described to us out-of-it reporters what this scene is really all about:

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Except when those people are encouraging you to party, do drugs and have risky sex.

Such is the conundrum for Facebook and other social media, where teens can turn for support ... and bad influences. New research at USC wants to figure this out:

The Nikki Tsugranes effect.

Actually, the new policy was put in place almost two months ago. But until the news wire mentioned it in an article today on LAUSD's hot new social-media director, it seems to have passed quietly under the radar.

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Stephanie Abrams joins the crusade to re-legitimize LAUSD.

After longtime Miramonte Elementary teacher Mark Berndt was arrested in early February for allegedly spoon-feeding his semen to third-graders, an explosion of similar allegations at other LAUSD campuses has created a culture of panic within the district. (And the pervs just keep coming.)

Superintendent Deasy was immediately aware that superb PR was the key to emerging from this witch hunt alive:

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Welcome to Los Angeles, fellow narcissist! You're one of us. But seriously, a study unleashed today says that having lots of Facebook friends is a strong signal of your narcissism. You better cut someone off, fast, and it better not be your mom.

The research ...