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There are now a whole love of spin-offs on the popular sport of planking. Owling followed planking and now it's batting. So what is batting and how do you do the bat . You would need to hang upside down and fold your arms up in a V shape. The best place to find users who have submitted their batting photos is on www.dothebat.com and you can also check out the websites Facebook page . We have already covered the dangers of Planking and the dangers of Owling . The problem with these internet fads is that what starts out as a little bit of fun could soon become a danger to life itself. By now you are familiar with people loosing their life and jobs because of planking. Is batting dangerous? Well for starters this seems to be the most dangerous of all. The danger is because people may choose to do it in dangerous places. Hanging upside down from a height has got to be dangerous. If it is done as seem in the photos below in a safe place close to the ground it could be safe. but not en...

After overshooting the runway a Caribbean Airlines plane crashed and split into two. There have been no deaths but a few injuries. It barely missed a 200-foot ravine which could have ended in a lot of fatalities. Authorities have closed the Airport and most of the passengers fled the plane leaving their luggage behind. . The plane BW 523 left New York stopped over at Trinidad before landing in Guyana. The plane was carrying 153 passengers on board. Poor visibility and rain might have been the cause for the pilot overshooting and landing the plane halfway down the runway. The news is breaking fast on Twitter and people are now using the topic 'Caribbean Airlines' to spread news of the plane that broke in half.  Image Credit: Demerarawaves.com An original post by Sociolatte

Wondering what Google's image search is being used for right now, well it should not come as a surprise, it is the same on Twitter and wherever else you go, Justin Bieber. Justin seems to be ruling the internet image search and there Google is calling this search breakout as it is so high. All these search are being followed closely by searches for Justin Bieber's girlfriend Selena Gomez. Among the top most image searches related to him two stand out very strongly. 'Justin Beiber and Dad's matching Hebrew tattoos' and 'Justin Bieber wedding crasher'.  Recently released photos show father and son on a recent trip to Israel where they got identical tattoos done on their torsos. They got the name 'Yeshua' done which means Jesus in Hebrew. The wedding crasher story goes like this, Justin and Selena were having a romantic dinner date at a restaurant on Malibu beach when they heard his music playing at some nearby nuptials. The couple ventured over, leavin...

You have setup all your circles in Google+ but notice that some people are in the wrong place and you would like to move them around. Circles on Google Plus are always changing, as people make adjustments constantly. For power users the nature of each circle also might change over time. The time comes for you to move one people from one circle to the other. Google+ does not yet offer a way to this automatically, you would can move people between circles but they remain in the old circle. Which means you need to go back to that circle and remove them from there. How to move people between circles 1. Login to Google+ 2. Click on circles 3. You see a dashboard with the names of all your friends and a list of circles below that. 4. Simply drag and drop from the dashboard to the circle. You can move multiple contacts by highlighting and number of people. To highlight simply click on the contact and don't move. This way you can move multiple contacts together. How to remove contacts from...

Sending a message in Google+ is a little different unlike other social networks where you have to go to a person's profile and send an email from there. Google+ has the stream and it is used in many different ways. Google+ stream is the place where you can update your posts and share stuff with all your circles on the network. If however you want to send a private message or a direct message to one of your contacts this is where you need to go to get it done. It also works like traditional email where you type your message enter the name of the person you wish to send the message to and hit the share button To send a message to one of your contacts: 1. Type your message you want to send to a person in the stream 2. In the space provided below start typing the name of the person you want to send the message to 3. The person's name appears enter it and do the same if you would like to message others as well 4. Click the share button 5. You're done An original post by Sociolat...

based on Feedback sent by a lot of power users on Google+, Google engineer Bret van Zuiden released an update that makes everything easier. Reordering your circles is now as simple as drag and drop. To reorder your circles simple drag and drop the circle in the order you want. Once that is done it will stay in the same order across Google+. So now you do not need to waste time finding the right circle but important circles will stay in the way your placed them in order. This order will help you when your viewing your stream, sharing or adding a person to your circles. The list will remain in the order that you specify. Even when adding people to your circles, all your circles will appear in the order you set. makes things easier and cleaner. How to reorder your circles 1. Click on your circles tab in Google+ 2. Click on the circle you want to move 3. Drag and drop it to the position you want. An original post by Sociolatte

There are many websites that are actually phishing websites that look just like Twitter but are not. Many users have logged in and fallen pray to phishing sites. Phishing is much like fishing where the fisherman uses a hook to entire fish to take a bite while inside what seems like food is a hook. Phishing sites operate much the same way by masquerading as legitimate sites but hidden inside is a hook to rob users personal and sensitive data, including bank account numbers. On Twitter however phishing scams trick users into providing their login details and then use the account to send spam to all the uses followers and cause havoc.  There are a few key pointers to help you not to fall for a phishing scam on Twitter. Always make sure you are on Twitter before logging in. www.twitter.com  http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/login and not 2. Always use https when using Twitter To do so you can go to your settings page on Twitter and check the box next to 'Always Use HTTPS'. Thi...

Twitter has introduced anew feature called 'Timely Tweets', which is basically Tweets that users will be able to see on top of their or near the top of their timeline. These tweets will scroll through users's timelines and will appear only once. Twitter has promoted this service saying it is a way for users to be able to get their news first-hand and on time, as it breaks. These tweets will be from organizations users follow or might not follow.  This is seen as a way for Twitter to make some money and in the process of doing so will infuse into users's timelines tweets from select organizations. Twitter has already announced their initial partners in this project.   Best Western, Dell, Gatorade, Groupon, HBO, JetBlue, LivingSocial, Microsoft Xbox, Red Bull, Sephora, Starbucks, Summit Entertainment’s “50/50”, TNT and Virgin America among others — with more to come soon. During this phase, you may also see Promoted Tweets in your timeline from non-profit organizations yo...

Cowboys and Aliens has been trending on the worldwide Twitter topics for some time now. The movie starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford that hit theaters across the US on the 29th is now on the Twitter world wide topics. Users are tweeting their responses to the movie and whether their liked it or now. The movie has garnered a lot of attention through social media and has been on the worldwide Twitter trending topics from the time of it's release. The file has been directed by Jon Favreau and you can follow him on Twitter here . The movie is a mashup between two genres of movies that of Aliens and Cowboys. Twitter users seem to be quiet positive about the movie and the general feedback seems to be good with people liking the movie. The crowds will be split into critical mass with some rooting for Cowboys and the others for Aliens. You can find them on Facebook where the movie already has over 207,848 followers. The official website can be viewed here . Follow on YouTube . Follo...

This might have happened to you or at-least someone you know. Your Facebook account gets hacked and and taken over and a lot of spam starts being sent from that account. Many of our friends wake up one morning to find to their horror that they fb account has been taken over and being used to send spam and the embarrassing thing is that it keeps posting on friends walls. Sometimes with vulgar and obscene images. This happens to be one of the most embarrassing things that can happen to a Facebook user.  These sort of attacks are quiet frequent and many users have suffered from them. The good news is that you do not loose your account and a few simple steps will secure your account again. What to do if your Facebook starts sending Spam If your account has been taken over and used to send spam, you should follow these steps immediately: Reset your Facebook password. You can do this by clicking the " Forgot your password ?" link on the login page or by going to the Account Setting...

Gmail would like you to stage an 'Email Intervention' and help out a friend who is still stuck using outdated email. How do you decide which email is outdated, the Email Intervention video gives you some examples to decide. Here are a few floppy disks, VHS cassette and portable disc player. Well you get the message and you know the email addresses people used to use during that era. Things have changed now with free voice and video chant being available on Gmail and not on some of those old outdated email services. No names are being mentioned as it is pretty easy to figure it out. So how does Email Intervention work. To make things really simple Gmail has a email address for you to go to to start your crusade  http://www.emailintervention.com/  once here all you need to do is to enter the name of your friend who you do not want left back and enter the email address of your pal. Next enter your name and mail ID and send the mail. Alternatively if you want to  start an intervent...

Now that most Facebook users have matured and come of age the next thing people want to do is to trim their list of friends and not keep the people who are not really friends. This is just one of the reasons why people are looking to unfriend on Facebook there may be a number of other reasons. Sometimes some people just become annoying and you want to remove them from your Facebook whatever the reason might be to unfriend, remove or remove as friend from Facebook is really easy and simple to do. How to unfriend on Facebook 1. Login to Facebook 2. In the search bar type the name of the person you wish to remove as friends 3. You are taken to their profile page 4. On the left-hand side sidebar go right to the bottom 5. You will see the unfriend link 6. Click on it 7. You will be asked to confirm that you actually want to remove the person as a friend 8. Click on the "remove as friend' link. 9. You're done An original post by Sociolatte

Pitbull seems to be the one on fire on YouTube. Every single released get instant big number views. The latest collaboration with Marc Anthony who is currently going through a separation has become the most viewed video of the week on YouTube. 'Rain on me' the new single from 'Planet Pit', was released on Vevo on July 22nd, already has over 15 million views and growing fast. The video of course is shot in the desert even though the song is about rain. This is not the first time he has corroborated with the Anthony-Lopez household, earlier this year he found success with J.lo in a club hit "hit the Floor". Pitbull is rolling this year with a number of smash hits and videos that certainly pull in the viewers. He has always had at-least one videos in the top 10 most viewed videos on YouTube constantly. So what do you think will this video keep climbing???? An original post by Sociolatte

There are many reasons why you might want to connect your presence on other social networking sites with your Google+ account. You might want your Google Plus connects to find your LinkedIn profile easily. Maybe you want to connect your Flickr account to your account so you friends and connections will be able to find your photos and albums easily. Especially if you are very active in the social media scene Google+ offers you to connect all your account which can later be found on your Google+ profile so as to be found easily. You can add your Facebook and Twitter account to your Google+ account.  Cross-posting is not yet available but will definitely be a feature that will get added so people will be able to post from Google+ to Twitter and Facebook and vice versa. However that functionality is not yet available. Third party App developers must be scrambling to try to get that done. However for now you can connect your Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Flickr, LinkedIn, Quora, Yelp, Hotmail, ...

Google + allows you to backup all the information you share using the service. You can download all the photos, videos, profile information, contacts, circles and stream posts, you can download all this to a hard drive on your computer. To do this is fast quick and easy and you get to keep a record of all the information you share on Google Plus. This means that you can backup all your Picasa web albums and photos. You cna also save all your Buzz Posts and download all your contacts and circles. Choosing to do so will download all the info in zip files which you can later open and use whenever you want. How to download all your profile information on Google+ 1. login to Google+ 2. Click on the cog icon on the top right-hand corner.  3. Click on Google+ settings 4. On the right you will find the option 'Data Liberation' 5. Click it 6. As soon in the image below you get the following options 7. Choose what you would want to download and save 8. You're done You can now curate ...

Image Credit: Daily Mail Using a 'flashmob' style robbery thieves use social networking sites to organize and execute. Flashmobs used to be used to organize peaceful demonstrations, protests or dances. This comes as a new trend that of 'Flashrob'. Where a group of people enter a store distract employees working there and then just take whatever they want and get out. The whole operation could last as long as 20 seconds. Getting caught on camera is not something they are worried about as finding the culprits among a large group of people could be difficult. In fact after finishing the job they might even pose for photographs. Teens seem to be attracted to this sort of thing because it give them a rush. This time a group of men and women rob a Victoria's secret lingerie store after organizing a flashrob. The store is located in Georgetown, Washington. This comes just after a robbery three months ago when a flashrob group entered a DuPont store and made away with $20,0...

If you like to share photos online through popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter Photorank.me will use an algorithm and tell you how popular your photos are on a scale from 1-100. You can login using your twitter or Facebook or Twitter to get started and once in you can analyze all your photos. Once in you can also login using your Flickr, Instagram or picplz account. The ranking on the site gives precedence to the last 21 days.  Photorank.me analyzes all your photos and takes into account all the likes and comments your photos have generated. You can also browse the site for people who you know or generally search for people with a high score. A high score means that the person obviously takes some good shots or at least shares photos that generate a lot of interest.  So are you a social photographer and are you well-liked as well. Do you photos generate a lot of interest if so you can see how you stack-up against your buddies and other photographers. Also if you ...

Wondering what happens when you remove a block or unblock on Facebook. To start with it is safe to state that once you block a person all ties with that person are severed. So when you decide to unblock you will have to send that contact a friend request again and redo the whole process. Of course by this time the contact would already know that he or she has been blocked and well if there is an understanding then maybe your friend request will be accepted if not.... So when you unblock someone they will be able to find your profile on Facebook and also view it. The same goes for you, you will be able to see their profile and other info on Facebook once again. Since blocking on Facebook is a final action all friendships ties would have been cut off. Now since you decided to remove the block profiles will be visible to each other but the spark of friendship needs to be ignited once again. How to remove a block on Facebook. 1. Login 2. Click on Account 3. Click on privacy Settings 4. Cli...

Apply with LinkedIn is a button companies can use on their personal sites which show current vacancies. The button can be added beside a open job and applicants can apply for that job using their LinkedIn profiles. LinkedIn profiles are standard and easy to browse through. Companies will not have a problem as everyone is used to LinkedIn profiles and familiar with how they work. The button 'Apple with LinkedIn' is like the Twitter Tweet button on the Facebook like button. It can be embedded anywhere across the web and the company hopes to make this the standard button to help companies connect with job applicants directly. Currently many of the large companies have a long registration process before you can apply for job they advertise on their sites. This is apart from the many job portals across the internet and various countries. This one button has the power to change everything as the chances of this becoming the standard apply for a job button might become the standard.  ...

So what exactly is 'Mute a post' on Google+ and how does it work. As part of the privacy settings in Google plus there is an option called mute this post. After joining Google+ people can add you to circles and start sharing with you. You can choose tho have them share or not. If you are added to a circle and that person shares with the circle there is a post that comes to your stream as well. If you have been added to many people's circles then there will be many post in your stream daily. Now some of these post you may choose not to see and not to follow.You can opt to use the 'Mute this post' option. Once you click on mute this post the entire post will remain hidden. This option is found on the top right-hand corner of each post. You can always undo mute the same post whenever you want by clicking on the 'unmute post'. Muting a post will hide the entire post or thread and you can undo mute by finding that post again in your stream or by going to the user...

Image Crdit: Phelps Twitter Account Michael Phelps is in Shanghai for the world 2011 swimming championships this weekend. He does not appear to be the best and that distinction goes to another free spirit who goes by the name of Ryan lochte. Phelps is on Twitter and Facebook where he keeps in touch with his fans, friends and followers. He is a frequent Twitter user as can be sen from his account. Since landing in China he was under the impression that he would not be able to use these social networking sites that have been banned in China. Apparently not so and since landing he has been tweeting constantly. Chinese fans have been using roundabout  methods to be able to read his tweets. He connected to Facebook and Twitter and found that he had access and just kept on tweeting, in addition to that he also has a weibo account. We have already written about weibo which is a Chinese micro-blogging site much like Twitter. It has been built along the lines of Twitter and is huhgely popular...

Was wondering what people are searching for on Google Trends and found one trend which was on Fire( US Searches). Kim Kardashian has been diagnosed with psoriasis which is an incurable disease. The disease manifests itself as red flaky patches on the skin and  not life threatening. it is just a condition for which many treatments are available. It is incurable but can be controlled. On Keeping Up With the Kardashians , Kim was diagnosed with psoriasis. It was first discovered by bloggers when the reality star stepped out on July 19th. Red spots were seen on her calves and pictures and photographs of the same began to circulate on the internet. The reality star says she is worried because she makes a living by showing skin and adding or loosing a pound makes headlines with the tabloids. Her mom also had the same at age 30 and it can be passed down genetically.  This search on Google is listed as red hot and you can see why, with 5% of all searches coming from New York. The reality star ...

Vin Diesel is on the Trending Topics on Twitter again today and for a couple of reasons. People are wishing him a happy birthday but he was born on the 16th so that is a bit off. There are also people tweeting about Vin Diesel with hair and yes we have the photo right here for you. Then there are a few Chuck Norris type jokes being thrown in. But the main reason could be because there has been a release data announced for fast and Furious 6, but that too is old news. Then there are some female users who are tweeting physical attributes of the star with things like 'would like me some Vin Diesel'. Well one of main reasons he is a TT on Twitter is there are photos of him with hair floating around the internet and the news that he will be acting in a movie with hair and news of the Riddik sequel.  Vin Diesel has been planning to return for a third "Chronicles of Riddick" installment, called "Riddick." It is now set to begin filming in September and as a birthd...

Facebook has rolled out the new chat sidebar and adjusted the privacy settings a little bit. This post is going to be just a simple guided with Q&A's on how to adjust your chat settings and master the new FB sidebar. 1. How do I choose to appear in chat or not Click on the clog button on the bottom right-hand corner of your chat sidebar and then turn on or turn off your chat availability. If the tick mark appears before 'Available to chat' friends can see you and if there is no tick mark in front of 'Available to chat' then you are offline. 2. How do I use Facebook without appearing online. You will need to ensure there is no tick mark in front of 'Available to chat' to browse and use Facebook without appearing online. 3. How do I limit availability to just a few close friends on the Facebook chat sidebar Click on the clog icon at the bottom of your chat window and then choose 'limit Avialibility' and then from the drop down menu choose which gro...

#GoPlankinTraffic is now the second most popular trending topic on Twitter worldwide. Planking was a crazy started in Australia and has to do with people lying face down with their arms drawn to their sides and legs stretched straight out. This crazy has now spread around the world and has also spawned offshoots like Owling. Seems that a lot of people have had enough of this crazy. There has already been a death and a lot of  people have already lost their jobs due to dangerous planking. We have already covered the dangers of planking on Sociolatte.  So what users are trying to say with this trend is that if you want to go planking please do so in traffic. If you go lie face down in the middle of traffic you know what will happen, we don't really need to say it. People are also telling tweeting that about stupid things others do and should go plank in traffic instead. Smart way of telling others to get away and find something better to do, if not just go and get rid of yourself. U...

Singer Amy Winehouse is dead at 27. Her death has come as a shock to her fans and people are showing their sympathy on Twitter.  Troubled singer had a long battle with drink and drugs Devastated after split from director Traviss last month Father Mitch flies home from New York 'to be with Amy' Autopsy could take place 'within next 24 hours Amy Winehouse join the other members of Club 27, what it is about good musicians dying at 27 will remain a mystery but legendary greats Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and founding member of the Rolling Stones Brian Jones to name a few. The causes of their deaths were different but one thing is certain. They all became more famous after their deaths with fans romanticizing their memories. Their real fame coming to them only after their deaths. Amy will always be remembered for her song Rehab - They tried to make me go to Rehab but I said no no no. Her fans on Twitter are chanting this mantra over and over again. RI...

Released as part of the official FarmVille guides comes the Super Crop Guide. Super Crops have arrived! These new crops grow into super-sized crops that let you earn more coins, XP and Bushels! When you master the Super Crops, you’ll also receive a gold plated mastery sign for your achievement. Upon entering FarmVille, you will receive the following pop-up. Click on the “Unlock now” button and you will be brought to the “Seeds” section of the Market. There are nine new Super Crops that can be identified by their gold colored Market Card and the “Super” title at the beginning of their name. The nine new Super Crops are: Super Cotton Super Pumpkin (Note: These are not the Super Pumpkins from the fan event last year.) Super Yellow Mellon Super Grape Super Watermelon Super Pepper Super Strawberry Super Pink Aster Super Cranberry To unlock a super crop, you must first fully master the basic version of the crop. For example, if I wished to plant Super Cotton, I would first have to attain lev...

This guide is a part of the official guides released by CityVille to help players of the game. Find out how to use the new and improved neighbor visits and other related Q&As relating to this feature. Use the new Request Help Tool to let your neighbors know where you need help. Feature Overview This feature is available to levels 10+. Use the Request Help Tool to mark with hearts where you need help. The amount of hearts you have (your heart inventory) is tied to your Reputation Level. Increase your Reputation Level by visiting your neighbors. You can request help on any item that a neighbor can usually tend. If a neighbor helps with the items you requested, you'll be able to post a reward to their wall. Frequently Asked Questions: [Q]: How does my heart inventory work? [A]: You have an inventory of hearts which you can use at any time. Using the Help Request tool takes hearts out of your inventory. Hearts are returned to your inventory when a neighbor tends your marked items, ...