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"Buddy Cup" Links Drinkers on Facebook

By Bryan Le

Budweiser's new invention automatically updates your "friend" count with a clink of the glass. MORE  

Social Media Sites Fight "Thinspo"

By Sarah Beller

Instagram and other websites take aim at content that triggers or promotes eating disorders. MORE  

Is Facebook Driving You to Drink?

By Bryan Le

A new study finds anxious people are more likely to use Facebook, and to drink. MORE  

Twitter Hoax Leads to Campus-Wide Booze Dump

By Bryan Le

After a joke text about dorm sweeps goes viral, panicked UVA students dump out their liquor. MORE  

Romania's Prime Minister Is a Facebook Addict

By Bryan Le

"I am addicted to Internet, to Facebook," PM Victor Ponta writes on his Facebook page. MORE  

Kings of Leon "Too Drunk" to Record Album

By Ben Feuerherd

Bassist Jared Followill tweets that his drinking is causing delays in the studio. MORE  

Desmond Bryant's Drunk Mugshot Goes Viral

By Ben Feuerherd

Jimmy Kimmel coins the term "dezzing" to describe the Oakland Raider's now-iconic pose. MORE  

Morning Roundup: February 14, 2013

By Bryan Le

Fake drug trade "more lucrative" than cocaine and heroin, prescription drug abuse rises in the military, and Ke$ha drunkenly drinks own urine on TV. MORE  

Facebook Addiction May Cause Psychosis

By McCarton Ackerman

Excessive social networking can lead to delusions, anxiety and confusion, a study finds. MORE  

Morning Roundup: October 10, 2012

By Chrisanne Grise

Social media "more tempting" than sex or cigarettes, the FDA wants to reargue cigarette warning label rules, and Russell Brand celebrates 10 years sober. MORE  

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