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20 Terrifying Internet Urban Legends

WC - Jan Harold Brunvand’s The Vanishing Hitchhiker is a classic investigation into the modern phenomenon of the urban legend. Ghost stories, apocryphal stories about a friend-of-a-friend, spooky campfire tales – they all follow the tradition of folk stories that used to be told before we actually had, y’know, books and stuff to write things down in. Used to be that famous tales would be passed on with people telling them, which went out the door with the invention of the printing press. That is, until it mutated into the urban legend, the sort of stories you hear on a hiking trip, on the schoolyard, during sleepovers when you’re trying to get your friends to wet themselves.

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Twitter Blue problems? How to sign up for verification despite error messages

Signing up for the new Twitter Blue has caused problems for some folks. The Shortcut details the roadblocks you may hit trying to sign up and how to get around them.

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EvilCackle493d ago (Edited 493d ago )

Good thing I signed up at launch so people know I'm the real evilcackle

CurrentDigital493d ago

Huge loss for those who don't know where else to spend their surplus $8 a month

SwiderMan491d ago

Still haven't been approved for Twitter Blue :/

gatewayinternational489d ago

study abroad is the chance to find yourself while acquiring a comprehension of an alternate culture. Being in another spot without help from anyone else can overpower on occasion.

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Thousands of top websites collect your data in real-time as you type

Websites are harvesting our data even before we

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The days of remaining anonymous on the internet are coming to an end

Regulations are beginning to require users to verify their identification online.

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