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How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency, BMX Jerk Elicits The Most Flawless Shrug From This Waiter, The Science of Happiness on Social Media, What Do Those Symbols On The iPhone Mean?, Playing Catch-Up, The Puzzling Rise In Nearsighted Children The Daily Digg Tuesday, April 21, 2015 THE BOT BUBBLE How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency newrepublic.com A São Paulo gym might request 75 female Brazilian fitness fanatics, or a Castro-district bar might want 1,000 gay men living in San Francisco. Her current order is the most common: Facebook profiles of beautiful American women between the ages of 20 and 30. Once they've received the accounts, the client will probably use them to sell Facebook likes to customers looking for an illicit social media boost. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ BMX Jerk Elicits The Most Flawless Shrug From This Waiter digg.com Seriously, look at that grace, that form. The shrug that is, not the biker. Speak of which, what compels someone to ride OVER a car they clearly do not own? IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SHOWTIME SPONSORED The Science of Happiness on Social Media antisocialmediaweek.com Tuesday is the saddest day of the week on Twitter. I can tell you that because I'm looking at The Hedonometer, a digital graph created by data scientists to track happiness on the social network. Since 2009, The Hedonometer has been analyzing millions of tweets around the globe to calculate the average happiness levels. And those tweets have produced some very surprising results. TECHNICAL LANGUAGE What Do Those Symbols On The iPhone Mean? mentalfloss.com Stare at the back of your iPhone long enough and you may begin to question the significance behind that peculiar row of symbols appearing near the bottom. What do they mean? Is it a secret Apple language that will eventually replace our alphabet? The truth is out there. And significantly less sinister. Here's what you're really looking at. DIVISION Playing Catch-Up slate.com Sports-powerhouse universities keep choosing leaders with no experience in sports. Is that a problem? LONG IN THE EYE, SHORT IN THE TOOTH The Puzzling Rise In Nearsighted Children wsj.com To battle an explosion of myopia, eye researchers try more outdoor time, medication, even a giant, translucent cube. Get more stories on Digg.com → NOTHING TO BE SUWORI FOR A man dressed as Hindu goddess Kali dances during the Suwori festival in Boko about 75 kilometers (47 miles) west of Gauhati, India, Monday, April 20, 2015. Traditional elephant fights, elephant races, tug of war and dances mark this festival which coincides with the Assamese Rongali Bihu, or the harvest festival of the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Credit: AP Photo/ Anupam Nath Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014