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Facebook announced June 30 it had opened its first African office in Johannesburg as part of its efforts "to help people and businesses connect" on the continent.

By Lina Giannarou

We take it for granted ? it?s at our fingertips, constantly on our minds, a part of our lives ? but whenever the Internet decides to reveal another small piece of its magic, we are still amazed.

Charlotte McKinney, the 21-year-old who burst onto the modeling scene after appearing in a burger ad during this year’s Super Bowl has a great deal in common with Kate Upton. They are both dazzling blondes known for their voluptious assets and they both became famous for fast food ads… but please, don’t get them confused!

A man who found a digital camera on Sunday morning used social media to try and find its owner by posting a “selfie” from its memory.

The picture showed a woman and a youth smiling atop the Acropolis in central Athens.

Alex Pitropakis posted the photograph, and the rest is history.

Security researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way thousands of popular mobile applications store data online, leaving users' personal information, including passwords, addresses, door codes and location data, vulnerable to hackers. 

It’s not enough that some “netizens” spend countless hours on Facebook, now the world’s pre-eminent social media site has unveiled a “lite” version of itself, debuting a new app for Android that only takes up 1 MB of storage space.
The normal Facebook app takes up about 25 MB of storage space.

Social media giant Facebook may have a “no nipple” policy, but the site has no protection as far as sick videos shoing puppies being blowtorched to death are concerned. The vile video, shared around 70,000 times, was reported to the site by accountant Nick Parkes, aged 46.

It was the selfie that launched a … 1,000 topless Icelandic women to go topless for … feminism! Well, it may not be 1,000 but it sounds poetic, in a Homeric way.

The BBC apologised on Wednesday for accidentally setting off Twitter rumours that Queen Elizabeth had been hospitalized.

Amber Rose follows in Kim Kardashian’s footsteps, uploading a steady stream of photos on Instagram.

On Friday, she uploaded a couple of images to show off her new attempted tan, which turned into a sun burn.