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Social Fridays: Round-up of the Best Social Networking Stories and Videos this Week

If you're bored at work and itching to get yourself through the day then you know the drill! Rather than surfing around trying to keep yourself occupied before you make a quick sprint to the door when it's home time; catch up on stories that have been causing a storm on the social network sites this week, right here and right now..

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Here's our Top 5 Social Friday Stories

1. Twitter Rejects $500 Million Takeover Offer From Facebook – Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million of overvalued Facebook stock, Kara Swisher says. Twitter rejected the offer for several reasons…

2. PC Magazine to Shut Down Print Edition – Ziff Davis announced today that it will STOP PUBLISHING THE PRINT VERSION OF PC MAGAZINE. The magazine, which was launched in 1982, will now be published online only. The January 2009 issue will be the last…

3. Microsoft cleans fake antivirus tool from 994,061 PCs The Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is a small program Microsoft pushes out to computers on Patch Tuesday to clean out a list of malware…

4. This is Why You Don’t Steal from Cracked – El Grafico, a Mexican Newspaper, stole a Cracked article. They were so lazy that they didn’t even upload their own images, this means images are on the Cracked.com server…

5. “Let me google that for you…” – For all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves…

Here's our top 5 Social Friday videos
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1. Facebook Hackathon project – Visualizes all the data Facebook receives.

2. Bruce Lee plays ping pong with nunchuck

3. Kid Plays Guitar Hero with Bike

4. Wife Tests Bullet Proof Glass For Husband

5. What’s the aim of this Video Game?

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