Women’s Issues – While marketers often push the envelope to garner attention, Belvedere vodka got more than they expected after revealing a racy ad on Facebook and Twitter. The ad features a man violently grabbing a woman from behind with a smile on his face. The ad reads,...

Environment – Ecorazzi is holding its first ever #MicroistDay campaign benefiting Water.org. Unlike the usual Facebook status causes, Ecorazzi’s approach covers a variety of social media outlets. According to Ecorazzi, the point of Microist Day is “to spread the word about...

Human Rights – Eve Ensler, creator of the Vagina Monologues, has launched a new initiative entitled “One Billion Rising.” Ensler’s goal is to have one billion women and men come together to demonstrate the need to end the global violence against women. The year-long...

Celebrity Charities – Celebrities from around the world are joining BeatBullying, a prevention charity in the UK, and millions of people in “The Big March 2012,” the first ever worldwide virtual march against bullying. Currently the march has garnered over 820,000 supporters...

LGBT Issues – Ellen DeGeneres spoke out today on her talk show in response to the “conservative anti-gay campaign” that was trying to have her removed as the spokesperson for J.C. Penney due to her sexual orientation. “They [One Million Moms] wanted to get me fired...

Social Issues – The FBI is looking to reinvent its process of social network monitoring with a new and improved, automated system! – And you thought having your mom on Facebook and Twitter was bad. “Social media has become a primary source of intelligence because it has...

Social Issues – Footage of an autistic student being brutally beaten has surfaced thanks to one particularly sick individual who filmed the incident and posted it to Facebook. The beating occurred at a school bus stop in Maryland, and luckily, the evidence fell into the hands of...

Human Rights – In 2009, The United Nations launched the Blue Heart Campaign to raise awareness about the issue of human trafficking and its impact on society and to encourage involvement in helping stop this crime. Last year, President Obama declared January as National Slavery and Human...

LGBT – In a reaction to the recent admission of a transgender child into the Girl Scouts, a 14-year-old Girl Scout known only as Taylor has posted a YouTube video calling for a protest of the organization by abstaining from buying the ubiquitous cookies. Taylor claims that “Right...

Social Issues – Delusional former Tea Party candidate for local California office, Jules Manson, recently called for the assassinations of President Obama and his daughters via Facebook. The threats prompted public outrage and a visit from the Secret Service. According to several...

Environmental Issues – Facebook, the massive time suck and social tool we are all enslaved to has done something positive worth noting, a large departure from the usual privacy concerns. Following a campaign by environmental group Greenpeace, Facebook will begin to move away from coal...

If you are like hundreds of thousands of social media users, and are pissed off at Facebook making constant changes to its platform, then you will be happy to know that a company actually listened to its users and have given FB-Junkies a way to revert their news feed back to chronological...