7 Things You Do On the Internet That'd Be Creepy to Do in Real Life

You're a different person online compared to your real life. It's okay. You don't have to irrationally like cats just because you're obsessed with cat videos. You don't have to literally poke the people you poked on Facebook. You don't have to like or follow or tag or comment or stalk celebrities like you do on the Internet. Because if you did that in real life, you'd be a total creep. BuzzFeed Video imagined 7 things that'd be super creepy to do in real life, even though you do them on the Internet. [BuzzFeed Video]

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How Much Do You Care When Things Start Getting Ads?

Instagram is getting ads! Tumblr already got 'em. Snapchat probably will. Ads are starting to appear in the Android Gmail app too. Basically, anything and everything you use will eventually have ads on them. That's how the world spins. And that's something you have to deal with. So how much do you care when things you use start getting ads?

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If Twitter Timelines Were Real Physical Things How Long Would They Be?

Given the amount of inane gibbering that fills your Twitter timeline, it can sometimes take an age to scroll through all that... insight. But what if it was a real, physical, thing? How far would you actually be scrolling?

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Things Could Be Better for NASA on Its 55th Birthday

On October 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration became operational for the first time. Today, the agency celebrates its 55th birthday by being largely non-operational thanks to a federal government shutdown that's left all but about 600 of its workers furloughed.

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The Best and Worst Things 4Chan Gave the World

Incredible as it may seem, today 4chan turns a full 10 years old—hello tween years! But 4chan is, let's say, advanced for its age. And the precursor to pretty much the entire internet as you know it has given us a whole lot to think about over the years.

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This Tower Exists Solely for Dropping Things

The 475-foot "drop tower" in Bremen, Germany, is not a rocket disguised as a building, but a giant hollow tube used for experimentally dropping things—letting go of objects, watching them plummet toward the ground, and using those nearly 10 seconds of free-fall as a way to study the effects of weightlessness.

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22 Photos of a Reporter Holding Inappropriate Things That Aren't iPads

Last week, one unfortunate reporter found himself live on camera clutching a big ol' stack of paper—not the iPad he'd been reaching for. But because he's a professional and because no one probably knows what paper is anymore anyway, our man soldiered on to hilarious results. But then you all did him one better.

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