10 most clichéd hashtags you're still overusing

#justsayin. #truestory. #nature.

When a hashtag usage becomes synonymous with social media, you know it's a problem. And while there may be a grain of truth to every cliché — we've all had #justsayin moments — there comes a time when we've just used them way too much

See also: 20 Things Your Most Annoying Friends Do on Facebook

As such, this is an appeal to find a new hashtag to overuse. We dare you to read these 10 cliches without shaking your head at least once.

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Vine challenge: Make six seconds of eating food fun

This weekend, take the messy and creative opportunity to play with your meal under a camera lens. Whether you're home for Thanksgiving, or plan to dine out, one thing is certain: There will be food.

So share your best six seconds on Vine; here are some styles to consider: Picasso-inspired food art, a video of your festive dining table and animated dishes.

See also: 20 boozy Thanksgiving recipes for an extra helping of holiday cheer

For those who celebrate Thanksgiving, use the feasting holiday to your advantage. Make your green-bean casserole dance around in its porcelain dish, or have your bowl of mashed potatoes transform into its original solid form. Read more...

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Share your tasty meal for our photo challenge

Foodies, rejoice

It's that time of year when friends and family come together to share home cooked meals, decadent desserts and lots of leftovers. Whether you're taking it to the next level in the kitchen, or simply enjoying a post pig-out food coma, we hope you take a second to capture the magic of your meal

See also: 15 Grumpy Cat-inspired scowls ... because the holidays are the worst

This week's Mashable Photo Challenge is all about the grub. Channel your inner artiste, and compose an edible still life, or nab a candid photo of a family feast. Whether you're a culinary maestro, a big eater or just an Instagrammer prone to posting foodie pics, we hope your photos will nourish our souls and social media feeds for evermore Read more...

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Twitter to begin tracking which apps you download

Twitter will soon start keeping tabs on the apps you download

An app update, slated to roll out to iOS users Wednesday and Android users in the next week, will add a setting that allows the social network to keep track of the apps you download, the company announced Wednesday.

See also: Twitter: What to expect in 2015

The goal, Twitter says, is to provide users with a "more tailored experience." By tracking the apps people are downloading, the company can better gauge users' interests and surface better suggestions of new accounts to follow and, most importantly, more relevant ads.

The feature, which Twitter is calling "app graph," will also be used to personalize the content that appears in users' timeline from accounts they don't follow. The social network confirmed in August users would begin seeing tweets and favorites from accounts they don't follow in their timeline. It wasn't clear at the time exactly how Twitter planned to make those changes but the company says app graph will help inform those additions. Read more...

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Piper Kerman and Larry Smith of 'Orange Is the New Black' discuss social media and more

We talked digital with couple Piper Kerman and Larry Smith, who are both appearing at the upcoming Mashable Media Summit on December 5, from 2:10 - 2:40 p.m. Kerman has been lauded for the success of her memoir Orange is the New Black, which is now a hit series on Netflix. Smith has found success as the founder and editor of SMITH Magazine, and he’s also known for his Six-Word Memoir project, which is now in its eighth year.

Q: How has digital impacted storytelling for you?

A: Larry: I loved to work in print in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. I had an internal mission to help people tell stories and an external love for the personal story. I was always the guy deeply involved in tech culture. I edited Tom Wolfe’s personal stories. Sometimes I edited essays for unknown writers. Sometimes I wrote my own – it’s just what moved me the most. It wouldn’t have been possible to do this without digital. Digital means everyone has simple tools to tell stories. Video images on our phones is magic. We’d like to do more with video and audio - it’s simplicity Read more...

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Tumblr and Pinterest now fastest-growing social platforms

Earlier this year, Instagram was leading the pack as the fastest-growing social platform. Now, it's Tumblr and Pinterest, which have edged out the picture-sharing app for greatest increase in active users.

Tumblr's active users grew by 120% in the last six months, according to new stats released by the Global Web Index first spotted by TechCrunch on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Facebook's active users grew by just 2%.

See also: How to choose the best platform for your personal website

Pinterest comes in behind Tumblr with a 111% growth in active users, who are users that say they've actually used the site with some regularity. Earlier this year when GWI released numbers, Instagram was on top but has dropped to third place. Of the top eight, in fact, Facebook is in last place, behind LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Google+. Read more...

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15 Grumpy Cat-inspired scowls ... because the holidays are the worst

Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever premieres on Lifetime Nov. 29, so we partnered with Lifetime for this week’s photo challenge, and asked you to send your best Grumpy Cat face (or your pet’s, family member’s or friend’s)

See also: Grumpy Cat Ruins Your Favorite Disney Movies

Your submissions did not disappoint; catch all the despair in our photo roundup of the most impressive scowls

Congratulations to @thenotoriouscat, whose winning pair of frowns was chosen to be featured on Grumpy Cat's very own Twitter account:

The frowns have been counted..

The winner of the #LifetimeWorstChallengeEver on @mashable is @thenotoriouscathttp://bitly.com/1yXUuxI

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Vloggers told to label paid-for videos before people click on them

LONDON — Vloggers who make promotional videos without clearly identifying that they've been paid for have been warned by the Advertising Standards Agency that they must make it clearer to the viewer

The warning comes after a BBC Newsround investigation into videos posted to YouTube by a number of UK bloggers in June who were paid by Mondelez UK to say good things about one of its brands, Oreo biscuits. A BBC journalist made a complaint to the UK ad standards body, which upheld it.

See also: YouTube To Go Beyond Cat Videos By Training a New Class of Vloggers

In the adjudication, published Wednesday about the five videos on YouTube, the ASA says the uploads breached the Committee of Advertising Practice code — the set of rules for advertisers in the UK. It says that the ads concerned must not appear in their current form. Read more...

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10 most clichéd tweets about the weather

We've always enjoyed talking about the weather, but now that Twitter's constantly at our fingertips, we like to talk about it even more.

No matter how unpredictable the weather can be, you can always predict what people will say about it. Some of these were clichés before Twitter existed (see: the 'end is nigh' tweet), but the platform has also allowed for an increased number of new complaints — like talking about the incredible, awful depth of the puddle you just stepped in.

See also: 12 Most Cliché Photos on Instagram

To anyone who spends any time on Twitter, especially during a snowstorm, these clichés should be instantly recognizable. Read more...

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Vine adds a feature so you'll never miss your favorite videos

The future of food, as told on Vine

Do you like playing with your food? We sure do.

This week we partnered with ConAgra Foods & Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert to create a series of Vines about the hottest food trends. From Generation Z's creative interpretation of food to the increasing availability of same-day grocery delivery, as well as new technology in nutrition, the future of food has never looked so exciting.

See also: 15 gadgets that instantly make cooking more fun

1. Unique touch on dishes

2. Same-day grocery delivery

3. Scannable nutritional info

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Show us your best Grumpy Cat scowl

Mashable and Street Dreams capture Coney Island in its off-season

Last weekend, Mashable and Street Dreams Magazine opened up Coney Island's Luna Park for our second #MashMeet. We wanted to give our community exclusive access to a famous park in its off-season, and we're so glad we did.

See also: 25 creative compositions on streets around the world

From mid-afternoon to sundown, we made portraits, chased light and collaborated with Instagram's finest artists. Creativity was off the charts — using their smartphones, DSLRs, film and instant cameras, photographers found the most unique angles to shoot the same space.

Film director Joe Cavallini made an incredible video to recap the day. The overhead shots were taken with a drone camera Read more...

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It's now much easier to share public tweets via DMs on Twitter

The 25 best Vine videos of 2014

Compiling the best Vine videos of 2013 was one thing. Since last year, the weird and wild universe of Vine has continued to expand in every direction between quirky personalities, up-and-coming musical talents and high-profile artists, all home-grown out of the unique format.

The 2013 release of Instagram video had some doubting whether Twitter's then-fledgling video-sharing service would even live to see the new year. Vine has established itself as a major force in social media since then. Vine-made celebrities are now regulars at red carpet events, animators and other visual talents design ads for major corporations and more major film festivals are beginning to incorporate the six-second medium. Read more...

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25 creative compositions on streets around the world

Photography has proven that streets are made for more than walking. They're meant to be followed, appreciated, captured and shared.

The photos we saw in our latest challenge with Street Dreams Magazine do just that. Whether narrow or wide, empty or overcrowded, each street is full of personality and has its own style.

See also: 14 photos of beautifully intersecting paths

Street Dreams is a quarterly photography publication that showcases the work and stories of artists worldwide. The team is operated by creative individuals from New York City and Vancouver, Canada.

More than 4,000 #MashStreet submissions rolled in on Instagram in less than a week, each one showing a unique angle of everyday streets. We were excited not only by the large number, but by the stunning quality of each image. Read more...

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Facebook Groups: Now there's an app for that

Facebook is breaking out yet another feature into a standalone app

The social network rolled out Facebook Groups, an app to help users stay in touch with all of their Facebook groups and find new ones.

See also: 12 Facebook Statuses You Need to Retire

The app functions as a hub for everything related to groups on Facebook. Upon launching the app, users see a list of the groups they belong to, with the most frequently viewed appearing first

Though groups already existed within the main Facebook app, they are not featured prominently within the app, unless you get a notification from a group you're a part of. By breaking out the feature into a separate iOS and Android app, the company is hoping to make it easier for power users to engage with their groups Read more...

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Facebook wants to be your tech news powerhouse

Facebook is trying to be your go-to source for tech news, rather than just a way to see baby pics and find out which friends are engaged.

Seven months after introducing FB Newswire, the social networking giant on launched FB Techwire on Tuesday, a brand extension that will focus on industry happenings

See also: 8 Brutally Honest Facebook Notifications That Need to Exist Now

Like FB Newswire, Techwire is powered by Storyful, which will embed newsworthy content from Facebook — including embeddable photos, videos and status updates that journalists can use for their own content

Storyful, which News Corp. purchased for $25 million in December, verifies such posts for accuracy Read more...

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Nokia's mysterious 'up to something' tweet hints at new product

While Nokia's phone branding days are over, we might see another product with the name very soon

Nokia tweeted a mysterious photo of what appears to be a black box on Monday; it closely resembles what could be a set-top box, which powers streaming on TVs. If the black box Nokia is teasing is, in fact, a set-top box, then it would be in competition with major companies like Apple, Roku and Amazon

See also: 7 Creative Ways to Organize Your Mobile Apps

There's not much to glean from the picture, but Tuesday's date (Nov. 18) is highlighted near the product, which indicates we'll learn more about the black box then Read more...

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55% of recruiters reconsider job candidates after seeing their social profiles

In 2014, 93% of recruiters will use social media to evaluate job candidates

Competition is increasing in the head hunting industry as well, and recruiters are primarily investing more in social recruitment to beat their competitors, beyond referral and mobile recruitment. They report that social tactics increase candidate quality and quantity in 2014, and improved the time it took to hire candidates.

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The pressure on job candidates to boost their social media presences has increased as a result: 55% of recruiters have reconsidered a candidate based on his or her social media profile Read more...

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