"Green will get you anywhere," we were told.

​Last night, @NickGreene and I attended the Shorty Awards, the official awards ceremony for Twitter and social media, a/k/a, "the Oscars of Twitter" and all that that implies. Here is our story.

Jen: HEY, so, the Shorty Awards was surprisingly enjoyable last night, don't you think?
Nicholas: It was. Last night was the most fun I've had this year at an awards show dedicated to microblogging. Who won? Did we?

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​Last night, a man who said he had 51 hours left to live took users' questions on Reddit. "LucidEnding" wrote:

On Tuesday I'll finally end my battle with cancer thanks to Oregon's Death with dignity act. As part of my preparations I've ended my pain medication and am trying to regain what little dignity and clarity I can. Who I was doesn't matter. I'm in pain, I'm tired and I'm finally being granted a small shred of respect. Feel free to AMA if you're so inclined.

But why would someone with so little time left spend it answering questions on Reddit?

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​Facebook is about to make you mad. Facebook is about to make you storm off to your computer (oh, wait, you're already here?) and go into your profile settings, and very nearly delete yourself from Facebook, except how would you live with yourself not knowing which of the popular girls from high school have gotten fat, and how cute are those babies anyway, and what is that ex-boyfriend OH HE LOOKS RIDICULOUS...wait, what were we saying? Oh yeah, Facebook is about to make you mad. Real mad.

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​There's a new Facebook application called Facebook Breakup Notifier, and it's exactly what it sounds like. Pick some friends whose relationship status you'd like to be kept aware of at all times, and the Breakup Notifier will brief you via email if there's any changes. Will you use it? And how creepy will you feel using it?

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​Just because you're a prostitute doesn't mean you're on Facebook, and just because you're on Facebook doesn't mean you're a prostitute (it doesn't!), but there does seem to be a link between the two, at least according to a sociology professor at Columbia. Sudhir Venkatesh says that 25 percent of prostitutes' clients are found through Zuckerberg's social networking site. This info comes in the latest issue of Wired, which also pointed out, as we mentioned last week, that Murray Hill and Midtown are NYC's primary prostitute stomping grounds. Along with, it seems, Facebook.

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​We've all been waiting with bated breath to see what the pope would say about our little Facebook obsession. And finally, here it is. He approves! Sort of. 83-year-old Pope Benedict has praised the potential of social networking -- but warned that "online friendships are no substitute for real human contact." Of course, the pope doesn't even have his own Facebook account, so how would he know how great it feels to have 548 friends and counting? Or how impossible it is to have 548 real friends?

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​At some point in the future that we can't even imagine right now, so imbued are we in our own 2011 "essence" with its tweets and Facebook friends and horrible unscripted but scripted "reality" series, people will look back and reflect and query, "When was it that 'reality TV' jumped the shark?" (because that terminology will never die). And some smart person will inevitably say, "When Pac-Man got his own reality show." Yes, we are coming upon this historical moment now, friends. Write about it in your electronic blog-diaries, or Tumblrs, or whatever!

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See how they did that?

​New Year's Eve 2011 in Times Square will be more than just Snooki-in-a-ball (Snooki actually in the ball, an image that has captivated us for longer than we'd like to admit, though in fairness, she herself has said she's going to be like "a freakin' hampster"). For all the brave revelers who take to the streets, there will also be expanded Wi-Fi, compliments of AT&T. So much the better for sending those drunken pics of you covered in confetti and wearing ridiculous glasses to your ex! How far we've come since Y2K. [JDoll]

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​Currently in contention for viral Halloween costume of the moment, we have Antoine Dodson, whose Bed Intruder Song, with the help of the Gregory Brothers, is now at 85 (down from 35!) on the iTunes chart, and whose Halloween "costume" is going to be all over the street this coming weekend (prepare to hide your eyes, wife, etc.)...

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​According to a recent report from the International Telecommunications Union, which clearly has its modem full, the number of people who've found out about the World Wide Web will exceed 2 freakin' billion by the end of this year -- "an increase of 600 million in just the past year and double the number of only five years ago."

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