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An Angry Birds movie was inevitable. It’s too big, too popular and full of too many adorable characters to not find a home on the big screen. It feels like we’ve been talking about it for years, but today, it became official: an Angry Birds movie is being planned for 2016 and will be made under the watchful eye of ‘Despicable Me’ producer John Cohen.

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Ashton Kutcher playing Steve Jobs in a Hollywood biopic feels weird. There’s no getting around that. Kutcher has never not looked like a teenaged slacker, so it’s incredibly difficult to imagine him as one of the hardest working and influential men in tech history. Still, he managed to get himself cast in the horribly-titled ‘jOBS’ so he may have more lurking under his pretty boy surface than we thought. Although we’ve seen some spy photos of Kutcher in character, the first official image from the film has been released. Check it out below.

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I can’t remember exactly where I picked this bit of wisdom up, and I feel it was more eloquently explained than I’ll be able to. Perhaps it was in a Marketing class back in my glory days at TCU (GO FROGS!). In any regard, the bit goes something like this: in advertising, the bigger guy doesn’t ever acknowledge the smaller guys attacks in the media… until the smaller guy starts to matter.

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Your mother is on Facebook. So is your father. If your grandparents have embraced the modern world, they may there, too. Let’s take a moment to consider just how strange this is.

When Facebook was created in 2004, you had to be a college student with a .edu address to even create a profile. It was a social network for the young and the hip, a place to organize parties and events, keep in touch with buddies and network in those perilous post-college years. That was eight years ago. Now, anyone with an internet connection can join Facebook and the social network has gone to great lengths to broaden its appeal and attempt to be for everyone. Although you can still plan a kegger on Facebook, your mom can also share photos of her cat with her friends. It’s a new world and everyone’s invited.

And it all goes beyond Facebook. The young people fled Facebook and migrated to Twitter, but that too has exploded in popularity, resulting in a social network as big and influential as any other (and your mom’s on Twitter as well). Young people the world over can cower in their Reddits and the Tumblrs, but the future is inevitable — every successful social network will eventually bend over backwards to appeal to the widest audience and pretty soon, your family and your peers will be able to see everything you say do on your social networks. There will be no more hiding. Internet anonymity still exists in various specialized forums, but the days of saying whatever you want on Twitter and Facebook without fear of repercussion are coming to an end…and perhaps it’s for the better.

First of all, other people holding you accountable for what you post goes a long way to keeping you from being a jerk. It’s as simple as that. You won’t go around being obnoxious if you knew your parents were watching (hopefully). Secondly, think of the children. Now, I don’t mean that in a pandering or overly dramatic way. I mean that in a “there are thousands of bad life lessons to learn on the internet so parents should be able to keep an eye on their kids” kind of way. Parents being on the same social networks as their kids will help stem the growing tide of douchebags. Sure, as they grow older, kids are going to strike out and see the horrible things that the internet has to offer and they’ll find their own corners to misbehave in, but at least they won’t be doing it under their name for an audience of millions.

I asked the Rocksauce Studios office how they felt about their social networks constantly being monitored by people they know in real life and if they’ve modified how they use them since mom or dad may be watching. Their responses:

John Gholson: I’m definitely aware of who’s looking, so I avoid posting profanity and overtly sexual content.

Q Manning: My Facebook feed isn’t public, so I can easily manage what people do and don’t see.

Guthrie Bunn: Once facebook was opened beyond .edu addresses, my usage went down.  It was still getting a regular visit until it got messier with more games, postings of media, and other things that weren’t social connections.  I stripped content once older generations started getting involved, and removed most of my things as time went on and desire to continue old relationships that didn’t really still exist depleted. I’m very careful any time I write something, and am more sensitive even about IM.  Words are much easier to manipulate for nefarious or unintended ends when they’re not in person.  Social networking makes every word not in person.

Nate Berman: While Facebook enhances our ability to communicate, it does not enhance our communication. I have removed myself from the Facebook community and reclaimed true face-to-face social interaction that Facebook takes from the world.

Blake Fernandez: I am always very cognizant of my social media presence, meaning that I do monitor “tags”, posted pictures, and comments.  I definitely consider that my Mom or family may see particular posts and whatnot before I post anything borderline, so that does play a part, but I mainly just do it for professional and personal reasons.  So to answer your question, I am more careful as a result of them being on my friends list though it has not swayed me to retreat to other social platforms, though I am a bit edgier on Twitter.

I don’t know about you guys, but I spend far too much time on Twitter and Facebook. That’s time I could be spending exercising or reading through the collected works of Charles Dickens or watching ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ or finally finishing ‘Mass Effect 3.’ Heck, that’s time that could be spent on Reddit or playing Six Degrees of Abraham Lincoln on Wikipedia. If you’re something of a social media masochist who wants to know exactly how much time you’re spending reading the tweets of the people you wish you knew and rolling your eyes at the Wall posts of people you do know, then the infographic below is going to make your day.

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You’re probably reading this article on Google Chrome. If you’re not a Chrome user, you’re very likely reading it on Firefox, maybe even Safari if you’re a total Apple purist. I can practically guarantee that you’re not reading this on Internet Explorer since most of the world is in solid agreement that Internet Explorer is awful and outdated and no good. However, all of the negative press hasn’t stopped the release and shockingly great reviews for Internet Explorer 10. However, the battle here is only half won. In order to win the war, Internet Explorer has launched a campaign that pretty much says “Yeah, we know, you hate us because we stink. Well, we don’t stink anymore!”

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Apple’s always had a knack for selling their products. Their Ridley Scott directed “1984″ commercial remains one of the most striking  and memorable ads to ever hit television and their “Mac vs PC” ads became a cultural mainstay. Their current commercials, while a bit more homogeneous with the rest of the world, are handsomely produced and ooze Apple’s specific flavor (which I always imagine to be icy and with a hint of berry). But I digress. Do you want to see what appears to be the very first Apple commercial?

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Here’s a question for you: when was the last time you saw an iPhone with a cracked screen? Probably recently. In fact, you probably saw it when you looked at your own ruined screen. Now, here’s another question: when the was the last time you saw a Samsung galaxy S III with a cracked screen? Anyone? Anyone? There’s at least one area where Android and Apple fans can come to an agreement: iOS devices are fragile and Samsung devices typically are not.

What makes the Samsung Galaxy S III so incredibly tough? I’m not sure, but a recently released video showcasing the device surviving a series of horrifying stress tests proves that this is one smartphone that won’t break on you. The video may be in Korean, but the visuals speak loudly in any language. Check it out below.

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A few weeks ago, I decided to trace my Twitter feed back to the very beginning. I’ve been using the Best Social Network Ever for a about four years now and I was curious what my first tweets looked like. How clueless was I? What was on my mind? How have I changed as a person? The idea of seeing me evolve as a human through my Twitter feed was fascinating — I don’t keep a journal, but this was the next best thing. So I was horrified to learn that my early tweets, years of them, had vanished into the ether, seemingly to never be seen again.

However, that may change soon. If Twitter’s CEO is a man of his word, we’ll be able to download an entire archive of our tweets by the end of 2012.

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The past few weeks have found a lengthy status update making the rounds on Facebook and much like those stupid chain letters from the early days of the internet, everyone has been sharing it without thinking. To be fair, unlike those “email this to three friends or be cursed” messages of old, this one actually sounds like it could be legit. But it’s not. I’ve copied and pasted the status below, so give it a skim if you haven’t encountered it on your Facebook Wall yet.

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