The Facebook 'Planking' Craze and Why You Too Could Die From It

Over the last few years, the lexicon of social media has implanted itself in everyday life, invading dictionaries of the Oxford-English caliber, popping up in politics, and making serious people sound simply silly. From tweets and pokes to widgets and wikis, the social media landscape that has developed terms and phrases like photobombing and crowdsourcing has created yet another gem: planking.

It would seem that this new though hardly brilliant activity has had a genesis in Australia, and the Aussies are now making worldwide news by planking.

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