Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest…the list goes on! So many social media and blogging pages, millions of people using them each day along with the thousands of dating websites around, are we just living in a fantasy world and losing the ability to interact with actual human beings? I think back to when I was growing…
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“I knew things were too good to last”. It’s 11am on a Sunday morning. Everywhere that isn’t bed is far too cold, and the only thing I can reach is my phone. Facebook is alight with hangover regret and pictures of kittens. In between this and the severely under-liked political commentary lurks a serial vaguebooker,…
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Saturday night sees housemates communicating virtually through their latest favourite app, ‘Draw Something’. It involves drawing a misshapen picture on your smart phone before sending it into cyberspace for a person who is similarly engaged to decipher. Is that portly figure Bert Newton’s head or an eggplant? How do you represent ‘navy’ to an absent…
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Depending on which generation you are from, (Y, X, Boomer) you’ll most likely recognise a troll as one of the following: a fuzzy-headed nudist with an outie; the arch-nemesis of David the Gnome; or an arsehole under a bridge with a penchant for goat-meat. However, if you’re of the nebulous Z Generation (sometimes called the…
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Chances are if you’re reading this, you’re a Gen Y (meaning you were born between 1980-2000, though these dates are not clearly defined). Gen Y are sometimes referred to as the Millennial Generation, Generation Me and the Net Generation. Gen Y is stereotyped as having Peter Pan syndrome, being disrespectful to authority figures, having a sense…
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fashion models weigh 23 per cent less than the average woman According to the January issue of PLUS Model magazine, the average fashion model twenty years ago weighed 8 per cent less than the average woman; today, she weighs 23 per cent less. And most runway models nowadays meet the Body Mass Index criteria for…
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So we all know the internet is full of beyond disgusting jokes that are inappropriate and pick on someone that isn’t a white man, and jokes about rape are no exception. It was only two days ago that a particular article of interest was forwarded to my inbox seeking an urgent piece to be written….
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Most people wouldn’t tolerate violence if someone sat beside them on the train and said they thought rape is funny. So why is it tolerated online? Social networking site, Facebook, seems to be completely overrun by groups such as ‘Ravaging your girlfriend’s box until she regrets life’, ‘You know she’s playing hard to get when you’re…
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A few weeks ago, my ex changed his facebook relationship status. Some of you might know him as Bon Jovi. Others of you might know him by his real name (and even though I have zero misconceptions about how many people read my articles and the realistic likelihood of legal action, I still prefer to…
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Based on some of my previous posts, I may have given the impression that I have an uncommonly good relationship with some of my ex-boyfriends. This is true in at least one case, but in the rest, I pretty much adhere to the stereotype that ex-partners are rarely on better-than-okay terms. My parents have been…
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‘Facebook stalking’ isn’t much like real stalking. Real stalking is where you follow someone around, look through their windows, trawl through their garbage cans and whisper their name until you fall asleep. Facebook stalking, however, involves looking up someone on Facebook, either by looking at their profile (if you’re their ‘friend’) or by looking at…
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The other week, a very good friend of mine had the misfortune of having her photograph added to a malicious Facebook group. It was against slightly chubby to fat women in skinny jeans and her photograph of her in her amazing skinny jeans was added to the group without her knowledge, with fat phobic, trans…
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