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This Is Interesting: Facebook Is Launching An Anonymous App
08 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook is planning to launch a new anonymous app which allows users to interact with one another without using any real names or personal details.
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Photos Of People In Bed Set To Topple Ice Bucket Challenge
07 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Celebrities have decided to use their wake-up faces as an opportunity to raise money for Unicef’s Syria Emergency Fund.
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Everyone Is Talking About ‘Ello’ – The Anti-Facebook Social Network
26 Sep 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here is another social network for you to join. Come on. Do it. Then you will have over ten different ways to communicate with your friends and family.
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Got An Angry Ex? The SA Courts Are Now Ordering People To Remove Nasty Facebook Comments
25 Sep 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The KZN High Court has ordered a woman to remove defamatory comments about her ex-boyfriend and father of her child from her Facebook page. Awkies…
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Recap: Let’s Check Out What Facebook Is Currently Worth
10 Sep 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook stocks have managed to hit a record-setting figure, putting the company’s value at a new all-time high.
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Dr. Dre’s Ice Bucket Video Leads To Snoop, Eminem Challenge [Video]
20 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Rapper-turned-businessman Dr. Dre wilfully accepts the Ice Bucket challenge from Apple CEO Tim Cook and does his own, slow-motion included.
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This Is What Started The Ice Bucket Challenge [Video]
19 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Ice Bucket Challenge has taken the internet by storm, racking up some serious awareness and charity for the ALS association, but where exactly did it all begin?
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Facebook’s New Conversion Tracking Is Genius [Video]
14 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook adds a new feature so that advertisers can identify what device viewers used to spot their ad.
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New Facebook Craze Claims Someone’s Life
31 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If Neknominations weren’t stupid and pointless enough, the latest social media craze requires people to pour cold water over another person, and the senseless game has already claimed its first victim.
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South Africa Is One Of Only 3 Countries That Can Use Instagram’s New App
30 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africans will be some of the first to try out Instagram’s new “one-tap” messaging app, Bolt, before it’s released to the rest of the world.
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These Are The Best Brazil Vs Germany Memes
09 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The interweb community has already delivered a bunch of memes after Brazil’s shocking 7-1 loss to Germany in last night’s World Cup semi-final. Here are some of the best.
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End Of The World? Chaos As Facebook Crashes Globally
19 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook suffers a global outage that sends the social media stratosphere into hysterics, as people from South Africa, France, Belgium and Germany join in to deliver some Facebook hate.
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You’ve Heard About The ‘Leg Gun’ Selfie Craze, Right? Check It Out
18 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
How do you fight a war? With leg-gun selfies, of course! Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has started a new trend to help raise awareness for crimes of terror in his home country.
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Do You Work In Social Media? Here’s Your Ultimate Cheat Sheet [Infographic]
05 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Struggling to handle the different social media demands? Here is the ultimate cheat-sheet to become a guru at Facebook, Twitter and all the other big players in the social sphere.
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Guess What You – As A Single User – Are Worth To Facebook
25 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Congrats! You’re worth roughly R22 to Facebook! This chart, created by Statista, breaks down the evolution of the average revenue per Facebook user over the past year.
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Facebook Launches Feature To Track Your Nearby Friends
22 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We said this was coming. Facebook is introducing a feature called “Nearby Friends”, which we guarantee will be used more for the sake of avoiding people you know but don’t like, than actually finding people you want to see.
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Facebook’s Biggest Problem Is Dealing With People Losing Friends
17 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook started in the college domain, where connecting to and sharing with everyone you met was ideal for any college student who wanted to stay in touch or know what was going on. But this model, which is basically still in use (though modified) is out of sync with the way people make and more importantly retain friends.
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Facebook Is Getting Into The Banking Game – This Is Why
15 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s been reported that Facebook is close to receiving authorisation to become an “electronic money institution” in Europe. You may be asking why the social media giant is getting into the banking game? Well, for more money of course.
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You Can Make Free Voice Calls Through Facebook App – This Is How
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
When Facebook splurged a couple of billion on acquiring WhatsApp, many wondered if the social media company’s own messenger platform would fade away in its wake, but the free voice call option is here to state the opposite.
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Terrifying: Facebook Is Launching A Drone Squadron [VIDEO]
28 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
AND frikkin lasers. No really. I’ve never really trusted Mark Zuckerberg. He’s very pink, and he has inky black eyes that would be unnervingly shiny if they weren’t windows into an infinite chasm of evil. So I’m not surprised that he’s planning to use his multi-billion dollar company to launch a squadron of solar-powered drones, even if he says that he’ll use them to provide internet access to underdeveloped countries.
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The Internet Saved Chelsea, The Depressed Dog, From Certain Death [PICTURE]
12 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So depressed she wouldn’t even face possible owners visiting the shelter she was kept at in San Bernardino, California, Chelsea’s days were numbered. Due to be put down on Thursday, few were interested in adopting her. But leave it to the Internet to save the day.
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Facebook In Bitch-Fight With Princeton University
24 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook and Princeton University are embroiled in what will inevitably be the nerdiest standoff in history. A few Princeton epidemiologists got together, did some research, and published a paper on a very dubious premise: that if you look at Facebook as an infectious disease, then 80% of its hardcore users may well have “recovered” and abandoned the service by 2018.
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STUDY: Facebook Is About To Lose 80% Of Its Users
22 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hot on the heels of this insightful video, it seems like media and citizens alike are escaping their Facebook induced hibernations and bailing.
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White EFF Supporter Gets Slammed By Afrikaans Community For ‘Betraying White Skin’
20 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
We posted a story about Wiekus Kotze not too long ago, when we first caught wind that he could be the first white member of Julius Malema’s EFF. Well, it seems that poor Wiekus has been put to the social media sword by the furious trolls within the Afrikaner community, who see his allegiance with Malema as “a betrayal of his white skin.”
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Facebook Is Losing Teens At “Terrifyingly High Rates”
16 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The hordes of teens that once made Facebook the company that it is today are now leaving in a mass exodus of millions. A recent report has revealed that the number of teens on Facebook is down 25% from 2011.
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This Is The First Meme Of 2014
06 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you didn’t enjoy the meteoric rise of the selfie last year, you’re in for something of a rough ride in 2014. The very first meme of 2014 is the ‘Selfie Olympics’ or ‘extreme selfie’, and it comes with a very specific set of rules and regulations.
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Mashable Gives 5 Reasons Why People Are Leaving Facebook
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It always seemed like only a matter of time before Facebook users started questioning how much time they were expending online, and now the questions have started coming thick and fast from the group of people Facebook relies on most – the millinials.
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Fortune Magazine’s 5 Predictions For Social Media 2014
13 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re not eating, sleeping and breathing social media, it’s time to hop on board. Fortune Magazine’s predictions for social media in 2014 show that social media is transforming the way fundamental ways in which businesses function – which makes this set of predictions especially useful.
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Miracle: A Non-Depressing Facebook Page About South Africa
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s easy to get down on South Africa. With crippling strikes, the mess our police force made arresting Krejcir and the Nkandla saga, there’s more than enough news every morning to send even the most positive person into a depression. And goodness knows, Facebook loves nothing more than a good bitch about The Republic. That’s where the epic […]
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The 10 Most Distracting Smartphone Apps When Driving [INFOGRAPHIC]
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For many of us, Smartphones have become an extra limb. It is an extended part of who we are, so it only makes sense to use it at all times. Or does it? Sure, sitting in traffic is boring, but that’s not an excuse to reach for your phone – no matter how tempting that blinking light is.
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