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Highlights From Bill Murray’s AMA Session On Reddit
20 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bill Murray fans collectively wet themselves this weekend when the man himself appeared on an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit.
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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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The Feud Between Woody Allen And Mia Farrow (And Her Son) Is Getting Messy
14 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite winning a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes this year, not all is well with the Woody household.
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Breaking: Harry Is Keeping His Beard
14 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Big news everyone! Prince Harry has decided to keep his big, ginger beard right were it belongs.
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Reddit’s Burgeoning Gun Market Is Very Big Business
13 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Reddit is many people’s platform of choice for funny pictures, interesting facts, and apparently buying assault rifles. An investigation has revealed that at least 159 sales have been made on the little known GunsForSale subreddit since June last year. Nearly 100 of these guns are AR-15 assault rifles, but since many of the gun orders could’ve taken place over private messages, the exact number of guns sold could be much higher.
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Ex-Mafia Boss Lets Reddit Users Ask Him Anything – This Is The Result
09 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Reddit has had some fairly explosive guests on their ‘AMA’ (ask me anything) page, but none quite like ex-mafia boss, Michael Franzese.
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Snapchat’s CEO Has Made Himself Look Like A Twat
07 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Snapchat CEO, Evan Speigel, isn’t doing himself any favours of late. He still hasn’t apologised for the security breach that affected 4,6 million Snapchat users, and now he’s involved in a row with Forbes.
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‘Miserable Men’ – An Instagram Account That Captures The Sad Side Of Shopping
07 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s a worldwide phenomenon that’s plagued men for as long as trade has existed: having to wait around while women shop. A brilliant new Instagram account, miserable men, captures this sad side of shopping.
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How To Take The Best Pic For Your Online Dating Profile
06 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You’ve heard of Zoosk, haven’t you? It’s one of the worlds most popular dating sites,and they’ve recently completed a 4,000-person survey, in order to determine what factors go into making the most alluring profile picture.
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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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Chef Gets Fired, Still Has Access To Restaurant Twitter Account, Goes Rogue
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
No one needs to be reminded about the transformative power of Twitter. It can incite protests, end regimes and mobilise the masses – but it’s also just as useful if you want to get back at the company that just fired you.
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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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Selfies Are Turning Us Into A Nasty Bunch Of Narcissists [INFOGRAPHIC]
11 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, of course they are. But now we have cold, hard evidence to prove it. This infographic outlines some of the basic traits of narcissism, before revealing some worrying correlations between heavy social media use and narcissism.
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Westboro Baptist Church Thank God For Killing Mandela And Plan To Protest At His Funeral [VIDEO]
10 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
It was oddly comforting how on 6 December, not even the most pugnacious troll reared his twisted face. For once, Twitter seemed to unite gracefully. Until people discovered the account of the Westboro Baptist Church
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Governments Are Able To Spy On You Through Your Laptop Camera – With The Light OFF
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Most of us with a brain and an internet connection already figured that third-party spying via a laptop webcam was entirely possible – but we assumed that the hardware would at least indicate it was in use. Boy, were we wrong about that one.
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Hollywood Journo’s Tweet Leads To Angry / Hilarious Twitter Backlash
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You would think that entertainment journalist and Deadline.com founder Nikki Finke would do better to avoid social media faux pas like “don’t try and endorse a movie whilst also paying respect to the dead”.
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Fake Kanye West / Mandela Story Goes Viral, With Times Live Adding Momentum
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There were whispers in the air on Friday afternoon claiming that a certain Kanye West had overstepped the line once and for all. Local newspapers sparked a furious outrage on Twitter, when they claimed that West had promised to become ‘the next Mandela’.
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Astronauts Tweet Mandela Tribute With Photo Of Cape Town From Space [PIC]
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield paid tribute to Madiba on behalf of NASA, as he and many other astronauts took to twitter to share their condolences, and celebrate his life.
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This Selfie Of A Woman 4 Days After Giving Birth Will Blow Your Mind [PIC]
04 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
This is actually unfathomable. Fitness blogger, fooTball wife and new mom, Caroline Berg Eriksen, has sent the internet into a frenzy after posting a selfie.
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This Is The Guy They Call The ‘Instagram Playboy King’ [GALLERY]
03 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Dan Bilzerian, 32, describes himself a an “actor/astronaut/asshole” to his 100,000 Instagram followers. He’s a professional poker player, and you could pretty much sit motionless on your couch, follow his Instagram updates everyday, and live a very full life vicariously through him.
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Awesome Local Student Film Nails 170,000 Hits On Vimeo [VIDEO]
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This six minute animated film was created by six students from The Animation School in Cape Town. Within 24 hours of it appearing on Vimeo, it had garnered 90,000 views. That’s a big deal.
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The Ultimate Selfie App ‘Frontback’ Is Exploding
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems like those who have opposed the ‘selfie’ in all its forms will have to put their prejudices aside. It’s a thing now. A big thing.
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Instagram Accounts Make This Man Look Psychic [VIDEO]
19 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In this week’s installment of “Well, What Did You Expect?” we profile a man named Jack Vale, who people are calling a ‘psychic’ .
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Check Out The Stuff That Gets Censored On China’s Twitter
15 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
We tend to forget the privilege that is Freedom of Speech. Countries like China, who are ruled by an oppressive one-party regime, face daily instances of censorship – especially on their social media sites.
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Video Related Internet Traffic Is Set To Explode In Africa
12 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Video currently accounts for less than six percent of internet traffic across Africa, according to the Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Report, but that number is expected to grow faster than it did for any other region before it.
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Look At These Illegal Drug Ads Showing Up On Instagram [GALLERY]
12 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Instagram just isn’t the fun, family-friendly service that it used to be. The Facebook-owned platform had some problems a few weeks ago when it was found that users were selling guns via the photo-sharing app. Now though, if you wanted to buy a little bit of drugs to go with your guns, you need not even leave the Instagram app – it’s all there.
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The First Instagram Ad Was For Michael Kors – See It Here [PIC]
04 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A while ago we broke the news that Instagram would soon be placing ads in your news feed. Many people were miffed, but many applauded Instagram for allowing users to close the ad once they’ve seen it, and for allowing feedback about how to make ads more aesthetically appealing and personally valuable. The first of what will be a long line of instagram ads appeared on users’ screens last friday, and it was an ad for American designer Michael Kors.
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Attention Girls: The ‘Thigh Gap’ Is Not A Good Thing
30 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
In the past, girls would compare themselves to persons in their vicinity – checking to see who the skinniest girl in the room is, and seeing how they match up. Now, they have the internet for that – and the girls on the internet are way skinnier than anyone you might ever really meet. The proliferation of photo-sharing sites like Pinterest, along with the concept on ‘thinspiration’ has caused mass hysteria as girls across the world attempt to get as skinny as possible – and maybe one day achieving the infamous ‘thigh gap”.
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