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Selfie Gold – The McCartney Buffett Effect [Image]
16 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Nebraska teen has managed to take a surprise snap with Paul McCartney and Warren Buffett, chilling on a bench, being normal. And it’s awesome.
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The Fake Edward Snowden Tinder Account Is Awesome
10 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Snowden‘s admirable, yet criticised intentions shot the systems-analyst to worldwide infamy; now there’s a fake Tinder account of him.
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Teenage Girl Sends Naked Pic to Dad By Mistake – Dad Freaks [Video]
10 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Teen does the unthinkable and accidentally sends a naked picture of herself to her dad. There’s no coming back from that, ever!
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This Is Why Facebook Is Bad For You
04 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Since the explosion of social media into our world, networking and communication has changed face quite dramatically. Is this causing us to be more lonely in spite of more communication?
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Robin Thicke’s Social Media Experiment Bombed Spectacularly
03 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Robin Thicke’s #AskThicke social media campaign backfired, leaving him open the some ridiculing from the Twitterverse.
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Forget The Rich Kids Of Instagram – Check Out The Rich Kids Of Snapchat!
02 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Prepare to cringe at the ridiculous level of materialism flaunted by a teen who has launched a new SnapChat account to show off his wealth.
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This Is What Happens When You Lie To Homeless People [Video]
02 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Things turned ugly when a Chinese multimillionaire’s promise wasn’t fulfilled, and hundreds of New York’s underprivileged let loose their rage.
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Have You Noticed This ‘Buy Now’ Button On Twitter?
01 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A sneaky little “Buy Now” button has appeared on several Tweets of late and they seem to be a sneak peek of what the future of twitter shopping holds. Think it will work outside the USA?
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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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Turn Your Two Cents Into A Lifestyle
09 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We know you all have opinions (you share them with us all the time) but what if I told you you could turn being opinionated into a potentially income-generating lifestyle? Interested? Of course you are! And if you aren’t, you should be!
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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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It’s Official: WeChat Is The Fastest Growing Instant Message App In The World [INFOGRAPHIC]
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
WeChat has seen significant growth in the past 12 months, going up against the likes of Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger, putting the Chinese-based instant messenger on the map.
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Here Is The Afrikaans Version Of Twitter, Called Toeter
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s first Afrikaans social network launches, and it’s a weird mash-up of Facebook’s news features and Twitter’s posting options.
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Tumblr Page Documents Violence On Women, Following Elliot Rodger Massacre
29 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Women raise their voices following the misogynistic manifesto by Elliot Rodger.
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Apple Just Pulled This Chart-Topping Weed Growing App-Game [Video]
23 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh dear, sweet, Apple. Did making a game out of selling and growing weed suddenly get too much for your sensitive soul to bear?
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The Offline Glass from Mauricio Perussi on Vimeo.
Simple, Genius Invention Forces People To Ignore Their Phone In Bars [Video]
16 May 2014 by Seth Rotherham / 5 Comments
There is nothing worse than being at a bar with someone who won’t stop playing with their phone. Ok some things are worse than that – but you’ll dig this invention nonetheless. Behold – The ‘Offline Glass!’ Press play above. [thanks andy]
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This Is the Social Media Course You’ve Been Looking For
13 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is something we ALL could use. It’s a social media course, that helps you become a marketing guru. Here’s the thing: We all use social media every day. But how many of us are truly UTILISING these platforms to help us, help ourselves? As in, when last did you actually find an awesome job, […]
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New Twitter Design Is Basically A Copy Of Facebook
09 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter recently launched a redesign of its user profile, which will roll out to all users over the next few weeks. But the new profile design is basically a carbon copy of Facebook. Can’t Twitter just stay Twitter.
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Social Media Tips For Jobseekers [INFOGRAPHIC]
31 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social media allows people to be more connected than ever, but be aware it’s a double-edge sword. Prospective employers might not find your cat photos so adorable. It’s becoming more common for companies to Google candidates, to protect their public image and judge your character.
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WeCam Will Let You Make Video Calls To Your Twitter Followers
28 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Is dividing your attention between all your different social media accounts wearing your psyche thin? WeCam allows you to connect to all your Twitter, Facebook and Google+ friends using one app, and you can also talk to them face-to-face.
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Blogger Awards Launched For The African Continent
27 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The first African Blogger Awards has been launched. Offering bloggers, tweeters, instagrammers and YouTubers the opportunity to be recognized for their influence on the African continent.
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Why Is Your Man Saying Things On Social Media, But Not To You?
25 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social media beware, as the saying goes, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Women out there are being given the cold shoulder by the men in their relationships according to recent studies. Men are more likely to share their thoughts to hundreds or thousands of friends and followers, than to the person sitting next to them. Social media’s intimacy with their loved ones has left some women green with jealousy.
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Idiot Arrested For Posting Footage Of Assaults To Instagram [VIDEOS]
21 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re going to be a complete a-hole and threaten people with a fake gun as you drive by, it’s probably best not to post those hijinks to any kind of social media. Twenty-one-year-old Daron Stinson is facing a host of felonies after he “pretended” to rob and shoot at frightened pedestrians with a pellet […]
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People Don’t Really Read The Articles They Tweet
17 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Shame on you. Twitter isn’t a place filled with readers according to a study. If you got here from a link on Twitter, you are probably not even reading this.
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Facebook Just Posted Its Strongest Revenue Growth In 2 Years
30 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s common knowledge that Facebook just isn’t signing up as many users as it once was. The plateau makes sense, given the sheer size of the user base, which remains large despite a flurry of reports indicating a teenage user exodus. Those studies didn’t stop Facebook from declaring 63% increase in revenue and an eightfold increase in profit for the fourth quarter yesterday.
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Mxit Is Launching In India
29 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite the mammoth popularity and adoption of Whatsapp and WeChat, Mxit is still confident enough to establish new roots in another country, namely India. Remember that Mxit is in fact still one of the largest social media channels in South Africa with over 7.4 million users, and with India’s massive population and cell phone user base over just over 900 million, it makes a lot of sense.
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Use This Calculator To Work Out How Much Time You Have Wasted On Facebook
28 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Next week Facebook will reach double digits as it turns 10 years old. In its decade of existence, the social network has attracted a hefty 1,1 billion users , and all their pokes, wall posts, baby photos and status updates add up to a whole lot of time. The geniuses over at TIME have created a nifty […]
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These Reactions To Bieber’s Mugshot Will Make You Cry With Laughter
24 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
News about Justin Bieber’s run-in with the law spread around the web like wildfire, and some of these celebrity reactions will have you in stitches.
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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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