We’ve witnessed the growth of programmes such as ‘Benefits and Proud’; ‘Benefits Britain and Skint’ – if only there was an NTA award for the programme that made Britain angriest. “And the WINNER is…’Benefit Street” – achieving most complaints to both OfCom and the police.” Every single hour of airtime is achieving […]

If you have ever scrolled down your Twitter feed you would have most likely seen something very offensive towards someone or something. So offensive, in fact, that it may have shocked you! But have you ever realised that the person who wrote this hateful comment would never say it to […]

Should children today even have to learn how to spell? With text language ever dominating the way of communication when it comes to emails and letter writing too, one could perhaps be brave enough to say not. This shortened way of writing, such as ‘C U TMRW’, is quickly becoming […]

140 characters for your thoughts: welcome to twitter. Twitter began as a system of mobile phone text messages linking up to a larger internet network. On early mobile phones, 140 characters was the maximum limit allowed for a single text; hence, twitter’s character limit was set at this figure. So surely […]

The gorgeous Gerard Butler has now joined Twitter! The star was quickly verified and has got almost 3,500 followers already. So we are here to help the star get millions of followers, just like he deserves! The star sent out his very first tweet last month saying, “Hey everyone. I’m […]

“”hmv bankrupt. we may as well just give up on any medium that involves hard copy and get on with it. #sadtimes. i’d rather the death of the internet to be honest…. everything has to be so instant nowadays, it’ll be the death of creativity, everything is churned out so […]

I read an article recently about the Queen’s English Society having closed. (Hands up, I co-opted the clever title from that article for this blog post, and therefore the copyright remains with the author; however, as no one actually cared enough to read the source material, I should be fine.) Whoa-whoa-WHOA! Closed?  Now […]

I remember being back in school where MSN and MySpace were the be all and end all of social networking sites… Instant message, webcam chat and catch up on the latest news all at the same time just at the touch of your fingertips. Then in July 2006 came Twitter, […]