Microsoft has started forcing people to shut down their MSN Messenger clients for good and move on over to the company they acquired last year, Skype. Accounts are being migrated and you can now use your information to log straight into Skype and carry on talking with your friends. Skype is a great chat client, but there are many things that we will never forget about MSN Messenger. Here are [...]

Have you ever had an Awkward Moment on Facebook? Have you seen something you shouldn’t have whilst browsing your social updates? Here are five ways in which your time on Facebook could be rather awkward. Like this post? Then please share it with your friends using the buttons below.    

Facebook are soon to start trialling a new method of getting in touch with celebrities. Twitter is well known for it’s ability for users to have a direct link to those famous people they love the most, and this is something that Facebook currently lacks, because the only way is to comment on the celebrities photos or statuses and hope they might reply to your comment, which of course they [...]

This status was posted by the Prayers For Brenden Facebook page on January 19th 2013 and has gained well over half a million likes! This is a community page set up by a mother for her nine-year old son Brenden who suffers from mental illness. These are impressive stats considering the page itself has just over 25,000 likes and clearly displays how things can go viral on social media. Source: [Facebook]

Facebook often seems to get a bad press for many of its decisions such as the timeline change on profiles and continual alterations to its privacy settings which often go ignored. There will probably be a big dislike from Facebook at being sued for the ‘Like’ button though! The social media giant is facing legal action over the use of its ‘like’ button and more of its features. The action comes from a [...]

After some big search announcements on Wednesday and Thursday this week, Twitter quietly released a setting that you probably never thought you needed: a LOLcats language option! Anyone who is signed up with a Twitter profile can access this option, simply by clicking on this URL https://twitter.com/?lang=lolc or you can turn it on in Twitter’s Settings. Some of the site stays the same i.e. the Tweets, Followers and Following on profiles, but everything else changes: On [...]

As most people who have a Facebook account know, it is difficult enough to stay logged off for even a week, let alone months. One dad in the US has decided to offer his 14-year old daughter $200, but only if she stays off Facebook for 5 months! Many parents are worried about their children’s addiction to the internet and in particular social media sites. Paul Baier from Boston was [...]

#heardwhilstdisabled (#heardwhiledisabled in the US) has been trending on Twitter today after news broke that job agencies were actively advising employees not to help unemployed disabled people to find work. A Panorama investigation found that the company Triage, a private company paid by the government to help those on benefits to find work, regularly referred to disabled clients as LTBs (‘Lying Thieving Bastards’) and did as little as they could [...]

Charlie Morgan, the Swansea City ballboy apparently kicked in the ribs by Chelsea player Eden Hazard, has become an overnight celebrity on Twitter. His follower count has jumped since the incident in last night’s Capital One Cup semi-final from just over 800 to 80,000! The ballboy sparked a furious reaction from Hazard by refusing to return an out of play ball in the final minutes of the second-leg match with [...]

Although snow gets a lot of bad coverage with disruptions to travel including rail delays, hazardous driving conditions, and flight cancellations, there is no doubt that it is not all bad news. Snow seems to bring a lot of people together to have fun outside. This was especially true as there was heavy snowfall over the weekend. People went out to parks and fields with sledges, had snowball fights, took amazing photos and made snowmen. Snowmen photos have been posted [...]