Not Another Selfie
"NOT ANOTHER SELFIE", I whispered under my breath as I was scrolling through one of my social media apps! Lately, I have been seeing...
Are you absorbed with your phone?
I was at a baby shower over the weekend, and very casually I whipped out my phone and started Snap-chatting with one of those...
Keeping the ‘er’… in Twitter
On Tuesday Twitter (or The Twitterer as I call it) went down... and the world ended.
Or so it seemed for many.
It just seemed like a...
The Great(est) Gatsby
Last night I ended up on the streets of Gatesville in Cape Town, South Africa, enjoying a steak masala gatsby at a restaurant called...
If social media were real life…
In the light of recent events and discussions read on social media, I started to think about what it must look like from someone...
Captain America: the campaign that raised the game
Marvel is one of the greatest enterprises in entertainment today. With everything from comics to costumes, action figurines to films and games, this empire has...
Twitter hashtag: #IfApartheidDidNotHappen
Hashtags on Twitter can often reveal a lot about people.
I was sitting at my computer writing some articles when I got a message from...
Why Twitter has survived a decade
This week Twitter celebrated its 10th birthday.
It's a massive achievement for any platform that has come after Facebook. After all, I think it’s safe to say...
Can social media encourage narcissistic behavior?
"Me. Me. Me. Me. Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" It’s all about me, and what I’m doing, and where I am right now, and who I’m with, and how...
Social Media Is Not Making Us Antisocial Or Isolating Us
"Social media brings us together and tears us apart at the same time." Not in the way people often suggest. I know you've heard...