INSIGHT – Why favouriting tweets should be stopped

I’m sorry everyone. I’m going to have to come out and say it. I don’t like people who favourite on Twitter. I’m guilty of doing it too, and thus a hypocrite, but here’s why it’s rubbish, and shouldn’t be a thing. Twitter is not Facebook, and shouldn’t be used in the same way. Like everyone…

The Selfie Toaster makes it possible to eat your own face every morning!

Just when we thought selfies couldn’t get any more of a thing, along comes the Selfie Toaster. Yes, you read that right. Created by the Vermont Novelty Toaster Corporation, for only $75, you can put your face on a piece of bread and then eat it for breakfast every morning. Just like Jesus. Or just…

Made.com launches Unboxed, a ‘social showroom’ for nosey parkers

If you're an interior design voyeur connoisseur, Made has just made your dreams come true with its new tool, Unboxed, which the company describes as a 'social showroom'. The next best thing to rolling up to a fabulously glam person's house, sneaking through the dog flap, and snapping phone pics of their decor, it also…

#SpaceSelfie Kickstarter wants to take your photo in space

How would you like a selfie that’s out of this world? Literally. There are lots of unusual places to take a photo of yourself, but a genuine pic from space would give you serious bragging rights. A new Kickstarter wants to make that scenario a reality, without you having to undergo years of gruelling astronaut…

The new narcissism: why am I addicted to my own Facebook profile?

I’d like to admit something, and ask politely that none of you judge me. We are all friends here, in the cozy and confidential circle of trust that is the internet, aren’t we? Right then, here goes. My name is Lauren, and I Facebook-stalk myself. I am ashamed of the amount of time I spend…

Friends are genetically similar, says study

Next time someone rejects your offer of friendship on Facebook or (god forbid), IRL, don’t feel too bad: it might not be your looks or personality they found offensive, but your genome. A new US study claims that friends are more genetically similar than strangers. Researchers looked at tissue samples of around 2000 people from…

INSTAGRAM: Top 12 London-based tattoo artists you should be following

Sure Instagram has revolutionised the way we can make sharing a photo of a salad so achingly cool (#clean #cleaneating #healthy), ensure any scene from 2014 looks like it was taken on a really lame camera decades before and tilt-shift the sh*t out of our pets. But you know where it's made a huge, life-changing, money-making…

Could you leave Facebook for 99 days?

We never know how we feel about Facebook these days. We’re constantly telling ourselves we hate the never-ending stream of Candy Crush invitations, invitations to club nights we’re never going to go to, because they’re in Newcastle, and the whole everyone knowing our business thing. However, we know that if we left it for a…

13 lies we tell ourselves about online shopping

1) Lie: I have nothing to wear Truth: I have at least 74 dresses that I COULD wear, but I've worn them all once this year, so everyone’s already seen me wearing it on Facebook. Really, I just need something different to wear for a new profile picture. 2) Lie: My wardrobe could really use…