STUDY: 20% of men keep photos of their exes [SCUMBAGS]

The fact many of us share so much of our lives online means break-ups can be pretty confusing, do you delete your ex from all your photos? Do you hide all of those cheesy statuses about how smitten you are? Do you go from "single" to "in a relationship" and force your friends to see…

STUDY: Brits are bored of Blu-ray because it's too expensive

Blu-ray discs first became available to the public back in the summer of 2006 and since then they've smugly looked down on us from shop shelves across the country, making us feel poor, inadequate and sad about the fact we just have regular DVD players. Well it seems we're not the only ones who've had…

Obsessive phone checking amounts to three extra weeks of work a year

If you rely on your phone during a normal working day, you'll probably find yourself constantly checking to see if that important email has arrived, looking up what time your next meeting is and staring blankly at your screen waiting for the call from your boss that you've been dreading. Due to the fact we…

Is social media making teen girls sound more aggressive?

Ah social media, first it's making us more insecure then it's making us more confident, later it's improving our language skills and the next minute it's reducing us all to dumb sub-humans that ONLY TLK LYK DIS. Well now it seems linguistics professors believe all the time young people spend texting one another and updating…

STUDY: 60% of Brits will be bragging from their holidays abroad this year

Holidays used to be about exploring exciting cultural destinations, swimming in the sea or just drinking far too many margaritas by the pool. But, it seems that when we're on holiday nowadays many of us just can't help boasting about what an incredible time we're having online. According to the research carried out by T-Mobile,…

COME ON: New season Arrested Development coming exclusively to Netflix in the UK

First Netflix brought us the latest episodes of Breaking Bad and today it's revealed that it'll be the exclusive UK and Ireland home to the new season of Fox's INCREDIBLE comedy, Arrested Development. Now you must all do a chicken dance. GO. The new season will premiere in early 2013, which seems disgustingly far away,…

FACEBOOK: Woman takes legal action after trolls set up fake abusive account

A British woman is set to take legal action against Facebook after online trolls set up a fake account in her name and began sending abusive messages to young girls. The internet may be full of wonderful and magical things, but unfortunately we know all too well that if you're going to get all of…

Now there's a handy scale to prove we're all addicted to Facebook

We don't need some kind of fancy research to tell us we spend far too much time on Facebook, our incessant checking of the news feed and daily stalking of everyone we've EVER met proves that. But, if you did want to find out whether you're an actual addict, then the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale…

New Prometheus trailer to be followed by live advert of tweets

Channel 4 will be airing a live ad full of your tweets to see just how excited the Twitterverse is about the new Prometheus movie. Here at Shiny Shiny we genuinely couldn't be more excited about Ridley Scott's new film Prometheus. We've been watching movie blogs like hawks (the geekiest kinds of hawks, of course)…

Q&A: Vince Gilligan talks Breaking Bad ahead of UK Netflix launch

UK audiences will finally get a chance to catch up with hit US TV show Breaking Bad when it's launched on Netflix over the weekend. So to celebrate Shiny Shiny was invited to an exclusive preview of the new episodes along with the chance to interview the show's creator, the awesome Vince Gilligan. For those…