Social Media

Celebrities, brands and the general public alike are prone to errors on social media which can easily go viral. As Jon Ronson’s book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed highlights, there is always a hate mob online ready to take down anyone who dares to make a mistake in the public eye – whether it be […]

The American public have voted, and Donald Trump has won the 2016 presidential election. One of the many questions on the world’s lips right now is, what happens to the @POTUS Twitter account? After all, it has a healthy 11.4m followers, and has been fairly involved in making Obama’s views heard online during the election campaigns. President […]

Since May this year, Twitter has been busy working on ways to help people get more out of its 140-character limit. This has so far resulted in images, GIFs, and links no longer being counted towards the limit, which has brought much joy to the Twitter community. It seems there is now further delight for […]

Earlier in May it was widely reported that Twitter was planning on letting users write longer tweets by excluding photographs, links, and usernames from its 140 character limit. That was nearly four months ago, and as of yet, the change is yet to occur. The platform has made headway in the past, such as when […]

A recent Instagram update lets you see the best videos without disrupting your main feed.  Its overhaul of the Explore page sees a string of new video channels with, most importantly, a personalised ‘Videos You Might Like’ feed which draws across the network. There are also various themed, hand-created channels, such as feature spotlights on specific […]

It has been reported that behavioural psychologist Sean Young sees a future where a program is ‘trained’ to think like a psychologist in order to screen the social media accounts of individuals, assessing them for text or image patterns and combinations which could signify depression or other mental health illness. The theory is that whilst […]

Social media has a bad reputation; it’s often perceived as a group of platforms which cause and encourage extramarital affairs, stalking, party crashing, and generally bad events to occur. This opinion is especially popular amongst those who don’t use social media. However, this is not true. Social sites and apps do not cause these events; […]

‘That’ time of year is slowly creeping up on us again (I know, I know – I’m still recovering from the last one too!) So, with Christmas comes a nation of shoppers looking for gifts for loved ones. Not to mention people desperate to spend their Christmas money in the post-Christmas sales. If you own […]

Bradley Horowitz stated last week: We want to formally retire the notion that a Google+ membership is required for anything at Google… other than using Google+ itself. With Google+ being broken down into just 3 components (Hangouts, Photos & Streams), and the rest of it’s features being binned, it really feels like this is the […]

A recent survey of roughly 5,000 employers, managers and HR personnel found that 43 per cent of employers conduct background checks using social media accounts when filling a vacancy. This is but one survey of many that confirms the same thing – that employers are now vetting potential employees by carrying out quick online background […]

If you’ve checked your information through the Social Profile Checker and have decided that you want to fine-tune a few privacy settings on your social accounts, here’s our guide on how to do it: Facebook Despite some bad press, Facebook is pretty good when it comes to adjusting your privacy settings, and it can all […]