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Since 2002 there has been a sharp incline in the number of mobile phone networks in sub-sarahian Africa. With countries including Uganda, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania seeing an increase from 10% of the population using a mobile phone to percentages in the 70's and low 80's (Pew Research Centre, 2015).  With figures like this it appears that what was once thought to be a vast difference in the technologies available to those in a developing country and technologies available to those of us who live in a developed country is not as wide or as big a difference as it once was.
With large companies such as Facebook making steps to further close this divide with campaigns such as 'Facebook for Every Phone' reaching over 10 million people, it doesn't look like we will have a digital divide for long.

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The mobile revolution in Africa is well documented, however mobile statistics are specifically impressive in the BRIC Nations - Brazil, Russia, India and China - as well as the likes of Indonesia, Mexico and the Philippines. Many emerging markets have skipped the 'desktop generation' and are already mobile-first economies where mobile devices are more ubiquitous than either land-line telephones, PCs, or fixed Internet connections. Although research suggests that global smartphone shipments have overtaken those of feature phones recently, it is still the basic feature phone that dominates in emerging markets. Facebook has been quietly working on a project over the last 2 years to expand its user base of 1.1 billion and enable Facebook access on simple, feature phones.

The scheme is called ' Facebook for Every Phone ' and has reached 100m users. The stripped-down, minimum capacity version of Facebook is accessed through over 3,000 types of feature phone, some costing less than 20 dollars. Working with mobile operators, Facebook has encouraged them to allow users free or cheap access to this basic version of their product.
Why is Facebook doing this?
Although markets such as India, Indonesia, Brazil, India, Mexico and Vietnam are not currently lucrative advertising markets for the internet giant, they are some of the fastest growing markets for internet access and social networking, and Facebook is clearly eyeing up its next generation of customers and the potential ad revenue these markets will bring.

As Facebook subscription in the likes of the US reaches saturation point, many people see the next generation of customers from the developing world as Facebook's greatest opportunity to increase its global market share. Although Facebook's success in the mobile advertising market has been well documented, it is still like many struggling with the seismic shift in internet access from the PC to mobile devices. As the economies of emerging markets grow and its consumer class demands access to the same products and services as the developing world, they represent a lucrative market for the likes of Facebook. Indeed, research suggests that users who access the product through a feature phone are the most engaged users, representing another opportunity for advertisers. As the middle class in the developing world grows, so do their purse strings and Facebook is fully aware of this.
Snaptu
Facebook purchased an Israeli company called Snaptu, that had begun to produce basic versions of applications to allow users to access them on feature phones. Facebook, having originally discounted mobile Facebook access as simply a way to update a status as opposed to the full service, saw a massive opportunity here. The Snaptu team began to re-engineer Facebook's software to reduce its capacity and allow it to run off minimal data requirements. Facebook for Every Phone includes all the phones most popular features, including News Feed, Messenger and Photos, and is optimized to use less data than other Java apps and mobile sites.

Despite the obvious benefits access to Facebook brings many people in the developing world, there is a danger that users see Facebook as the entire internet, instead of just a small part of it. As powerful internet giants such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google continue to see emerging markets as a priority, there should be a limit to their influence allowing home-grown developers and mobile applications to launch and thrive in the developing world.

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The mobile revolution in Africa is well documented, however mobile statistics are specifically impressive in the BRIC Nations - Brazil, Russia, India and China - as well as the likes of Indonesia, Mexico and the Philippines. Many emerging markets have skipped the 'desktop generation' and are already mobile-first economies where mobile devices are more ubiquitous than either land-line telephones, PCs, or fixed Internet connections.

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Technology moves at lightening fast speeds and it's most recent development will blow your mind and take you to a whole other world. Virtual Reality googles have been in development and on sale for the past year. They take the user out of their own real world and place them in a new virtual world. Games such as minecraft have adapted there games to suit this new type of technology. This new type of technology takes on a whole new aspect of Turkle's notorious phrase 'Alone Together'. While we are physically together our minds are in a different place; technology allows us to be in a cafe and be talking to people who are across the globe These new googles will take our minds to a different world. We will no longer be in a cafe or a living room, we will be in a new country, we could be a warrior princess. The googles could create a whole new level of separation and isolation if they become more popular in mainstream consumerism. Warning though, wearing these virtual reality googles in public may take you to a new world but your physical body is in the cafe. This will lead to hilarious scenes that you are unaware of, as the video in the link demonstrates.

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It is no hidden secret that Kanye West thinks that he is Jesus re-encarnated and that he is free from almost all rational reasoning. His latest twitter rant only confirms our 'suspicions'? Well what we all knew but were too scared to talk about incase we must face the wrath of Kanye West. The internet and social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter have an instilltanteous aspect to them. They allow their users to voice and share their opinions, activities and moments with all their friends at the click of a button. In such a fast pace world these types of platforms only escalate  our speed and our need to be connected to everyone all the time. On one hand the speed and this 'in the moment' vibe of these platforms allow our friends to keep up with out activities as and when they are happening. This allows them to feel a part of our life even is they aren't with us. However, on the other hand, when you are an international, world famous, A-list celebrity this instintaneous aspect of social media is not such a great thing. Kanye, shocked and surprised all of the followers and most of the world with is sudden and presumably unprovoked rant on twitter. He seemed to have lost the plot and reached a whole new level of crazy. Maybe if tweets weren't so easy and fast to upload Kanye could have saved what was left of his reputation. Maybe if he thought about what he was writing before he put it out in the public sphere for all to see and consuming we might still think he was slightly sane. Maybe....but it's not really Twitter's fault that Kanye is an idiot. However rather than having an age requirement to have an account, Twitter should maybe have an IQ. test  to censor who should have an account.

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We use social media to substitute real life experiences. Talking to someone online is easier then than meeting them in person. A netowrk is easier to maintain than a community as you can control who is in it. Being an online activist is easier than being an activist in the physical world where you can get hurt. Bauman argues that social media is a bleaker and smaller parrelle to our brighter 3D world. Social media is a mask the we once hid behind but now we can't escape its grips.

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Zygmunt Bauman has just celebrated his 90 th birthday and taken two flights from his home in the northern British city of Leeds to get to an event in Burgos, northern Spain. He admits to being tired as we begin the interview, but he still manages to express his ideas calmly and clearly, taking his time with each response because he hates giving simple answers to complex questions. Since developing his theory of liquid modernity in the late 1990s - which describes our age as one in which "all agreements are temporary, fleeting, and valid only until further notice" - he has become a leading figure in the field of sociology. His work on inequality and his critique of what he sees as the failure of politics to meet people's expectations, along with a highly pessimistic view of the future of society, have been picked up by the so-called May 15 "Indignant" movement in Spain - although he has repeatedly highlighted its weaknesses.

Born in Poland in 1925, Bauman's parents fled to the Soviet Union following the German invasion in 1939. In 1968, after he was stripped of his post as a teacher and expelled from the Communist Party along with thousands of other Jews in the wake of the Six-Day War, he left for the United Kingdom, taking up a post at Leeds University where he is now Emeritus Professor of Sociology. His work has been awarded numerous international prizes, among them Spain's Prince of Asturias Award, in 2010.

He has outlined his pessimistic world view in books such as 2014's Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All?, which argues that the world is paying a high price for the neoliberal revolution that began in the 1980s and that wealth has not trickled down to the rest of society. In Moral Blindness, published last year, he and co-author Leonidas Donskis warn about the loss of community in our increasingly individualistic world.
QUESTION. You have described inequality as a "metastasis." Is democracy under threat?
ANSWER. We could describe what is going on at the moment as a crisis of democracy, the collapse of trust: the belief that our leaders are not just corrupt or stupid, but inept. Action requires power, to be able to do things, and we need politics, which is the ability to decide what needs to be done. But that marriage between power and politics in the hands of the nation state has ended. Power has been globalized, but politics is as local as before. Politics has had its hands cut off. People no longer believe in the democratic system because it doesn't keep its promises. We see this, for example, with the migration crisis: it's a global phenomenon, but we still act parochially. Our democratic institutions were not designed for dealing with situations of interdependence. The current crisis of democracy is a crisis of democratic institutions.
Q. In which direction is the pendulum that you describe between freedom and security swinging at the moment?
A. These are two values that are tremendously difficult to reconcile. If you want more security, you're going to have to give up a certain amount of freedom; if you want more freedom, you're going to have to give up security. This dilemma is going to continue forever. Forty years ago we believed that freedom had triumphed and we began an orgy of consumerism. Everything seemed possible by borrowing money: cars, homes... and you just paid for it later. The wakeup call in 2008 was a bitter one, when the loans dried up. The catastrophe, the social collapse that followed hit the middle classes particularly hard, dragging them into a precarious situation where they remain: they don't know if their company is going to merge with another and they will be laid off, they don't know if what they have bought really belongs to them... Conflict is no longer between classes, but between each person and society. It isn't just a lack of security, but a lack of freedom.
Q. You say that progress is a myth, because people no longer believe the future will be better than the past.
A. We are in a period of interregnum, between a time when we had certainties and another when the old ways of doing things no longer work. We don't know what is going to replace this. We are experimenting with new ways of doing things. Spain tried questioning things through the May 15 (15M) movement, when people took over public spaces, arguing, trying to replace parliamentary procedures with a kind of direct democracy. This hasn't lasted long. Austerity policies will continue, nobody could stop them, but they could still be relatively effective in finding new ways to do things.
Q. You have argued that the likes of 15M and the global Occupy movement know "how to clear the way, but not how to create something solid."
A. People set aside their differences for a while in the public squares for a common goal. If that goal is negative, about getting angry with someone, there is more chance of success. In a way it could have been an explosion of solidarity, but explosions are very powerful and short-lived.
Q. You also believe that by their nature, there is no room for leadership in rainbow coalitions.
A. It is precisely because such movements lack leaders that they can survive, but it is also precisely because they lack leaders that they cannot convert their sense of purpose into action.
Q. In Spain, the 15M movement has helped create new political forces.
A. Changing one party for another will not solve the problem. The problem is not that the parties are wrong, but that they don't control things. Spain's problems are part of a global problem. It's a mistake to think you can solve things internally.
Q. What do you think about the Catalan independence project?
A. I think we're still following the principles of Versailles, when the idea of each nation's right to self rule was established. But that's a fiction in today's world, when there are no more homogeneous territories. Today, every society is just a collection of diasporas. People join the societies to which they are loyal and pay their taxes, but at the same time, they do not want to give up their identity. The connection between where you live and identity has been broken. The situation in Catalonia, as in Scotland or Lombardy, is a contradiction between tribal identity and citizenship. They are Europeans, but they don't want to talk to Brussels via Madrid, but via Barcelona. The same logic is emerging in almost every country. We are still following the same principles established at the end of World War I, but there have been many changes in the world.
Q. You are skeptical of the way people protest through social media, of so-called "armchair activism," and say that the internet is dumbing us down with cheap entertainment. So would you say that the social networks are the new opium of the people?
A. The question of identity has changed from being something you are born with to a task: you have to create your own community. But communities aren't created, and you either have one or you don't. What the social networks can create is a substitute. The difference between a community and a network is that you belong to a community, but a network belongs to you. You feel in control. You can add friends if you wish, you can delete them if you wish. You are in control of the important people to whom you relate. People feel a little better as a result, because loneliness, abandonment, is the great fear in our individualist age. But it's so easy to add or remove friends on the internet that people fail to learn the real social skills, which you need when you go to the street, when you go to your workplace, where you find lots of people who you need to enter into sensible interaction with. Pope Francis, who is a great man, gave his first interview after being elected to Eugenio Scalfari, an Italian journalist who is also a self-proclaimed atheist. It was a sign: real dialogue isn't about talking to people who believe the same things as you. Social media don't teach us to dialogue because it is so easy to avoid controversy... But most people use social media not to unite, not to open their horizons wider, but on the contrary, to cut themselves a comfort zone where the only sounds they hear are the echoes of their own voice, where the only things they see are the reflections of their own face. Social media are very useful, they provide pleasure, but they are a trap.

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Zygmunt Bauman has just celebrated his 90 th birthday and taken two flights from his home in the northern British city of Leeds to get to an event in Burgos, northern Spain. He admits to being tired as we begin the interview, but he still manages to express his ideas calmly and clearly, taking his time with each response because he hates giving simple answers to complex questions.

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There was a new addition to the stands at Crufts 2016 for dog’s who have a large following on social media. Yes…that’s right dogs on social media. Just to shock you even more these dogs’ social media footprint…should I saw Pawprint… is probably bigger than yours or mine.

Dogs who were featured at the stall included:

Bruno the Miniature Daxon who has 70,500 followers on Instagram

Mika the Husky has 59,600 followers on Instagram

Ramsey the Blue Staffordshire Terrier  has 130,000 followers on Instagram

This demonstrates how integrated the internet and digital media is in our world. Social media reaches into every part of the world, even in the most unlikely of places. It influences the way we interact with others and view the people on our newsfeeds. Instagram has created celebrity dogs and even more so, it has affected the figures in dog breeding. Winnie the Pembrook Welsh Crogi, who has 19,400 followers in Instagram, is believed to have stolen the hearts of so many people that this year her breed has finally made it off the endangered dogs list. The impact of Instagram is resounding and the success of dogs on social media has created a whole new genre of celebrity.

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In 1999 Napster became the first online music download site, Consumers were able to share songs with others and download their favourite song on the their computer or MP3. Napster was the first official illegal site that promoted music piracy. It allows people to download and own music for free; Napster essentially allowed it’s users to steal the property of artists. Since 1999 many other similar sites have appeared on the Internet e.g. Limewire, Youtube2MP3 and MP3World. Most of these companies unfortunately are forced to shut down after a period of time due to their illegality and infringement on copyright laws.  Indeed Napaster itself was forced to shutdown in 2001 after declaring bankruptcy due to the decreased traffic on their site as the company adhered to injunctions placed on them from a Lawsuit by A&M Records. However if with each illegal music downloading site that is shutdown another two pop up.

Most recently companies have found ways to get around the copyright laws but still allow their users to share music freely, these included websites such as Spotify and Apple Music. The consumers pay a monthly or annual subscription fee and they have access to an unlimited number of songs and the users can create playlists that can be shared with other users. Although these sites are legal they have recently come under some heat. Spotify has had artists such as Taylor Swift remove their music from the streaming service.  Artists complain that the decline in music sales is due to websites and apps such as Spotify. Consumers are no longer purchasing albums or songs because they can now have access to the music for a cheaper price. Swift said in an interview with Time magazine, “everybody’s complaining about how music sales are shrinking, but nobody’s changing the way they’re doing things. They keep running towards streaming, which is, for the most part, what has been shrinking the number of pain album sales.” Spotify argues that they pay 70% of their revenue to label companies and artists who allow them to have their music on the company’s app however many feel that they are not paid enough. Swift who was unhappy with Spotify was the first artist to pull her music from the website/app. Swift argues that “Music is art, and art is important and valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.” She further argues that artists “practically give their music away”. Another artist to have more recently pulled their music from Spotify is BAFTA and Oscar winning British singer Adele. Are artists just being greedy or do they have a point?

Digital music can be seen as bringing communities together, it generates micro-societies of sharing, gifting and creating. However Digital music can also create discourse and controversy. Like most aspects of technology and digital media there are pros and cons, arguments for and against. While I don’t agree with illegal downloading sites and I do believe that it’s stealing; I do believe that Spotify is completely legal and that Taylor Swift and other artists are just being greedy.

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Where will the music industry be in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years?

Before I tell you my thoughts on the matter, you should know that you're reading the opinion of an enthusiastic optimist: one of the few living souls in the music industry who still believes that the music industry is not dying...it's just coming alive.

There are many (many) people who predict the downfall of music sales and the irrelevancy of the album as an...

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For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story

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Where will the music industry be in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years? Before I tell you my thoughts on the matter, you should know that you're reading the opinion of an enthusiastic optimist: one of the few living souls in the music industry who still believes that the music industry is not dying...it's just coming alive.

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Prosumption on the internet has recently become one of the most desired jobs. No longer do you have to be an intellectual coder or programmer to work with Internet and make a profit from it. The expanding of the Internet and its platforms has created space for more innovative entrepreneurs. These new entrepreneurs are coming in the form of pretty and funny teenagers, who are creating videos, these entreprenuers have been dubbed ‘Celebritiy Youtubers’.  Internet Platforms such as YouTube have created platforms that demonstrate “the asymmetrical relationship between broadcaster. Media producer and audience that characterised 20th century mass communication had been radically changed” (Rheingold). Over the past few years ordinary people have became famous due to this relationship, their audience has become captivated with them and sent them soaring to the height of celebrity. Uk YouTubers such as Zoella, TanyaBur, and Casper Lee have changed their lives, their self-document videos, make-up tutorials are watch by millions of people. The high number of consumers all flooding to one place has turned vlogging into a profitable experience. Companies have realised that these YouTube stars can be used as a new and exciting way of product promotion and advertising. Companies can pay thousands of pounds to have their products featured or reviewed by these YouTube celebrities. The number of consumers a ‘Celebrity Youtuber’ has the more the company is willing to pay. It has just come out in the press that in the 8 month leading up to November 2014 that the once ordinary girl earned just over a cool £400,00. These smart and funny teenagers have utilised the prosummer and consumer relationship and turned self-documenting on the intenet into profitable business.

Below is a link to one of Zoella's videos where she is reviewing make-up products. I wonder how much theses make-up companies paid to have their products featured in just one video?

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L'oreal Superliner Perfect Slim Maybelline

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Makeup Collection & Storage | Tanya Burr

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Top Drugstore & Highstreet Makeup Picks | Zoella

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Ted Baker Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer Maybelline

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Real Techniques Brushes Kate Moss Rimmel Lipsticks

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Sleek Contour & Highlight Kit Barry M Natural Bronzer

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My Top Drugstore & Highstreet Makeup Products

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My Top Drugstore & Highstreet Makeup Products Let me know if you found this helpful and enjoyed it I HEART YOU....YES YOU!

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...The Queen of Social Media, Kim Kardashian West has now joined Snapchat. Finally we can see into her everyday life, she is giving us access to her private life...an access that we have never been allowed before? When you didn't think  Kim Kardashian-West could place herself in the public eye anymore she has. With her staring in several reality T.V shows you can watch Kim K in your home. With her clothing lines, make-u lines, hairstyle lines you can look like Kim K. With her website you can read all of Kim K's insightful thoughts so that you can learn to think like Kim K. Her Instagram teaches us to pose like her; Facebook alerts us of her events so we may be graced with her presence; her twitter updates us on her insightful and hilarious thoughts in the moment. With the Kim Kardashian app you can keep up with her on the move. Finally with her Kim Kardashian game we can pretend to be Kim K. Now we get an even deeper insight to our queen's life. For some the intrusion of Digital Culture in their life is resentented, unwanted and dispised. However for those like Kim K she has used social media and the digital culture to her advantage allowing us mere common folk a glimpse into her life of luxury...for a price. She has done mor than welcomed digital culture and social media into her life, she has made her life and livelihood utilising these platforms. While Snap chat is free I am sure that some one is paying her and thank god they are, for without Snapchat how would we get to know our Queen Kim K...? AS Bette Middler recently tweeted, insight of Kim K's most recent nude selfie "If Kim wants us to see a part of her we've never seen,
she's gonna have to swallow the camera." For now though, snap chat will have to do.

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When T.V's were first introduced to wide society there were many individuals who were worried that the television would ruin family life, damage our eyes and family communications. Rather than sitting in the living room talking, reading, play board games individuals worried that the T.V would become the focal point of the room. While in many cases, especially in my family, the TV has become the focal point of the room, it has not damaged out family communication. Every Sunday night when the family is home we cook a roast, eat, clean up and then settle down to what a film or BBC drama. While we aren't play board games any more we are still communicating as a family. WE laugh and share in jokes during the film. WE exercise the traditional patriarchal family dynamics  when choosing the film ( only a joke, my dad has no say in the movie or T.V. programme we watch). Further more we share in emotional moments that we would otherwise not experience. When watching a drama where a mother is forced to choose between her children a conversation is sparked; we discuss how the mother most feel; debate what we would do if we were found in a similar situation; and finally the kids bicker and laugh who is my mothers favourite and who she is most likely to save (I'm my mums favourite). Our sunday movie nights also ensure that we are all physically in the same room, rather than dispersing to our private spaces or going to see our friends, time is set aside for us to be together as a family.
However, T.V is becoming les popular and has been overtaken by streaming on the Internet. Rather than sitting with my flat mates and watching a T.V programme I now sit in my room and watch the show on my own. Laptops and computers have isolated us in a way that the T.V never did. The size of the screen on a laptop is too small for five people sit around. The speed and expanse of the internet provides too many options that it becomes difficult for all to agree on one T.V show. The Internet has had such an affect on T.V that channels or being removed from T.V broadcast and are becoming internet exclusive channels. A prime example of this is the removal of BBC 3 from T.V, it is only accesible through the BBc website. The decision to remove the channel from our T.Vs was based on financial issues. It is more economic for the the BBC to have the youth orientated channel on the internet as "younger audiences are already watching on-demand services, and do so regularly" (BBC NewsBeat, 2015).
The internet is taking over from T.V. which once took over from preceding media outlets. In the future I am sure that more internet only channels will appear. Digital technology advances rapidly and with improvements in broadband speed happening it won't be long until most people are watching most T.V.  programmes online. The exciting question is; what digital technology will take over form the internet?

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Thirteen - Episode 1: Episode 1

Today is the day Ivy Moxam escapes from the cellar; her prison for the last thirteen years. Today is the day she'll return to her home, to her life. Today is only the beginning.

BBC Three

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Is SAAS not quite covering your lavish lifestyle? Well fear not, there are a range of dating apps linking young attractive girls with rich older men. The article below suggests that over a fifth of university students have started using the new online dating website, Seeking Arrangments, to connect to men who will find their lifestyles.  While The University of Edinburgh does not appear on the table in the article our arch nemesis, St. Andrews University does, with 165 student being Sugar Babies.

Seeking Arrangements shows the connectivity that the internet and new social and dating apps facilitate. In this case it connects young girls with wealthier men to date and receive gifts from. A less conventional example of connectivity than Facebook but I would argue a more interesting one...especially for any girls out there who's Student Funding isn't quite enough.

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Despite these figures on the amount of students using sugar daddy apps, some of the comments, at the time, about Newsbeat's interview with Clover still suggested it was similar to prostitution.

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'A quarter of a million' UK students now using sugar daddies, according to app

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Dating site Seeking Arrangement releases figures claiming a 40% rise in students using sugar daddies for cash.

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BBC II! Is running a series of programmes, One Click Away,  on how the internet has changed our culture and lives. Thus far there has been 6 programmes.
- Webcam Boys
- Troll Hunters
- The Super Gammers
- The Rise of the Superstar Vloggers
- Murder Games

The series looks at the various different aspect of online activities and how our online activities can affect our offline lives.

It's really interesting to see how in the modern day we negotiate the blending of these two spheres in our lives.

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From childhood we have learnt how to interact and socially engage with others. There has always been a an unspoken set of social rules that we all follow to produce and facilitate social cohesion. These rules follow all social interactions offline and now in a developing society, they have followed us online. As we navigate the diverse interactions and networks that are found online we must follow these social rules. However for some people they use the internet to breach these well known and established social rules, thus we have trolling and online bullying. For some, the anonymity of the internet is over whelming, they use and abuse it creating social upheaval. However fear not, for those who are incapable of transferring their well established social rules from offline to online, or how are incompetent at remaining kind and grounded online I've found an article to help.

Please educate yourself and save us all from your awful online interactions, where we are forced to grimace, sigh with despair and eye roll beind out own computer screens at you.

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Attention all Instagrammers living in envy-inducing abodes: We get it, you have a ridiculously beautiful home and you're #blessed. Most people will indulge you with a double tap, dear boaster, when you post a photo of your sunlight-drenched home office decorated with stunning art, $10-a-stem peonies on your antique desk, and a Meissen tea cup and pot placed just so. But add a caption like, "Monday, back to the grind. Ugh." and prepare for eyes to roll and (perhaps) a few followers to flee. Why? It's because perhaps the greatest Instagram faux pas isn't being an all-out braggart; it's pretending not to be one by using the indelicately deployed humble brag.

Last year, Harvard Business School published findings from five studies through which they ultimately concluded that, "despite people's belief that combining bragging and complaining confers the benefits of both self-promotion strategies, humblebragging [sic] fails to pay off." And that's especially true when it comes to mixing matters of the home and Instagram. In fact, there's nothing worse than a poorly masked gloat post. We've all seen it: a greasy Shake Shack bag on a Carrara island in a spotless kitchen with 360-degree views of Manhattan. Or maybe it's a caption stating, "laundry days are the worst!" and a photo of dry cleaning bags thrown onto a massive, exquisitely patterned Persian rug.

So when it comes to posting your own fabulous spaces, there are tricks to showing off without looking like an egotist. Here, seven ways to 'gram your home with grace.

1. Don't try so hard with a clever caption.
Everyone can see through quippy remarks about how you're too busy to tuck in your Frette linens or tidy up the stunning built-ins above your prewar fireplace. Does that humble brag keep bubbling to the surface? Consider doing away with a caption entirely. Though beware, a photo of your styled-to-a-T living room with 15-foot beamed ceilings shared with zero comment might be the least humble humble brag of them all (see rules 3 and 4). As for emojis, proceed with caution; that little red-roofed house looks nothing like your five-story brownstone.

2. Beware the hashtag.
Better yet, be on the safe side and do away with hashtags entirely. At this point, it's pretty safe to say that perennial favorites like #blessed-which now elicits more ire than awe-should be the first to go.

3. Focus in on details.
Instead of capturing an entire room that showcases your exceptional lifestyle, the lens of Instagram is sometimes best used to share the finer details. A close-up of your pretty table setting mid-meal or a corner window seat filled with plants and cool ceramics feels personal, like a tiny glimpse into your life and your aesthetic, not just a casually shameless billboard for your belongings.

4. Keep it casual.
It can be annoying enough to come across yet another 'gram of a friend's painstakingly styled space, but when that photo is followed by a humble brag? "So much work to do before tonight's dinner party! (nervous face emoji)." It might just be grounds for un-following.

5. Don't tag yourself in the photo or use a location tag.
An obvious piece of advice, but, hey, social media is all about self-promotion, right? It shouldn't be, unless you actually have a business or brand. If you post a photo of the blizzard outside your giant windows trimmed in Pierre Frey fabric, don't tag your Park Avenue address or yourself and caption something like, "going stir-crazy in this storm (cry face emoji, snowflake emoji)." You may be promoting yourself, but your brand then is humble bragger.

6. Don't use pets or props as humble brag shields.
Everyone loves a cute dog or cat pic on social media, but don't use these poor animals to try to hide your humble brag. Just because your fluffy Pomeranian looks adorable in your private courtyard or nestled inside your 18th-century canopy bed doesn't mean the 'gram public can't see what you're really trying to show off. That plastic drug store bag on your pristine vanity with a giant claw-foot bathtub in the background doesn't really fit your "flu season (sick, sad face emoji)" caption, now does it?

7. If you want to brag, just own it.
Did you just spruce up your house for a dinner party and it looks amazing? Are you really excited about the beautiful antique set of China you just uncovered at the flea market? Go ahead and share it! Just don't undercut it with a faux-humble complaint. Sincerity speaks volumes, even when it's the occasional very sincere brag.

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How to Avoid the Instagram Humble Brag: The 7 Rules

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Attention all Instagrammers living in envy-inducing abodes: We get it, you have a ridiculously beautiful home and you're #blessed. Most people will indulge you with a double tap, dear boaster, when you post a photo of your sunlight-drenched home office decorated with stunning art, $10-a-stem peonies on your antique desk, and a Meissen tea cup and pot placed just so.

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The internet is known for creating all new kinds of communities, of people all over the world who share a common interest. This time is had created a community and connected all the girls and women all over the world who share in the same devastating issue, an issue that gets them into no end of trouble...The Resting Bitch Face. Now all of you rejoice and laugh about the issues you all face because of your face

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1. People think you're always having a bad day. But you're really just ... going through the day like anybody else.

2. People think you hate the world. OK, so you might hate the world sometimes because it can be messed up. But you're not trying to send the message that you do! Besides, life can be pretty awesome, too.

3. People think nothing makes you happy. That's not true! You like flowers and getting your paycheck and kids! You're also drawn to mundane things like that wafting cigarette smoke even if you don't smoke. You're not hating on the smoker, at least not at the moment.

4. People ask you often if you're OK. The concern is sweet, but it's tiring to keep saying you're fine and people still don't believe you.

5. People tell you to smile more. You just wanna be like, "Hey, you don't find me telling you what to do with your face! SO SHUT UP."

6. People think you're judging them. It can be a good thing, to make people doubt themselves or think about what they just said. But you're labeled as the mean one at once. How about "quick-witted" or just ... listening?

7. People don't know when you're serious, joking, or sarcastic. You're pretty funny and you make people laugh their socks off. But after they laugh, you're asked if you were joking. Which beats the purpose of a joke most of the time.

8. People are scared of you, so they don't want to approach you. They're afraid you'll lash out on them the moment they utter a syllable. Where'd that come from?? You'll drop anything and make time for anybody who needs to vent!

9. People think you're impolite because you don't smile, even if you said "please" and "thank you" in a singsong voice. The face isn't cooperating!! Just leave it alone, OK?

10. You have to make yourself act extra perky to make a good impression. People just don't know how tiring it is to pretend to be someone you're not. And they don't know the pain you feel in your cheeks right now from smiling too big for too long - yep, your cheeks are shaking and twitching. You're looking good. Not.

11. People think you're bossy or a snob when you give instructions. You might have to say eve-ry word care-ful-ly, like so. Which sucks 'cause who's going to take you seriously now?

12. When you are angry or sad, people think it's nothing new, so they don't care. That's not fair. You're not always angry or sad. You really need some people to empathize right now. :(

13. You're actually the one being judged. So much for people thinking you're judging them. They're actually the ones judging you! Guess the joke's on you?
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13 Struggles Only Women With Resting Bitch Face Understand

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1. People think you're always having a bad day. But you're really just ... going through the day like anybody else. 2. People think you hate the world. OK, so you might hate the world sometimes because it can be messed up. But you're not trying to send the message that you do!

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Social media has become a way for its users to feed their ego; whether it is a Grandmother uploading a post of her Grandchild to have people tell her ‘what a precious darling she is’ or a teenager uploading a Selfie so that her friends can confirm her beauty. We take photos and upload them because we want to show off, whether it is our wealth, our beauty or our growing family. Journalist, Jacob Silverman wrote, how we upload our photos in hope of recognition, we willingly place our private life and moments on a platform for public consumption. The video of our baby cousin walking or running is “less about memorialising a moment than communicating the reality of that moment for to others”, Silverman, 2015. We are really sharing it to show off how amazing out grandchild and even more so we share to seek validation. Sharing photos does not stop at uploading the photo, we must think of a funny caption, a perfect emoji, then there are the comments and the likes. The responses a photo receives becomes such a vital aspect of the photo sharing. I will up load a photo if my eyebrows or eyeliner is ‘on fleek’, but I also upload it because I want others to tell me how good I look, to validate that my winged eyeliner and pencilled in eyebrows are indeed ‘on fleek’.  If my post doesn’t get at least 13 likes on Instagram then I will delete it, this does fill me with shame, it shows clearly how much I depend others to validate my make-up skills however I reassure my self that im not so vain- well in comparison to my youngest sister.

My youngest sister is 16 years old and every one of her Instagram posts gets at least 100+ likes and about 20 comments of her friends telling her how beautiful she is. My sister and her friends really feed into the anxiety of needing outside validation. With each photo we upload there is an internal panic of ‘what if someone doesn’t like my photo, or ‘what if someone doesn’t tell me I’m pretty, I am pretty, look at my photo, please tell me I’m pretty’ or as Silverman puts it,  “please validate it, and I’ll validate yours, and we’ll take turns saying how much we missed each other”. Although I admit this is a pretty cynical outlook on the Selfie generation and on the uploading of photos, it is an accurate representation.  My sisters Instagram account is a prime example, I mean why else has she uploaded a picture showing her protruding hip bones? She wants to be told she is pretty and skinny.

She has given me permission to use these images of her Instagram account to illustrate my argument.

Refference: Silverman, J. (Feb, 2015) 'Pics ot it didn't happen'- the Mantra of the Instagram Era, The Observer

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People are now listening into other people's conversations and sharing what they hear on the internet...has digital technology and the internet taken gossip to a whole new level?

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I don't know what it is about Whole Foods, but something weird happens to people's brains when they walk through the sliding doors into that organic food mecca. Turns out even adult people say the darndest things when surrounded by free-range oatmeal and artisanal cheese.

Don't get me wrong: I love the idea of Whole Foods and would gladly buy all of my food stuffs there if I had a bottomless bank account. But I don't, so it's a special treat instead of a daily occurrence. And that's ok with me because I've seen the people who shop there every day, and to say that they've got their head in the clouds is putting it nicely. You'd think they would just be happy that they've got their shit together, with a good job that allows them to buy the best food on the market from the most luxurious store in the contiguous 48.

But no. They still find stuff to bitch about.

Kudos to the Overheard at Whole Foods Facebook page, and shoppers everywhere, for sharing these gems.

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20 Of The Whitest Things Ever Overheard At Whole Foods

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I don't know what it is about Whole Foods, but something weird happens to people's brains when they walk through the sliding doors into that organic food mecca. Turns out even adult people say the darndest things when surrounded by free-range oatmeal and artisanal cheese.

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In the new technical and digital age the idea of space and physical place has had to develop and change. There are new softwares which can create a 2nd environment, World of War Craft allows for people from different countries and all over the world to come to gather in a new 2D world and connect. This kind of fantasy world is often referred to as a country, a physical space and place.

Another way that the internet has created a blurring between the online/offline space in through the medium of viral dance videos. Dance was once limited to the dance studio, only the dancers, their teacher/choreographer and musician were witness to the process. To see the final product a show was held in a theatre, with an audience and a stage. Today, the audience no longer holds a ticket stub and sits in plush velvet seats, the audience sits in their bed, in a coffee shop or at their office desk. The stage is no longer in a theatre or physical space; it's Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. The Dancers and the choreographer perform once, in the studio, and it is recorded, uploaded to the internet and then shared. The dancer need only preform once and they will reach a vast and diverse audience. The Viral Dance video can reach people in different contents within hours; rather than the limited capacity that single theatre can hold.

The viral dance video has completely changed the way space and place can be defined. It is no longer limited to the physical and 3D but now the digital platforms of the internet.

This video is a prime example of the developing definitions of space and place and the benefits of viral videos. A video that may have only reached a small number of audience members it has been viewed over 1million times.

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Royal Family | World of Dance Los Angeles 2015 | #WODLA15

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