Tag: social media
Emma Greer DiBiase photos: Vine Star dies after cancer.
Emma Greer DiBiase: How a social media star came to inspire a legion of followers with her bravery and determination.
Vine star Emma Greer DiBiase has died at the age of 16 after a long battle with cancer. The social media...
Right decision? Gregory Alan Elliot not guilty in twitter harassment trial
Gregory Alan Elliot a Toronto, Canada man accused of harassing two women over twitter has been found not guilty on Friday. The verdict comes in a case which had observers closely watching, with questions raised as to what constitutes...
Walter Palmer hunter dilemma: Has the internet gone too far in punishing him?
Since the outing of Walter Palmer as the Minnesota dentist who hunted down Zimbabwe lion Cecil, the internet has in a massive avalanche come to judge the once obscure hunter as pariah status.
Yet despite the vulgarity and duplicitous...
Carter Reynolds video twitter reaction: ‘We slay the haters’
Since apologizing on social media for his leaked video on Tuesday, social media idol, Carter Reynolds' less than savory attitude towards coercion, sexual harassment of 16 year old minor, Maggie Lindemann has led to fierce debate on social along with a slew...
Was Nate Scimio’s selfie out of line? Social media erupts
Since Nate Scimio, a student at Franklin Regional High School where a 16 year old sophomore student, Alex Hribio went about indiscriminately stabbing fellow students, posted a selfie of himself recovering at the hospital after helping bringing Hribio's apprehension, Nate Scimio...
Who is Olya Abramovich? Russia’s social media babe with hundreds and thousands of followers.
Kids I haven't quite figured out who she is, what she does and why she does what she does. Nevertheless no one seems to care, as Olya Abramovich continues to racket followers into the hundreds and thousands on social...
Teenager’s tweet about house party goes viral. 900 000 re tweets and going…
Will you be dropping by Kris Morrey's house tonight...?
Out of Calgary, Canada comes the tale of how one high school student's solitary tweet about an upcoming party at what was supposed to originally be at his friend's home has...
From now only hot bitches with high klout scores will be let past the velvet rope.
Being fabulous just got much harder.
Oh woe to all those of you who aspired to be the hot bitches of every party cause them publicists that know and like to keep you on your feet have come up with...
Ladies why are you really posting all those Facebook images?
How we feel about ourselves is so often a function of how others feel about us or how they perceive us. With social media tools, especially Facebook, one can essentially spend the day micro managing their public relations image...
The pitfalls of all your social status updates….
Updated your status lately?
What isn’t shared online today? Family photos, marital status, sexual preference, and geographic location. A ripe cornucopia of intimate details, ripe for the picking by the hands of friends and creepers alike, (nearly) worldwide! Who among...
US Gov. received bid from intelligence firm for software to create ‘virtual armies’ on social networking sites
It certainly seems an oddity, considering the current push for information freedom, the Middle East’s unfolding revolutionary fervor, and all this talk of social media marketing strategy (the sole topic of innumerable blogs), that few media outlets anywhere have...
US State Department Tweets to Protesting Iranians: “We want to join in your conversations.”
In the wake of recent Iranian protests being broken up by riot police firing paintballs and tear gas, The US State Department has now taken to politicking over Twitter, eager -- they said to Iranian netizens -- "to join your conversations." Not by...
“Logging In” is all about “Checking Out”
Social Media has always been and will always be a device to promote the insecurities of a negative body image. From the occasional “pro-ana” and “pro-mia” website featuring ways to amplify malnutrition in a “model’s diet” to the prospect of...
Facebook to Turn Your Status Updates Into Advertisements, Pay You Nothing for It
Because one Zuckermanse is never enough...
Ever wanted to be an unpaid advertising copywriter? Well, now you can be – whether you want to or not – because Facebook will soon be branding your status updates and whoring them to your frenemies as crowdsourced...
Simone Back commits suicide on Facebook despite mocking.
On Christmas Day, Simone Back, a 42-year-old charity worker, who was known to be depressed, wrote a chilling message to her thousand-plus Facebook ‘friends.’ Simone posted:
“Took all my pills be dead soon so bye bye every one.”
Immediately upon posting...
