5 Songs That Reference Social Media
As much as I love social media, I have little choice other than to concede that it’s responsible for some truly terrible things – most notably for crimes against lyrics. Here are five songs that...
View ArticleAwesome Facebook Business Cover Photos
Since Facebook Timeline rolled out for business pages too, we’ve seen some awesome timeline cover images come up. Here are some of my favourite: Sprite Sprite’s Facebook cover photo (shown above)...
View ArticleShiny New Facebook iOS is Frikkin Awesome
It’s been a long standing complaint of mine that the Facebook iPhone app is so buggy and slow. Yeh, yeh, first world problems. I know. Nonetheless, my world got a little bit better last night when I...
View ArticleQuit Bitching About Facebook Ads
Warning: Rant follows. Since Facebook rolled out its mobile timeline ‘pages you may like’ type advertising, I’ve seen a ludicrous number of complaints about it, both on blogs and on my own personal...
View ArticleObsession of the Week: Condescending Corporate Brand Page
We’ve all seen those cringey posts shared by businesses on Facebook. You know the sort – the ones that have no purpose whatsoever other than to get liked and shared. “OMG it’s [insert day of the week]....
View ArticleFacebook Graph Search – Just a Fix for an Awful Internal Search Feature?
It was a hotly anticipated announcement. When Facebook sent out its somewhat mysterious press invite encouraging journos and tech bloggers to turn up and ‘see what we’re building’ many were expecting...
View ArticleThe Republic of Facebook – If Facebook Were a Country…
In 2011, I posted some key Facebook user statistics and took a look at how the number stacked up against population figures of various countries. That was over 18 months ago and the social network has...
View ArticleI LOVE Paddy Power’s Social Media Activity….But I Bet with William Hill
I love social media. I also love a little flutter on the football on a weekend. I’m a self-confessed fan of Paddy Power’s social media activity in particular. The Facebook page is always witty, always...
View ArticleSay Nothing on Facebook That You Wouldn’t Say on TV
So many people have been fired over Facebook that the Huffington Post has a page dedicated to compiling all its stories about employees falling foul of their own Facebook fails. Some unfortunate...
View ArticleFacebook Ad Fail: Hey, I’m Not a Grandma!
I know it’s sad (and that I really ought to get a life) but I do spend a lot of time looking at how I am targeted with Facebook ads – both on my own account and on dummy accounts...
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