Social media

Queen Elizabeth has reportedly expressed her dislike for people using mobile phones to capture a shot of her when she is out in public.

Once upon a time Princes and Princesses lived sheltered lives away from the prying eye of the public but in the age of the internet those days are long gone.

Researchers at Charles Sturt University found that lonely women were more likely to spend a greater amount of time on social networking sites and have less privacy settings in place so everyone online can view their profiles. The study, “Self-disclosure on Facebook among female users and its relationship to feelings of loneliness”, collected data from […]

To their millions of followers, Australia's leading fashion bloggers are at the cutting-edge of style. Yet, with some earning six-figure salaries, it's their business practices that have started to come under scrutiny.

A lice-treatment expert in the US says that she has observed a dramatic spike in the incidence of head lice and that the selfie sensation – where teenagers crush together to squeeze into self-portraits – is to blame. Marcy McQuillan says “Head lice are spread through head-to-head contact. “Lice don’t jump or fly, so you actually […]

Aussie celebrities took a moment out of their Australia Day festivities at the weekend to tweet their patriotic pride.

Claire Meyer and Alan Linic, a twenty-something couple from Chicago, have been publicly recording their fights on Twitter for the past three and half months. The couple created a shared twitter account titled ‘We Fought About’ which lists their every argument. And while they say their relationship is “going really well”, so far there have […]

The Australian Defence Force is investigating military personnel’s connections to offensive sexist and anti-Muslim Facebook pages and posts. Townsville-based soldiers are apparently connected to pages with anti-women titles like “Big Tits Don’t Count If Ya Fat” containing posts referring to local women as “sluts”, Fairfax Media reports. The offensive Facebook posts have come to attention […]

They’re dubbed the iGeneration, constantly attached to computers and smartphones and more socially active online than in the playground, but a study of the after school habits of Aussie teens reveals they prefer spending time at home with mum and dad than Facebook friends. The in-depth study which looked at 200 Canberra teenagers between the […]

Millions of parents are choosing to share their child’s most humiliating moments on social media. Zoe Arnold asks where we should draw the line. I was doing some research online (okay, reading random items I’ve googled) and I stumbled across a gem of a blog called There’s no place like Mommy. I was reading it […]