Revenge porn and Snapchat: how young women are being lured into sharing naked...
Two alarming fads are threatening young women on the net, one feeding off the other. The first is the pressure to create sexual, usually naked pictures, snapped in mirrors, to satisfy the urges of...
View ArticleSexting is bad enough when teenagers do it. But it turns really creepy when...
Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal is almost too perfect. That surname, coupled with penis pictures and the worst erotic chatter outside of EL James’s wastepaper basket, is like a gift from a mischievous...
View ArticleThree cheers for Gloria De Piero! The next generation of politicians will be...
Pictures. That’s what does you in as a politician. Words you can deny. But pictures tell a story that’s hard to shrug off. You with that dominatrix and the table covered with powder. The group shot of...
View ArticleTech is robbing us of the precious ability to forget. Soon, we won't be able...
One of our most fundamental capabilities, to be able to forget and move on, is being eroded. The drugs doing the damage are Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Instagram, and we're all happily popping as...
View ArticleSnapchat turns down $3 billion from Facebook. Boy, will they live to regret it
Another day, another ludicrously high valuation for a pre-revenue startup. This time, it's photo-sharing service Snapchat, which has turned down a $3 billion dollar offer from Facebook. For those not...
View ArticleIs lack of originality built into Twitter's DNA?
Last week, Twitter expanded its sponsored tweets programme to include retargeting. This means it can tell what products you've been looking at around the web and project tweets in your timeline to flog...
View ArticleThere's an obvious reason why young people don't use Snapchat for sexting
I sent a sext on Snapchat once. Why? Because everyone was doing it. This was 2012, and Snapchat (it’s a photo sharing app whose messages self-destruct after ten seconds) was apparently heralding a...
View ArticleMassive data leak? Yawn. The Snapchat generation don't care if their details...
Last week, about five million Snapchat users had their phone numbers and usernames stolen. Predictably, the usual internet storm ensued – the same one we see every other week when some ominous-sounding...
View ArticleRevenge porn is disgusting. But we need to be careful not to make all...
The government has announced proposals to make revenge porn illegal. My first thought – as a decent human being – is that this is excellent news. We should lock up the sort of scum that publishes...
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