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New FireMe app: Could your tweets get you fired?

New FireMe app: Could your tweets get you fired?

There has been a significant emphasis in the last few years on the importance of being cautious about what you publish or tweet on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

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Happy Birthday, Twitter!

Happy Birthday Twitter!

Seven years ago today, the world changed. Jack Dorsey and his team created a website that would change the way the world interacts with each other: Twitter. Since then, Twitter has become one of the Top 10 most used websites all around the world.

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Lies told in school

Lies told in school

#LiesToldInSchool was trending in the Twitter world yesterday, providing some nostalgic entertainment about all those little white lies everyone told during their school years. As we have descended into adulthood, it has become apparent that it was not just us students who told a few fibs back in the day, the teachers were equally as guilty – we really ended up needing trigonometry in our lives, eh?!

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Social Media: Trapes and Twitter hijacking

Social Media: “Trapes” and Twitter hijacking

We all enjoy the occasional frape on Facebook and its equivalent on Twitter- possibly known as a Trape? (I think I may have just created a new social media colloquialism.)

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One Direction's Harry Styles breaks down over Twitter abuse

One Direction’s Harry Styles breaks down over Twitter abuse

Imagine typing your name into Google and being confronted by a screen containing messages such as ‘I hate you you little queer’, or ‘die you prick’. Abuse like this is the reason Harry Styles broke down in a clip from the bands TV special, One Direction: Year in the Making. 

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Are we all guilty of cyber bullying?

Are we all guilty of cyber bullying?

The recent death of Junior Minster Shane McEntee has propelled Irish Government leaders to investigate the area of cyber bullying. A report is due to be conducted by a special meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications to investigate the influence of social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

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Confessions of a Twitteraholic

Confessions of a Twitteraholic

Hi, my name is Amy Molloy and I’m a fully fledged Twitter addict. The purpose of this article is to give you an insight into the sad life of a Twitteraholic.

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Social Number: The world’s first completely anonymous social network

Social Number: The world’s first completely anonymous social network

Getting sick of your reality? Don’t worry; welcome to the first completely anonymous social networking site!

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Ian Watkins of Lost Prophets charged with child sex offences

Ian Watkins of Lost Prophets charged with child sex offences

It is the news that is said to shake the music world: lead singer of Lost Prophets, Ian Watkins, has been charged for sexual offences against an under-age 13-year-old female.

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She took my face: My experience with web identity theft

She took my face: My experience with web identity theft

In my twenty-three years I have developed a shock-proof shield. Very few things penetrate it, until a month ago in October. I discovered someone was posting on twitter and thejournal.ie using my picture. A different name, but same picture: identity theft. We all know a picture tells a thousand words; well this was screaming at me.

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