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The Future of Facebook – An Old Dog with New Tricks?

Ah Facebook. As constant as the changing of the seasons, as trustworthy as an ageing sheepdog, as…. agile as an Olympic gymnast? Ask pretty much anyone in the world today, and they’ll have something to say about Facebook. With its beautifully simple blue and white aesthetic and comfortingly familiar icons, Facebook has managed what most social media platforms can only dream of - longevity. Grabbing the dated social baton from Bebo and MySpace, Facebook has managed to outlast countless young guns over the years, making just enough incremental changes as it does so to remain relevant. 13 years after Facebook’s [...]

Shorthand and Social Media – A Luv-H8 Relationship

Anyone over a certain age will remember the agony and panic of trying to send an SMS message in the early 2000s. With pay-as-you-go contracts reigning supreme, and the consequential, ever-present fear of spilling over onto page 3/12 whilst texting on your Nokia 3310, phone users of this golden time had to resort to creative means to use as few characters as possible. As shocking as it may be to millennials, at one time in the not-so-distant past, people had to scribe such abominations as ‘c u l8r’, ‘thx’ and ‘whr r u?’ in order to communicate with their fellow [...]