Month: January 2017Page 2 of 9
Too often are the issues of gender expectations for men pushed under the carpet. Men and women are both assigned genders at birth and gender roles that are determined by society. This…
The world is becoming increasingly obsessed with plastic surgery. If you look at nearly all older stars they have most likely had work done. But the popularity of…
I wasn’t planning on writing a post about Sainsbury’s but after seeing two amazing articles on the store today, I just had to! The first article highlighted the…
Fake news is everywhere. Before social media like Facebook and Twitter overcome their problem with fake news, we, as internet users, should take the responsibility to think before…
Tonight’s post is something different. I was fortunate enough to be joined by a successful young lady (Grace) who was willing to take time out of her busy…
Makeup has become deeply embedded in our society’s culture as a normality for women. We never really question why women wear make-up, it’s just the way life is….
Hey GenZ’ers! I hope you are all fine and well and have been embracing this rather gloomy January with in full swing. Anyway, this is my final post…
I interviewed Adam Safta about his love for Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus and here it is! Enjoy! Video credits: Filmed and Edited by Saakshi Bowri Sound…
As a young person, scrolling through your social media feeds you are almost certain to come across photographs and videos of your friends on their travels, and you…
Memes have become caped crusaders by bringing attention to important causes. Today’s society’s obsession with sharing viral memes has shed light on many causes that had gone under the public’s radar. This…
According to internetlivestats.com, around 40% of the world has access to the internet. That translates to over 3 billion people. The internet is therefore a goldmine of data…
Generally, therapy for internet addiction includes individual therapy, group therapy, behavior modification exercises and developing other interests via art therapy, recreation therapy or similar programs. Also, some parents…
Technology like no other. This blog post is the last of the written ones I will be posing on this site as the new blog post will be…
It appears not only supermarkets and resturants are taking the hint that consumers want more cruelty free products, even hairdressers can see this demand! When I recently looked…
I decided to have a casual conversation about Beauty Standards and why women are confirming to more unrealistic standards. I decided to talk to Doris Porter as she…
How do nowadays young-people use their Social Media? Three different students, from three different countries have expressed their opinion on Social Media. Surprisingly their ideas are all quite similar…
Everything has two sides – Internet also. Hardly could we say Internet is bad because it depends on the way of how human using it. With the huge…
As discussed briefly in the last post people are starting to realise that they could be signing up for a lot more than they originally anticipated. Terms…
Social media is an ever-growing industry with giants such as Facebook and Twitter with hundreds of millions of users. Social media has been a powerful tool to help…
OR: Answering the question: is an addiction to technology completely terrible? In the digital world of social media, search engines, and sexting, nothing is out-of-bounds. [Don’t quote me…
After delving into the reasons why we have become so obsessed by social media in my past posts, I thought I would take a different approach for this…
“I’ve got a new match on tinder!” is becoming an increasingly familiar sound. Online dating is now more popular than ever and has transfixed modern society. Driving the…
By Social Media Firstly, let’s kick it off with the infamous Kylie Jenner lip challenge. The youngest of the Kardashian Klan caused a stir on social media, a…
Today we will discuss the effect social media has had on traditional forms of protesting such as riots. Years ago it would have seemed impossible to organize a…
This blog post we will be discussing slacktvism, what is it? Slacktivism, is the actions preformed via the internet in support of political or social causes, but regarded…
Over the year of 2016 especially, we have seen the rise of many bloggers and vloggers whose main purpose is to capture their travel experience and share…
For this blog the topic we will be talking about is WikiLeaks, and by extent Edward Snowden. Whistleblowing by definition is when a person exposes any kind of…
“The Beauty” by Marnie Pili “When I was a young girl, I grew up with an earthly childhood. In my eyes, the grass was greener. The sun was…
Facebook and Google have felt the urgency to combat fake news after internet users claimed that false stories had a drastic impact on the results of the US…
The first post will discuss online petition websites like change.org or petition.parliament.uk, both these examples along with many more are great examples of how many people want change. …
Welcome! This is a blog about the changing landscape of online activism. We will discuss how it has helped past protests, how it has transformed present revolts and…
We have become a visual society. A visual society, where our ways of expressing ourselves are increasingly influenced by it. Behind The Filter discussed the the role of self-expression…
Hello and welcome back to ‘End The Trend’, the blog about damaging social media viral trends and their effects. Today we’ve got something new in the form of a…
So for this post I thought I would try something different and create a vlog style video presentation all about Snapchat. As an app it has reached extraordinary…
This blog post is to say thank you to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for all the hard work that they have done over the years…
All is going well in your relationship and it is all flowers and rainbows. But you notice that your SO is being very shady with her phone. Let’s…
Political memes… even if you were to go above and beyond attempting to avoid everything and anything to do with politics, these pesky little things that litter the…
Have you ever been so invested in a TV show, TV show character or the actress/ actor that plays a particular character in a TV show? Have you…