Tweens using MXit – whose responsibility?

MXit was again judged the coolest website and social networking service facility in this year’s Sunday Times Generation NeXt survey, conducted by HDI Youth Marketeers in partnership with the Sunday Times, and supported by Monash South Africa. In topping the ‘Coolest Social Networking Service and Website’ category, MXit leapfrogged over Facebook and Google in terms of popularity.
There have [...]

Has internet killed the video star?

With the increasing popularity of social media platforms such as YouTube, there has been a change in the way media is consumed. In the 1980s, MTV revolutionised the way the world saw music by popularising music videos, and being one of the few mediums making such content available. However, according to a story on The [...]

Social Voyeurism vs Real Ties

I’ve noticed that a lot of my friends and acquaintances seem to be getting annoyed at the fact that they have, for some silly reason, accepted friend requests from random people on Facebook. Not random as in strangers, but random as in the kids they went to Primary School and high school with, ex-colleagues – [...]

License2Live… what is the world coming to?

I read about an interesting website in The Times this week. Called License2Live, the premise is that people can log on and request a free license, granting them permission to do practically anything.
In a nutshell, you log on and choose a ‘license’ that meets your needs- ‘Speak Your Mind’, or ‘Be a Chameleon’; and you [...]