HYPERTEXT WONDERLAND

'My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better,' said Apple founder Steve Jobs at point in time to somebody who was definitely not me. Presumably this pithy point about the purpose of his metier didn’t account for the recent phone security quandary Apple have been having but it's still a great quote to sum up what their philosophy s'all aboout . Unfortunately my job as Social Media Guy is neither as influential not as well paid as Monsieur Jobs’ vocation but it has provided me with a decent opportunity to research into Cyberpsychology, which I did all afternoon. Here's five things I learnt: 1) Selfies can be explained by our need to control how others perceive us. The reason people share selfies relates to an unconscious desire to understand ourselves, and also to change how people perceive how we look. We take selfies to alter the way we look to others, usually getting the best angle possible to achieve a look that we consi...

I was bored at work today so I decided to write this. I also started the whole blog. Go me! Film critic, Elizabeth Handel, has today released a review for an upcoming movie that has broken the record for the amount of adjectives used to describe a single thing ever. Writing for Wessex Weekly, Elizabeth's 200-word analysis of the recent Chuck McTino superhero blockbuster Grasshopper   Man  was written with such intense description that readers are reported to have found it impossible not to stop what they're doing to watch the movie immediately. Describing her style as like, "packing all the descriptive words I could think of into one small piece of text", Elizabeth's slick and insightful review is a profoundly bold and brutal elaboration of one man's slow descent into the savage, uncompromising, and foreboding wilderness of time and space. Wessex Weekly subscriber Bernard Pickering told Third Eye that he found Elizabeth's...