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Facebook study: Oversharing online equals loneliness

Researchers at Charles Sturt University found that lonely women were more likely to spend a greater amount of time on social networking sites and have less privacy settings in place so everyone online can view their profiles. The study, “Self-disclosure on Facebook among female users and its relationship to feelings of loneliness”, collected data from […]
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Antoinette Koulas, aka Sydney Fashion Blogger, earns up to $5000 every time she updates her Instagram feed.

What fashion bloggers really earn

To their millions of followers, Australia's leading fashion bloggers are at the cutting-edge of style. Yet, with some earning six-figure salaries, it's their business practices that have started to come under scrutiny.
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Selfies causing teen head lice epidemic

A lice-treatment expert in the US says that she has observed a dramatic spike in the incidence of head lice and that the selfie sensation – where teenagers crush together to squeeze into self-portraits – is to blame. Marcy McQuillan says “Head lice are spread through head-to-head contact. “Lice don’t jump or fly, so you actually […]
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Meet the couple who broadcast their fights on Twitter

Meet the couple who broadcast their fights on Twitter

Claire Meyer and Alan Linic, a twenty-something couple from Chicago, have been publicly recording their fights on Twitter for the past three and half months. The couple created a shared twitter account titled ‘We Fought About’ which lists their every argument. And while they say their relationship is “going really well”, so far there have […]
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Defence investigates Facebook pages in another internet sex scandal

The Australian Defence Force investigates Facebook pages in another internet sex scandal

The Australian Defence Force is investigating military personnel’s connections to offensive sexist and anti-Muslim Facebook pages and posts. Townsville-based soldiers are apparently connected to pages with anti-women titles like “Big Tits Don’t Count If Ya Fat” containing posts referring to local women as “sluts”, Fairfax Media reports. The offensive Facebook posts have come to attention […]
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Teens prefer time with mum and dad to Facebook friends

Teens prefer time with mum and dad to Facebook friends

They’re dubbed the iGeneration, constantly attached to computers and smartphones and more socially active online than in the playground, but a study of the after school habits of Aussie teens reveals they prefer spending time at home with mum and dad than Facebook friends. The in-depth study which looked at 200 Canberra teenagers between the […]
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