THE AWKWARD GIRL'S GUIDE TO LIFE
By Amber
By Amber
Sometimes the internet depresses the hell out of me, you know that? This isn’t a personal observation, by the way: I’m not talking about the way people treat me on the internet, specifically. And, OK, it’s true that the past couple of weeks has been slightly above average, in that I’ve …
They say you should never talk about politics or religion, and for the most part, I try to stick to that rule. I kept silent (here on the blog, at least) throughout the Scottish Independence Referendum, for instance: not because I didn’t have strong feelings about it, but because I found …
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about my Instagram-related pet peeves, but of course, Instagram isn’t the only social network with the power to annoy me, is it? They’re ALL annoying, in their own special ways, so today I thought I’d turn the spotlight on Twitter, and tell you …
Does anyone here follow JK Rowling on Twitter? (Er, I’m going to assume quite a lot of you said “yes” to that: she has something like a kazillionty-one followers, I’m not stupid…) JK Rowling is actually one of only a few celebrities I follow on social media, and I follow her, …
By Amber
I almost deleted my Facebook account last week. I got as far as setting up a “dummy” account to manage my blog pages from (I have a Facebook page for each of my blogs: they do drive traffic to the sites, so I don’t want to get rid of them, but …
Last night, Madonna fell down a flight of stairs at the Brit Awards, and the internet went into meltdown. I wasn’t actually watching the show, so my initial impression, just from scrolling through my Twitter feed, was that Madonna had turned up in a zimmer-frame, and had some age-related incident, which had caused her …