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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
Though the inventor of the Facebook ‘Like’ button said in October that there will probably never be a ‘Dislike’ button, Mark Zuckerberg has said the company is “thinking about it”.
Ev Williams, founder of Twitter, lost the rag a bit this week, Fortune reported, saying he doesn’t “give a s*** if Instagram has more people looking at pretty pictures”. Yikes.
The Pirate Bay was taken down this week after Swedish police raided a server room.
The Atlantic had this interesting feature on tech tools women are using that revive old school contraception methods. They include an app-linked thermometer, cycle monitors and ovulation trackers.
We would be the first to say that citizen journalism can be a beautiful (and helpful) thing to have in the world. However, as Buzzfeed pointed out this week, this search for the truth can sometimes move into the uncomfortable territory of online vigilantism, where we see people outing alleged perpetrators of crimes and sometimes victims. And in some of the most damaging instances, people were wrongly identified.
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Where is the app to help my sex life ?
Exactly what I was looking for
It’s called Tinder!!
Is it now. Would it be worth a gander?
From what I’ve heard at least…but at least 3 people disagree
They are all oap’s on kinder. Im gonna red thumb you as well
The pirate bay was back up and running again last night under a new web address run by isohunt. The king is dead. Long live the king.
Don’t know why they bother shutting these sites down.
I don’t know why they bother making murder illegal… Cos people just keep murdering other people.
Your right bacoxy, because their practically the same.
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