Teacher’s inspiring letter to students
A LETTER from a teacher to her students in 1999 has emerged on Facebook, striking such a chord with people that it’s caught the attention of the woman who originally wrote it.
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An act of kindness goes a long way
It was a simple act of kindness by a young man that has the world applauding and fostered an unlikely friendship.
Phallic art spreading at viral pace
A PHALLIC art movement seems to be taking hold of Britain with an artist bringing attention to an important cause using penis drawings.
Michael Bay’s tweet excites TMNT fans
THE past week has seen some big announcements in regards to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Franschise. Now, Michael Bay has taken things next level.
The big change coming to Instagram
MUMS, rejoice! Instagram has finally moved into 2015 and will no longer ban accounts of people who post photos of breastfeeding, stretch marks or post mastectomy scarring.
Is this the greatest selfie of all time?
A GERMAN tourist has taken what could possibly be the best selfie ever, after a friendly zebra decided to pay him a surprise visit.
Scientology making doco about Louis Theroux
LOUIS Theroux has forged a career exposing underground subcultures in his highly popular documentaries. Now the tables have turned.
Celebrities as you’ve never seen them
MANY stars have become obsessed with a bunch of new phone apps that let them go wild with pole-dancing, emojiis and inhaling helium.
Be a supermodel: Social media vital
HAVING the face of Scarlett Johansson and the body of Gisele Bündchen is no longer enough to get you work in the cut throat fashion industry.
Long-lost siblings matched on Tinder
WELL this is awkward. A brother and sister separated for 15 years have been reunited in the most creepy way imaginable.
‘Charlie bit my finger’ kids all grown up
EIGHT years and more than 800 million views later, the kids from the YouTube sensation ‘Charlie bit my finger’ are unrecognisable.
How YouTube changed the world
THE first video to be uploaded onto YouTube was put up 10 years ago today. Since then, the platform has changed everything.
Some people thought this photo was real
THE world has been fooled by Photoshopped images of the Sydney superstorm on social media. This waterfall at the Harbour Bridge isn’t even the worst.
The UK’s newest male heartthrob
HE is not a singer or an actor or a model. But fans can’t get enough of his steely glare. Here’s how a man in the least sexy profession on Earth became the UK’s newest heartthrob.
App lets you delete offensive tweets
ETHAN Czahor was fired from his job for homophobic and sexist tweets. Now he has come up with an app that stops dumb tweets appearing online.
Twitter’s new rule to stop the trolls
SICK of the online hate? Social media platform Twitter has made new rules overnight to stop online threats and abuse.
Find out what Google knows about you
JUST in case you thought otherwise, a tool that lets you see every Google search you have ever made reminds you that they’re always watching.
The day Plibersek scared a student
IF YOU are ever walking alone at night, never fear, Tanya Plibersek is near. With all the other jobs she holds down, she also has time to drive home strangers.
‘It’s fun until you’re seen having sex’
PERISCOPE wants to be the closest thing to teleportation possible. But the scary possibilities of Twitter’s new app are all too real for our kids.
Just 13: ‘I make your heart stop’
HE’S barely a teenager, but Jonathan shows off on social media playing with a Glock pistol and smoking weed. He has 11,700 followers. Yet it’s not his fault.
Girl with no RSVPs gets birthday wish
THIS girl’s rare disease means she’s always found it hard to make friends. When no classmates wanted to come to her birthday party, her mum made a desperate plea.
Crazy methods women use to look good
MOST of us aren’t above a little posing to get that ultimate Instagram shot. But some women are going to ridiculous lengths to achieve the perfect selfie.
Mum tweets son’s sex-ed class
SHE was meant to sit there and observe, but when Alice Dreger heard the “advice” being delivered during her son’s sex education class this week, she let rip.
‘A female shouldn’t be president’
A FEMALE CEO has taken a hammering on social media for stating a woman ‘shouldn’t be President’ over ‘different hormones’. She is standing firm.
US Republican has insane Twitter feed
MEET United States Senator Chuck Grassley. He is a Republican from Iowa and has one of the funniest political Twitter accounts in existence.
Shocking video of racist bully
WHEN Stacey Eden saw a Muslim woman being subjected to vicious verbal attack as they travelled on one of Sydney’s trains, she did the only thing she could.
Downfall of the first internet queen
JENNI started broadcasting every intimate moment of her life way back in 1996. She achieved global fame, then disappeared. What happened?
Ambulance called to collapsed bird
A “language barrier” led to an ambulance service responding to a call to help an injured bird- not a woman as they originally thought.
Making Twitter a happier place
PEOPLE often take to the internet to express negative feelings and thoughts. Now, a new app is working to make the world a happier place one tweeter at a time.
This picture is not what it seems
THIS is a nice picture of a chameleon sitting on a branch, right? Right? Wrong! So very, very wrong. It’s something else entirely.
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