You could be forgiven for having missed the first series of the BBC’s Last Tango in Halifax, not to be mistaken for the Marlon Brando film Last Tango in Paris, under any circumstances, students are […]
Debate | Social Networking or Social Not Working?
We live in a world in which the internet reigns. It is in our pocket, at home, at work, at university. With the increasing number of social apps, social networking websites and internet communities, one […]
Student given suspended sentence for blackmail
A 20-year-old student has been given a suspended sentence for hacking into a woman’s Facebook messages and publicly posting naked photos of her. William Wooles, from Great Dunmow in Essex, did not know his […]
Spotted
If you’re as hooked to social media as I am, you may have seen the rapid emergence of Twitter accounts and Facebook pages with which students can submit anonymous comments about attractive people they’ve seen […]
The secrets of social media
If you have over 160 friends, congratulations you’re more popular than half of Facebook’s 500 million users. Got more comments than likes on that post? That’s probably […]
Club owners hunt for Facebook vigilante
9.11.12 A “Wanted” Facebook post profiling a local thief has inspired people to share it nearly 2,000 times in the hope of bringing him to justice. The culprit was captured on CCTV stealing a pair […]
Bribes for module places
Students are resorting to bribing their peers to swap modules when they don’t get their first choice. The module enrolment system has come under fire and will be debated at the Union’s forum next week. […]
Students 'fess up online
A new Facebook group asking users to message them “your most disgusting, hilarious, embarrassing confessions from Leeds University” has taken Leeds by storm. Created only on Monday, the group had garnered over 4500 ‘likes’ at […]