While traveling on the tube to work I noticed the amount of people playing a puzzle game on their phone. Maybe 7 or 8 people all playing the same game, matching coloured gems together. Very odd I think, until I tell a friend and she says ‘Oh that’s candy crush’.

I have introduced the topic of Social Media; but why is it so much more compelling than real life interactions for many of us? On one hand social media is a positive, cost effective way that many of us keep in contact with friends and family all over the world. Here’s my thoughts on the […]

The way social media has established itself in our lives is remarkable. The gestation from solitary profile websites such as ‘Facepic’ and ‘Myspace’, in the early 2000’s is a new type of social media. This new type of social media is advocated by Facebook and Twitter. Changing the landscape of not just social media but  i our usage […]

So how has not having a phone for 3 days affected me?

As I wake up the first thing I do is open my laptop and check my emails.  So, it seems I have replaced the checking my phone and social media with Emails. Thinking about it now the last thing I did before I went to sleep was check my emails. What was I looking for? […]

I wake up on day two and instinctively look over to the bedside table to see what’s happening in the world. I pick up the phone but notice its shape is slightly different, only to remember in that moment the task which is before me and that I was in fact holding my partners phone […]

In my last blog entry, I mention that I will be doing some heuristic research into my own relationship to my mobile phone and social media. I must say that I tried every trick in the book to put off partaking in this particular exercise. Excuses such as ‘too busy’ or, ‘people may need to […]

,The first theme I would like to speak about in this blog is the use of mobile phones. I will be splitting this topic into parts. The first being, how mobiles have made us rely on being permanently connected.

Technology is a huge and for many, integral part of our lives. Many of us use technology and the internet in both our work lives (Emailing and researching), pleasure (gaming, watching movies), socialising (social media), even in looking for love (dating websites and apps), That’s without going into the more underground aspects of the use of […]