Posts Tagged ‘the internet is my best friend’
The Internet Is My Best Friend: Best Internet Reads of the Year
In honor of the end of the passing of another year, I will join the ranks of internet lists everywhere for a year end round up. The internet, although good for lolcats and checking to see if your friends have changed their status to single, but occasionally there is something on the internet that will…
Read MoreThe Internet Is My Best Friend: Men Against Assholes and Misogynysts, A Good Old Fashioned War on Men, The Saga of Je Shirt Company
I become irritated when people dismiss twitter as “a lot of noise†and people posting what they had for lunch. Sure, people do that, but it’s an ignorant view. Follow the right people and twitter becomes this amazing, real-time, capture of the exact zeitgeist of our time. Sure, it’s difficult to have a decent, respectable…
Read MoreThe Internet Is My Best Friend: Sore Losers, Grumpy Cats
We’re not ones to get political about things here, but part of the fun of an election is that election is just another word for contest. And what’s the most important thing about a contest? Gloating over the win. Thanks to the wonders that is our internet, we can seek out those people who lose…
Read MoreThe Internet Is My Best Friend: Trollin’ Hurricane Sandy, Former Child Star Tumbls
It’s times like these that prove that the internet/social media is not just for cute kitten videos and talking about your lunch. During Hurricane Sandy’s treacherous run over the Northeast, I was glued to my computer with updates and photographs posted right in the moment. Lucky for me, I was sitting comfy in my home…
Read MoreThe Internet is My Best Friend: Free Speech v. Reddit, An Afro Controversy, and an Erotic Phil Collins
The big news of the internet is obviously Gawker v. Reddit, in which Gawker writer Adrian Chen outed one of the biggest “curators†of questionable content on Reddit, including Jailbait (posting pictures of underage girls) and Creepshots (users submit pictures of unsuspecting w0men in public for the purpose of sexual gratification), among others. What…
Read MoreThe Internet is My Best Friend: Anchorwoman Fights Back, Presidential Gifs, Inatamite Objects on Twitter
We here at Yourpopfilter.com risk lives and limbs to bring you the latest and greatest from the worlds of film, music, television, (sometimes) books, and video games, but, thanks to Al Gore, today’s world of pop culture now has a sixth dimension: The Internet. The World Wide Web. The Net. Or, in my case, my…
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