CAST @LeadmillSheffield

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Thomas J Speight @SOYOLive

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What?... you thought i was okay because i didn't hash-tag my life away all over Twitter?

I don't believe it's too extreme to compare a drug addiction with a Social Media addiction. Now obviously Facebook can't damage your insides, but can affect your health. Social-Networking is an undeniably unhealthy addiction. It promotes paranoia and consumes precious time. It seems to be the core interaction with one another.
Facebook seems to be a way of life. Going a day without Facebook or Twitter would be like asking someone to not eat or drink for the day. ARE YOU CRAZY?

Facebook and Twitter makes us lazy. I feel like I know my friends back home are fine and doing well, just because they've typed a smiley on their screen, or added a 'haha' to their comments. I subconsciously feel like I've checked in with them, just because I've gone on their profile. Yet in fact I don't know at all do i? In a sense, we are actually losing the ability to make friends.

What has Zuckerberg created? So many articles seem to blame him, yet that's all we want. To pass the blame. It's our own control how much we display, how much we use and talk over these Social Network sites. Yes some people seem to upload their day to day brushing their teeth antics, which is on par with “I am getting ready to go out and get totally drunk tonight”, then write hating status' about others who are doing the EXACT same. And it's stuff like that, that makes me really hate Facebook and Twitter. Although a lot of people write subtle yet totally not subtle status' about how angry they are at you, not everyone does this. Not everything should be so literal. We don't all write about our personal lives, and our immediate reactions to life itself. I got asked the other day if I was annoyed at them because of something I put over Twitter. For ages I couldn't quite believe that something I typed in a matter of seconds, as a joke, made someone feel like that. For anyone who asks these kind of questions, either get over yourself, or stop worrying. If they really have written something about you in a subtle but not subtle, enough to know what they are doing kind of way, they aren't worth it. Facebook promotes a childish attitude and behaviour, and if you are naive enough to endure this, or let it affect you, then you've just got yourselves to blame.

P.s. Yes this is about you. No really. This whole post is me just being subtly yet not so subtly hypocritical.
Believe what you like.

Leave it now Simon...

I recently read an article in the Guardian Weekend magazine, with former Popworld and Never Mind The Buzzcocks presenter, Simon Amstell. He talks of his stand-up tour that is about to begin, his 'acting' career, and why he made an early retirement from Buzzcocks.

Buzzcocks was a highlight of mine on the telly, probably being the only series I would continuously follow. With Amstell quitting the show, like all good things, it needed to come to an end before it was ruined. This was a good move for Amstell, quitting. Yet he didn't actually quit did he. He's carried on, just with something else. Something shit.

If you've seen 'Grandma's House', you would have been bitterly disappointed. If you didn't feel this way, you are clearly too far up his arse that you haven't realised. 'Grandma's House' proves that just because you are a presenter, doesn't mean you are an actor. Clearly.

On promoting his stand-up tour 'Numb', Amstell discusses the fact that with his old work “...it has stopped being shocking”, something which actually is seemingly repeating itself. When being asked if he has a boyfriend, he replies “Why is this important?” and why is it? Is Simon now one of these 'celebrities' that need to promote their personal life in order to up their status? He states “It's the sort of thing a celebrity answers with no qualms...” I don't think you quite understand Simon, or he is just so desperate to hold on to his popularity that he blocks this idea or being anything other than what he tries to appear.

“I don't Twitter because I'd rather save things up til I've got a show”. Yet Amstell has set up a Twitter account, and even got commissioned by the Guardian to do a video blog on him setting the account up. Yeah, tell me about it...

Amstell ends the interview with “I'm not interested in giving it away for free”, meaning his comedy material. This sentence solely says Amstell all over. Marketing. It's a shame. On the other hand, Lee Ryan should be happy.

Oh Ma Dayzzz

In a poll of 4,110 Facebook users, just 8 percent said they liked Timeline, the new Facebook profile layout. 'Facebook Timeline' essentially is a reverse-chronological display of a user's status updates, photos, and life events. Facebook announced that Timeline will appear on users profiles over the next few weeks, whether the user wants it or not is not under consideration.

Since it was set up, Facebook has always encouraged users to enter personal details about themselves and their life experiences, sharing it to others. It's a lot simpler for others to view the information, and due to the vast amount of information made easily accessible by Timeline, this has caused users to worry.
As this new feature is introduced, users will get seven days to review their Timeline before it is posted, or you can choose to display it sooner. With reviewing their Timelines, users can opt to hide or feature certain stories, events, or photos.

Timeline now introduces apps, allowing more information to be shared. An example of this would be the use of 'Spotify' through Facebook. It posts what you are listening to, and what your activity is, in the other media. Guardian, Wall Street Journal, and Pinterest are amongst 80 other apps that feature a Facebook link. So why are people so worried? If you don’t want everyone to see what you’re listening to with Spotify, don’t connect Spotify to your Facebook account. Simple.

I know that isn't the only worry, people think that being able to see what you posted April 8th 2007 is scary. But why? So what if you were different back then, a little embarrassing, a little immature? If people my age are worrying about it, then I really don't understand why. What, we were 14 then? If you still talk or act like that, then that's the problem.

Facebook groups have been set up to protest against 'Timeline', and keep it optional. It seems like every Facebook change brings out the threats of deleting their accounts, yet despite this, Facebook continues to grow. It's just in our culture nowadays.
The most obvious thing to do if you don’t like the changes they make is to stop using it. It's presenting information that you have made public to whoever you have selected. You have also chosen to type that you were upset about cheating on your boyfriend and that they ended up then cheating on you... If anything, you should be grateful you get a whole seven days to change or modify your Timeline.
Hopefully from this, it'll prompt users to have private profiles if they haven’t already, or just generally think about what they are posting about their private life.

No specific date was given, its suggestive that the change won't occur on one single date. If you don't have Timeline yet, you will be forced to have it "in the next few weeks". No more specific information was announced. But you get these seven days to modify remember, so for those worriers, stay calm, you aren't gonna lose your popularity because someone found out you spelt lyk dis in 2k10...

Timeline features-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPEPfJHfKU

shweet like cinnamon...

Tucked away on Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, this dainty chocolate boutique, once stepped inside, seems like a magical wonderland. It is in no doubt a 'chocolate & sweetie emporium packed full of every kind of sweet and chocolate imaginable!' This boutique is owned by two best friends, Kate and Anne, just outward of city centre, in the popular student area of 'Eccy Road'.



Not only a shop, but a tearoom, Cocoa Wonderland provides the opportunity to take your chocolate experience further. With evening events such as a 'Chocolate Taster session', or 'Chocolate Lock-in'. As well as this, there is also Knit and Book club.



Filled with sweet treats and chocolate masterpieces, Cocoa allows customers to enter this wonderland, making you feel like you're back to your childhood.



If you live in Sheffield and haven't been yet, you are definitely missing out. With Easter approaching soon, I think it's perfect timing isn't it?



www.cocoawonderland.co.uk

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A 'Cut Off' to remember...

Last Wednesday saw Adele at the Brits, being cut off from her acceptance speech by host James Cordon, so Blur could perform. Adele's reaction to this was to stick her finger up (to the suits) as she was rushed off stage.
Next thing you know, there's Tweets flying everywhere. Amongst many others, Lily Allen, Jamie Oliver, and Philip Schofield, attacked the Brit Awards as 'bad' and 'disgusting', after Adele was cut short to make way for Blur's closing set. This being the majority of reaction, however some people thought Adele was being rude and inappropriate.

Daily Mail believed “It was enough to leave the most powerful men in the music business choking on their cannon of lamb, and spitting out their swigs of the finest Cotes de Rhone.” No it wasn't. It didn't do that at all. Adele didn't do it to make a statement that she could get away with it, or to cause a stir. She simply just reacted to the bosses for rushing her off stage.
So called 'comedian' Frankie Boyle had then laid into host James Corden saying “Corden must regret the Brits. By cutting off Adele he looked like a fat, tactless moron. Who needs publicity like that? Well, Matthew Horne.” Boyle you should be done with comedy, clearly.

Yes Adele won an award and deserves time to give a speech of acceptance. I get that. But lets get this straight. It was done so Blur could perform. Blur, who won the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award. The Brits had set aside time for Blur’s finale, in honour of the band’s Outstanding Contribution to Music award. Maybe they shouldn't have won that award if people can't see it this way.