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As you say hello to the weekend we say hello to you and you, it was smart of you to make us your manual for all things urban. Social media applications can easily pass as the best thing to ever happen to teens, of course after the mobile phone! God bless you Martin Cooper (inventor of the mobile phone)
Well, back to social media, since instant chats are a hit, we thought it fit to share one or things about it.
New blue ticks on
WhatsApp has now introduced the double blue tick feature that some users feel is making them prisoners of their own phones.
Up until this recent announcement, most users assumed that the grey double tick meant that the message had been read when, in fact, it only meant that the message had reached the other handset.
The new double blue tick feature indicates the message has definitely been read, giving more people the platform to be more impatient with slow responses.
The company also explained that in group chat, the double blue tick will only appear when all the participants in the group have read your message.
According to company, the new feature won’t require an app update, but will be introduced gradually “over-the-air” to all users.
There are a couple of memes that have been taking the media by storm for the last couple of months on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram among others.
Yao Ming face
This meme first appeared in 2009 and we consider it to be amongst the oldest. The face, sometimes referred to as the “Oh Please” face is a rage comic-style contour drawing of the professional basketball player Yao Ming wearing a hearty smile. The image is typically used as a reaction face to convey a dismissive attitude towards someone else’s input in online discussions, then usually following something that one ups their input.
Grumpy cat/ mean cat
Our favourite meme of all time.
Tardar Sauce is the internet’s moniker mean cat, and internet celebrity known for her grumpy facial expression. Her owner, says that her permanently grumpy-looking face is due to feline dwarfism.
Her international face has earned her opportunities to appear on magazine covers, movies and in Disneyland. While these have been popular on an international platform, locally there are a number that have sent people in stitches.
The locals have taken it the extra mile and made memes out of regional celebrities like Jay-Z and Mr Bean, Nigerian actors, and locals too (Honourable Chinotimba and Sabuku Vharazipi)
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