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Internet to become literate by 2023

complaints should be sent to big@phall.usIncredible new developments in the world of computing suggest that it might actually be possible to spell things correctly and feature real punctuation in email addresses and URLs later this century.

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Posted: Jan 20th, 2012
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UK’s 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime ‘balanced out by people doing sod all’

it's actually down to valuable research Workers often spend up to 30 hours a week ‘dicking about on the internet, checking Facebook on their phone, or just having a bit of a chat while pretending to look busy.’

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Posted: Jan 5th, 2012
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Massive increase in chat room use as civil servants return from Christmas break

A government representative announced that they were ‘shocked and disappointed’ on the release of a comprehensive breakdown of Britain’s internet use, showing that chat room logins shot up in numbers as the country’s civil servants returned to the office after the holidays.

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Posted: Dec 30th, 2011
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Christmas Day 2011 ‘busiest day in history’ for internet

Retailers up and down the internet have reported a busy Christmas Day as people looked for another way to avoid prolonged contact with loved ones. It is thought that in the modern world of ever decreasing attention spans, most people can tolerate 1 hour 30 minutes of interaction with humans before needing to check Facebook and Twitter, and spend money they haven’t got online.

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Posted: Dec 26th, 2011
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New Facebook app judges which of your friends to dump

‘By comparing profile information, smiley face usage and posts about their horoscope, we can tell you which people you might as well cut dead now.’

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Posted: Dec 13th, 2011
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