BITSTRIPS

This post has been written by Pablo Álvarez - 3ºB, school year 2016/17

Bitstrips is a funny application  if we use it but it could be irritating if we use to insult or offend other people.

Bistrips is a web or mobile application that allows users to create a cartoon of themselves and their friends as the characters. It was created in 2007 by Jacob Blackstork. Many  facebook users find bistrips irritating. You can create ridiculous situations with your characters hoping it will make everybody laugh. Bistrips has had 11 million downloads.

People can  create an avatar with hairstyles, clothes and other physical attributes to  correspond with their real appeareance. Then  they customize scenarios invented by bistrips in order to generate their own stories and you can choose a caption to reflect what they are feeling and what are they doing.

The creator of the game , Blackstock claims that bistrips is not a game but a new way to interact with your friends. The app may be seen a bit fun but it has other uses, too. It has allegedly  helped motivate children and autistic youngsters.

Thanks Pablo, you have done a fantastic job!!!! Congrats!!!

POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS

This post has been written by Aarón Pereira - 3ºB, school year 2016/17

Up to 20 million Americans are afraid of Friday the 13th because they think it is an unlucky day. Some are so scared and they spend the day in bed. Others won´t drive because they think they could have a car accident. There is even an American film called Friday the 13th It is about the awful things that happen at a summer camp.

"The Last Supper". The fear of Friday the 13th comes from a belief that Friday is an unlucky day and 13 an unlucky number. Some Christians believe that 13 is an unlucky number because there were 13 people at The Last Supper and one of them, Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ and they also believed that Jesus died on a Friday.

Finally, in lots of hotels they think that the 13 is not a good number and they skip the 13th floor in the numbers of the lift. They go from the 12th to the 14th floor. 

Well done, Aarón!!!!

INSTAGRAM

This post has been written by María Rodríguez - 3ºA, school year 2016/17

Instagram is a programme you can install onto your smartphone. This programme allows you to take pictures, apply some special effects to them, and share them with the other Instagram users. You can receive comments and likes for them.

Instagram is also a social network, you can have friends, follow people and people can follow you.

Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010, and in January 2011 they added hashtags to help users discover pictures they could find interesting. 

The service quickly gained popularity with over 100 million active users in 2012 , and nowadays it has about 1000 millions of active users.In April 2012, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion.

On December 13th 2013, Instagram added Direct, a feature that allows users to send photos to specific people directly from the app. 

On October 22nd 2015, Instagram launched Boomerang, an app where you can shoot a one second burst of five photos. These pictures are turned into a silent video that plays forwards and then reverses in a loop. 

The popstar and Disney Channel actriz Selena Gomez is the most popular instagrammer with more 101M followers.The footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has 83.8M followers.

Well done, María! Incredible work!!