Sister Snog

Who's Sybil?
Ever seen the film Sybil? An award winning TV production starring Sally Field as Sybil, a real woman possessed by 16 different personalities. It’s an absorbing account of Sybil's struggle with a multiple personality disorder and the 11-year psychiatric treatment that helped to integrate all her personalities into one. Bit of a tear jerker. Supply of hankies essential.

Inside out
Sybil isn’t the only one with multiple personalities and a number of characters to her name. Everyone’s pretty complex. How many times have you met someone with a Jekyll and Hyde personality. And what about the Id, Ego and Super-Ego. Different aspects of the human psyche. Studied by Freud. Characterised by Beckett .

Face the music
In fact there’s a train of thought that the way people embrace different social media channels speaks volumes about the type of people they are. According to Howard Lindzon everybody lies on Facebook. People represent a kind of false self, so that it’s hard to really know what a person is like from their Facebook profile. He feels differently about Twitter and holds the belief that people's tweets are a much closer representation of their true self than Facebook. In his view, someone who is a jerk on Twitter is likely to be a jerk in real life. On the other hand someone who is thoughtful and careful in their tweets is also like that offline.

Say cheese
Whether Facebook rocks your boat or Twitter rings your bell, they both have one thing in common. A rogues gallery of cheesy mug shots.

Strike a pose 
Let’s face it. Few of us are truly photogenic. They say the camera never lies but surely it depends on the camera. Why is it that so many online profiles include photographs that have a photoboothesqueness about them, at best. Or at worst, can only have been taken with a disposable camera. Not very flattering. Go on. Take a look. Ask yourself. Is this is really someone I'd like to go on a blind date with or find myself in their company on Come Dine With Me. Never mind connect with them in the digital world. You wouldn’t. Would you? First impressions and all that.

Mini me
So, why don't more people have some fun and create their online-alter-ego. The beauty is anyone can become immortalised as a caricature and join The Osmonds and The Jacksons. Step aside hip-hop celebs. There’s a queue in the cartoon hall of fame.

Cartoon yourself
Thanks to all those teckies with a big fat brain. There’s a world of avatars to discover. Even a film. Directed by Mr Cameron. With an avatar you can step into Toontown and become a Toonlet. Turn yourself into a Simpsons  character or a squat rotund brat from South Park. Fancy something arty and abstract? Feel like a manga? Or a zwinky? Find yourself a doppelganger. Play around. Cartooning yourself really is pretty ABC.

Sister Snog goes retro

Sister Snog likes the idea of being a Sister of the sixties. That’s why everyone at Snog Towers is crazee-mad for Mad Men. Hats off to the artist behind the vintage-y Mad Men illustrations. The very talented Dyna Moe. She’s nobody’s sweetheart!