Spencer Hawken
Bio
I'm a fiftysomething guy with a passion for films, travel and gluten free food. I work in property management, have a history in television presentation and am a multi award wining filmmaker, even though my films are/were all trash.
Stories (74/0)
Dude where’s my hashtag
I first wrote a variation of this article on the now defunct Triond back around 2002, it was one of my most regularly read articles, a bare minimum of one-thousand five hundred people made the search each and every, month and for the duration of Triond’s life earned me enough money each month to buy a loaf of bread and maybe a little more omen a good month, not bad really for something that took me only a few minvites to write, when Triond closed down some years later the article I had written had been read over 3 million times. Surprisingly, while the article is long gone as is Triond, I discovered only yesterday that Apple Mac users are still stumbling upon this issue some 19 years later, it’s still one of the largest used Apple Mac search references, according to Google anyway, so who am I to argue?
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Lifehack
How to Hashtag on Instagram Like a Pro
You can barely go a day now without hearing the term Hashtag, its impacts on any aspect of social media, none more so however than on Instagram. For many, the term Hashtag fills them with dread, but it’s not as difficult as it seems. The secret in the words of an old British TV Show Host, Roy Walker for the show Catchphrase “Say what you see!” and this is the strength of Hashtagging its about saying what you see.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Lifehack
Ten tips to grow your Instagram following for free
For many the purpose of using Instagram is not to just share their life experiences with friend and family, it’s to raise their profile, whether it be to promote themselves, or a product or service. So how do you grow your following without turning posts into adverts by putting money behind them, or “buying followers or likes”? Here are ten keys to success.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Journal
Why fake followers could be killing your Instagram
So you're reading this because you have an Instagram account and possibly you've been considering acquiring some fake followers or some people have followed you and don't quite engage with you. If you are trying to gain new followers, whether it’s due to promotion, or simply to form new friendships, over the next few paragraphs, I'm going to explain to you why fake followers are going to damage your Instagram reputation and what you should do to stop it.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Geeks
The Story Of Disney's Lost Generation
It's hard to believe now but for a period of about 15 years Walt Disney pictures had a lost generation. What's even stranger looking at the conglomerate that Disney has become that only 30 years ago Disney was in terrible trouble.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Geeks
Line Of Duty seems familiar? Heres why
In 2012 UK audiences awoke to the world of Line of Duty, what initially was a one series wonder turned into a massive franchise that has spread until the present selling across the world. The series surrounds The Dirty world of corrupt police officers. headed up by Martin Compston playing Steve Arnott, Vicky McClure who plays Kate Fleming and Adrian Dunbar who plays Ted Hastings each series sees Fleming ,Arnott and Hastings tackling a brand new series of police officers and detectives who need investigation for failures of judgement or committing atrocious crimes. This slow burn thriller from the BBC has been slowly growing audiences with each new series, but the BBC is no stranger to this sort of drama and it’s been perfecting the art for many years, while Line of Duty has been praised for its accuracy and grittiness you have to go back to 1992 to see something far more sinister.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Geeks
Why Italy is the safest place for Coeliacs
When you're diagnosed with coeliac disease it can feel like one of the worst things in the world, especially when it comes to the consideration of travel and the inconvenience of going to places that may seem alien to you, where you may be forced to adapt to eating in a different way. A prime example of this is going to a hotel and having to eat from a buffet or being invited round to friends, these are all big, big fears for coeliacs.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Feast
Why Below Deck Saved Us From A Pandemic Television Drought
In the year we were all forced to stay at home Below Deck truly came into its own. If you have yet to venture into the world of Below Deck it’s been fairly innocuously burning a hole in TV schedules since 2013 on US TV channel Bravo. Yet somehow despite its growing intensity and spin off shows across the world, people only really got to discover the show in 2020 as lockdowns across the world forced people to stay at home.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Geeks
Sometimes its best to take the cr*p
I was thirteen years old and had recently began dating my first girlfriend, it was all going rather swimmingly, and I believed like most thirteen years olds that our love was purer than all others and that this, would last forever. Of course, it was not, and it didn’t last but in that window of time I believed that this was IT. As any thirteen-year-old in love you agree to do anything to preserve your relationship so when my girlfriend contacted me early one morning in a frenzy I agreed to help.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Confessions
My Sister Killed me
My sister and I never got on, from a very early age she had issue with me, as a child I understood that it was probably the five years difference between us and that this was how older children treated one another. I think its safe to say I was abused by my sister in a variety of ways probably best not discussed in this forum. There were systematic weird attacks sometimes just for the sake of it, sometimes to cause me extreme hurt both mentally and physically. From framing me for things I never did, to just attacking me to make me cry, my young years were a continual turmoil of abuse at the hands of the very person who I later understood should really have been protecting me.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Families
The time I became an Instagram influencer
As I began shooting my first movie in 2013 one of the crew leaned over to me and said “You should post behind the scenes (or BTS) photos on Instagram”, I looked back “Instawhat?” was my reply. I missed the whole Myspace thing and reluctantly joined Facebook around 2009 after several years resistance, I joined just to see photographs from an event I attended. I picked up on Twitter quite late and then what? Another social media channel I needed to pick up. But rather than chiming in late it seemed I was in the right place at the right time. The problem being I did not have the interest or the understanding and despite the futile effort I had a couple of stabs at it in 2014, with little interest.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Lifehack
Why continual headaches might reveal you have Coeliac Disease
The chances are that right up to the 2000’s you will not have heard of Coeliac Disease. While more and more people are now diagnosed with the condition its not a new illness, its always been here but relatively recent scientific revelations mean that a Coeliac diagnosis can mean the difference between life and death.
By Spencer Hawken3 years ago in Humans