In a recent survey of 5,000 teenagers, more than half thought that online abuse was worse than face-to-face abuse, with the anonymity of the internet making for an ominous culture of cyberbullying. ReThink is a piece of software hoping to put a stop to it, making cyberbullies think twice.

Have you ever hated someone? Wanted them to rue the day they wronged you? The internet has the solution – ship your enemy an envelope stuffed with glitter and imagine the horror when they rip it open to find themselves coated in “the herpes of the craft world.”

In a hyperconnected world, the ability to communicate with society at large has been democratised, whether you're a professional journalist or a top commenter. How can so much noise be filtered without impeding on freedom of speech?

“People have asked about the dislike button for many years,” announced Mark Zuckerberg at an informal Facebook Q&A in September 2015. “Today is a special day, because I can say we’re working on it and shipping it.” Of course, the internet has had something to say about it.