social media

Terrorism and Social Media

Terrorist attacks have become an ordinary happening in today’s world. The more they happen, the less affected we become and the less willing to do something about it. Though, if you give it a little thought, you might realize that terrorists are a Facebook user or a google search away from you, your household and […]

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10 Consequences of the Quantified Popularity

People now have a direct measure of their popularity, and this can be really daunting, especially for those who are not realistic about their social abilities. Although some might argue that the number of people in our social networks doesn’t  necessarily reflect on our actual popularity,  my informed guess is that it does say something about […]

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On The Future of Social Media

Social media has definitely changed our worldview in the last 10 years. It has been a real phenomenon that has involved almost all online players, from individuals, companies, governments and even criminals. As to what it did to us personally, I’ve written about social media changing us in this previous post. We can compare it, […]

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How to stay safe on social media?

Social media has become an integrated part of our lives as we are using it more and more for personal reasons but also for business reasons. It’s not rare that we access social media from our personal devices but also from our business ones. And it isn’t rare that we are accessing social media accounts […]

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What’s your type of personality on social media? Quiz

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Bucharest Local Elections 2016 in social media

What does social media say about the Bucharest local elections on 05.06.2016? In the picture above you can find a rather simple semantic analysis taken out of Twitter for the first three contenders to become the mayor of Bucharest, Romania’s capital, in the 2016 elections. I will not go into too much detail on them […]

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Sharing on Social Media?

This is a topic that is very dear to me, because one of my core beliefs is that information is most valuable when it is shared. Nevertheless, we not always decide to share information that we find useful or interesting. Why is that? To start, I had a look at a survey conducted by Oglivy […]

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Three Gems from the web – Every Tuesday

Today I am launching  a series of posts that will be here every Tuesday entitled “Three Gems from the Web” Basically, I will be posting my top three places to visit on the web that will hopefully prove useful to you and that will potentially enrich your existence. Here are my first picks: Pick 1. […]

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Why do people hit the “Like” button?

This is a topic I came up with while talking to my husband over a delicious Greek lunch. He’d just posted on Facebook a bunch of photos from our trip to Zakynthos  and we had a look at how many likes he’d got. And then we started talking … After that talk, I put a bit […]

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