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The Holy Church of Facebook

I feel like I have been dreaming for a good few hundred years and just woke up to learn that Mark Zuckerberg and his respectable wife just visited Vatican and talked to the Pope about eradicating poverty through providing access to the internet via drones. They had the appearance of a royal family travelling the […]

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8 things that I can do on Social Media that I wish I could do in real life

Not everything that exists on social media is necessarily worse than real life. There are a whole lot of things that we can do online that we cannot do in real life, and that is probably why we became all addicted in such a short time. Here are my eight picks. Please regard them in […]

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Instagram Is Introducing User Generated Censorship

Today’s post is about Instagram’s coming move to introduce new features available for the public, giving them the ability to censor comments, or to disable them all together. Users will be given the possibility to define words, phrases or emoticons that they don’t want to appear in their profile comments. Also, Instagram will introduce the […]

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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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You won’t believe WHO CAME TO VISIT! It’s not who you think!

Don’t you just hate being misled by catchy titles that spark your curiosity? These are called clickbaits and are used all around the internet. And the reason they are so popular with content creators is that THEY WORK. As you might assume by now, nothing spectacular happened, not to me, anyway. This post is about […]

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Do you know what VidCon is?

Is VidCon the Golden Globes for new media? It sure seems to be and so much more. If you are an outsider of the new media and you are out of their demographics, VidCon does not ring any bell for you. Nevertheless, for video content creators (YouTubers, Snapchaters, Viners, etc) this thing is huge and […]

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Britain’s EU Referendum – 5 Less Obvious Social Media Conversations and a Prognosis

As a bachelor in Political Science and an avid admirer of the United Kingdom, I cannot shy away from discussing tomorrow’s EU Referendum. That is why I am bringing you 5 conversations  related to it that I came across on social media. I will stay away from the main points and keep a closer eye […]

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10 Ways in which Social Media Changed Us

1. We are not allowed to forget – the people we met or the instances we lived. Throughout our lives we meet huge numbers of people, most of them stay for a few days/weeks or months in our lives and then, they disappear. Or at least they should… Not if you add them to your […]

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