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What happens when you die on social media platforms?

As an active user on social media platforms, it would be hard for me to leave like that for 72 hours. People in my life do not expect such thing from me, and doing it will leave them in wonder. Some of the fears I think of are, people who…

How have social buttons changed the function and meaning of sharing ?

Social media has taken over our lives for it has changed the way we see, share and rate things. As mentioned in the “Social Media In Context” slides, social media is different from the TV for it makes us an…

Facebook page: advertising platform of the future

BankingWords page on Facebook provides access for the BankingWords.com website to broaden its audience…

We Are All Being Shared

From primarily being actors in the sharing process, masses have become more as this process’s new commodity in the market of Social Media.

Are Facebook and data tracking companies exploiting our social capital ?

Social capital, often defined as the ideologies of certain groups in the society, is a subject that has been present for a really long time. Social media, however, has modified the meaning of social…