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Everyone is Copying 👻

This week 👨📘 came out with a 🆕 update that added a 🆕 feature to their 📱 app: 👨📘 🎥. This is just another 👣 that 👨📘 has taken in their move to become more like 👻 and Instagram. First it started with 👨📘 adapting their 💬 app to be more like 👻 with the option of adding stickers…

Thank You for Accepting my Friend Request

Over this past weekend, I attempted an experiment from Christian Sandvig’s The Oversharer (and Other Social Media Experiments). After much pondering over which experiment to partake in, I decided on #4 The Facebook Wall Inquisitor. My job was to friend 5…

LAPTOP ALTRUISM

For this social experiment, I asked my friend if I could use his laptop for a second and do completely unnecessary things on Facebook page logged in as myself. I was incredibly hungry in the library at 12am, so I just pick my friend who was working on something on his laptop for my social…

Relationship Status = Fake

I posted the fake news on Sunday February at 12 pm on Facebook. I said I was in a relationship but I did not tag anyone else. I did not want to involve someone else in this. I told my mother before posting but no one else. Seconds after my best friend from home text me about it…

Fake News — A Dangerous Fire to Play With

Recently for a class of mine, we were asked to post a fake news story and spread it on…

Fake News

For our class assignment, I decided I was not creative enough to come up with some fake news so I decided to go to the best source I know — the onion. So, I browsed the onion until I found a piece that wasn’t too extreme and I could make it look like I wrote it. It was a small piece about monopoly changing…

A Lie is a Lie

Fake news is everywhere. There are hundreds of websites devoted to just posting fake news. Sites like ‘The Onion’ for example…

Social Capital

Randomly seeking for more social capital doesn’t become beneficial, rather creating social capital that is truly meaningful to the users become beneficial.

While Shirky was explaining the factors for successful harnessing of cognitive surplus in his book; he stated, “Users…

FACEBOOK’S IMPACT

Facebook is the largest social network site in the United States and in Europe, with the highest penetration among Internet users (DIJCK, 45). As an avid user of Facebook myself, I find it hard to believe that at one point it didn’t exist. It has become such a part of people’s lives that you can…

Facebook: A Simplistic Way of Sharing

Everybody who uses a computer for more than solitaire knows about Facebook, so I’m not going to talk about the history, how many users, blah blah blah… Facebook has. Instead, we are going to jump right into Facebook’s meanings to people, and what it is doing to…