Category: Social Media
Why Quitting Social Media May Not Make You Happier
Past studies have suggested that tuning out from social media can have a positive impact on one’s life – with some people saying they’ve become more social with others without […]
CANADA: Men do more shopping on social media than women, study finds
A new survey has found that Canadian men are shopping on social media more than women. PayPal Canada’s Social Commerce Trend Study found that 33 per cent of men who use […]
Racist social media incident investigation is complete
An investigation into a series of racist Snapchat social media messages circulated among members of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire football team has concluded, but it will be next week […]
Facebook, Instagram down, Twitter has a field day
Facebook and Instagram were not available to users on Thursday evening in India and some other parts of the world, People shared their horror on Twitter. The two social media […]
Always on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter? Social media overuse leads to anxiety, says new study
Overuse of social media. (Picture for representational purpose) (Photo: Reuters) Researchers have found that social media use, television viewing and computer use, but not video gaming, are linked to an […]
Facebook will now let you turn off notification dots in its mobile app
Facebook is making a wonderful change to its mobile app to ease the pain on our notification-riddled brains: the company is rolling out the ability to turn off notification dots […]
Alert across country, lens on social media
A nationwide security alert was sounded in the wake of the Ayodhya land dispute judgment amid a common refrain from both the sides to maintain peace and law & order. […]
How to make it big on Chinese social media
“At that time, we had a string of super, super viral videos,” the former retail worker said. “I mean, we were all over the Internet. We had PewDiePie reviewing us.” […]
Social media millionaires: Meet the highest earners on Instagram
Buzz Bingo recently looked at the data and crunched the numbers to rank celebrities on Instagram by their annual average earnings from the social media platform. The bigger the audience, the […]
Medical Misinformation on Social Media and How We Can Stop It
The spread of medical misinformation is becoming increasingly common across social media. For example, a 1999 chain email on the use of “Cough CPR” in heart attacks was publicly discouraged […]