Social Media Coordinator
The Social Media Coordinator is responsible for coordinating and executing Finstro's social media strategy, working across key social media channels including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. This role offers you a total immersion into an agile Fintech environment, working closely … Read More
Think Before Believing in Social Media: Prayuth
BANGKOK — Junta leader Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha urged the public on Friday to be critical while consuming news and information from social media. Speaking during his nation-wide address, he said the public must be critical when consuming news and information from social media and when talking … Read More
Business owners use social media to target thieves
Local businesses from Ocean Springs to Mobile have been able to catch a pair of thieves thanks to social media. It all began when Roxanne Samies, a store owner in Ocean Springs, shared a surveillance video to Facebook showing a woman sneaking into the back office of her business A …
Claims of social media ‘addiction’ are full of bad science — its real impact might be more positive …
A few experts were emphatic that social media addiction is real and should be added to the DSM IV, long considered the diagnostic bible for psychologists. Others hedged their bets and said more studies were needed. But the conclusion I gathered was the opposite of what I've been hearing in …
French Museum Removes Work from Exhibition, Following Backlash on Social Media
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, France, has pulled a video work by the Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed, which features several tethered chickens that appear to be on fire, after a public outcry. Activists criticized the work on social media, calling it “animal torture.” Ironically, the video was … Read …
SITUATIONER: PAKISTAN’S SOCIAL MEDIA CONUNDRUM AS ELECTION LOOMS
THE Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) cybercrime wing arrested two men in Rawalpindi in October last year, who were suspected of posting on social media material and content deemed to be contemptuous of major state organs. The duo was said to be spreading propaganda through various fake … Read More
OPINION: Powerful ammo of social media still not enough to neuter NRA
More recent mobilizations have shown young people's proclivity to use the internet and social media to further their goals. While social media is open to all, young people as digital natives use online tools much more comprehensively than older cohorts. For instance, in 2018, 88 per cent of 18- to … …
Unlocking the personality of a social media addict
In this hi-tech, pre-armageddon, screen-filled modern world, social media is all pervasive. It has sucked us in. It is the new God. We are now its slave. That might be over-egging things slightly, but for some people, social media has become a true addiction. So, how do you know if …
Bali shuts down social media, shops, for ‘Day of Silence’
Bali shuts down social media, shops, for 'Day of Silence'. Residents of the Indonesian island of Bali are spending a day of silent reflection to mark their New Year. This year, phone companies have agreed for the first time to even turn off mobile internet. google+ Tumblr VZ Xing Newsvine …
‘Very Kiwi’: Parcel’s intrepid journey a hit on social media
The intrepid journey from sender to recipient struck a chord with many on social media, who felt it epitomised charming and intimate qualities of small-town New Zealand. The Facebook message was quickly inundated with similar stories. "We once got a letter addressed to a make up lady on the Lord …