My Five Simple Rules to Survive Social Media
So much happened over the past couple of weeks that led many to reassess their engagement on social media. The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica debacle might have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but social media has been under scrutiny for quite some time. From Twitter's problem … Read …
The Renaissance Roots of Social Media
Our modern forms of social media have only been around since the turn of the millennium, but ways of documenting social relationships have existed since at least the Renaissance. We have Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but long ago, traveling scholars would collect entries in literal “friendship … Read More
Social Media Looks Like the New Opiate of the Masses
The era when humans interacted mainly by gathering in physical space, or maintained personal networks through one-to-one connections, has drawn to a close, and the next generation won't even really understand what that era was like. Social media has changed the meaning of human life itself. Read More
Direct Selling Market and the Effects of Social Media
The report also indicates that the direct selling industry has shown sustained growth with a 3-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.2% from 2013 to 2016. Direct selling strategies are significantly impacted by the rise of social media platforms, as new strategies and consumer preferences are … Read More
Face to Facebook: Who on the Hill Holds Stock in Social Media Giant
Nearly 30 lawmakers hold stock in Facebook — including three who could soon be grilling its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, about a British company that usurped his firm's data without user consent to possibly help steer elections. Twenty-eight members listed stock in the social media giant, according to Roll … Read More
Social media: the next frontier in customer service
It's all about social media right? Think again. The number of people using messaging apps overtook social networks two years ago. Globally, more than two billion log on to one of the top five messaging apps every month. In China, Tencent just announced that its WeChat platform hit a milestone …
The Demand for Mobile-Ready Content Across Social Media Is Rising: Are You Ready?
Social media and marketing for mobile is the most potent cocktail of digital marketing for our times. It's expected that by 2020, there will be close to 6.2 billion smartphones in the world. And the numbers of users of social media platforms hardly require any restatement. When you think of …
Dutch police remove photos from social media over privacy complaints
Since November there were two cases of the Dutch police removing photos or videos from their social media feeds after complaints about privacy violations, Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus of Justice and Security said in response to parliamentary questions on the police's social media policy, NU.nl … Read More
Social media taxation aimed at promoting local content – Tumwebaze
Besides, they argued that further taxation on social media usage would tantamount to double taxations since the users have already paid taxes while purchasing airtime and data credit. But Museveni equated this to taxation of a shirt that pays excise duty at factory level and value added tax (VAT) at …
Illinois courts clash: Does limiting juvenile offenders’ social media use step on free speech?
“I need you to clear your social media,” Judge Kristal Royce Rivers said during his sentencing, according to a higher court ruling. “If you have pictures with you and gang members, if you have pictures with you throwing gang signs, pictures of you even pointing your finger at the screen …