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Social media, especially Twitter, broke out with the hashtag #blacklivesmatter. Then, a plan was formed to protest at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. The tag #stoptheparade spread like wildfire. Articles such as “Anarchists target Thanksgiving Day Parade” (The New York Post) paint the protesters in a bad light. Mainstream media barely covered the event, but many protesters voiced their thoughts and opinions through social media. One Twitter user stated “The NYPD is telling…

the search engines such as Yahoo, Bing, Google, and Google+, etc., to get high rankings on them by working on their algorithms and analytics. SMO works on the RSS news feeds and bookmarking the sites on the social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram,…

treatment is taken place because the institutions never know if that is the actual applicant. In the blog “How Social Media Can Affect College Admissions” by Suzanne Schaffer, Schaffer says, “Take a high school student for example, that posted on her Twitter account that the info session at a particular college was lame and used the colleges hashtag when doing it. She was probably trying to be cute and post a comment that would get a response from her followers. But guess what? It came back to…

Uses for Social Media In today’s world, social networking sites allow people to connect with an unlimited number of people all around the world. Keeping in touch with family, friends and making new acquaintances. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram allows people to keep in touch with family and friends, and even make some new acquaintances without ever having to make a time to meet up in person. Other sites such as LinkedIn, Skype, Facetime, company blogs and forums allow…

present using internet access with electronic products such as smart phone or laptop is one of the living habits by most of people. People are fond of using electronic products for entertainment including browse in social media such as Facebook or Twitter. For some university student who living in college, social media is one of the important news resources. According to Goldenberg (2015), it mentions that social media has become a way of life. Moreover, according to Van Den Hurk (2013), the…

Media focus on delivering news to the general audience or the target audience. Along with the development of technology, platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Weibo are gradually gaining in popularity. Meanwhile, such as traditional media, newspapers, magazines, television and radio are facing a recession. Although traditional media has fallen, social media has merely taken a chunk of the online media scene. Traditional media is still irreplaceable, since it has a higher level of…

Internet Regulations Social media has been considered by many to be the Doctor Jekyll And Mr. Hyde of the twenty first century. Back in 1960’s , social media was the rave. When social media was created, email was created, yet several years later, newsletters became popular which allowed people to communicate. In the year of 1997, the first, six, social media websites were created, and blogging became as popular as it is even today. Nowadays, there is a variety of social networking sites which…

popularity in the workplace is ever increasing. Social media is fast becoming an integral part of business. It can enhance a better relational experience between employees and customers. We ourselves employ social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram etc in connecting with family and friends. Would it not be beneficial and important…

Social media or networking has taken over like a storm increasing connectivity among people in the hundreds of millions all over the world. However, I believe those are superficial and predominantly false connections. Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are platforms created for people to connect to each other, but how meaningful are those connections? People who hide behind their computers or cellular phones interacting with others have the ability to portray anyone they want. Social media or…

The rapid growth of social media, and digital technology use over the past decade, has created a new avenue for employers to monitor and investigate their employees and potential employees. (Broughton, Higgins, Hicks & Cox, 2009) The Online Oxford Dictionary (2016) defines social media as “Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.” This paper will explore the impact of this kind of networking on employment and the effects of…