Tag: social media

How does the internet work? Why is it successful?

I would say that the internet serves as a virtual time capsule, only it can be accessed anywhere, at any time, by anyone. The difference being, in lieu of having access to only your personal information, you have access to virtually anyone’s information, and said information isn’t always so easy to get our hands-on. The …

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Crowdsourcing

Wired.com says, “…It seems like every day there are new products and services being launched that are leveraging the power of the crowd to do something…”, and I think there’s something to be said about the way crowdsourcing is used in social media through influencer and celebrity culture. Oftentimes the people with the biggest platforms …

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If I Were to Create a Search Engine

If I were to design my own search engine it would look like a mixture of Yahoo’s homepage, which is populated with news and information. That news and information would be curated news and content chosen specifically for you based on your search results and topics you care about. It would act like the google …

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A Week Without Google and Facebook

I tried, but I failed! I’d probably be successful if there was an incentive like payment. For my communications course at Lehman College with Professor Brucker-Cohen he gave us a challenge of no Facebook and Google for a week. I’m aware that I’m invested deeply in the Google echo system. Before google, I had a …

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networking

Networks can come in lots of forms whether it be a network of people, ‘networking’ in the sense of getting to know people who will get you in connections with more people; like social networking where people network over social media websites. In order to network, or have a system of interconnected things and people, …

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