A recent study showed that those who use Facebook live longer, but this one finds that we are less happy if we often follow what is happening with our friends, because the online image creates a false sense that others have a perfect life, but we ourselves no. As a result, it brings more envy than joy into our lives.
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Your Face is Big Data is a project by a Russian photographer that shows the terrifying power of facial recognition technology. With its help, Egor Cvetkov revealed the identity of complete strangers.
For some time now, the social network Instagram has been dominated not only by celebrities, celebrities and other beauties - they share the throne with cute dogs, cats, raccoons, bunnies, hedgehogs and the list goes on. But that's not all: some of them are so successful that they earn thousands of euros for publishing, i.e. more than average people earn per month. See which animals are among the highest paid pets in the world and how many followers they have.
YouTube, an online social network specialized in watching video content, will become more similar to Facebook and other social networks in the future, as its creators add many features typical of full-fledged social networks within a new tab called Community, which brings more interaction and options for users and creators of video content.
In an increasingly fierce battle with the competition, the social network Twitter is resorting to likable tricks to keep its followers and attract new ones. After announcing a while ago that the character counter would stop counting hyperlinks and photo text snippets, it has now increased the length of videos. This jumped from 30 seconds to 140, which is also the limit on the number of characters a user can enter in a tweet.
Are you wondering what are the advantages and disadvantages of social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest? Social networks have become a part of our everyday life, and although they have billions of users, it is still not entirely clear whether their effects are positive. We have already written several times that Facebook has a negative effect on people, but other networks have not fared any better in research. The results showed that the risk of depression increases with the amount of time users spend on social networks. But every medal has two sides, so let's take a look at the good and bad sides of social networks. A must-read for all marketers and social media managers.
Similar to how countries tackled tobacco products and in their anti-smoking legislation required tobacco product manufacturers to equip cigarette boxes with anti-smoking signs (some also require explicit photos) - on cigarette boxes in our country we find signs such as Smokers die younger, Smoking kills , Smoking causes cancer -, Salvo Glinsky took to social networks, which he says are the new cigarettes, because we are as addicted to them as we were to smoking 50 years ago.
Let's face it, we all lie, and we can't help it. We inflate things to make them seem more interesting and fun, and crave the reactions of others to make ourselves feel better. With the advent of social networks, all of this only intensified (and the mood became directly proportional to the number of likes), and the award-winning short film A Social Life shows how we are with the advent of Facebook, Instagram, etc. started living a double life and how easy it is to trick people into living a life we're not really living.
On Facebook, Instagram and other social networks, we often come across perfect photos that depict an idyllic life that we ourselves do not have. But there is no need to get particularly excited, because in reality, the lives of many authors of these photos do not live up to the photos they publish. And the comic clip, which suggests some real-life examples, is proof that all that glitters is not gold. So check what the truth is often behind the photos on social networks.
I'm the girl who had it all... I can't explain how much better life is without social media, without comparing to others, without counting likes, followers... These are the words of Essene O'Neill, 18-year-old celebrity and (former) addict with social networks, which, through addiction, also earned a lot of money. But all the money and almost a million followers on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube... made her empty. In the eyes of many, she lived a dream life, but she herself says that she has never felt so terrible. A video that will open your eyes wide!
The power of social networks is much greater than you might think. Even so much that it can affect your employment! Today, it is not enough to impress a potential employer with a CV, you also need to shine with your online image, otherwise you may reject them. Today's recruiters not only carefully examine your references in your resume, but they will also search the Internet to get to know your "human" side, the less ironed version of who you are.
The digital age has in many ways changed our cultural patterns for good, which inspired a Canadian artist from Vancouver with the pseudonym iHeart to present through graffiti the effects and changes of the digital age on the younger generation, who mainly through social networks but also other digital tools and smart phones, moved away from traditional norms of behavior.