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(By Tori Molnar) I started my company, Utoria, when I was only 13, and my mum has always given me guidelines about what I should and shouldn’t be posting on social media. However, through speaking to audiences of peers, I’ve realised that most of you don’t have similar situations. The majority of young adults’ tweets, […]

Details of a new law issued by China’s supreme court are bound to make loose talkers on Sina Weibo* and other social media platforms think twice before speaking freely. The law says that any libellous posts or messages will be considered “severe” breaches of the law if they are visited or clicked on more than

  (By Katie Lepi) There are probably hundreds of different ways to use Facebook in your classroom. We’ve written about a number of them, and we know that a lot of educators out there are using the tool for everything from classroom projects to keeping in touch with parents. But before you jump into using

Facebook is to begin testing a new mobile feature that plays videos automatically as users scroll through their news feeds. The videos will begin playing as they come into view on the screen, and users can preview them within the feed without clicking on or opening them. Each video will play silently and can be

Despite all my parents had told me about trusting strangers, I still managed to fall for him. I was gisting with a friend of mine on “Frendz4u” when his friend request came up. I normally don’t accept requests from strangers but I guess I fell immediately I enlarged his avatar. His face was all over

Teens who friend their parents online feel closer to them in real life, study says Remember the good old’ days when parents and teenagers didn’t talk the same language? That’s so pre-Internet. Nowadays, kids and parents are connecting online — a trend that’s not only affording parents a window into their children’s lives but that

The Bureau of Public Enterprises says it plans to roll out policies and the legal framework for the regulation of the social media in Nigeria. Director General of the privatisation agency, Mr. Benjamin Dikki frowned on the unregulated posting of what he called offensive materials on the various social networking sites. Dikki said this plan was in

What if Aristotle had a Twitter account? Would you follow Albert Einstein or Charles Darwin? I sure would. If I did, their tweets would probably look a bit like the visual mockup you see below. The folks at PhD Comics created this whimsical take on the great tweets of science. Too bad Twitter didn’t exist

Moroccan police have arrested a teenage boy and girl for posting a photo on Facebook of themselves kissing, with the incident provoking a slew of copycats. “It involves a teenage boy and his girlfriend. They were arrested on Thursday for violating public decency by posting a photo of themselves kissing” in the northeastern town of

Hi, my name is Elise, and I am an affirmation addict. Wow. That was hard. But, hey, they say the first step toward recovery is admitting you have a problem. Okay, let’s be honest, an affirmation addict isn’t an actual disease but at this point, it should be. Google’s secondary definition of the word affirmation