Monthly Archives: July 2013

The Battle of iPhone vs Android

The two top contenders for the most popular cell phones out are the Apple iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S4. There are plenty of Android phones other than the Galaxy S4, but it is the most popular at the …

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Social Media: Vehicle for Political Awareness and Activism

For most Americans social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are part of their daily lives; being checked once or even multiple times per day. But why do Americans use social media? A 2011 survey by the Pew …

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Movements in a digital age

If there is one hope for peace in the world, it is from social media sites. During the Arab Spring in Tehran, and countless revolutions across North Africa and the Middle East, Twitter has been credited as the go-to tool …

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Why Women Won’t Learn Computer Science

“Until the day when baby girls like gadgets as much as baby boys, let us look to mathematics itself to see what we can do about attracting young women to computer science.” (Palma, 49) I’ll tell you why I chose …

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Virtual Friendships: Helping or Hindering our Youth?

These days everyone is on his or her cell phone or computer texting friends or updating their social media sites. Children are getting cell phones at a younger age and are substituting face-to-face conversation or phone calls with text messages. …

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Our Virtual Communication Is At An All Time High

Throughout the years, people have been trying to find new ways to meet each other. Whether it’s been through social gatherings at school, mixers, or anything else, people just want to meet. With the invention of the internet, this process …

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Baby-Steps to Saving Social Media

I log onto Facebook and Twitter and feel like I’m reading a diary, except the problem is, with a physical diary, it requires the author to stop, grab a pen, grab a book, and then write out the thoughts word …

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Is prince charming waiting for you online?

Almost everyone I know especially my girlfriens have attempted the online dating trend. I hear horror stories and then some that aren’t too bad. Yet I never hear of anyone finding true love or a long term relationship from online …

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From Dating, To Online Dating…. To Application Dating?

My mom and my step-dad met on an online dating site 10 years ago. I remember at the time it was strange; no one did that! I used to tell my friends that they met each other in different ways …

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Memories: The cure for the Digital World

Friendship comes in all different types of forms, from acquaintance to childhood friendship; no matter the status of those friendships the relationship and memory you have with the other individual(s) will have an effect on your life. Researchers, psychologists, have …

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