Is social media ruining your social life?

You may have heard the argument that social media makes you socialize less “in real life.” However, if this article popped up in your Twitter feed — which you were scrolling through while surrounded by people you deemed less interesting than your screen — you needn’t worry; a new study dispels such …

However, our research suggests that social media are more like a chocolate than a cigarette – it can be healthy or unhealthy depending on how you use it. While health ratings make no sense for cigarettes, they do help consumers make informed decisions about the level of sugar, oil and other additives …

The secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, had only just announced that she would visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when the students began to react. “Good thing I was already planning on sleeping in tomorrow,” Emma González tweeted out to her 1.2 million followers Tuesday evening.

Sri Lanka Blocks Social Media as Anti-Muslim Rioting Flares. Residents say anti-Muslim rioting has flared anew in the hills of central Sri Lanka despite a state of emergency, as the government ordered popular social media networks blocked to stop the violence from spreading. March 7, 2018, at 8:15 a.m.. March 7, 2018, at …

The account, @DietMadisonAve, is advertising’s visual version of the Google spreadsheet that circulated last fall with the names of men in the media … They often consist of blocks of text against a solid background, or captions splashed onto screenshots of news articles and messages sent to the account.

On the day of the mass shooting in Las Vegas last year, multiple articles on the news dominated the homepage. But Providr is not necessarily a news site: depending on what it deems most likely to go viral, the top articles on its homepage are just as likely to be “What the Seven Most Popular Types of …

Vero co-founder Ayman Hariri tried to clear the air with Entrepreneur about some of the backlash Vero has received. Next Article. –shares. Add to Queue. Everything You Need to Know About Vero, the Social Media Platform Co-Founded by. Image credit: Vero. Lydia Belanger. – Entrepreneur Staff. Associate …

I have spent most days since then getting the news mainly from print, though my self-imposed asceticism allowed for podcasts, email newsletters and long-form nonfiction (books and magazine articles). Basically, I was trying to slow-jam the news — I still wanted to be informed, but was looking to formats …

There has always been a symbiotic relationship between media, sports and athletes. Sports provides content for media, which in turn promotes the performances of athletes. But the advent of social media has disrupted this traditional connection. Rather than relying solely on media to be the gatekeeper of …