social media

Redefining marketing strategies with booktok

Booktok is dictating how readers are exploring new titles. Is that a good thing?
2 October 2022, 15:15 PM

How texting reinvented the way language works

Texting is a quick way of relaying messages, but it has changed communication.
15 September 2022, 00:00 AM

Nas Daily’s move to the UAE receives criticism

Nuseir Yassin, better known as Nas Daily, has found himself in controversy yet again. The influencer/content creator who previously lived in Singapore has recently moved to the United Arab Emirates amidst its new diplomatic relations with Israel. The new relationship allows Israeli citizens to live and work in Dubai, and Nuseir Yassin was among the first and most prominent Israeli passport holders to make the most of the opportunities. His move has had an immediate impact as it has garnered new funding for his tech and production companies and helped his social media following to increase.
29 August 2022, 09:16 AM

How social media has changed the way we experience football

Social media is the best thing that happened to football after the inclusion of the offside rule.
25 August 2022, 11:00 AM

Snapchat to allow parents to monitor who their kids are chatting with

Snap Inc (SNAP.N), owner of the popular messaging app Snapchat, rolled out its first parental control tools on Tuesday, which will allow parents to see who their teens are talking to, but not the substance of their conversations.
9 August 2022, 19:26 PM

How BookTok motivated me to read again

It has made literary criticism—often regarded highbrow or excessively academic—feel accessible.
3 August 2022, 13:00 PM

Become popular on the Internet with Sellout.com

In a world full of fake validation, Sellout.com understands what’s crucial for triumph – internet points.
28 July 2022, 12:47 PM

Five arrested for kidney trade on social media

Rab arrested five members a gang, including its ringleader, on charge of buying and selling kidneys using social media.
20 July 2022, 10:10 AM

Things I’ve seen on social media about Padma bridge’s first day

The Padma bridge is now open to the public, and people are going wild.
26 June 2022, 15:06 PM

The issues with performative activism

Performative activism is the act of speaking up for a cause for the sake of garnering attention or presenting a positive public image, instead of doing so out of genuine care.
16 June 2022, 00:00 AM

All social media needs “dislike” buttons

Dislike buttons should be ubiquitous on social media. Here’s why.
26 May 2022, 00:00 AM

Online friendships in the 21st century

When you make friends online, you get to start with a clean slate.
25 May 2022, 14:19 PM

How to verify online content and deal with misinformation

Misleading news propagated through social media and the web can influence public actions and opinions adversely. Here are some ways you can verify information before jumping into a bogus narrative.
20 May 2022, 06:25 AM

The perils of ghosting, as told by a ghoster

We’ve ghosted others, been ghosted ourselves.
15 May 2022, 13:57 PM

Draft OTT regulations: They'll be threat to free speech, says speakers at webinar

The government’s draft regulation for digital, social media and OTT platforms will be a threat to freedom of speech and people’s basic rights, experts said yesterday.
16 April 2022, 18:00 PM

Draft regulation for digital, social media, OTTs a threat to freedom of speech: Experts

The government’s draft regulation for digital, social media and OTT platforms will be a threat to freedom of speech and curb people’s basic rights, experts said today.
16 April 2022, 16:37 PM

Sri Lanka bans social media; VPN use spikes

Sri Lanka's attempt to contain spiralling protests by blocking popular social media platforms led to an extraordinary spike in the use of censorship-dodging virtual private networks, a tracking firm said Monday. Demand for VPNs went up by a staggering 17,000 per cent on Sunday when the ban came into effect, Top10VPN.com said after tracking downloads by Sri Lankan users.
5 April 2022, 08:52 AM

Many on social media thought the 'Oscars slap' was staged

In the minutes and hours after Will Smith accosted and slapped Chris Rock before a live audience of millions, social media platforms lit up with a breathless and emphatic hot take: Surely, multitudes insisted, the whole thing was staged.
29 March 2022, 10:52 AM

Rossgram, the Russian Instagram, launches soon

Russian tech entrepreneurs are reportedly set to launch the Russian version of Instagram, Rossgram. This announcement follows the nationwide Instagram ban on Russia earlier this week.
16 March 2022, 12:59 PM

The 5 Stages of TikTok

Do any of these apply to you?
5 March 2022, 13:16 PM