The Rise of Social Media and Its Effect on Human Health

Instagram is one of the most recent social media platforms; established in 2010, it is a multi-channel platform available on both a mobile application and a desktop site. Instagram was created by Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom and launched on the 6th of October 2010, however, in April 2012 [...]

In today’s era, Social Media has been the most important part of everyone’s life, from children to adults, be it as entertainment, shopping, education or a business tool. Social Media transforms people’s lifestyle as the number of its active users is increasing enormously day by day. As everything [...]

There are many sites which facilitate the sharing of media throughout a community, but a prominent one is YouTube. YouTube is a free video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. You can even create and upload your own videos to share with others. Originally created in 2005, [...]

How often is it that we walk into a room full of people that are oblivious to the presence of a crowd around them? With their eyes glued to the screen of a smartphone, the scene is starkly different from about a decade ago when personal interactions were mostly face to face. Social media was the [...]

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Some may argue that social media can affect someone’s mental health whereas others may oppose this view and claim there is no correlation between either. The two social media play massive parts in every aspect of our lives whether it is for the good or the bad we may never know. Mental health is a [...]

Several pieces of research show the relationship between the things that an individual see and the way they behave. In this research, the impact of the promotional activity and advertisements among the youth has been analyzed in detail. This research has been carried out by using questionnaires. [...]

"Augustine starts the next part of his dialogue with Adeodatus in discussing signs that “do not signify other signs but instead things” (The teacher 8.22.25). Augustine first asks Adeodatus “whether man is man” (The teacher 8.22.64). Adeodatus responds that man is in fact man. Augustine then asks [...]

Introduction Communications technology is expanding through the entire global community (Dyson 2). Children everywhere are being born into a world of images and messages, which are largely separated from their home, school and spiritual lives (Dyson 2). In society today storytellers are seldom [...]