Social Network

Famous psychologist Karl Jung said “Every kind of addiction is bad no matter whether the narcotic, be alcohol or morphine or idealism”. These days mostly the youth around the globe becoming the victim of Facebook turning then idle,even dumb. Many research have stated that Facebook addiction make person kill the time and degrade the creative energy.

Facebook has stated that India has requested to block content and access to user account more than any country in the first six month of 2014. Facebook has restricted access to nearly 5,000 (specifically 4,960) pieces of information in India in the first six months of 2014 which are mostly requested by government as well as other agencies.

The internet exposure is now crucial for any kind of business. The social media revolutionized not only the interconnecting with people but it has become necessary tools for promotion of business too. Companies around the world are investing heavily in social media marketing in order to ensure favorable customer engagement. A digital marketing strategy that actively incorporates social media, focuses on customers engagement. The research done by position2's infographic gives clear statistics how the business is being promoted through social media.

One the famous University of the USA, University of Pennsylvania is offering the new course on ‘wasting time on Internet which one requires sitting in front of the screen chatting on social media, watching cat videos . The Department of English of the university is offering the course from spring of next year.

Social Network, the 21st century phenomenon twisted people and their activity in front of a digital screen. Everybody is social now! with an account on Facebook/Twitter or others and sharing what they doing and thinking. This creates huge content on web and social networks generating huge profit with these which you produce for then in free. All of the popular social networks has 'Share' button for you to share your content (status, photos, videos) and none of them giving you 'share' on profit they are making using your content. World's largest social network Facebook slogans 'It's free and always will be' for sign up, means Facebook is offering you free access on their network. Here you never think in return you are giving Facebook precious contents without any cost and they are making billions of dollars with your content.

You might be sick of annoying app invites like Candy Crush Saga, Mafia Wars or Farmville from your friends on facebook. These days people are sending invitation unknowingly and who wants to get disturbed by these embarrassing stuffs. There are various ways for stopping these non-sense things.

Nepal Telecom Authority (NTA) telecom regulatory body of Nepal directed Ncell, private telecom operator to shut its free twitter service Wednesday. Ncell part of Swedish telecom company Teliasonera has offering free twitter access to its subscribers as a promotional activity with the permission of regulator. Later Ncell has extended its campaign without approval and notification to regulator. According to telecom regulation telecom operators must get approval from NTA to lunch or extend their promotional activities.

Twitpic, a popular third-party photo-sharing service, is shutting down from September 17th, 2014 blaming the pressure of microblogging site Twitter to abandon trademark application.

Google is shutting down the social network Orkut which was started ten years ago as a “20 percent” project. The site will be closed formally on September 30 after which the users would not be able to login and export photos to google+.

There were days when we had to solely rely on network service providers' SMS service to connect via text messages. But with the development of android apps the way has changed alot. Various messaging apps have replaced SMS usage. We’ve collected a list of the best SMS replacement apps on the mobile phone. Check them out and find the one that best suits you!

Want to disappear online removing your personal information collected over the web? Then its no more a nightmare. JustDelete.me has made it easy to delete accounts of huge number of sites ranking the removing process from easy to impossible.

After a month of bringing Wikipedia zero allowing subscribers to access world's largest encyclopedia free of cost, Nepal's second largest telecom operator has come up with another brand new offer. Ncell customers can browse Twitter for free effective from Tuesday for 3 months under the campaign named as Twitter Zero.

To prevent accidentally sharing of facebook post of new users publicly, facebook has changed the privacy feature for the newbies. The default audience of their first post from now on will be set to Friends only which previously was set to Public. The move is expected to reduce chance of sharing post to wider audience and thus control privacy too.

People always post Facebook status to get response from his/her circle, but not every status get high attention they wanted. Scientists say, if social networking site user didn't get quick response, they will undergo through lower confidence and can feel insignificant.

Worried about wifi or network signal to chat with friends and families? The day is over. Open Garden, a company working on mesh networks to connect devices via web without wider internet access has developed a message sending app that allows you to send message from one phone to another even without internet connection.

Who doesn’t use facebook search bar, the one saying “Search for people, places and things” located at top of the giant social networking site? You might have searched for unknown people or some secret things.

Twitter is going to introduce new feature which lets users to mute annoyed tweet. A report in Verge (link) revels that Twitter is testing its new features for its mobile apps with which users can hide them from irritated tweets on timeline from the account they are following.