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With the internet being largely unregulated and anybody able to add to it, it means that a lot of what appears on it should not necessarily be taken as the truth.
We see this regularly on social media sites like Facebook, where a lot of the memes and ‘news’ items that crop up should leave us (more…)
Posted by John MurraySeveral of the world’s biggest and most supported football clubs have teamed up to launch a new football-based social media platform that aims to emulate the success of Facebook.
The platform is known as (more…)
Posted by Alan LittlerIf you haven’t been reminded already, today is ‘Cyber Monday’ – a day online retailers use to promote their best deals and attract the swathes of people who are happy to shop through their computers, tablets and phones rather than head out to the busy shops in the run-up to Christmas. But why is it on this particular day, how long has it (more…)
Posted by John MurrayI love a good bit of satire. Whether it’s old episodes of Spitting Image, Aristophanes’ ‘The Frogs’ or a bit of the Daily Mash – nothing beats good satire.
The problem is, does satire remain as satire when too many people believe it? For instance, the spoof news website BFN was originally set up with the intention of fooling right wing parties such as Britain First and UKIP into mistakenly using its stories as though they were true. Whenever a story they had made up was cited as the source for an outrageous statistic by some befuddled blowhard, they would celebrate the success on their Facebook Page. Everyone who followed them on Facebook would laugh, content that the right-wing imbecile who had fallen for the story had done exactly what (more…)
Posted by Darren JamiesonSearch giant Google has recently introduced a new feature that will inform users whether or not the shop, bar or other amenity they are searching for is busy in (more…)
Posted by Alan LittlerWith 2017 fast approaching, you may be wondering how content marketing may change over the coming year. After all, the habits of users generally evolve to keep pace with advances in technology, so you will no doubt want to (more…)
Posted by Matt JonesSocial networking phenomenon Facebook has recently been the subject of a lot of criticism as it has, perhaps unknowingly, been promoting a large number of fake or misleading stories.
Although Facebook has yet to come up (more…)
Posted by Alan LittlerOver the years, we’ve seen a lot of scams on Facebook, such as the ‘win a car’ scams and the ‘win a PS4’ scams. They’re usually pretty easy to spot and they target casual Facebook users – people who wouldn’t necessarily know a genuine page from a fake one. However, a new type of scam emerged recently that was a lot more difficult to spot, and it targeted business owners who (more…)
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