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A "Blog" New World

Twitter has not only changed the way that we interact with other people in our daily lives but it has also changed the way we receive news and obtain information from news sources or celebrities themselves. Twitter now has surpassed its original uses for simple socialization and has evolved into a platform for marketing and advertising. Twitter has become the collision point of people of all walks of life, with everything from personal accounts like the one made for the Twitter project to professional accounts like a doctor or journalist. Recently, Twitter has evolved into an omnipotent force that seems to connect corporations and Capitalism directly to us, with the advent of many companies becoming very active on social media to be able to connect with users on Twitter. Twitter has become a great vehicle for information and has become the main place that people find pertinent articles from multiple new sources instead of getting all your news in one place. For example, when HipHopDX...
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Just (wiki)How Do You Do It?

Nowadays you can learn how to do just about anything, in detail, from the internet. Wikis have taken over the world in providing us with information and are unique because they provide us with collaboration across the world through the internet . Arguably the most popular resource on just how to do everything is wikiHow, a website that provides countless step-by-step methods on everything from baking cookies to preventing Coronavirus. What makes wikiHow so special is, just like the internet, utilizes the power of many and everyday people can write and contribute to articles. Many of these articles provide necessary skills, like changing a tire, or tasks people didn’t know they could accomplish, such as putting together a local concert .  Not just anyone can post though, with admins acting as gatekeepers to the influx of information, to maintain a high quality of articles. In order to get an article published, there are certain qualitative aspects that must be considered. Mo...

An Alternative How-To

In our web 3.0 society, knowledge to essentially everything is at our fingertips. The days of needing to rifle through the page upon page of encyclopedias, how-to books, or other books have become a thing of the past. Wikipedia, wikiHow, Youtube Videos, and multiple other wikis have taken their place and provide people all across the world valuable skills and information including everything on how to load a price gun to what is the best enclosure/habitat for a pet gecko. One of the most useful tools that have been a part of our connected world is wikiHow. You can essentially find a “how-to” for anything on wikiHow and anyone can post one, or contribute to one.  One topic that has yet to grace the wikiHow pages is “How to use Kratom: The Southeast Asian leaf that has been hailed as a “wonder drug” and is helping everyday people overcome pain and opioid addiction”. Kratom is a natural stimulant that in high dosages is very sedative and in low dosages is very stimulating. Various...

Can News Be...Too Fast?

Every day, people from all across the world immediately receive international news through social media. Due to social media, people can receive news and information in the blink of an eye, but is that necessarily a positive thing?  Social media has made it possible for everyday people, just like you, to receive some of the world’s most dire and pertinent information and news, even before people directly involved with it. The new social media world we live in is a distant comparison to social media 10 years ago. The internet is much faster now and news travels across the globe within seconds. In many cases, news can get shared across social media and end up being fabricated, as well as the news about someone going viral before they even knew. Fresh in everyone’s mind is the recent tragedy of Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s deaths, where social media caused a tremendously negative effect. Before Vanessa Bryant, Kobe’s wife had received any news, TMZ reported that Kobe Bryant’s helicop...