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Social Media

Social media!  Social media has taken the world by storm and it's currently used by some 2 billion people because it's globally pervasive. Social media has become so easy and so simply to use, that anyone of  its fans can share their user-generated content within seconds with anyone else situated anywhere on the face of the globe. One could say that social media is the lifeblood of the Internet and that the trillions of digitized photos, videos, text messages and comments, etc, are its corpuscle.  One could take this analogy further and say that the internet has a life of its own. The global copper networks and fibre backbones run by millions of ISPs are its veins and nerves; and the collective global microprocessor power is its brain, the collective hard drive capacities are its memories and the collective software its thought processes. The Internet is modeled on the human, with the intention to give it artificial Intelligence. With the...