Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Do we really need Facebook dislike button

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the company is finally working on a much-desired feature: a “dislike” button. According to Zuckerberg, this feature has long been one of those most-requested by the Facebook audience. While Facebook users have expressed a desire for a “dislike” button for many years, the company resisted its development because it did not want to, in Zuckerberg’s words, “turn Facebook into a forum where people are voting up or down on people’s posts.”

Friday, September 18, 2015

Social media has spoken #istandwithahmed

Ahmed Mohamed, a fourteen year old student was arrested this Monday for bringing to school a clock that he built in hope of impressing his teachers. Unfortunately, teacher mistook Ahmed's clock as an explosive. Ahmed was arrested by Irving's police department and charged with potentially building a hoax bomb. Photos of Ahmed handcuffed and arrested quickly went viral on Wednesday morning. #IStandWithAhmed emerged and became the most talked about topic on both Facebook and Twitter. Support on social media for Ahmed flooded in as #IStandWithAhmed gained more than one million.