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Instagram is a very popular social media site and a free photo and video sharing network, that along with WhatsApp, is owned by Facebook. The Instagram App is available on iOS, Android and Windows and is free to download and use. Instagrammers can share photos and videos with family, friends and followers. If you’re not familiar with Instagram, this is how it works. Early days of Instagram Instagram was launched in October 2010, by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, on iOS only at that time. By...

Simple answer is YES! Lots of us already own an Amazon Alexa, such as an Echo or Dot speaker and Google’s version, the Nest. There have been a quite few sceptical warnings telling us to be careful because ‘Alexa is always listening to us.’ Alexa can be like having an extra helping hand around the house with the voice commands that you give it, for example, turning on the light (you do need to purchase smart devices such as Philips Hue lightbulbs to enable Alexa to do this), playing a certain...

LinkedIn is a major player amongst the social networking titans, but with a difference compared to Facebook and Twitter. LinkedIn focuses on the professional community, both with networking and careers. It is the world’s largest professional online network. This networking site is widely utilised by companies promoting their profiles, employers and job seekers. It can be used to make further connections in your professional network and develop new business contacts; B2B businesses can connect...

Twitter is just one of the social media giants and is incredibly simple to set up and use. Twitter lets you send and receive short posts called Tweets, using up to 280 characters. The birth of Twitter In 2006, Jack Dorsey had an idea in which he wanted to create a platform so that friends and family could communicate with one another instantly by writing a status. Along with co-founder Evan Williams, Twitter was born and the first Tweet was sent on 21 March 2006, by Jack, saying “Just setting...

By now, most of us know about social media, even if we don’t use it. But what is it exactly? We’ll look at the origins of life before Facebook and the meteoric rise to what social media has become today and why it is gaining more popularity. Defining what social media is can be challenging and as there are varied opinions about how it should be classed, particularly as it has grown into what we know today. Humble beginnings Social media networking quite possibly has roots in 1837 with the...