Philinomics

Social media is defined as “ websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking”. It’s all the frenzy nowadays, we’re being surrounded by it and its frankly taking over. We live in an age that we can effectively communicate 24/7 with people all around the world about matters that would’ve been previously lost on us with people that we didn’t know exist and with demographics that we simply wouldn’t be inclined to talk to before its inception. The creation of Facebook came in the dorms of Harvard university where a young Mark Zuckerberg got home from a date and set up a small website as a basic messenger with user profiles. This then turned into a network that was shared with universities around Harvard and then finally became the world’s largest social network, so large in fact that a 3% drop in its share prices meant a £2.9 billion loss. The idea of social networks is one which is extraordinary for it can be used by diff...