Tag: Social Media
TRENDING: “Dark Skin” Selfies Have Gone Viral To Promote Self Love
by Rachel Ogbu #IWillNotApologizeForBeingDarkSkin is now trending on social media people. What do you think? So here are a group of people pushing the Revolutionary Pro-Melanin Movement forward by uploading their selfies. Some people are calling it the pro-melanin social media movement and basically the idea came from 23-year-old college student Alicia Daniella, encouraging people who identified […]
Adedayo Ademuwagun: 4 ways to practise bullsh_t-ivism on Twitter
by Adedayo Ademuwagun Bullshit-ivism is probably a new word to most people but the phenomenon is certainly not new. It’s a form of activism that’s especially prevalent on social media these days. A lot of people on Twitter portray themselves as activists and try to muster a following by tweeting stuff that resonates with the […]
#CYBERCULTURE: Facebook Adds New Feature- Gives Priority To Contents From Friends
by Rachel Ogbu Due to a significant increase in the number of content people now share on Facebook, the social network site has decided to tweaked its News Feed algorithms giving more attention to posts by people on your friend list. “The impact of these changes on your page’s distribution will vary considerably depending on the composition […]
CYBERCULTURE: #BringBackOurGirls sparks social media campaign
by Rachel Ogbu More than 160,000 tweets and still counting with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls have made more people pay attention to the plight of 230 schoolgirls who were kidnapped from their dormitories in Chibok, Borno State about 18 days ago. The campaigners included journalists from the BBC to CNN, from activists to preachers and celebrities […]