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CGTN — The most downloaded IOS APP – why the obsession with Tik Tok videos?

...Douyin in China boasts of billions of hits each day. Its international edition has recently topped off Whatsapp, becoming the most downloaded IOS application on the market in the first quarter of 2018.… Tik Tok videos are typically 15 seconds long, tuned to repurposed, hit music and featured special effects.... Zhi [Ying, senior Director with Tik Tok] said the app's popularity builds on what users, typically under 35, made and submitted themselves, as they've taken the format to be an...

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Emerging Technology — First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

Not just e-commerce that's changing the world.  Social networks are proliferating and expanding, and it is affecting how people meet. An obvious way to test this is through investigating online dating, for which there is ample data. Online dating sites are obviously targeted at people meeting. This has implications for many other social media venues as well. More evidence that the Internet is changing everything. Distance is shrinking, not only in terms of separation in space but also...

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