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For the purpose of my assignment, I interviewed my friend Tee Khai Yee. She loves dancing and puts in a lot of effort to achive her goals. Dedicated in what she does best. Check out the video and do share it!!  Leave your comments below. :D

There are two Android apps that would allow you get Chat Heads for WhatsApp - Seebye and Dashdow What App - Dashdow is the best WhatsApp Chat Heads app.

Sometime around in 2013, Facebook introduced a really feature to the Facebook messenger that allows conversations to pop out in the form called Chat Heads. What this does when there is a message notification on Facebook, it pops out as a circle on the side of the screen. Now for those you enjoy the feature, their showing you how you can download it to make your Whatsapp notifications appear the same way.

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Whatsapp, the most used messaging app I know has now been bought over by Facebook in a deal worth 19 billion dollars worth in cash and shares. Whatsapp has more than 450 million users monthly and the number just grows. Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described it as “incredibly valuable”

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Facebook Messenger has been mired in controversy since the social networking giant cut messaging from its main app, pushing users to download its standalone offering. Despite the fuss, the user base has more than doubled since April and now stands at 500m.

As said in the title, 500 million people now uses the Facebook messenger app. Surprisingly it went up by 300 million users ever since April 2014. The company said in a post on its site on Monday that in light of the news it was “more committed than ever to make it the best possible messaging experience.”

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Whoo is a fun messenger app to exchange anonymous messages, mysterious photos and filtered voice messages with your Facebook friends. It’s exciting to receive anonymous messages and it’s even more fun when you know it’s from friends and you have a chance to unmask them. With Whoo Messenger tricking your friends, sending love texts and …

So recently I came across this article that talks about Whoo Messenger, which is an app to exchange anonymous messages, mysterious photos and filtered voice messages with your Facebook friends. With Whoo Messenger, you can even go about tricking your friends, sending love texts, scary videos and anonymous voice messages. I mean, it sounds fun, but is it safe? You’re talking to strangers first off, but now they can prank you too? For now, count me out alright. 

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Do you remember the good old days when people shared photos in albums? Yeah, me neither. Today’s photo sharing options are seemingly limitless, making it easier than ever to share images with the ones you love. 

Does having the first mover advantage help in an ever growing social media world? In some cases yes, but having a friendlier user interface do show that the first mover advantage does not apply in the social media world. Like MySpace to Facebook, Flickr and Instagram have the same issue being that Instagram was exclusive at first, then users realized that the user interface was far better. People who truly appreciate the art of sharing genuine pictures would know that Flickr is the way forward. The downside to this is the momentum gained by Instagram, people seem to enjoy it more due to the social impact they may have on each other whereas Flickr lacks the amount of followers that Instagram has. Ignorance is the word as many would know that Flickr does have more features than Instagram but are reluctant to switch over.

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For our college assignment, we were asked to interview a friend doing an activity, any talent, or hobby. I chose my friend, Umar Hakim, who is a professional gamer and competes in international gaming competitions. 

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Because nothing spoils a gorgeous photo like a typo, Instagram users can now edit captions after publishing.

As part of their latest updates, instagram now allow users to go back to their uploaded photos and correct their typing errors and making all necessary adjustments in their captions. We all know what a hassle it was when we uploaded a photo and noticed that something in the caption was not right, and to delete the photo and upload it all over again just to get that tiny part of the caption right. You can even do corrections on wrongly tagged people.  Overall a good upgrade.

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Read up on the latest social media marketing news for October 2014, including news about Twitter Fabric, Facebook, Skype, Spot.IM, and more.

So recently I read an article and found out that Skype had built a mobile only app called Qik that allows users to send quick video messages to their contact list. I’ll be honest, once I read the article, I was excited. Being a Snapchat user, this would definitely be a more fun way to send a short media to your friends directly compared to Snapchat. But- I don’t think Qik may be comparable to vine? Vine is like the shorter version of YouTube, so comparing Qik to Vine would be like comparing Ice-Cream……..to shoes? It’s just my opinion. It could be better. Let’s just hope nothing gets leaked.

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Snapchat users have been hacked meaning naked photos galore may be leaked onto the internet

If you do not know what Snapchat is, it’s basically one of the most popular photo messaging apps out there (although the camera quality is disgusting). So, let’s be honest (and an open-minded adult), after reading the article about how recurrent snapchat pictures get leaked, it just scares me on how easy anyone and everyone can easily get your pictures (snapchat senders don’t just send pictures of their face).  Apparently, the reason behind these leaks is a third-party app, SnapSaved. Now that you know, DON’T download this app if you don’t want your pictures leaked.  

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BBM for Windows Phone is a great social networking option for BlackBerry fans, but competing chat apps offer more functionality, and have a far broader audience.

Being an ex Blackberry phone user, I must admit that the Blackberry, on my opinion lacks a lot of functions that the Iphone and Andriod feature in their smartphones. So when I found out that their latest app, BBM (Windows Phone) was launched, I’d say it’s a god sent app for the Blackberry users, especially for the socially active!! The BBM is basically a cross-platform free messenger’s app that can be used between the Andriod, iOS and Windows phone (YEY!). BUT- since nothing is ever perfect (sigh…), the limited notifications and the lack of video chatting makes it a meh kind of an app.

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Tinder is the dating app that came out of nowhere and now completely dominates the UK dating scene.

Speed dating? More like application for dating or the casual hook up with none of the nasty attachments involved. Tinder is a social media developed to connect the flirts with the risk takers. The mixture of whatsapp and instagram but with the only exception of the application being solely for dating. To have a hook up with whatsapp, you need to essentially add a friend whereby Tinder would introduce randoms from which you can pick from the profile picture they have. The good thing about this is that rejection and cancellation is quick. What if someone is foolish enough to fall into the words of a predator, that would be a little too late, no reports of the application being the cause but people who are looking using Tinder are not expected to report these incidences as they were the ones who are on it in the first place.

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The FireChat messaging app for Android uses mesh networking to let you chat with people around you, even when there's no data connection available. But if you want to have a private conversation, you're out of luck.

If you're a 90s kid, you'll remember the famous iRC chat room. Well, think of FireChat as the mobile version of that chatroom. FireChat allows you to chat with a group of people in different categories (depending on your interests). Now, this may seem creepy at first, but FireChat limits direct one-to-one conversation. Which is a plus for me, that will keep all those cyber creeps away! FireChat is still new, and is still fixing some bugs or errors that might occur while using the app. But the real question is, do we really need another public chatroom? Personally, I don't think so. If you want to meet new people or talk to random people, you might as well do it face to face and save that mobile data you paid for (and your battery!).

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In the new Facebook app Rooms, people can gather to discuss a single topic and they can use pseudonyms.

We all have our own interest and would love to share it with others. It is not always that you find someone that shares the same interest with you to actually talk about it as the other party might find it boring. Well, here is the good news! You don’t have to feel that way anymore as Facebook launches Rooms app for anonymous sharing of interests. It’s a brilliant idea to connect people through just their phones, talking away about the things they love. If you are shy to talk about something then you can use pseudonyms with this application. No one has to feel left out anymore!

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Why make Messenger its own app?

Why do we actually need the messenger app? Remember the period we were all forced to download the Facebook messenger application sometime in August? Before that, we only used our main Facebook application on our mobile phones. We were all so irritated getting used to the new idea of another app just to message. Well, at least I was. For those of you who felt the same, we finally got our answers. Mark Zuckerberg finally reveals why. Apparently, 10 billion messages are sent per day. We had to wait for the Facebook app to load. The messenger application saves our time as it only has one function. The Facebook application is for our newsfeed. That explains.

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