Tag: social media

Authoritarian governments are running scared in the face of civil society – HRW

    (Reuters) — Russia and China are imposing their biggest clampdown on civil society in a generation and Europe’s efforts to manage its migrant crisis risk undermining its core values, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in its annual global review. The review of more than 90 countries’ human rights records, released in Istanbul on Wednesday (January 27), highlighted Russia and China but said rights crackdowns are also taking place in countries from Ethiopia to […]

Social media etiquette – To post or not to post

QUEZON City, Philippines (January 20) – Social media is nigh ubiquitous in this day and age. And although it is very tempting to post everything and anything that comes to mind, you must know that there is an etiquette that we have to follow and consider before hitting the “post” button. AVOID POSTING NEGATIVE THINGS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. Remember that you represent your profile, your business or your profession. Better post something that is […]

Virtual reality app blends social network into experience

It could be a marriage made in heaven. British software company Starship is bringing social networking into the realm of virtual reality — through a user’s smart phone. The app is called “vTime” and this video shows what an interactive conference call between friends looks like. Up to four users can ‘meet’ in vTime’s 3D virtual world, by connecting headsets to their phones. The headsets also create the illusion of human interaction by using lip-syncing […]

Firefighters battle large fire at Moscow library

Firefighters in the Russian capital Moscow on Friday (January 30) night battled a large fire in the library of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences. The fire broke out in on the top floor of the three-storey building shortly after 10pm (1900 GMT), and emergencies workers said they had localised the blaze a few minutes after midnight, according to Russian news agency RIA. RIA reported the fire consumed 2,000 square metres (21,500 square […]

Photographs of seized Fiji UN peacekeepers released on social media

Two undated photographs of UN peacekeepers from Fiji seized by al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights were posted on a social media website on Sunday (August 31). One photograph had the soldiers in their uniforms posing in a group photo. Another photograph showed 45 identification cards said to be of the peacekeepers. In their statement, al-Nusra said they were holding 45 peacekeepers but so far, the Fijian army said […]

#BalangAraw: Revealing Pinoys’ Dreams

Twitter Trending: #BalangAraw Filipinos are known to be hardworking and ambitious. We dream of endless possibilities about our future.  It may be possible or impossible, but who cares, right?  We have been given the gift of free will and part of it is to decide what road we shall take.  When we reach the end of the road, we look back and see how far we’ve gone. That said, we thank the existence of the […]

Modern Ways To Job Search

No doubt about it, job-hunting is one of the most difficult challenges faced by new graduates! This is specially true nowadays, as social networking sites up the ante, providing instant background checks for each potential applicants! We at eaglenews.ph hope that these tips will prove a great help for job-hunters! Do you want to share your own job-hunting tips? Please post your comments!

Types of Facebookers

In honor of Facebook’s 10th anniversary, let us define the different kinds of Facebook commenters we usually encounter. Sometimes, we tend to notice someone’s personality by reading its comments to any of our posts, and we usually scan comments by others when our favorite artists posted something in their fan pages. Here are 4 types of Facebookers we usually encounter on Facebook. Please no hard feelings and don’t be offended. 1. The Liker They are […]