Hesitant to post that political link to Facebook? Worried about expressing your opinion on Twitter? It might be changing how you talk offline. A survey by the Pew Research Center in conjunction with Rutgers University has found that social media doesn’t encourage discussion on controversial subjects. It may, in fact, cause people to stay quiet.

Facebook is making you sad. Twitter is the root of all your procrastination issues. Instagram is turning your friends into enemies. These are just some of the claims made against social media. Whether there’s truth in these statements or not, there is one thing we can agree on: a social media cleanse can do us

On the surface, social networking startup Bubblews works a lot like Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Users create “bubbles” (posts), follow one another, and Like and comment on the posts they find the most interesting. But Bubblews believes it has the secret ingredient to attract new users despite industry leaders fighting tooth and nail to keep them from straying:

Content marketing is one of the biggest challenges and opportunities for both business and consumer brands today. As brands look to expand their reach online and engage audiences beyond ‘interruptive’ advertising, they’re increasingly looking to cultivate shareable content that is informative, entertaining and interesting. Marketers regularly cite challenges around producing enough engaging content. A lot of the

As a writer by trade, it’s not easy for me to utter these words, but I’m not going to lie: On social media, a picture is worth a thousand words. It’s true. Content may be king, but visuals rule. All the latest studies and statistics suggest that images on social media command more attention than