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Cyberbullying is the use of information technology in order to harm or harass a person. We always pay our attention to hacking, online security and other such internet threats but cyberbullying can have very disastrous consequences in one’s life, specially on teenagers. Parents should understand cyberbullying and help their teen children how to handle cyberbullying. According to stats,  20% of kids have been bullied in their lifetime  in some way, 20% of kids have received mean or threatening e-mail or other messages. With increase in technology, there is a massive increase in cyberbullying cases. These online offenders use computers, cellphones and other electronic devices to harm or harass a person.  80% of teens have cell phones  and an equal number of adults are active on social networking sites. It is important to understand that technology is connecting teens in a way that they can’t escape. Please have a look at this very important infographic to know everything about

Social media is a very important component for any successful business or campaign. Social media is expanding every day. More and more people are getting connected to it. If you are able to attract your target customers through social media you increase your potential to become more successful. While every business is planning to get more and more social media followers, subscribers its not that easy. Increasing your brand awareness and visibility requires a good social media strategy. There are certain do’s and don’ts if followed are guarenteed to work. Stats shows that 46% of online users count on social media to inform their decision before purchasing something from a company.

iPhone users and Android users vary in their choices significantly. Though we all use social media networks and social media apps but their some social media apps are most used in Android phones than iPhones. Similarly, there are apps that are most used in iPhone but is used less by Android users. Here is an interesting infographic depicting social app usage of iPhone v/s Android users. Where 90% of  iPhone user uses Facebook only 63% of  Android user uses Facebook. There are other interesting trends coming below.

Cyber security is one of the major concern in information technology today. You think you are safe, but are you? You are not as safe as you think. You are exposing your private, confidential information over internet, sending and receiving hundreds of emails daily, uploading-downloading photos, videos and what not. You think that these information will remain to you but actually you will never know who is breaching your computer or internet security and stealing your personal information, using them in wrong way. Stats say that 65% of internet users are a victim of cybercrime. However, we are not helpless. We need to take some really powerful measures to prevent misusing of our private or confidential information.

Everyone may be on social media but everyone is loving it. People are getting tired of oversharing. The overload of content on social media is annoying users. Facebook have implemented several algorithms to show only most relevant content to a user at his/her newsfeed still, the amount of content is so high that people just keep on scrolling down their newsfeed while ignoring even interesting and important content too. This is not a story of only few people of certain location, it is global problem and being suffered by almost every person of every age group who are allowed to use social media.