Bipolar disorder: not just anger and smile
Rahman Mohamed
Bipolar Disorder: Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) defines it as a mood disorder. A mood disorder is a condition when a person feels a certain way for a long time. Everyone has that time when they feel as if they’re on cloud nine; or that time when they’re sitting in the dumpster and nobody could be feeling worse. The difference between that and a mood disorder: how long you feel a certain way and the intensity.
Good or bad? The Academics decide
Rahman Mohamed
According to the Gregorian calendar, used internationally, the 13th day of two months falls on a Friday. 2017: January, Friday the 13th and October, Friday the 13th. Legend has it that Friday the 13th is considered unlucky. The fact: with varying results, Friday the 13th has has been proven to be both lucky and unlucky in studies by academics (aka people who are just as sane as you or I but “just a bit smarter”). Continue reading
The influence of Twitter Hashtags
Rahman Mohamed
Updated 1 February 2017
Social media has been changing the world. Today people are more interconnected than ever before; more than one person from Greenland can discuss food or politics with users in South Africa and India on Twitter; without leaving their home, seeing each others faces or even knowing their real name they know what’s happening in each others’ life. Today a man from America can share photos with a lady from China on Facebook. Eventually they may meet, fall in love, and marry.
Leaders of the world have recognized this. Political and world leaders are using Twitter, interacting with each other and their Followers more than ever before. In the 2015 Canadian Federal Election Social Media was used by political leaders and parties to reach Canadians across the Great White North.
Earlier this year, February 12, Bloomberg reported that Facebook has higher earning, users, and is used more frequently than Twitter. On the other hand Twitter is used more often by urban and higher educated users. It’s also used more than Facebook to stay in touch with the world. More recently social movements have taken to social media using Hashtags – words or a phrase with “#” in front. If you click on a hashtag you see all the public Tweets that have used it, Tweets that have included the hashtag.
