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Every day, millions of tweets,
Facebook updates, Snapchat videos and Instagram photos are shared all across
from Celebrities, Bigwigs and people like me. In a flash news and information from
one corner of the earth reaches the other end at the touch of a button. This
thing, the Social media or network(s), is here to stay least for a long term until
something better comes or happens.
That is the new norm. It is the
best, in some quarters, have happened for such a long time since the advent of
the internet in 1960s when the United States Federal Government commissioned
the building of a seamless, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks
and what we all know, the world wide web in the early 1989 by English scientist
Tim Berners-Lee.
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