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A Beginner's Guide to Privacy Settings

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Facebook's Privacy's Settings - How to Manage Your Content Facebook is the most popular and active social media site in the world. As of February, 2018, there are approximately 2.13 billion users worldwide, which is a 14% increase from February, 2017. In addition, 1.15 billion of those users visit Facebook everyday through the use of their mobile phone  Website Source: Zephoria . Image Source: Giphy As Facebook continues to grow with more and more people actively using it everyday, it's important to understand how to manage your privacy settings so your private posts do not have the ability to be seen publicly, with the possibility of circulating through other user's news feeds. Firstly, it's important to know where to access your privacy settings on Facebook. At the top right of your Facebook home page, there is a question mark titled Quick Help . Beside that question mark, there is a arrow which if you click on it, it drops down and offers a wide variety

Cloud Computing

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What is Cloud Computing and What are its Benefits? As technology continues to evolve and advance, it's sometimes hard to keep up with all that technology has to offer. I know personally, that I feel overwhelmed even as a millennial when it comes to understanding certain abilities and features my phone and my computer have to offer. A very interesting and revolutionary feature with technology that has become increasingly popular over the past 10 years is cloud computing. Image Source: Huff Post "What is cloud computing?"  Some of you may be asking. Well putting it simply, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services. But what are computing services and who's delivering them? Computing services come in a variety of different forms, these services can include: storage, software, servers, databases, and networking Website Source: Microsoft . What makes cloud computing so unique, is that all of these services are performed over the internet, which is referre

The Digital Divide

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What is it? And Whats Being Done? For people who use the internet everyday, it may be hard to imagine a world without Google, Facebook, YouTube, or any other website that provides us with the ability to socialize, research, and work. But for more than have of the world, this is a reality people face on a daily basis  Website Source: Spectrum . The inability to access the internet puts people at a definitive disadvantage than those who are fortunate enough to have access to it. The internet provides its users with information, knowledge, and learning. There is an endless supply of knowledge on the internet, and users can learn about practically anything whether they learn through reading or through watching videos  Website Source: Computer Hope . Users of the internet can also connect and communicate with people from all around the world. This communication can happen in real time and can take less than a second to send. In a perfect world, everybody would have access to the interne