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Security Tips For Safer Smartphone Use

Posted By: arthuron: August 13, 2016In: Community, Internet Culture, Social MediaTags: Facebook, Kampala, life, smartphones, Social media, technology, Uganda

Today, most Smartphone users are attached to their phone and treat them like their most prized possessions. This is because smartphones are used for a number of vital social and economical r... Read more

Top 5 Facebook Tricks To Make Life Easier

Posted By: Ivan Koretaon: September 26, 2015In: Community, Gadgets, General, Humour, Internet Culture, Social MediaTags: easy, Facebook, guide, guidelines, life, tricks

Did you know you can add a pronunciation guide to your name on Facebook? Overlay colorful text on the photos you post? How about mark the end of a relationship without your 500 closest frien... Read more

Facebook Sinner? Whatever!

Posted By: Spicyon: April 02, 2015In: Community, GeneralTags: Facebook, Facebook Pages, First Love

Not to offend anyone about what they like or post on Face book or even the religious, but these posts that have pictures of Jesus/ dying children/ suffering cancer, tumor and rare disease pa... Read more

Before Social Media Took Us By Storm

Posted By: Gilbert Opondoon: February 09, 2015In: Community, Social MediaTags: Communication, Facebook, Social media, Twitter, WhatsApp

Before the Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp era, there were no smartphones. Only “dumb” phones did exist. The phone owner then was “smarter” than the handset he/she own... Read more

Other Leaks Please!?

Posted By: Gilbert Opondoon: February 07, 2015In: Community, GeneralTags: corruption, Desire Luzinda, Facebook, Mweruka, nudes, Robinah Mweruka, sex tapes, Social media, Uganda

What was once a rarity has of late become a norm. We can say it is almost trendy although not desirable because it is utterly damning and, above all, bizarre. Even though that too is not eas... Read more

Is SMS A Dying Technology?

Posted By: Yvonne Arindaon: February 04, 2015In: Internet Culture, Social MediaTags: Facebook, Instagram, internet, smartphones, SMS, Twitter, WhatsApp

Short Message Service (SMS) was the most widely used data application, with an estimated 3.5 billion active users, or about 80% of all mobile phone subscribers at the end of 2010. However, w... Read more

Ugandans, Where Is Your Love For African Football?

Posted By: Gilbert Opondoon: January 17, 2015In: Community, International, Social Media, SportsTags: African Nations Cup, Ballon D’Or gala, Brazil, European Club football, European League, Facebook, Football, Social media, Twitter, Uganda, World Cup

With only hours left to the Kickoff of Africa’s biggest football showpiece, the African Nations Cup, one wonders where the love for African football is? Especially in a country like Uganda.... Read more

Which One Do You Like More – Facebook Or Twitter?

Posted By: Yvonne Arindaon: January 05, 2015In: Social MediaTags: Facebook, Twitter

Facebook and Twitter are social networking services. A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who share interests, activities, ba... Read more

Social Media Is SOMETIMES Overrated And In Other Cases Antisocial

Posted By: Albert Mucunguzion: July 08, 2014In: Internet Culture, Social MediaTags: #SMDayKla, Facebook, Social media, Twitter

Last weekend at the Social Media Day in Kampala, I took a position that received both plaudits and criticism in almost equal measure. Contrary to popular opinion in the room on the day, I ar... Read more

Why You Need To Read Privacy Policies On Social Sites

Posted By: pkahillon: February 06, 2014In: Internet Culture, Social MediaTags: account, deactivate, Facebook, privacy policies, privacy policy, Social media

“Welcome to Facebook, Signup Here,” is what welcomed me nine years ago when I was joining Facebook. I signed in as a true human being without reading the privacy policy. What I didn’t... Read more