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Saturday, April 21, 2018

BLOG DEMO
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Oh well yeah, its weekend AGAIN. We just had the MOST exhausting weekdays to weekends again. Imagine? After this weekend is the much awaited 4th Quarterly Examination. Who would've imagined that this will happened beyond everyone's expectation.

But that's life so right now what I'm about to show you is the video, a blog demo we have prepared from the task assigned to us, the electronic portfolio. Although the presentation proper has already ended, meaning we had just presented it to our class and it was literally awesome and mind blowing because we didn't expect the grades that we get... and its a secret for you guys but I'm happy for our group and I'm proud of everybody.

The video I'm going to show is a blog demo/ tutorial of how we created our blog and the features of blogger.com which you can enjoy as you start your own blog, this will be a great way and a great start for you to set up your own blog. Enjoy watching and don't forget to follow us on our social media accounts.

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Sunday, April 8, 2018

Facebook CEO #Blog Entry 14
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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ˈzʌkərbɜːrɡ/; born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Facebook, and is currently its chairman and chief executive officer. His net worth is estimated to be US$62.2 billion as of March 25, 2018.

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University dormitory room on February 4, 2004 with college roommates and fellow Harvard students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.[7] The group then introduced Facebook to other college campuses. Facebook expanded rapidly, reaching one billion users by 2012. During this time, Zuckerberg became involved in various legal disputes brought by his friends and cofounders, who claimed they were due a share of the company based upon their involvement during its development phase.

Since 2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year award. In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People.

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Saturday, April 7, 2018

Concerns Regarding Social Media users and their Health Issues   #Blog Entry 13
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            One of the defining phenomena of the present times reshaping the world as we know it, is the accessibility to the internet. In 2017, there are now over 3 billion people logging onto social media accounts around the world. Although there are many positive aspects of social media for many people who logging onto it., but there are also risks. 

          Adolescents and Young adults can benefit from the use of social media in multiple facets of their lives, includine personal,social and physical aspects. But on the other hand Social media gives negative effects to the netizens. Some are the negative effects of social media to the netizens. 





Cyberbullying (Cyberharassment)

-it is defined as aggressive and repetitive acts meant to hurt someone and involves an imbalanced inflicted through electronic media. It has become increasingly common, especially among teenagers. Cyberbullying are associated with increased anxiety, depression and low self-esteem.






Internet Addiction

-it is defined as any online-related compulsive, behavior which interferes with normal living and causes severe stress on family, friends, loved ones and ones work environment. And it will affect also the brains of the netizens with internet addiction, includin a decrease in gray matter volume and alterations in neurotransmitters.

 



Sleep Deprivation

-because of the time we spent in social media many people have been demonstrated in sleep deprived. The possible effects of it are higher rates of depression, suicidal ideation, obesity and poorer school performance. A lack of proper sleep has been connected with reduced cognitive functions and lower academic performance.

Summary:

Social Media can have positive and negative effects to us. Overall, social media use is positive when it used for education, access to positive health information and developing and sustaining social connections. Despite these benefits social media can be harmful and can have negative consequences. Social Media use may be a proxy for other high-risk behavior.



“STOP VIOLENTING SOCIAL MEDIA, USED IT WISELY”



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Friday, April 6, 2018

Fake News #Blog Entry 12
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Hello everyone I am Ma.Rochelle Daliva and today I was about to discuss about Fake News in Social Media. Fake News  is a misinformation or hoaxes spread via broadcast news media or online social media. Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to damage the real ones, entity, or person, It is often using sensationalist, dishonest, or outright fabricated headlines to increase readership, online sharing, and Internet click revenue.                                                         
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Hello readers!! I’am Ma.Rochelle Daliva and today I was about to discuss about Fake News In social Media. Fake News  is a misinformation or hoaxes spread via broadcast news media or online social media. Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to damage the real ones, entity. In today’s society, especially our generation we are probably know that social media has become a part of our everyday lives. We have access to all types of information in the palm of our hands through our cellphones, iPads and other handheld devices.


Social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc., has taken the technological world to a whole new level. Although we see how it can serve as positive through source of communication, it can also serve as a negatively such ascyber bullying and including the recent phenomenon that is commonly being referred to as “Fake News”. Several research studies have focused on the public’s reliance on social media for their information.  Hu, Liu and Zhang (2008) discovered people turn to their social media feeds for the news. That means that Twitter and Facebook, the platforms that have, in some ways, democratized news more than ever before, are allowing the public to be conned every single day by fake news that scrolls across their screen.
  Smock, Ellison, Lampe and Wohn (2011) analyzed the reasons how people are being fed by fake news stories. Among the reasons they found was people tend to share a story particularly “fake news” they later found out was false.


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Thursday, April 5, 2018

Social Inequality #Blog Entry #11
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Some of you are might familiar when you hear the word "Inequality in Society". This word might be a simple or familiar one but contains a very deep and serious content. Social inequality is characterized by the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society. It contains structured and recurrent patterns of unequal distributions of goods, wealth, opportunities, rewards, and punishments. This word may also be understood or be known as discrimination because when you treat unequally it means your also discriminating. Hundreds of millions of Millennials suffer from discrimination in the world. This not only violates a basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences which perpetuate inequality while worsening social tensions. According to Ashley Crossman, Social inequality results from a society organized by hierarchies of class, race, and gender that broker access to resources and rights in ways that make their distribution unequal.





Two Main Theories of Social Inequality There are two main views of social inequality within sociology. One view aligns with the functionalist theory and the other aligns with conflict theory. Functionalist theorists believe that inequality is inevitable and desirable and plays an important function in society. Important positions in society require more training and thus should receive more rewards. Social inequality and social stratification, according to this view, lead to a meritocracy based on ability. Conflict theorists, on the other hand, view inequality as resulting from groups with power dominating less powerful groups. They believe that social inequality prevents and hinders societal progress as those in power repress the powerless people in order to maintain the status quo. In today's world, this work of domination is achieved primarily through the power of ideology--our thoughts, values, beliefs, world views, norms, and expectations--through a process known as cultural hegemony.





Effects of inequality There are a number of reasons why inequality may harm a country’s performance not only our country but also individuals who are living i a particular country. At a microeconomic level, inequality increases ill health and health spending and reduces the educational performance. These two factors lead to a reduction in the productive potential of the work force. At a macroeconomic level, inequality can be a brake on growth and can lead to instability. That's all for my blog. I hoped you learn and appreciate what is intended on it. I would like to share awareness that everyone of us are equally the same. We might think that other's are wealthy in different aspect but always remember that each one of us has it's own strength and weaknesses so let's all respect it. Always support and spread love. God Bless everyone!



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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

The Power of Social Media # Blog Entry 10
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All of us are aware of the existence of social media, even kids. Facebook, twitter, instagram are the most common examples of social media sites. But what is really the relevance of these sites? Let's discuss it one by one.



These social media sites helps us to connect with the people that we want to interact without spending so much money, and distance is not a problem here, even if they are nearby or very far, you can contact anyone specially your love ones abroad. The phrase "I'm just one call away" was replaced with "I'm just one chat away". It is also very relevant to the students like me. It makes our life easier, specially when we have group activities, and even if we don't have classes, we can discuss anything through chat, it saves a little time since we didn't have to gather in one place just to have brainstorming.     

    


We can also share pictures or anything through posting and tweeting, by that our love ones will be updated with our life and they will know that we are doing good just by seeing those photos that we have posted.

Aside from the relevance, social media sites also have disadvantages and one of it is the social media addiction. Many of the teenagers became social media addict, meaning they tend to spend their whole time using their social media accounts leading to their education and health to be affected. And also social media became a bridge to cybercrimes, cyberbullying, cybersex and many more.
 


Social media has been very relevant to us and it will continue to be one if we will just use it in a proper way. We just have to know our limitations so that it will not affect anything or anyone including ourselves.




                 
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

The Truth Behind Social Media  #Blog Entry 09
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Hello everyone! Alexisse Beldia at your screen. Today, I'm going to discuss to all of you out there about how social media help us. Using social media web sites is among the most common activity of today's children and adolescents. Any web site that allows social interaction is considered a social media site, including social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and video sites such as YouTube and blogs. 




Such sites offer today's youth a portal for entertainment and communication and have grown exponentially in recent years. For this reason, it is important that parents become aware of the nature of social media sites, given that not all of them are healthy environments for children and adolescents. Pediatricians are in a unique position to help families understand these sites and to encourage healthy use and urge parents to monitor for potential problems with cyberbullying, “Facebook depression, sexting, and exposure to inappropriate content. The benefits of individual using social media is to socialite and Communicate, the social media sites allow each individual to accomplish online many of the tasks that are important to them. To enhanced learning opportunities of each individual and stay connected with one another by collaborating and exchanging ideas about homeworks or projects. And also to access health information in each particular person.





Using social media becomes a risk in in every people. Most risks fall into the peer-to-peer, inappropriate content and lack of understanding of online privacy issues. The first problem in using the media negatively is a cyberbullying and online harassment, cyberbullying is deliberately using digital media to communicate false, embarrassing or hostile information about another person. It is the most common online risk for all teens is a peer-to-peer risk. 








On the other hand, cyberbullying is quite common, can occur to any young person online, and can cause profound psychosocial outcomes including depression, anxiety, severe isolation, and, tragically, suicide. Second, is the sexting it can be defined as sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or images via cell phone, computer, or other digital devices. Many of these images become distributed rapidly via cell phones or the Internet. And lastly, is the facebook depression, it is defined as depression that develops when preteens and teens spend a great deal of time on social media sites, such as Facebook, and then begin to exhibit classic symptoms of depression. Acceptance by and contact with peers is an important element of adolescent life. As with offline depression, individuals who’s suffer from Facebook depression are at risk for social isolation and sometimes turn to risky Internet sites and blogs for “help” that may promote substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, or aggressive or self-destructive behaviors.


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Monday, April 2, 2018

SPAM #Blog Entry 08
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I know that some of you might  experience this one but before we proceed i'd like to know what is spam ? According to merriam webster e-mail that is sent to large numbers of people that consists mostly of advertising. We always encounter this one specially those text messages, email and spam can come in the form of unwanted emails, education,  computers, adult content, and more. The following examines some of the most common types of spam, and why they exist?.

Danger of spam

Spam dangers to the website owner and email users. While some spam is harmless can be deleted and stealing information thru your gmails/yahoo mails also other spam can be malicious too. It is possible for scammers to make a messages that appears to the website, message, social media.
Have you ever receive an email says that you won a lottery/iphone etc.. Just by replying to this type of message leaves you vulnerable for hijacking from spammers delete it and block those messages immediately to protect yourself.

Target of spammers

Spam targets everyone in general, however, spam can target certain audiences with goods and services. Some of the targets receive spam because of web browser settings, email usage, cookie settings, and other vulnerabilities on web browsers and email. Most of the proposed goods in spam emails are black market since spam is typically illegal both in the way they are advertised and in the products themselves.

Different types of Spam

• Chain letters
• ‎Pyramid schemes
• ‎Other “Get Rich Quick” or “Make Money



Fast” or work at home schemes
• Ads for pornographic web sites
• ‎Offers of software for collecting email addresses and sending spam
•‎ Offers of bulk emailing services for sending spam
•‎ Stock offerings for unknown start-up corporations
•‎ Quack health products and remedies
Illegally pirated software.





Things you can do to prevent spamming

• Think before you click
• ‎Never ever reply to spam messages
• ‎Don't forward an email from someone you don't know to a list of people
• Monitor your settings
• ‎Use spam filter
• ‎Guard your email address: keep it on your own don't share to anyone
• ‎Don't use your home or business email address



This the end of my blog I would like to thank all the readers who continue to support our blog may  God bless us all, again this is Jofrancis


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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Information on the go   #Blog Entry 07
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People nowadays are tend to use internet to be able access in different sites.We choose to use internet rather than books, magazines, newspapers etc. because it is convenient. They use different devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptop etc. as instrument in seeking information. 

Information is any entity or form that resolves uncertainty or provides the answer to a question of some kind. It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts.

It means, we seek for information on the things that weren't familiar. Even philosophers seeks information on the questions they didn't know. In our generation, with the use of internet, we access in different sites to seek for information around the world.



Search Engine or Web Search Engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the world wide web. The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). The information may be a mix of web pages, images and other types of files. Some search engines are mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories, which only maintained by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.

Internet content that is not capable of being searched by a web search engine is generally described as the Deep Web



Websites is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and publish on at least one web server. A website may be accessible via a public Internet Protocol (IP) network, such as the internet, or a private Local Area Network (LAN), by referencing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that identifies the site. 

Website can have many functions and can be used in various fashions; a website can be a personal website, a corporate website for a company, a government website, an organization website etc. Website are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, ranging from entertainment and social networking to providing news and education. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the world wide web, while private websites, such as company's website for its employees, are typically a part of an intranet
  



Social Media site are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other form of expression via virtual community and networks. The variety stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available introduces challenges of definition; however, there are some features:
1.) Social media are interactive Web 2.0 internet-based applications.
2.) User-generated content, such as texts posts or comments, digital photo or video, and data generated through all online interactions, is the lifeblood of social media.
3.) Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that designed and maintained by the social media organizations.
4.) Social media facilitate the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.


Internet is very useful, it's up to us on how we gonna use it.

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Saturday, March 31, 2018

A Notification # Blog Entry 06
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Likes your.. Follows you... Heart your... Viewed your... These are words that give people a mixed emotions. I on the otherhand too feels ecstastic whenever people liked and reacted my profile pictures, my post, my status, views my days, my snaps, follows me on instagram and twitter.
As a millenial I'm one of those people who other than eating sleeping and studying spend most of their time using gadgets and often visit social media. 




And being an active netizen I can see that some people strive to get hundreds or thousands of likes, hearts, followers, viewers that they forgot about the sense of social media and the very purpose of it. True expressing yourself and sharing things to others are one of its purposes, but lets not go beyond where we will try to decieve others, tatter our dignity, break the law, netizens must know how to show respect, kindness and truthfullness to others because thats how it is in the first place, the social media was not made to create an havoc but to give and recieves, inform and be informed, and more but definitely not to destroy humanity. One must learn to THINK before they CLICK.


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Friday, March 30, 2018

Social Media Hackings #Blog Entry 05
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Hacking in Social Media Nowadays, millions of internet users regularly visit thousands of social website to keep linking with their friends, share their thoughts, photos, videos and discuss even about their daily-life. Example of these are Facebook, twitter and Instagram.



The reason that social media accounts are hacked is to force shares. This happened to a friend of mine on Facebook recently. He had shared and tagged many friends in a link to a website full of nude women. A friend of mine is gay. It did not take any special computer knowledge to know that he was hacked. These types of hacks can be more harmful than you think. Let us say that one of your friends is not a gay man and wants to see these naked women. The other reason someone will hack your social media is to steal information from you. This can be your password itself so that they can steal it and use it to try to sign into accounts you have with banks and online retailers. This can be information about your place of work. This can be a crazy stalker trying to find out what your plans. I already experienced being hacked in social media, one of my Facebook account being hacked, I just know her in Facebook and it is my fault because I gave my email account and password to her because she said that she was able to change my email account in Facebook I'm just a new user of face book back then and I don't have any idea in Facebook. It all starts from one click. You might not experiencing being hack as of now but don't wait to be one of those victim. 



We need to be more aware on how you can protect yourself from being hacked based on my research a hacker gets hold of one piece of information, your email as an example, and then uses a tool to guess your password. This can be as simple as a password recovery tool altered for criminal purposes. You can protect your social media accounts from this by having complex passwords. Make sure they’re not common words. Mix upper and lower case and include at least 12 characters. I use 15 now. These are nearly impossible to crack via brute force hacks. As a student, we really need to be more careful on what we do especially in social media.







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Thursday, March 29, 2018

The Pros and Cons of Using Gadgets  #Blog Entry 04
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Hi to our avid readers and viewers, I'm Hannah! Finally I got to access our blog! I'm here to give my opinion on how gadgets and social media affects as and how really helps us in academic purposes.




We all know that gadgets now a days are blooming, specially in our generation. Because we use gadgets as our anti-depressant and to communicate with other people, especially with our relatives abroad and our long lost friend. We cam also uses gadgets to play some games to improve our critical thinking skills. Now a days it looks like that we can't live without are gadgets, specifically our smartphones. Because we our in to photography now. Where people loves to take pictures and post it in their social media accounts such as Facebook and Instagram. They also take pictures when they were an accident along their ways. Through that we can easily inform about the happenings around the world with just scrolling and visiting some informative sites or pages without watching television. But we should always be reminded that not all that we see or read in social media are fact informations. Because some of it are fake news. So we should not always share informations without using our critical thinking skills or if it's not from a reliable sources. Always remember that ``Think before you click."



                                                                           
In terms of on how gadgets helps us in learning academically. We students now a days uses gadgets 
in reviewing for our exams and searching informations for our assignments. We can also use our gadgets in capturing some slides in some powerpoint presentations, since were already in a generation that is in modern learning. And it can also helps us to communicate with our classmates to ask some informations and can talk in a group using group chats so that we can share our ideas and talk in a video call through our internet connections.
















This are just some of the impact of gadgets and social to us. However, we should always keep in mind that even it's really helpful and useful for us. We should not abused it and not used it to harm others. We should also still build communication in person and not just in social media. Lastly, limit ourselves in using it to avoid blurring of our eye sights, dryness of eyes, sleep disorders and having a photophobia or sensitivity to light. 



Thank you everyone! Have a nice day and always keep safe. God Bless us all!


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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

The Optimistic Rookie                                                           #Blog Entry 03
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Hi there! So this will be the third entry of our blog and after having different discussions from the previous entries, I hope that you gain a lot of relevant information. Moving on, I would like to introduce to you the new topic we will be dealing with and maybe you will be somehow confused regarding the title itself but this is mainly focused on “online virality” and “emotions.” 
                   
In today’s generation, social media is widely used by everyone and sharing online becomes part of modern life. Stories, photos, videos and other posts are usually shared because of its informative content or just the feeling of relativity of the netizens to that particular subject and due to continuous sharing of these, it would become viral. According to IGI Global, “online virality is the spread of information given through a social media, which occurs when the online community, that receives that information, decides to share the message with other users.” However, this also have a corresponding impact to someone’s emotion.




(Hey! Have some time to look at these photos I’ve got from my Twitter. I just want to share the postivity and I hope you’re also having that!) 




People tend to share their emotional experiences through posting in social media to lessen what they are feeling at that moment, to let others know how they feel (either extreme happiness, excitement or even sadness) or they just want to have deeper social connections.  It is not just by posting personally or directly but it can also be done by sharing, retweeting (in Twitter), or by simply liking and having reactions with several posts of various pages in social media. In some way, these serve as an indication of what they really mean or want to express. Regardless of those, we are likely to have different reactions and opinions about a certain post. Some would make us curve smiles on our face, cry because of unending laughter and draw out the positivity throughout our day.  While others would bring negative thoughts and make us upset. But we should not focus on the negativity! In fact, we can easily prevent those stuffs by unfollowing pages that usually posts undesirable or we can simply ignore it. We just also need to be knowledgeable and sensitive enough about what we see and share to others for it will affect every individual.

                       Before this one ends, I just want to remind you that we are all “rookie” in our own way. We are the beginner of everything and do not get me wrong because there is nothing wrong with being a beginner for it leads to greatness. So let us be all the rookie of positivism and good vibes. Have a nice day ahead

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Let's Talk about People Media      #Blog Entry 02
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Hi guys! Welcome back to our blog. Okay, I am not sure If I could do it great because this is my first entry and I'm still just starting to get used to it so yeah please bear with me guys. So before anything else let me introduce myself I am Ma. Rochelle Daliva but you can call me RM and in today's blog I have decided to talk about People Media. 

So what about People Media, I know a lot of you might be wondering why I chose this topic for my first entry on our blog. It's just that this topic has caught a lot of my attention during our class discussion a few weeks ago which I cannot forget, because believe me or not that discussion was still stuck in my mind so I thought that it would be great to reflect what I learned in our class and might as well share it to you guys.



Before anything else let us first define what is People Media. People Media is an assembly of people with a common interest where they become the main means of mass communication. And according to our teacher, In other words people are media themselves since they have the ability for mass communication. A great example of this is the People in Media. and people in media are the people behind another form of media.They use other form of  media such as text media, visual media, multimedia, etc in disseminating information and imparting knowledge and the best example for this are the journalists or media practitioners. It's because the information that they provide comes from their expert knowledge or first hand experience of event before disseminating it to the people.


The other example is the People as Media.  If the people in media are the people behind another form of media, the people as media are the Media itself. Its the person that serves as the medium for another person to learn or acquire new knowledge. It can be opinion leaders but the best example for this according to our teacher are the endorsers of products that we see on commercials or advertisements.





That's all and I hope that I just help you guy on getting something from this blog and please continue visiting our blog, stay tune for more updated blog entry everyday. I am happy to be able to impart knowledge to you guys in my first ever entry, and again Thank you! 

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