Digital media

Periscope and other social media platforms proved to be the major source of news in Turkey last year.

Those Christmas pics are hard to resist posting… especially bearing in mind that everybody seems to be doing this. There are reasons however as to why you should not be advertising your Christmas moments on Facebook and other social media.

1. Leaving home for Christmas

Planking and the Ice Bucket Challenge are so 2014… to ‘get with it’ try face dancing, a new and exciting opportunity to enjoy 15 minutes of fame on social media. All you need to do is paint your face with figures and then scrunch forward with face gesturs to make the figure move.

Social media make people do some very weird stuff to get likes and retweets. But the latest trend on Twitter is possibly the most bizarre we’ve ever seen.

It all started by Japanese comedian Masahiro Ehara, who somehow discovered that if he squishes his baby’s face, it will look like rice balls, and started a hash tag that translates to “#RiceBallBabies.”

The number of Bulgarian households with access to the Internet at home has increased, reaching nearly 60% in 2015, a new survey has shown.   

A survey conducted by Bulgaria's statistical office NSI among 9,011 individuals aged 16 - 74 showed that 59.1% of 4,085 interviewed households had access to the Internet at home this year, an increase of 2.4 percentage points compared to 2014.

Turkey's communications technologies authority, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), has fined micro blogging site Twitter 150,000 lira ($51,000.) for not removing content it says is "terrorist propaganda", a BTK official told Reuters on Dec. 11.

A survey presented by Spiegel reveals that European companies are the ones that provide satellite Internet to ISIS fighters.

The official page for the game, “Dead or Alive Xtreme 3″, said that the latest installment in the well-known video games series will not be released in the U.S. or Europe because of issues regarding how women are treated in the game.

Television seems to be losing ground to the Internet in Turkey, as new research reveals that increasing numbers of people are going online than ever for news, education and information.

Turkish Statistical Institute (TU?K) data from August show that Internet usage among Turks aged 16 to 74 increased to 56 percent in 2015, up from 54 percent the previous year.

Facebook understands that relationships that fall apart are hard enough to handle without having to read the status updates and shared posts of your ex. The social media network knows that the temptation to stalk and keep tabs on someone is highly enticing even when you don’t want to – even if Facebook was the cause of the break-up in the first place!