By Marcel Beentjes In this podcast I will talk about digital socializing in times of the corona virus because I thought this is one of the hard things we have to deal with. What position do apps like Discord and Spotify have now? How about social well being and social health? Start listening now!
Written by: Pieter de Jong We all watch YouTube video’s, don’t we? I do, that’s for sure. I love watching YouTube video’s and travel video’s by ‘travel vloggers’ in particular. I watch these vlogs and think, f*ck me, I wish I was there or able to go there just now. Which sounds like jealousy, right? But is it really? Jealousy and social…
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Written by: Pieter de Jong Almost everyone has a smartphone nowadays. Almost everyone has heard it’s probably a bad idea to sleep while their smartphone is anywhere near them. Almost everyone uses their smartphone right before they go to bed and right after they wake up, this number accounts for up to 71% of smartphone users according to Bank of America. The…
Or how online tests decide who I am The Internet makes our lives easier. This fact has turned into an understandable and already primitive point for everyone. The world wide web and its services can do basically everything: find things for you, buy them for you, entertain you, educate, connect with people and also help you. It seems though that entertaining and…
With the increase of our time online, the fact that cyberbullying cases have increased should not come as a surprise. But what makes it different than physical bullying? And what can we do to stop it? Cyberbullying vs Traditional Bully Most of us will probably know what cyberbullying is. But besides the main, obvious difference between cyberbullying and traditional bullying – one…
Our thoughts create our reality — where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go. Peter McWilliams Last week I dedicated my post, a video you can find here, to a topic many might view as being taboo: mental health. Having received quite a few positive reactions, and reflecting on the discussions I engaged in upon releasing my video,…
I recently joined a Facebook group where it consists of only females. It’s really quite nice since I get to expand my social circle, and I get to also see and learn how women can empower or help each other. It’s a nice thing to have when you’re still settling into a foreign country, especially in these times (winter is coming, too!).…
Instagram likes = Cocaine? So this was supposed to be a podcast, but I had a technical fail. This shows how reliant we are on our technology and when it fails us, we feel cheated and helpless. I was depending on my podcast to be uploaded and work smoothly, I wanted it to be a success. Quite frankly I thought I would…
By Marcel Beentjes, student French language and culture Are you that family person who helps your grand parents or your uncle who doesn’t really know how a computer works? If that’s the case, you often see the difficulties they have when using a computer, smart phone or tablet. There’s a difference between the generations in how they are digitized. And that’s logical…