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Facebook photo uploads double during New Year 2013, new record set

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New Year 2013 set an all-time Facebook record as 1.1 billion photos were uploaded during the 48-hour period beginning New Year's Eve and continuing through New Year's Day.

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Twitter welcomes in 2013 with record breaking number of tweets posted per second #infographic

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Twitter got 2013 off to a great start with a record breaking number of tweets posted in the seconds just before and after midnight, as this infographic shows

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Seriously, schedule your Happy New Year’s social, email & SMS message now

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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This year you really should schedule your Happy New Year's Eve SMS, social media, and email messages before the networks become clogged with traffic.

London on New Year's Day (via davesworldtravel.com)

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New Year’s Day 2011 fireworks from around the world

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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A selection of some of the best and most spectacular New Year’s Day firework displays from across the world.

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Primeval dinosaurs invade Dublin

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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The BBC is set unleash a hoard of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures on Dublin City this New Year's Day...

New Year's in Paris at the Eiffel Tower via vizzzual.com on Flickr

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How to watch the world ring in the New Year

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Come midnight on January 1st you will probably be with family and friends to celebrate the New Year but before the clock turns you can watch the rest of the world ring in 2011. Use our interactive map to see where you can watch New Year celebrations online from across the world.

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It is the start of 2022, and with every new year comes the loft ambitions of new year’s resolutions.

If one of your resolutions is to spend less time on your phone, or looking at screens, then you are in the right place, because in this episode we will look at digital detoxes and how you can implement them.

To do this, we are speaking with Andrew Selepak, a Social Media Professor at the University of Florida.

In this episode we discuss what a digital detox is and what technology it usually involves, how a digital detox can be realistically implemented without it negatively impacting our work, or even social connections, and the parallels between digital detoxes and food diets.

Selepak shares why going cold turkey with a digital detox is unlikely to be successful, why vacations are a good setting to implement a partial digital detox, and why turning off notifications and removing social media apps is the best way to start a detox.

He also explains why our use of technology shouldn’t be seen necessarily as an addiction, like a drug, but a tool that needs to be the correct way.

Additionally Selepak shares how a non-self imposed detox from his phone during a trip in Ireland taught him the importance of disconnecting, and how many of us fall into the trap of taking numerous pictures on holiday, with the ambition of posting on social media, instead of experiencing the trip in the present moment.

And finally, we discuss the role meditation can play to help limit our time with technology.