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Recently, a global phenomenon has happened. No, it is not the emergence of the internet – that is actually old news. What we are talking about is a service called Facebook. Facebook is similar to social media sites like MySpace or Friendster. So what is the big deal you may ask? Why are many people into Facebook suddenly? One of the best things about Facebook is how user friendly and how accessible it is. What we mean by this is the flexibility of Facebook to gather and accept user created applications. Just take a look at how many useful applications are out there like Zynga. Zynga by the way is a Texas hold’em application for Facebook. You do not actually bet real money but just Facebook Chips so it is actually risk free.

What is so great about Zynga and Facebook is the capability to play real time with your friends. Not only can you play Texas hold’em poker while being online but you can actually challenge anyone of your friends.

Even better, you can actually meet up new people who are also into Texas hold’em poker so talk about expanding your friend’s list. Now you can get tips and tricks from anyone in the world. If you want to spice up your Facebook experience, gather new experiences in poker tactics or just plainly meet up new people with the same hobby as yours, you can never go wrong with Zynga.

Unless you’ve been hiding a rock for the past few months, you probably know what twitter is. Heck, you probably have a twitter account so you can tweet away anything that happened to you. But what is it really about twitter that’s making even mainstream media outlets like CNN look up and take notice?

It could be the fact that twitter is quick and instantaneous. Updates are sent out and broadcast in real-time; never mind that there is a limit of only 140 characters. In this day and age of text shortcuts, a lot can be said in that measly number of characters, including incident reports and first-hand accounts of historic events.

It could also be that twitter has become so popular because many celebrities and star athletes have their own accounts, where fans can follow their posts very easily. It has given the stars another way to get closer to their fans and supporters. It could be argued that stars now tweet because it’s popular instaed of the other way around and we’ll probably end up with a chicken and egg debate.

In any case, twitter is the in thing now and there’s no telling how long it will be in that place.

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