Tag: Research
![How Social Media Is Making Us Awkward [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/we-become-socially-awkward-infographic-optimized.jpeg "How Social Media Is Making Us Awkward [Infographic]")
How Social Media Is Making Us Awkward [Infographic]
Ever since "social media" became a common expression in everyone's lives, we have asked ourselves the question about whether our social networking actually makes us less social in real life. It has been said a million times that people who use social networking services are becoming increasingly awk ...
10 Strange Facts You Never Knew About Your Dreams
Everyone dreams, and that is just a fact of life. Most of us don't really give it a second thought. We wake up and don't realize we just had a full night of 4-7 dreams on average. There are so few of us who remember our dreams, or who even know some of the simplest facts about dreaming.
You might ...
3 Tips To Help You Compose The Perfect Tweet
It seems simple enough when you log on. You have 140 characters to structure a tweet. You can type anything you want, and everyone who follows you will see it in their timelines. But what is the perfect tweet? How do you get people to care about what you have to say? If you are the kind of Twitter u ...
Leafsnap App: It Would Make Darwin Drool
Categorizing and classifying: these are the sorts of things that taxonomists are good at. While the rest of us may be able to sort our clothes by brand, our plant classification skills have really gone downhill in the last 100 years. Today, our hunting and gathering takes place in the grocery store, ...
Study: iPhone, Android & BlackBerry Users Ranked On Optimism
Think about all the iPhone and iPad users you know. Now think about the Android and BlackBerry users you know. Which group is the happiest, most fun, spunky one to hang out with? Yeah, I know, I noticed that too! I've always thought in the back of my mind that iPhone users seem to be happier, and no ...
Microsoft First To Bring Us 360 Degree Touchable Holograms
2012 is going to be an exciting year when you look at what some companies are saying they are bringing to the table for us users. There is so much innovation going on that we can't stop being excited about what kind of gadgets might come out of all this innovation. One thing is for certain though, a ...
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The Evolution Of Social Gaming [Infographic]
When we talk about social media as it relates to business, we probably all think about social networking and how it will most likely increase the productivity and the success of pretty much any company you can think of. However, social media is so much more than just networking and getting customers ...
Study Finds Americans Love Their Gadgets More Than Family
Hmm... I'm not so sure I even want to be writing this article because it's kinda sad. Of course, that is assuming this information is true. Sometimes when we see these studies, the information is based on a survey of a very small group of people in an isolated area of the country, so the results can ...
Science: A Shocking Discovery About Snails
This has been wigging me out since I read about it a few days ago, so maybe if I write about it, it won't seem so strange. Scientists have just discovered that some snails can survive being eaten by birds. In other words, the birds eat them, and then when they come out in the bird's poop, they just ...
Crazy Optical Illusion: Creates Picassos In Your Peripherals
An undergraduate student at The University of Queensland, Sean Murphy, discovered something vey interesting about the way our eyes perceive information. Actually, I don't know if interesting is the right way to describe it. It's really grotesque and scary. One person on Reddit described it as creati ...
What Your Daily Preferences Reveal About Your Personality
We've all seen the little questionnaires that supposedly pinpoint different personality types. You know, the questions like, "Do you wear boxers or briefs?" or "Are you a dog person or a cat person?" I always think those are fun to read about people, but I also know they're just for fun. You can't r ...
Women’s Facebook Photos: A Mix Of Psychology & Photography
It's no surprise that the whole Facebook photo tagging phenomenon is continuing to affect our daily lives and how we view each other. Facebook is officially the world's largest photo album, and if you do a search on this site for Facebook, you'll see that we've written about the psychology behind it ...
World’s Most Popular Superpowers
With all the developing going on in the technology arena, and what we have been able to recreate from movies like Star Wars and Star Trek, I keep wondering when we will start to really enter the field of superpowers. There is definitely a need for it, and some advances have already been made, and by ...
Study Reveals Technology Makes Us Stressed Out
I remember several months ago when I wrote an article about a study that showed Americans go crazy when their Internet is slow. At the time I wrote that, I wondered if that was a good representation for people around the world, or if it was just another example of how us Americans can be impatient a ...
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Twitter Actually Increases Your Overall Grades [Infographic]
There is a common perception in the world that Twitter, Facebook and every other social networking site is bad for us. The main argument is that when we first try it out, we will probably get sucked in, and a lot of our more important tasks during our day suffer from it. The addiction level of socia ...