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Insomnia Is Linked to Social Media Use

January 28, 2016 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

"A man in bed at night checking his social media accounts because of insomnia"

Experts recommend that people exercise more and keep their devices on “silent mode”.

STATES CHRONICLE – According to the latest study from the Pittsburgh University, insomnia is linked to social media use. The researchers have established that people who spend their time on social media platforms before going to bed have a bigger chance of developing sleep problems that those who don’t. Also, it seems that the same health issues apply to those who use social media frequently during the day.

A team of researchers from the Pittsburgh University reached the conclusion that insomnia is linked to social media use after studying a sample of 1,788 volunteers with ages in between 19 and 32. The participants were given a questionnaire that was created to determine the link between the use of social media and the increasing numbers of sleep disorders.

The survey focused on the most popular platforms for social media and the time that each respondent spent on a daily, or weekly basis on the site. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Google Plus, Reddit, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Vibe, and Tumblr were all included in the questionnaire.

The average responded spent approximately 61 minutes in a day on one, or more platforms, and visited the respective account an average of thirty times in a single week. According to their answers, more than 30 percent of the participants in the study suffered from a sort of sleep disturbance.

Upon analyzing all of the answers, the researchers from Pittsburgh University came to the conclusion that the more time the participants spent on the platforms for social media, the more trouble they had with their sleep. The team established that those who used social media more had three times the chances of experiencing sleep disturbances than those who preferred to check their accounts more rarely.

On the other hand, the volunteers that engaged in exercises and physical activities in the outdoor environment while keeping their phones on the “silent” mode experienced a better sleep.

There are many ways in which social media can disturb the sleeping pattern of a user. It could disrupt the circadian rhythm due to the backlight of the devices used, the user can spend hours on a site without realizing the amount of time that has passed, thus losing sleep, or it could promote physiological, emotional and cognitive arousal like in the case of an engaging conversation.

The main problem is that the people usually enter a vicious cycle that cannot be easily escaped. They seem to have trouble going to sleep so they decide to go on their social media accounts to pass the time until they feel sleepy, but that only makes them stay up later.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Facebook, Google Plus, have sleep disorders, Insomnia, insomnia linked to social media use, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Snapchat, social media, Tumblr, Twitter, Vibe, YouTube

YouTube Music Key Subscription-Based Streaming Service Coming Soon

August 19, 2014 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Google will soon improve some YouTube services, according to Android Police. Avid music lovers will have yet another streaming service aiming to get their attention. So YouTube will soon launch a new service named YouTube Music Key. For a change, Google Play All Music will become Google Play Music Key.

Amazon entered the music streaming race as well. In the beginning of the summer, Amazon announced a streaming service available for its Prime customers.

YouTube Music Key will be offered as a subscription service. For around $10 per month, users will be able to enjoy a decent musical database. YouTube offers “over 20 million high-quality tracks – complete albums, organized into artist discographies”, according to the description. Through YouTube Music Key, users will have access to ad-free music, audio-only playback, as well as offline playback.

The fee is set for $10 a month, but everyone will have access to a 30-day free trial offer. For the monthly fee, both services, YouTube Music Key and Google Play Music Key, will be included, Android Police explains.

Boldly speaking, Youtube democratized access to music, despite the recurrent take-downs of various videos to copyrights claims. However, the recent trend acknowledges the movement from the initial boom. With so much information available, new selection services appeared. Beats Music is just one of the many other streaming services offering curated playlists. Nevertheless, what sets it apart is the fact that humans prepare the playlists, while many similar services rely on specialized algorithms to achieve the end result.

YouTube Music Key may discriminate independent artists

If YouTube will indeed offer the specialized streaming service, which is very likely, it will probably come in a pack with other measures. For users to be interested in paying a $10 monthly subscription, the company may attempt to take down any copies of the selected YouTube Music Key songs from the regular YouTube.

YouTube Music Key will be available soon

Adele is among the artists who are not in a clear relation with record labels and YouTube, so her videos might not be featured in the new music streaming service. Independent artists might suffer as well, because they are treated unfairly, Rich Bengloff, president of the American Association of Independent Music, states according to the Daily Mail.

If Google’s YouTube decides to treat independent artists in a precarious manner, music lovers will probably find other ways of listening to their favorite music, as well as discovering new sounds. So YouTube Music Key might end up being a risky bet.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Google, Google Play Music Key, YouTube, Youtube Music Key

YouTube Is Buying Twitch for $1 Billion

May 20, 2014 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

twitch Nowadays it seems that Google buys companies one after another, flooding our news feed with details about rumored or confirmed acquisitions. After Quest Visual and Divide both announced they would be joining Google’s team, the freshest data available show that YouTube is buying Twitch for a bit over $1 billion.

Twitch is not the most popular start – up you know everything about, but, to paraphrase Daniel Bean, Twitch is a tech – mammoth, even if you don’t know this. The gaming live streaming service platform is so successful, in fact, that it competes with Amazon, Hulu and Facebook in terms of traffic, outranking all these three tech players during peak hours.

Twitch also harnesses the power of almost 45 million unique visitors monthly who pay for video ads and subscriptions.

So if this company is so successful, how come it is for sale?

Twitch has a very large pool of fans and interesting sources of revenue, but technically speaking, the Twitch platform can crumble under its own popularity at any given time. Poor image quality, lags whose duration is beyond absurd, management and maintenance costs that exceeded everybody’s expectations, these are all good reasons Twitch is looking for an investor.

They say Microsoft tried to make an offer to them, but the Twitch team didn’t want to be bound to the XBOX One for life. Instead, seizing the opportunity, Google sent YouTube to welcome Twitch to the big Google family and make it an offer. And the fact that YouTube is buying Twitch is a good thing for everybody involved in the process, companies and end – users alike.

According to Hayden Dingman from PC World,

Yes, investment cash could help Twitch build out for the long haul, but beyond the $1 billion, Google offers already-established infrastructure. Google offers (presumably) full YouTube integration, so there would be no more need to archive a video on Twitch, download it, and then upload to YouTube—an archaic and awful process people endure because they know the real money is made through YouTube and not Twitch. And most importantly, Google offers an enormous audience—the type of audience that probably doesn’t even know what Twitch.tv is.

Looking at the bigger picture, YouTube, and implicitly Google, wins over a larger audience and new and interesting sources of revenue without much effort. People know that YouTube didn’t succeed in becoming the favorite game live – streaming platform available, or at least not in comparison with Twitch. Therefore, buying the company and integrating Twitch into YouTube makes a lot of sense for both companies. While the actual purchase date still needs to be announced, all who cover this topic applaud the fact that YouTube is buying Twitch.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Games, Google, Twitch, YouTube

Google to revamp comments on YouTube

September 25, 2013 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

The search engine giant Google will soon revamp the comments section of YouTube. Google has decided to drive the comments with its Google+ social network on YouTube.

With the recent changes, the most relevant comments will be reflected in the top of the comments list instead of the most recent. Google said this means that comments from people you care about will rise so you can see them.

“When it comes to the conversations happening on Youtube, recent does not necessarily mean relevant. So, comments will soon become conversations that matter to you,” the firm said in a blog post on Tuesday.

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“In the coming months, comments from people you care about will rise up where you can see them, while new tools will help video creators moderate conversations for welcome and unwelcome voices.”

It is noteworthy, along with the changes in look and feel in comments section, the commenters won’t be able to leave anonymous remarks any longer as they have to be signed in to Google+ in order to comment.

This has been done in a bid to check fake Google+ accounts and trolls.

 

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Google, YouTube

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