Thursday, January 10, 2019

New Year´s Resolutions for the digital era (THURSDAY group)

Have a look at some New Year´s Resolutions for the digital era!  

Who do you think makes this kind of resolutions?
- regular people of today
- technology addicts
- millenials (according to this article people born in the mid 80ies-to mid 90ies)

Lots of references to latest technologies, so... a
Glossary (with number of resolution) might be useful:
3. Fitbit 
4. binge-watch: watch multiple episodes of a TV series/ programme in rapid succession, typically by means of DVDs or digital streaming.
5. Lyft: an app that offers you a sort of a taxi service (when you need a lift you request a car through the app) and get picked up by a nearby driver.  
7. swipe rightswiping right on a photo of someone(on dating app Tinder) means you would consider meeting them in real life to see if there is some real chemistry
12. Angry Birds - reference to the AngryBirds iPhone game
13. Snap Chat: a popular mobile app launched in 2011.Snapchat is unique in that all photos and videos only last a brief amount of time before they disappear forever, making the app ephemeral in nature, though you can take a screenshot of snaps to save them in picture form.
17. snopes: Snopes.com /ˈsnoʊps/, also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a website covering urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of unknown or questionable origin.It is a well-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture,receiving 300,000 visits a day.(from wikipedia)
20. Connect actually: (reference to the film Love Actually)- connect with people in real life, not just online
21.GIF
23. Emojis
30. upvote: give an article, post or video on a website a positive rating, such as a ( "thumbs up").