Social Mobile Apps Issues

Malaysian News Apps You Should Know

02:10

The apps below are apps that Malaysian should know of. These app are active media that give interactive action between user and apps. It is way better compare to passive media because it allow the user to watch video to gain more information about a certain news than only a number of words and another plus point to that you have the powerful capabilities of Internet right at your finger tips.Besides some app are user friendly as it provide "archive" to enable user to pick the news they are interested in. Besides, it is environment friendly.

<<--- NST Digital (The News Strait Times epaper)

<<--- The Star ePaper

<--- BH Digital ( Berita Harian epaper)

<<--- EDGE Malaysia ( The EDGE epaper)

All Picture are from : Screenshot (Appstore)

By Kok Wei Yang

Mobile Apps Changing Asia?

11:35

Mobile applications are changing the way we shop, socialise and play. While this trend has helped created many business opportunity in Malaysia and many other countries in Asia, its disruption of social behaviour is undeniable therefore we must address this issue in order to fully capitalize on this innovative technology.

Although these apps make things easier in our life, nothing beats the bond developed through face-to-face conversations. Things such as eye contact and a hand shake can never be achieved through the use of mobile applications.

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By Mark

Phishing Attacks through Twitter

09:00

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Twitter has a maximum number of character count of 140 character. Besides, twitter are famous with "retweet" and "quote". We are very familiar with the incident of the crash MH17. Shortly after Malaysia Airline reported that it had lost contact with flight MH17 from Amsterdam. A numerous of tweet written in Indonesian language and includes the hashtag #MH17. The tweet went viral by hundreds of users retwetted it and has form a "spam". Through this phishing attack can be perform easily and in large quantity.

Experts at security firm Trend Micro have detected the tweets URLs contain of malicious domains were mainly used to spread a Zues Variant SALITY malware.

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1. Misspixels - Flickr
2. nina_pic -Flickr
3 . Pieter Van Marion - Flickr

by Wong Chee Siong

Games Invitations Spamming

08:23

Pirate Kings, Candy Crush Saga, Farm Ville. The names listed above are the most popular games during these days. These games are energy based game which means that you can't continue the game if you are out of energy. There is only two ways to increase you energy, either by topup which is paying money to the game or sending game invitations to your friends to received some energy from them.

Because of this, it causes the issue of spamming game invitations. All of these games are linked to facebook, so when someone send you an invitation, your facebook notification will popup not just on your computer but your smartphone as well because nowadays people are usually have an facebook app on their phone. This cases not only happened in US, Singapore, but our country, Malaysia are included as well.

By Shaun

Image source from : 1) Albert Hsleh via Flickr
2) Thrifty Look via Flickr

A Quick Way To Receive Latest Information

08:09

There are a lot of social media apps that can be downloaded for free such as Facebook, Twitter, Wechat and more. Despite they might have their negative sides, but these mobile social apps are actually very helpful and it allow the users to deliver messages to people all around the world by just tapping their smartphones. Why do I say so? We can see this in the example of the incident of Flight QZ8501.

Tony Fernandes has use twitter as a social platform to deliver his apologies and constantly updating the victim's family and the public with the latest information that they have. Besides that, he also tweeted some positive tweets to encourage the people to stay strong. With the twitter app on our smartphones, we are able to grasp the latest information in a short time.

By Shaun

Image source from : 1) Day Donaldson via Flickr

2) Paz.ca via Flickr

Oversharing lead to unfavourable consequences

07:59

Posting photo and video on social network has become a norm of today's life. However, when a child started to use social network such as "Instagram" to post their daily activity. Things might go overhand. The problem is, a anonymous from one of the dark corners of the Internet might stalking your child. This anonymous are known as "Pedophile".

Superintending your child to use internet and digital device is not the main solution. Whereby, parent should increase their awareness toward their child and spent more time with them to guide them. Last but not least, most importantly parent must have knowledge on "child online protection" (PTCOP) to protect their beloved children.

<< WSIS Forum 2013 child protection online in MENA

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Kyle Mahaney- Flickr
ITU Picture - Flickr

By Wong Chee Siong

Applications that Malaysian should use

06:58

Caliber

Caliber is a professional networking app created for workingprofessionals to meet new people. This app is designed to introduce the users to professionals who share the same interests and allows them to look for collaborations.

Image Source: App Store

Meetup

MeetUp works as a tool for people to search for groups and meetings in their towns to participate in and gives you the chance to socialize with people with the same interest as you.

Image Source: App Store

Lunch Kaki

Lunch Kaki is a social networking app created for users to get to know like-minded people during lunch hours and boost their network circle of friends. The idea behind this app is to allow users to send out lunch request to other users and be able to meet new people for lunch.

Image Source: App Store

By Mark

Too much internet?

06:04

A survey of over 2,600 people was recently conducted in Malaysia, Thailand, Sweden and Norway to study the use of chat apps being used in people's daily life to communicate. To no surprise Malaysia and Thailand have the highest users of over 81% as oppose to Sweden and Norway having 44% and 57%.

True that chat application does bring many benefit to us making it easier to communicate with our friends, but on the other side it also make face to face interaction much more awkward for some people and they might lose the skill to to be able to talk to other people without using these apps.

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By Mark