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There are many differences as well as similarities between blogs and wiki. Wikis allow people from all over the world to edit and collaborate. Blogs, on the other hand, are platforms which are more personal and there is only one contributor to the content (limited collaboration). Blogging can also be used for collaboration if you choose to not make your blog private. The important difference is that wikis is collaborative editing by many users. Others can't collaborate in terms of the main content in blogs, but they can give feedbacks or thoughts through commenting. Both wikis and blogs share information that are not tailored by professionals. Anyone can start writing and contributing to them. The article, "More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia," a VP for a team management, needed a way to organize a project's details all in one place. He choose Wiki so that each members could contribute and access the up to date information on the project. In addition, according ...

My research paper will explore why Social Media makes us less social. It is evident in our society that less and less people are having face to face interactions and more rely on sitting behind a screen to communicate with others. I will research why this is hurting us as humans because we are losing touch and why human connections are fading. On social media, we have a different identity vs the real one we show everyday. I believe the identity we portray on social media is not the same (hiding behind anonymity) one we have in real life. Although social media does connect people living thousands of miles away, it tends to make us insecure, lets us hide behind anonymity & avoid real life, and distracts us from actually living in the present and interacting with the people physically around us.