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How to Protect Yourself from Online Scams

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The FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report states that there were 300,000 more internet crimes (phishing, non-payment/non-delivery scams or extortion) complaints in 2020 than in 2019. Be wary of social media. We’ve all accidentally given out more information than we intended to on social media.

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9 Types of Journaling and How They Can Benefit Mental and Physical Health

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A 2020 study published in The Permanente Journal found that when patients, their families and their health care practitioners completed three-minute journaling exercises together, the stress levels of all parties decreased and communication improved. This is a quick way to get in touch with yourself.

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Finding Joy and Friendship in a Pandemic-Induced Hobby

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Today, the rise of social media, and specifically Instagram, has propelled the activity to “cool” status among millennials and Gen Zers. A few years ago, I decided enough was enough with endlessly scrolling my social media feeds. We exchanged phone numbers and Instagram handles. Generation Zen.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

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Was it actually a phone notification plugged into a loudspeaker? But the music mogul just kept talking right through it about the topic at hand: social media. “…If you use social media on a negative level, that’s not good,” Khaled says as the roar dies down. I’d be lying if I told you it didn’t startle me.

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Are Productivity Paranoia And Lack Of Trust The Real Obstacles To Hybrid And Remote Work?

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Stanford University researchers doing a longitudinal study comparing productivity at different time periods found that remote workers were 5% more efficient than office-based ones in the summer of 2020. That’s based on Musk’s belief that remote workers are “phoning it in” and only “ pretend to work.” .

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

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For the past decade, BELAY has been witnessing this phenomenon firsthand through its network of contractors who supply virtual support as assistants, bookkeepers, web maintenance professionals and social media strategists. The choice to send workers home felt temporary in 2020.

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Time to put down the devices if you really want things to look up

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A different Statistica survey found that 31 percent of UK social media users aged between 16 and 24 years reported spending between 1-2 hours per day using TikTok, while 25 percent reported spending between 3-4 hours per day on the social video app. And nobody was communicating with one another.

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