Why your LinkedIn profile can be like a fantastic burger

As a recruiter, I love LinkedIn. Not all the roles I work would be advertised on websites such as Seek so a large proportion of my time can be spent headhunting. Your LinkedIn profile is a great way to advertise yourself. To show off what you do, what make you – you, and also what … Read more

To be outstanding, you need to stand out

Like it or not, our social media accounts are representing our personal brand. Having a personal brand means having a distinct understanding of who you are and what you have to offer, and being able to communicate that in an effective way. Self awareness and management of your personal brand provides consistency and allows potential opportunities … Read more

Everything begins with an idea

Did you know that the average human has 50,000-70,000 thoughts a day? I only discovered this today only because I don’t really think about how much I actually think. This was sparked by a presentation I attended earlier this morning on business ideas and validation by Dave Newman, one of the organizers of Perth’s biggest … Read more

Smart businesses use Relationship-based marketing in their strategy

My blogs will be on my own experiences with modern marketing in practice. Just to kick off with a brief introduction, I have been pursuing an online marketing career since 2010, which is the year I completed my Bachelors Degree. It’s also the year I discovered and began blogging. From there I worked in a … Read more

How a tweet turned Uber’s first hire into a millionaire

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text font_size=”18″ line_height=”36px” el_class=”text-light”]You may purchase phone plans with more than enough data to cover things like casual web surfing and streaming the occasional song. But you may not realize that browsing Facebook could be a big hit against your data plan too.

According to Cisco’s online VNI Services Gauge Tool, one hour of browsing through social media can use up 90 megabytes, which is more than twice the amount of data that streaming music uses in the standard “normal” quality per hour..[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]It means that if you spend an hour a day on social media over a cellular network, you could be using 2.7 GB of data a month. Even half an hour of daily social media browsing could consumer 1.35 GB.

A lot of that usage is likely due to the auto-play video Facebook recently added to its app. The videos appear at different rates for each user based on a variety of factors in Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm. Twitter is also said to have a similar feature coming to its feed soon.

You can disable the auto-play option for newsfeed videos when you’re on a cellular network by going in to the Facebook app and tapping the options button (the three horizontal lines on top of each other) found on the bottom right for the iOS version, and towards the top right for the Android version. Then tap Account Settings > Videos and Photos > Auto-play > disable Smart Auto-play > and tap Use Wi-Fi Only.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”160″ img_size=”full” img_link_large=”yes” hover_effect=”img_zoom_effect” el_class=”prettyPhoto”][vc_custom_heading text=”Music and Video Streaming” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:24|text_align:left|color:%23333333|line_height:36px” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:600%20bold%20regular%3A600%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]Streaming music at the normal, average stream quality for an hour will use up 43 megabytes of your data plan per hour. It may seem insignificant, but it equates to about 1.3 GB of your plan per month if you stream music every day for an hour over your carrier’s cell network. Some streaming services stream music at a lower 64 kbps, which uses up less data.

And if you prefer to stream music in higher quality (at 320 kbps) when you’re not connected to a WiFi network, you’re looking at 144 megabytes per hour. That’s 4.32 GB per month if you stream high quality music every day for an hour over a cellular network.

You may purchase phone plans with more than enough data to cover things like casual web surfing and streaming the occasional song.

If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?

But you may not realize that browsing Facebook could be a big hit against your data plan too.

According to Cisco’s online VNI Services Gauge Tool, one hour of browsing through social media can use up 90 megabytes, which is more than twice the amount of data that streaming music uses in the standard “normal” quality per hour.

It means that if you spend an hour a day on social media over a cellular network, you could be using 2.7 GB of data a month. Even half an hour of daily social media browsing could consumer 1.35 GB.

A lot of that usage is likely due to the auto-play video Facebook recently added to its app. The videos appear at different rates for each user based on a variety of factors in Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm. Twitter is also said to have a similar feature coming to its feed soon.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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