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Quora is a social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was founded on June 25, 2009, [ 5] and made available to the public on June 21, 2010. [ 6] Users can collaborate by editing questions and commenting on answers that have been submitted by other users. [ 7]
Review bomb. A review bomb is an Internet phenomenon in which a large number of people or a few people with multiple accounts [ 1] post negative user reviews online in an attempt to harm the sales or popularity of a product, a service, or a business. [ 2] While a large number of negative reviews may simply be the result of a large number of ...
Scam. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of ...
In Shasta County, California, the county clerk and election officials warned last week that a text message asking recipients to click a link to register to vote was a scam. Officials said clicking ...
Rating site. A rating site (commonly known as a rate-me site) is a website designed for users to vote, rate people, content, or other things. Rating sites can range from tangible to non-tangible attributes, but most commonly, rating sites are based around physical appearances such as body parts, voice, personality, etc.
Reddit ( / ˈrɛdɪt /) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members. Posts are organized by subject ...
Scientology. Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by the American author L. Ron Hubbard, and an associated movement. It is variously defined as a cult, a business, a religion, a scam, or a new religious movement. [ 11] Hubbard initially developed a set of ideas that he called Dianetics, which he represented as a form of therapy.
A 2016 review concluded that social media can trigger a negative feedback loop of viewing and uploading photos, self-comparison, disappointment, and disordered body perception when social success is not achieved. [160] One 2016 study reported that Pinterest is directly associated with disordered dieting behavior. [161]