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What is Regional Computing? How Can it Address the Social Big Data Effects?

23 September 2022 Afzal Badshah, PhD Comments 23 Comments

Regional Computing is similar to edge or fog computing, placed near the users’ end to process and store the data at the regional level, rather than migrating it to the cloud. Regional computing drastically minimizes turnaround time, transfer time and costs. Social media cloud servers are located at a long distance, resulting in delays and large workload, leading to low performance and high costs. Regional computing can be used to solve this problem, which already has about 104 billion global investments in the form of edge and fog computing (Badshah et al., 2020, Badshah et al., 2019, Social Networks Statistics, 2021).

Be Careful on Social Media: Essential Tips for Social Media Users

15 February 2022 Afzal Badshah, PhD Comments 276 Comments

Every social media user should read these backgrounds. More than half of the world’s population are digital citizens, and this statistic is growing day by day with the recent technologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, 5G, social media, and Internet of Things). If you’re reading this preview, you’re in that statistic too. A short definition is; A person who has access to devices, has developed skills to effectively use the internet and digital technologies. Just as we are responsible citizens in everyday…