Talks About Social Media in the Jasmine Revolution Bloom at SF State
Farida Ezzat, a 20-year-old college student from Cairo, steps up on the back of a large truck parked in front the Union Plaza in San Francisco. She can barely be seen over the wooden pallets that run...
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Emoji lovers will rejoice as they find themselves now using them even more than before.
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