Facebook announced the launch of its bots store in April, and m-commerce start-up Spring was one of the first businesses demonstrated using it.

Already live in Messenger, it operates as a very simple conversation based on a series of multiple-choice questions: “Hey Alan! What are you looking for today?” Spring asks, before providing numerous buttons to direct your responses. That conversation continues through product category, specific products, price point you’re willing to spend, and eventually, a carousel featuring five items you might want to buy.

Bots on the platform can perform a range of functions, everything from tracking sports games, to ordering clothes, managing personal finance apps, booking a flight or playing a game.

Bots can remove the need for people to download new apps on their phones to access services and help make communication with businesses more convenient and organized.

It’s a clear step for the future. As Mark Zuckerberg said: “I’ve never met anyone who likes calling a business, and no one wants to install a new app for every business they want to interact with.”

So...would you give up on this?

But since everybody is talking about it so passionately, let's go for it.

Selena Gomez has officially surpassed Taylor Swift...as Instagram's most followed user with 69.7 million followers.

Impressive.
So the ex-Disney star has the crown, but who else is part of Instagram's Top 5 royalty? 

Obviously Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian-West, (Queen) Beyoncé and Justin Bieber.

Therefore, if you want to become somebody on social media, that is your competition (and good luck with that).

As you know the #TEBcrew still believes that popularity on social media means nothing, if you are not able to live a happy and healty life beyond the screen or if you don't use your influence for good.
However, let's congrats celebrities on their virtual accomplishments, because lately this is the only thing that provides some of them with an actual career. 

Written by: Stella

Mobility is the main feature of these days: we are always connected; thanks to social media, we can see what our friends, our colleagues or our schoolmates are doing - whenever and wherever.

Obviously, we share only our best moments on Facebook &co; the result: a daily hype of optimism and enthusiasm, which has a deep impact on the perception of ourselves and our lives. Have you ever thought: my life sucks, while scrolling someone’s Instagram?
That’s exactly the FOMO, the Fear of Missing Out, the anxiety to be social, to get likes and to show the best side of you.

Of course this idyllic image is completely fake, and it could happen that when you get tired of being fake, you decide to quit social media: it is the case of Essena O’Neill - the Australian model who broke free of her addiction to likes and comments by her followers.
(For the record, her action were too dramatic and she kept her Instagram up with edited captions, yes, but still: she’s accumulating followers. Was the “social media rehab” fake too? Draw your own conclusion).

When it comes to models and fashion industry, the pair being social and money is directly proportional. Casting directors will ask for models or influencer with a huge amount of followers to reach their audience, whether actual or not. And to get the best, you have to pay a lot: the three most highly ranked supers on social - Cara Delevingne, Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid - are currently valued between $125,000 and $300,000 for a single post across their portfolio: they earn more per post than their normal day rate!

Posting pictures of their every day lives, they monetize their images and create a personal digital brand: the more followers a model has, the more they can be appealing to the fashion industry, which can use their social profiles as advertising channels. For this new breed of models, the fact of being social is sufficient to be considered talented: imagine what Kendall Jenner - with a followership of about 65 million - is capable of!

Look beyond the screen: people who lead really exciting and amusing lives would probably not spend time sharing it on social medias.