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Hello everyone, I was just reading an article titled "Why is Black Friday called Black Friday?" on the online magizine "the balance". https://www.thebalance.com/why-is-it-called-black-friday-3305712 I tought you might be interested about it because you could get some products cheaper on this day. Basically what the text says is how black friday got its name. Black Friday is the name given to the shopping day after Thanksgiving. The reason for its name is because so many people went shopping and that caused traffic accidents. The first time it was recorded in 1966 by Earl Apfelbaum, a dealer in rare stamps. It is also said that the companys wanted to make "Black Friday" to something positive. The Friday after Thanksgiving is a very profitable day to retailing and to the economy. The retailers used the name to reflect their success. What shocked me most was that Black Friday isn't as positive as it is mentioned in the social medias. There ...

Hello everyone,  I have just been reading an article titled „Just being social?“ in the magazine „Business Spotlight“ of February 2017 and it talks about using social medias at work. I thought you might be interested what the text is about because everyone nowadays uses social media on the mobile phone, on the computer or laptop. Basically what it says is that many of us are working and not working at the same time, for much of the time. This means, that people go to work and check their social-medias in the time they should work instead of checking private things. It is also said tha t employers have fired people because they have used the internet for non-work-related activities during their working time. Some also have fired people for posting something on social-media while they worked. The author mentions that there are different reasons, why the employees use these media apps or sites at work. Some of them are mentioned in the text, for example they use the socia...