The nature of Facebook as a medium of communication can be found in the two words that it combines: face and book. It includes both oral and literate cultures; the ear and eye; the auditory and visual; the communal and private; and the collective and individual.

You got me. I cannot help it. I tried to delete you, but I always find myself coming back to you. The more I pull away, the more I feel bound to stay. Can we try it again in the spirit of Valentine's Day?

Fretting is for losers. Everything we secretly need is right in front of us. All fantasies are not for naught. Impossibilities only exist for pessimists. Imaginations can eventually be manifested as realities. Life is simple and easy. The world is our oyster. This is the greatest show. Just sit back and relax.

I struggled for years trying to answer the question "Who am I?" The profound sense of peace I gained from transcending "me, myself, and I" is already challenging to sustain; now pundits are claiming that artificial intelligence (AI) may know me better than I know myself.

What is the social media reality of the Philippines? What is it about our nation and culture that makes us the top social media users? What pragmatic use do we get out of it?

As a communications graduate, I have always been frustrated by the difficulty of explaining the concept of media. Defining media is complex because it is interdisciplinary and multifaceted; however, it does not mean that it is impossible to make the difficult understandable for everyone.