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Stay active on social networks because it's quite likely that social media will land you your next job.

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Stay active on social networks because it's quite likely that social media will land you your next job. Here's where recruiters look for future employees

Picking a Bone
Sonakshi Sinha decided to shut up detractors commenting on her weight by showing them "the skeleton in her closet".The actor posted a picture of a skeleton on Instagram lashing out at critics who constantly make fun of her figure. She also wished her critics could see which finger she was holding up for them.The picture got more than 15,000 likes.

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Happy New Video
The Viral Fever's latest video, 'Barely Speaking with Arnub: Shah Rukh Khan',showed SRK poking fun at himself.The actor claimed he paid for awards and 'confessed' to acting in Happy New Year to revive director Farah Khan's career.

Recreating Rahman
Composer A.R.Rahman is set to receive an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music in Boston.As a tribute, the students and faculty of the Berklee Indian Ensemble recreated his song 'Jiya Jale'from the film Dil Se and released it on YouTube.The new version got 250,000 views in three days.

Drink to That

Gurgaon-based Neha Tomar took on dairy giant Amul when she ranted on Facebook about a packet of Amul Gold Milk that had developed a strange consistency. Instead of ignoring her post,Amul said she had used milk past its expiry date and posted a video on YouTube describing how sour milk when boiled shows stretching property. The Web applauded Amul for not evading.

Viral video

Rapper Afromanre composed his 2001 hit 'Because I got high'with new lyrics,urging the US government to legalise marijuana, and made 2.4 million laugh.

A Halloween prank featuring a man wielding a bloody chainsaw and threatening to cut off people's limbs spooked 19 million viewers.

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith's rational report on Ebola,stating that the world should not panic, calmed more than 2 million.

Turnip Time
Vine's most popular user right now is none other than US First Lady Michelle Obama.Her six-second video posts,encouraging people to eat healthy,were shared 260,000 times.Obama's latest post shows her dancing with a turnip,a pun on the rap song,'Turn up for what'.

Family First

Ghar Wali Diwali, a short film by Pepsi and Kurkure, tugged at the heartstrings of 250,000 Web users. The film depicts how we take our parents for granted and the predicament faced by those who are away from home, especially during festivals.

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