Social media’s safety reckoning
Profile photo. Axios 5 hours ago. Save. Social media's safety reckoning. Facebook is tasked with fixing problems with how its platform is used — problems with seismic, global consequences. Axios' Kim Hart, David McCabe and Sara Fischer discuss these efforts. Technology. Read More
CPM Gets Social Media Drubbing In Kerala After Tripura Loss
Social media users pointed out that the Left party had indeed become 'Communist Party of Kerala-Marxist'. … Thiruvananthapuram: In the wake of electoral drubbing for the CPM in Tripura Assembly elections, social media trolls in Kerala on Saturday were busy rubbing the poll loss into the Left party's … Read More
Illuminated Signs Ironically Reveal the Antisocial Reality of Social Media
Combining photography, illustration, and computer-generated imagery, Michigan-based digital artist Mike Campau crafts eye-catching creations that force the viewer to reflect on his/her own life. In his latest series, Antisocial, Campau uses his artistic talents to cleverly comment on the dark side of social … Read More
No decline in face-to-face interactions in the social media era
The message from a recent University of Missouri-Columbia study is that social media does not decrease face-to-face interactions. Here researchers have concluded there is no measurable negative effect on social interactions or social well-being from the increases in social media use that have … Read More
Social media tool for achieving SDGs
Mr Runcie Chidebe, Founder, Project Pinkblue Foundation, has called for effective deployment of social media to facilitate achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Chidebe made the call while discussing “Social Media As a Tool to Achieve SDGs by 2030″, at the sixth edition of the … Read More
Brooklynn Prince and the New Age of Social Media for Child Stars
Brooklynn is just one of the many pre-teen rising Hollywood stars with a hefty social media presence under the watchful eye of parents. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook—this is the new reality of child stardom. Access is expected, sometimes even encouraged by studios and publicists, but with social media … Read More
Crossing social media boundaries
As heart-rending images of the murder and attempted suicide involving a Sangre Grande couple made it to social media exposure, nobody in any authority claimed knowledge of or responsibility for what viewers have been offered. Dead and near-dead bloodied bodies, pictured by whoever, have now … Read More
Stop Calling Snapchat a Social Network
Capitalizing on its growth, Snapchat introduced features that looked a lot like social media: Stories, its video version of a newsfeed; Memories, a place to store and save important content; Discover, a space to connect with the news; and more. (Full disclosure: WIRED is on Snapchat Discover.) Call it the … …
Which Social Media Platform Is The Most Popular In The US?
Most US adults use more than one social media platform. The median adult uses three of the eight platforms Pew examined. YouTube also led the multi-use rankings. At least 87% of the users of each of the other platforms also use YouTube. WhatsApp was the least used “other” platform. Read …
Social Feed: Fire department saves kid on Facebook; YouTube’s latest gaffe
Social media is a fluid technology — nearly every day, the major social media networks are announcing a big change, coming under fire for the latest controversy or moving forward in smaller ways. Social Feed is a collection of those smaller changes that you may have missed with this week's …