Healthy Buffs: Keeping social media in perspective
Person holds smartphone with Instagram photo in place of real-life scenery Social media can be a place to keep up with friends, make plans or hear about events. At the same time, it can be a bombardment of news and information, which may get stressful. Navigating social media use is …
Miss Venezuela pageant to probe contestants’ ethics after social media feud
CARACAS (Reuters) – The Miss Venezuela beauty pageant said on Wednesday it will investigate possible unethical conduct by its contestants following a vitriolic social media spat that saw former participants accusing each other of inappropriate behavior. A group of ex-Miss Venezuela contestants, in a … Read More
Smoking baby video on social media leads to mother’s arrest
A video showing an infant smoking a cigar has circulated on social media and sparked outrage, leading to the identification and arrest of the mother. A version of the video that has received 1.5 million views was posted by a user who called for the US mother to be arrested. …
Social Media Spending, Use, and Distraction?
Results from the February 2018 CMO Survey indicate that companies currently spend 12% of their marketing budgets on social media. This is up from 3.5% in 2009 when this question was first asked. This increase is expected to accelerate with social media spending predicted to reach 20.5% of … Read More
Is Social Media Stressing You Out? Here Are 9 Self-Care Tips
Studies suggest that globally the average amount of time people spend online is two hours. This obviously increases in countries like the U.S. and across different age groups. So, if you're in your mid-twenties or mid-thirties living in an urban, metropolitan area, you can safely multiply that stat by two. …
Social (Net)Work: How does social media influence democracy?
In the wake of fake news and Russian-bought ads that proliferated the 2016 U.S. presidential election, people have started taking a more critical look at the role of social media in society. As social media companies launch new policies in the aftermath, several questions still remain, and among them, … Read …
[How To] protect your identity on social media
Just like online banking and credit card accounts, social media has become an avenue for identity theft and online crime. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on are increasingly being targeted by cybercriminals who acquire one's personal details online for fraudulent … Read More
Top Brands Getting 25X More Social Media Engagement, Thanks To March Madness Advertising
Social lift is an increase in mentions, likes, comments, and retweets, and it's indicative of how central a brand or topic is to our collective digital consciousness. Numerous brands have collected hefty top-of-mind bounties, thanks to the annual NCAA tournament, according to data collected from Facebook … Read More
Facebook alternatives: Are there social media platforms that don’t collect and sell your data?
Raftr, a social network billing itself as more civilized than its peers, from former Yahoo executive Sue Decker, prioritizes stories over people and also collects very basic information upon signup. Your data is only used for “internal company purposes,” according to its privacy policy, and it will not share any … …
Lock Down Your Social Media Data With the PlusPrivacy Chrome Extension
Once you install PlusPrivacy's Chrome extension and create an account on the service, you can log into its site to check your data privacy settings on four major social networks: Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter. The site's UI is terrible—no getting around that—and there's no way to see what … Read …