- Post Phone World #1: Kill off The News Feed
Facebook started as a tool to share and look at images shared by your circle of friends. In 2017, it has deteriorated to a place where your feed is polluted with great opinions of your friends and clickbait news articles…
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- How to leave a toxic Whatsapp group / Whatsapp university / Whatsapp echo chamber
A young Indian woman posts her letter to her family members in a Whatapp group, saying 'In today's personal victory, I quit my extended-family WhatsApp group. I cannot fully express the relief I feel.' There is just …
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- Annals of Pseudo-Science: People Who Use Facebook Live Longer
Five things that are wrong with this pro-business, peudo-science study such as this:
1. This study sounds more like an advertisement for Facebook than an actual scientific experiment.
2. An actual experiment such a…
Topic: Social media, Study | Read more
- Standing Rock Pipeline Protest: Another Example of How Useless Facebook Trending Stories Are
Techcrunch reported that terms such as “Standing Rock,” “Native Americans,” “pipeline,” “Missouri River,” etc. didn’t show up as Facebook Trends to any users until long after the check-in protest began over the pre-Hallo…
Topic: Social media, Trending | Read more
- 20 mobiles for a house: Or, How To Really Use Your Friend Network For Good
From the BBC, about a woman who really used her social network for good:
Xiaoli (not her real name), a woman from the city of Shenzhen in southern China, asked each of her 20 current boyfriends to buy her a newly la…
Topic: Social media, Trending | Read more
- Two Things That Would Have Made Facebook Marketplace Any Good
1. Payments feature: Otherwise, many users would end up abandoning their choices.
2. Flag / Review feature: This is the bedrock of any solid community marketplace. This is why Craigslist is still the best marketplace …
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- How Hillary Beats Trump On Twitter
At first glance, Trump beats Hillary (on Twitter): 12.7 million followers vs Hilalry's 10 million, and 34000 times retweets vs Hillary's 9700 times.
However, whereas Trump uses his social media presence as a mega…
Topic: Social media, Us general elections 2016 | Read more
- The #1 Sad Reason Why Twitter Shut Down Vine
It wasn't that Instagram's video feature offered more video time, 15 seconds vs Vine's 6 seconds. It was bacause Twitter couldn't just increase the video duration limit back in 2013 (when Instagram launched Videos featur…
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- How social media is destroying useful criticism: Everyone is being nice and dishonest
In this age of Facebook friends and Twitter followers, and where everyone is trying to build her/his Tribe (or 1000 fans) , everybody is playing nice - everybody is playing to please one's echo chamber - no one likes the…
Topic: Books and Literature, Social media, Art | Read more
- Annals of social media policies gone bad: Honda pays bloggers to write about Civic and other cars
Evgeny Morozov was right all along. The internet is increasingly used more and more by big business and governments to further their interests. Big businesses paying people to write positive things about their products i…
Topic: Business, Social media marketing, Scandal | Read more
- How Social Media can cover live stories responsibly
I am writing this as journalists on Indian News Channels cite police sourecs to refute new rumors of gun fights across Mumbai. Regarding the usage of social media tools, Twitter in specific, veteran blogger and reporter…
Topic: Terrorism, Mumbaiterrorattack2008, Mumbai, Social media, New media, Citizen journalism | Read more
- How the Internet is covering the Mumbai Terror Attacks
Long live the hive mind! The power of the internet to capture information is manifested best during times of strife and special events. The Mumbai Terror Attacks are no exception:
Mainstream news coverage from India a…
Topic: Terrorism, Terrorism, Mumbaiterrorattack2008, Roundup, Social media, New media, Citizen journalism | Read more
- simplelist: the 10 common ingredients of a social media website
The guys at Nettus have written about what goes inside any good social media website. However, they forget to write about the code snippets for each feature but I think you can search for the codes on Google with little …
Topic: Internet and Websites, Web devp, Social media, Simplelist | Read more
- Best of Open Source and Social Media: List of all Lists. 60 of the best resources of resources
More of a directory than a list.Next: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, electronics, appliances, home services, cars, money and more.❤ If you liked all this, consider supporting us by checking out Tiny Skills - 250…
Topic: Social media, Web 2.0, New media, Open source | Read more
