It’s been said, many times, but it’s worth repeating: Instagram’s algorithmic timeline is a steaming pile of nonsense.
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View More How to Access Hidden Snapchat LensesWhy Facebook and Instagram should kill the Like button
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The Like button must die.
More than any other feature, the thumbs-up on Facebook — along with its cousins, the Instagram and Twitter hearts — encapsulate everything that’s wrong with social media. It’s time to start visualizing a world where it doesn’t exist.
The Like has become the currency of carelessness — a way to show we approve without being deeply invested. In many cases, it covers for a lack of attention. It helps fake news propagate, discourages meaningful conversations, encourages shallowness, and exacerbates the most psychologically damaging effects of social media.
If social media addiction is the disease of our age, it’s difficult to think of a feature that feeds that addiction more than the thumbs up. Pressing it repeatedly, like a rat in an experiment, we feed our innate need to be noticed. Read more…
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5 questions Facebook’s ‘privacy principles’ don’t answer
Facebook wants you to know it really does care about your privacy.
So much so that on Monday the company released its list of seven “privacy principles” that are meant to govern how the company deals with its 2 billion users’ personal data.
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Another powerful billionaire slams Facebook for being too addictive
Another billionaire has some harsh words for Facebook.
Speaking at a dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, George Soros delivered a scathing speech in which he said Facebook and Google were a “menace” to society and called for incr…
Hawaii’s governor couldn’t tweet about missile false alarm because he forgot his Twitter password
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During that brief, scary time a few weeks back when Hawaii thought it was under attack, Gov. David Ige was conspicuously absent from Twitter, where other officials tried to spread word that the alert was just a false alarm, and now we know why: He forgot his Twitter password.
It wasn’t until about 17 minutes after the initial alert that Ige got this tweet out to his admittedly meager 7,700 followers.
There is NO missile threathttps://t.co/qR2MlYAYxL
— Governor David Ige (@GovHawaii) January 13, 2018
The new tidbit came to light as Ige was pressed by reporters after not addressing the incident in his annual State of the State speech on Monday. Read more…
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Vine’s been gone for a year, but we still think about these Vines every day
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It’s been a year since Vine kicked the bucket, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten our favorite six-second vids.
On Jan. 17, 2017, the Vine app became Vine Camera, and users were rendered unable to post new videos to the Vine community. But did this mean we stopped watching Vines? No! Thanks to YouTube and the Vine archive, which works only sometimes, we’ve been able to watch old classics like Peanut Butter Baby and Maple the Dog whenever our hearts desire. Mostly.
Here are nine sweet, sweet Vines we still think about every day. Rest in peace, beautiful social network — we can’t wait for your next iteration. Read more…
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Weird Facebook glitch has ‘broken’ News Feed, but it’s actually kind of nice
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Facebook’s News Feed is broken. No, that is’t a comment on the current state of social media or Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to fix what’s broken about Facebook.
I mean, it’s literally broken. Many users are reporting that they’re opening the Facebook app and website only to see a big, blank space that says “there are no more posts to show right now.”
Though not affecting all users, the glitch appears to be fairly widespread, with a number of users reporting some variation of the “no posts” issue.
Facebook is broken right nowpic.twitter.com/VHMpX3IJmL
— Meredith Guthrie (@meredithea) January 16, 2018 Read more…
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In ongoing battle against fake news, Facebook decides to get local
As Facebook continues to battle the scourge of “fake news,” it’s trying out a new feature that it hopes will connect users with local news, events, and announcements called “Today In.”
The new feature will push local content from publishers approved …
Bored girl made incredibly ornate sticky note doodles of her favorite Vine videos
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You know that feeling when you’re bored so naturally you draw detailed screenshots from popular Vines on Post-It notes?
Neither do we. But that didn’t stop one impressive artist.
Twitter user @zephanijong started a thread last week of her favorite Vines drawn as “bad” sticky note doodles.
They were incredible, and of course, the internet ate them up.
it is wednesday my dudes pic.twitter.com/7zN93W3yGq
— rip zeph (@zephanijong) January 3, 2018
The result were true works of art.
so you just gonna bring me a birthday gift on my birthday to my birthday party on my birthday with a birthday gift pic.twitter.com/tVvJEDVCaf
— rip zeph (@zephanijong) January 3, 2018 Read more…
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View More Bored girl made incredibly ornate sticky note doodles of her favorite Vine videosHere are the government organizations and officials Trump insulted in 2017
2017 is almost done, and it’s definitely safe to say that this year President Trump kept up one of his most infamous hallmarks: insulting people on Twitter.
Or, if you’re a Trump supporter, he’s “just keeping it real u liberal snowflake lol #MAGA.”
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Library of Congress admits defeat, accepts the futility of trying to archive all of Twitter
At least you tried.
Starting Jan. 1, the Library of Congress will curtail what’s been a seven-year effort to collect and archive every single utterance on Twitter. A Tuesday missive from the federal institution notes that, come 2018, “the Library wil…