Category: Social Media

Yahoo is shutting down its Groups website and deleting all content

Post author By Randall
Post date October 16, 2019
Categories In gear, Internet, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech, Verizon, yahoo, yahoo groups

[ad_1] If you’re at all interested in preserving your history on the site, you’ll want to download your data either directly from posts or through Yahoo’s Privacy Dashboard. Yahoo hasn’t formally explained the shutdown, but you could see this coming. Yahoo launched Groups in 2001 as a sort of forum and mailing list hybrid, and […]

Twitter outlines when it would restrict world leaders’ tweets

Post author By Randall
Post date October 15, 2019
Categories In Donald Trump, gear, Internet, Politics, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech, Trump, Twitter

[ad_1] Don’t expect harsh action in other cases, though. Twitter reiterated that it would leave violating tweets online (with a notice) if there’s a “clear public interest” to do so. The aim is to create a space for public conversation and information, the company said, and it wants to ensure that people can join in […]

Facebook expands its reward program for data abuse reports

Post author By Randall
Post date October 15, 2019
Categories In apps, bug bounty, data, Facebook, gear, Internet, Privacy, Security, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech, web

[ad_1] This might not go as far as some would like, since the permission requirement leaves researchers in a tough spot. While this increases the chances that a third party will be aware of and fix a data flaw, it also creates problems if the app or site creator doesn’t consent to testing. This doesn’t […]

Instagram gives you more control over data shared with third-party apps

Post author By Randall
Post date October 15, 2019
Categories In Facebook, gear, Home, Instagram, Internet, Mobile, Privacy, services, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech

[ad_1] The new controls will take a while to roll out — they’ll reach devices within the next six months. This is arguably a reaction to closer scrutiny of Instagram’s behavior. While most of Facebook’s privacy issues have revolved around its core service, Instagram has had problems with overreaching advertisers and data abuse from third-party […]

Instagram’s Threads is compelling, but kind of creepy

Post author By Randall
Post date October 4, 2019
Categories In Android, Apple, auto status, Cameras, close friends, Data Privacy, Direct Messages, direct messaging, Entertainment, Facebook, gear, Google, Instagram, instagram threads, Internet, ios, location, Mobile, Privacy, services, snap, snapchat, social, Social Media, status, Tech, threads

[ad_1] On the surface, Threads is essentially an extension of Instagram’s Close Friends feature for Stories, which was introduced in 2018. Close Friends, in case you’re not familiar with it, lets you share pictures, videos and message only with groups of people you’ve carefully selected. In fact, if you haven’t created a Close Friends list […]

How to sell the Brooklyn Bridge in the 21st century

Post author By Randall
Post date October 4, 2019
Categories In barklays, cynthia hetherington, Facebook, Internet, paypal, Social Media, Tech, tomorrow, Twitter, xss

[ad_1] Scammers, fraudsters, and confidence men have existed since we invented commerce. If there's a system of valuation in place, there are angles to be worked and Brooklyn Bridges to be sold. The rise of social media and our always-connected lifestyles h… [ad_2] Source link

Americans believe social networks make the news worse

Post author By Randall
Post date October 2, 2019
Categories In Facebook, fake news, gear, Google, Internet, News, pew, pew research center, Social Media, social network, social networking, study, survey, Tech, Twitter

[ad_1] About 88 percent of those in the study said that social networks favored news outlets with “attention-grabbing articles” — that is, sensationalist fare. Roughly 84 percent said companies liked sites that had many social followers, while 79 percent thought the companies favored news with a specific political stance. There were also gripes about bias, […]

Reddit widens its anti-harassment policies to enable swifter crackdowns

Post author By Randall
Post date September 30, 2019
Categories In abuse, bullying, gear, harassment, Internet, policy, Reddit, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech

[ad_1] The site will also start looking into harassment reports from observers, not just the victims. An “improved” machine learning system will better prioritize and organize reports, but humans will still be responsible for making decisions. It’ll take some time to “fully enforce” the new measures. However, the crackdown has already affected a number of […]

Facebook will test hiding ‘Likes’ on its own site

Post author By Randall
Post date September 26, 2019
Categories In business, Facebook, facebook like, facebook likes, gear, Instagram, Internet, like, like count, likes, personal computing, personalcomputing, services, social, Social Media, Tech

[ad_1] If you’re a Facebook user in Australia, this means that while your friends and family will still be able to like and add emoji reactions to your posts, they won’t be able to see how many others interacted with it. The same goes if you want to see how many people liked a post […]