Update 2025-10-27: Adjusted the sentence about the reasons why Tuenti pivoted back to Like, based on feedback (thanks, Luis!). Facebook's Like Button I recently listened to a podcast episode about the story of Facebook/Meta. When the episode reaches the year 2008 and the like button launch, they mentioned something …| Kartones' Blog
Die EU macht Druck: Künftig sollen Jugendliche erst ab 16 Jahren auf Social Media dürfen. Was bedeutet das – und wie soll das überhaupt funktionieren?| Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
Endlich! Instagram will aufräumen. Schluss mit dem Dauerstrom an potenziell schädlichen Inhalten für Jugendliche. Ein mutiger Schritt oder nur ein Tropfen auf den heißen Stein? Wir werfen einen genauen Blick auf die geplanten Änderungen und was sie wirklich bedeuten.| Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
LinkedIn has its problems, but so does every other social network. I joined LinkedIn out of college because it seemed like something you were supposed to do if you want a job someday, but I never c…| Economist Writing Every Day
We have good news for many users who asked for the features in this important update of the WPeMatico Facebook Fetcher. We made some modifications to our code in order to accelerate the loading time...Continue reading →| etruel.com
Gute Nachrichten für alle, die ihre Telefonnummer nicht mehr mit jedem teilen wollen: WhatsApp arbeitet an einer Nutzernamen-Funktion. Und das Beste daran? Ihr könnt euch euren Wunschnamen schon bald reservieren, bevor die Funktion überhaupt offiziell startet.| Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
People trust other people when they need advice. Before booking a mover, many go online to ask questions and read answers from those with experience. Quora and Reddit are full of these discussions. They cover everything from moving costs to how to avoid scams. For movers, this creates a chance to connect with potential customers […] The post How to use Quora and Reddit to drive moving leads appeared first on Movers Development.| Movers Development
by Crawford Spence* There is plenty of work out there on financial intermediaries. Most of this can be found in finance or economics journals and displays little evidence of its authors having spent any time with financial intermediaries at all. Rather, studies looking at asset managers or investment bankers tend to be carried out at […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Schulstart in NRW – und drei verschiedene Ansätze zeigen, wie kontrovers der Umgang mit Smartphones und Social Media an Schulen diskutiert wird. Von radikalen Experimenten bis hin zu neuen Schulfächern: Was funktioniert wirklich?| Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
It turns out that virality on internet platforms is a social hazard! | Go To Hellman
The relationship between Trump and other users of his social media platform Truth Social is interesting, and not a little alarming.| One Man & His Blog
Social media data enables researchers to understand current events and human behavior with unprecedented ease and scale. Yet, researchers often violate user privacy when they access, process, and store sensitive information contained within social media data. Social media has proved largely benef| Bentham’s Gaze
We should be a bit more careful in how we structure the federated internet.| LibreNews
I've been manually entering twitter and facebook statuses into obsidian for a long while now, because it is meaningful to review them and reflect on the chasm between my past selves and current self. These social networks are like a black hole, once we publish them we're likely never to see them again unless we...| Winnie Lim
Nowhere does the heroic myth of the founder look more tarnished than in the tattered remnants of the Facebook creator's reputation.| One Man & His Blog
There really are a lot of opportunities here!| The Nexus Of Privacy
Attacks on encryption continue. The UK government has just reportedly handed Apple a Technical Capability Notice – effectively demanding that Apple allow UK law enforcement access to their users’ encrypted cloud servers. This is the latest in a series of recent pushes by the UK Government and security services to establish backdoors in the end-to-end encrypted services which underpin a great deal of our lives. It is also happening at a time when many of us are really quite scared of the t...| Light Blue Touchpaper
With Xitter's CEO making Nazi salutes and Meta's techbro CEO kissing the fascist boot, now's a good time to look at alternatives| The Nexus Of Privacy
Vor 20 Jahren ist Youtube als Dating-Plattform gestartet – und hat sich schnell als wichtigste Video-Plattform der Welt etabliert. WDR-Digitalexperte Jörg Schieb über die Entwicklung bis zur globalen Medienmacht –Youtube ist Fluch und Segen zugleich. Der Start war bescheiden, niemand hätte damals eine Medienrevolution erwartet: 2005 gründeten drei ehemalige PayPal-Mitarbeiter…| Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
On 7 January, Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to content moderation and fact-checking across Meta’s platforms – Facebook, Instagram and Threads – sparking widespread reaction and debate about the future of online discourse and the role of social networks in shaping global conversations.| NevilleHobson .com
What if your next great hire isn’t searching job boards but scrolling their social media feed instead? In 2025, that’s... The post Optimizing your social recruiting strategy: what works where appeared first on CareerArc social recruiting.| CareerArc social recruiting
Musk's close alignment with the new US President-elect has triggered a new exodus from X — with many communities heading for Bluesky. Will this be the tipping point for the new network?| One Man & His Blog
Beatrice has a great post up today about what she calls the “theology of the now.” By this, she means the kind of rhetoric encapsulated in a well-known Flaming Lips song from around the…| An und für sich
“After 10 days of watching the people of Rio Grande do Sul facing the wrath of nature, I confess that I’ve lost my patience with liars,” says the new special minister for reconstruction of Rio Grande do Sul, Paulo Pimenta. By Paulo Pimenta On the night marking ten days since the greatest meteorological disaster in […] The post Minister warns of “industrial-scale” organized disinformation campaign, hindering disaster efforts appeared first on BRASILWIRE.| BRASILWIRE
Es gibt nicht nur TikTok, sondern auch TikTok Lite – jedenfalls in einigen Ländern. Das Problem: Die App belohnt zu viel Videos schauen. Ein Suchtmittel?| Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
Minderjährige: Instagram will Nacktbilder verbergen| Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
Чтобы узнать, как третий сектор общается в социальных сетях со своей аудиторией, Лаборатория собрала данные о более чем 3000 страниц «ВКонтакте», используя официальный API социальной сети Еще » The post Котики, мячики, умные книжки: Лаборатория собрала данные о страницах росси...| Лаборатория исследований гражданского об...
Больше половины НКО из выборки убрали со своих сайтов ссылки на Instagram и Facebook после того, как российский суд назвал Meta экстремистской организацией Еще » The post Исследование: как НКО отказались от социальных сетей, запрещенных российским судом first appeared on Лаборатория исследо...| Лаборатория исследований гражданского об...
