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Instagram is planning to stop showing posts chronologically
It's only natural for social networks to display posts in chronological order, which is what Instagram has always done, but this often results in posts that are ...
Samsung’s attempt at a social media app is destined to fail
From time to time, Samsung will release a new product in an area that it's not familiar with which will inevitably fail, and the tech community will laugh and ...
Nielsen now factors social media shares into television ratings
Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it's expanding Twitter TV Ratings to include Facebook as well, and is renaming it to Social Content Ratings. What this means ...
Fresh Meat is an online dating service that’s only for attractive people
Building a new social network is incredibly difficult, even for the largest of companies, and it's next to impossible for the smaller ones. The only way to do ...
Facebook is dead, long live Facebook Messenger
Okay, so Facebook isn't actually dead, not even close, but if there's one thing we learned from the recent end-of-the-year app statistics, it's that messaging ...
Europe is considering banning children from using social media
Few things are as potentially dangerous to children in developed nations as social media, and though many governments and organizations have made efforts to ...
This new EFF website draws attention to social media censorship
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been focusing a lot more on privacy and security issues following the Snowden leaks, but the organization is ...
Google Plus has been completely redesigned and refocused
Numerous articles have been written about what went wrong with Google Plus, so I won't go into detail here, but suffice it to say that Google put too much focus ...
Retailers ignore 83% of the complaints they receive on social media
Have you ever complained on a company's social media account about an issue your having with their product or service? If you have, then you're certainly not ...
Instagram is taking aim at Snapchat and Twitter with this new feature
Curation is the name of the game nowadays, and ever the trend-follower, Instagram is trying its hand at curation with a new channel that features curated ...
Who’s Down is Google’s latest attempt to succeed with social media
After fumbling into the world of social media with Google Plus, and then slowly retreating, Google is ready to try again, but this time the company is being ...
How social media will play its biggest political roll ever for the Presidency
It's easy to say that social media is going to be a bigger player in this Presidential election than ever before. It's really only been prominent in two of them ...
Pinterest wants to be your go-to destination for travel planning
Discovery and collection are what Pinterest is all about, and the Place Pins feature that the company introduced a couple of years ago is supposed to take those ...
Around 65% of American adults use social media nowadays
Social media is popular, can you believe it?! It's so popular, in fact, that around 65% of the entire adult population in the United States use social media in ...