Bluesky says it added 500K new users in a day this week after X announced plans for controversial changes, including basically getting rid of the block feature
Here's Why Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups Dylan R. Coyle / Android Police : X users are seemingly flocking to Bluesky after Twitter's latest snafu Sam Courtne...
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute
the ability to block trolls Metro.co.uk : Elon Musk plans to stop letting X (formerly Twitter) users block each other Jorge Aguilar / Android Police : The app formally known as Twitter continues its d...
Study finds no correlation between growing up playing violent video games and increased levels of aggression 10 years later
A ten-year longitudinal study published in the Journal of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking on a group in early adolescence from as young as ten years old … Source: Mary Ann Liebert … .
Facebook and Twitter represent v1 of social networking, a bad copy of the analog world, whereas v2 is something unique to digital and a lot more promising
Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Tweets: @blaine , @rossgarber , @damanr , @blaine , @modestproposal1 , and @stratechery Tweets: Blaine Cook / @blaine : The way we and our communities relate is a very hu...
A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking
My focus for the last couple of years has been understanding and addressing the biggest challenges facing Facebook. This means taking positions on important issues concerning the future of the intern...
A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking
My focus for the last couple of years has been understanding and addressing the biggest challenges facing Facebook. This means taking positions on important issues concerning the future of the intern...
Lifestage, Facebook's teens-only app, launches on Android, as the iOS app drops to a ranking of #1289 in the Social Networking category, according to App Annie
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Technology Waves and Valuations: Are We in a Social Networking Bubble?
Note: This topic is partly related to the Hypernet but also related to where we are in the Social Networking cycle. It's an atypical post for this blog, but a lot of readers asked me about this and h...
Google Links Music Store, Social Networking
Google Inc. is building a music-download store that would work closely with its Google Plus social network and could launch it within the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. ...
The need for an Alternative to Facebook
For those of us that don't like to read, you can find a Summary of this post here. — Over the last few years, we have entered an important new era of digital communication. Social Networking is all...