4 social media platforms we’ve lost, and what happened to them

(NEXSTAR) — With the stroke of his pen, President Joe Biden seemingly started the countdown to the demise of TikTok. Though it’s possible the app won’t actually be banned in the U.S., the potential ... Read More

Private data of 73 million AT&T customers leaked on dark web, including social security numbers

The data set appears to ... The breach affected some 35.9m people. For some customers, the hackers may have also identified the last four digits of social security numbers, account security ... Read More

Facebook not allowed to use public data for targeted ads, court opinion says

EU data protection rules don't allow the company to use personal data for an unlimited period of time, the Advocate General said. Read More

Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problems

When President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, 2024, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the ... Read More

Meta (again) denies that Netflix read users’ private Facebook messages

Meta is denying that it gave Netflix access to users’ private ... with Facebook’s messaging app. In exchange for the Inbox API access, Netflix also agreed to provide the social networking ... Read More

Social Networking

The term "social network" refers both to a person's connections to other people in the real world and to a platform that supports online communication, such as Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. Read More

Is Facebook down? Users report outages and problems seeing their feeds

Facebook may be experiencing server outages, as indicated by a surge in user reports online on Tuesday (April 16) morning. If you are having trouble logging on to the social networking site, you are ... Read More

Social Psychology News

Mar. 15, 2024 — Scientists tested several hypotheses on the drivers of social aging in free-living Assamese macaques in Thailand. The researchers collected data on the social behavior of females ... Read More

Yo! How a content-free social network briefly fascinated the world (and the news media)

Perhaps it generated some revenue along the way, but if so, it’s not clear how; there was no Pro Yo or Yo+ to lure your credit card. But I think Yo, like Facebook ... social graph — the underlying ... Read More

The Top 10 Social Media Sites & Platforms

And social media users have grown to trust and rely on their preferred social networks for everything from real-time news and ... its “Family of Apps” – which includes Facebook, Instagram ... Read More

Social Media for Business: Marketing, Customer Service and More

Social media recruiting through sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter lets ... social media network with a varied audience of more than 2.9 billion active monthly users as of 2022. Read More