Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Social platforms: perfect propaganda delivery tools Paid Members Public
This post by JP Rangaswami resonated with me, because it summed up one of the areas digital seems to have gone wrong [http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2017/10/30/on-platforms-and-sustainability/]: > So is that it? Back to seats and eyeballs, channelled not connected, “audiences” sucking up linear “content”? Back to a
An early sign of Russia’s infowars Paid Members Public
I think we can safely file this 2016 New York Times piece [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/world/europe/russia-finland-nato-trolls.html] under the “we should have taken this more seriously” category: > But pro-Russian voices have become such a noisy and disruptive presence that both NATO and the
What Facebook is doing to deceptive newsfeed clickbait will change your life Paid Members Public
Facebook is weeding out some deceptive clickbait practices [http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/08/news-feed-fyi-taking-action-against-video-clickbait/] : > When people click on an image in their News Feed featuring a play button, they expect a video to start playing. Spammers often use fake play buttons to trick people into clicking links
Twitter is stagnant Paid Members Public
Bloomberg [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/twitter-s-revenue-tops-estimates-monthly-user-growth-evaporates] : > A long-term turnaround depends on Twitter expanding its audience. That number stands at 328 million monthly active users — the same as in the prior quarter, the San Francisco-based company said in a statement Thursday. I used to love Twitter. I
The Instagram effect on real estate Paid Members Public
Instagram may be having a more profound effect on our culture than we think. First, people started creating dishes just for Instagram. And now? > Now some entrepreneurs are taking the idea a step further, designing their physical spaces in the hopes of inspiring the maximum number of photos. They’
Let's mock Instagram influencers a bit more, shall we? Paid Members Public
Instagram seems to be the focus of a lot of criticism right now: We seem to have fallen a long way from the ideals of transparency and authenticity that characterised the early social web, don’t we?[via PetaPixel [https://petapixel.com/2017/07/28/instagram-vs-reality-video-shows-people-lie-life-photos/] ]
Slaying the myth of the digital native Paid Members Public
Nature [http://www.nature.com/news/the-digital-native-is-a-myth-1.22363] takes aim at the prevaling “wisdom” that the younger generation are more digitally adept: > But a paper published last month in Teaching and Teacher Education reaches the opposite conclusion. The digital native is a myth, it claims: a yeti with a
The family that influences together, stays together Paid Members Public
Videos like this make me very glad my wife is a social media refusenik.
