social networks
A brief translation of today's Facebook news from Facebook speak to English Paid Members Public
Facebook has made a major announcement about the future of its newsfeed [https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/news-feed-fyi-bringing-people-closer-together/] and, in particular, its relationship to news publishers [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/facebook-news-feed.html]. It is, of course, posted in that relentlessly upbeat obfuscation that’s
Maintaining friendships without social networks Paid Members Public
Maintaining friendships after Facebook and Twitter [https://jonmitchell.net/blog/how-to-stay-internet-friends-without-facebook-or-twitter] : > Some people are like, “How are you supposed to maintain normal human relationships?” Don’t worry, I tell them. There are way better ways to be internet friends than Facebook and Twitter. In fact, most of them already
Instagram's key feature: search Paid Members Public
The Buffer blog has published a really useful post looking at how to make the most of Instagram, by using its search function [https://medium.com/@buffer/how-to-use-instagram-search-to-grow-your-instagram-account-21d683bd3de4] . One particular piece of advice often missed comes from photographer Allen Harper: > Some hashtags are vastly more popular than others; however,
Facebook rolling out text statuses with coloured backgrounds to the web Paid Members Public
This afternoon, I took a little light mockery from a friend [https://twitter.com/ilicco] for posting a Facebook update that looks like this: He had assumed I was algorithm-gaming by posting my update as an image, not text. But I wasn’t. Instead, while making the post, I’d
Ello to launch a magazine: Not For Print Paid Members Public
Ello, the social network you’ve forgotten about, is to launch its own magazine [https://ello.co/notforprint/post/notforprint_censorship]: > Not For Print will help bring the best of Ello into the real world with a tangible, show-it-off-on-your-coffee-table magazine featuring the art of 50 creators on Ello. And
You're only a journalist if Twitter and Facebook say so. Paid Members Public
The social media platforms decide if we are journalists or not. How… odd.
Social networks are the new TV Paid Members Public
Silvia Killingsworth on Instagram ads [https://theawl.com/instagram-is-the-new-tv-ce13e3dcbceb#.3dkk2efpk]: > Today I was fed a full commercial from Karlie Kloss, which was amazing because it was just a fully produced video ad like the ones you used to see on television when you used to watch live television. And
Social media is becoming just plain old media - and that's a loss Paid Members Public
What has killed social media? Vanity [http://www.elsua.net/2016/09/15/vanity-killed-the-social-media-star/]: > At some point in the not so distant past, we knowledge (Web) workers decided to, collectively, kill one of the most profound and deep reaching components from all of these social networking tools out there:
