Tag: social media
Google and Meta reportedly skirting their own rules to ad target young teens, shows why tech giants cannot regulate themselves
Google and Meta have reportedly been rolling out ads targeting young teens, which skirt the former’s policies prohibiting such actions. According to a report from the Financial Times (via Engadget), Google created a marketing campaign targeting the 13-17-year-old demographic, advertising Instagram to YouTube users in that age range. To circumvent its…
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Threads is one, and it may be the best social media platform you’re still not using
Threads, the social media platform from Meta I didn’t know I wanted or needed, is officially one year old – and I’m still using it. That’s quite an accomplishment. Threads arrived on July 5, 2023, like an amiable social media savior. It didn’t do a lot, and owed much of…
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Threads is celebrating its birthday with a hidden cake giving away cool new icons
Threads is about to turn one, as Meta’s answer to X (née Twitter), officially hit the scene on July 5, 2023. Zuck sent out a pre-celebration Thread calling out more than 175 million active users on the platform, but another birthday treat is hidden in the app. Whether you’re on…
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I’m writing this because I know my Gen Z offspring will never read it – and that’s OK
Is Gen Z really different from the rest of us? The alchemy of being born between 1997 and 2012 has delivered a generation of not exactly non-conformists but some seemingly disengaged youths. I mean, they must be disengaged because they see everything differently. Or is it more clearly? Jigsaw, which…
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Image site Abload going offline reminds me of how much online content we’ve permanently lost
In a devastating blog post, image-uploading site Abload announced that it would be permanently shutting down its website by June 30, 2024. Abload, which has been around as a free service since 2006, stopped accepting new uploads back in December 2023. According to the blog post, the team had spent…
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Discord’s updated Terms of Service are exactly the wrong response to its recent data breaches
It seems that Discord has been in the news for one reason or another lately, ranging from layoffs to massive privacy breaches and information theft by third parties. And now there’s something new on the horizon — one that may not seem like such a huge deal now but could…
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