No pride flag reaction this year
Tag: social media
👓 Twitter Is Banning Anyone Whose Date of Birth Says They Joined Before They Were 13 | Motherboard
According to the company, it can't separate content posted before and after the age of 13.
Another solid reason why to be a member of the IndieWeb.
Here’s a reminder to export or back up your social data, or better yet post it to your own site first and syndicate it to social silos you don’t have direct control of second.
👓 Twitter Banning Users That Signed Up Before They Were 13 | Fortune
The bans include users who are currently over the age of 13.
👓 Teens Are Abandoning Facebook. For Real This Time. | Slate
Facebook is no longer the dominant social network among teens, according to Pew’s survey of 743 U.S. residents aged 13 to 17, conducted between March 7 and April 10, 2018. In fact, it’s no longer even in the top three. (A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment on the survey.)
👓 Defending Trump, Roseanne Wants Her Show to Be ‘Realistic’ | The New York Times
Roseanne Barr said she was not an “apologist” for Mr. Trump but wanted the reboot of her sitcom to address the strong divide in the country.
I’m seeing a pattern of Roseanne “quitting” Twitter, but returning to her detriment. I’m aware of morals clauses in countries like France, but I’m curious if, with social media, we’ll see more and more countries in the U.S. begin to add such clauses to talent contracts?
👓 Invisible asymptotes | Remains of the Day
My first job at Amazon was as the first analyst in strategic planning, the forward-looking counterpart to accounting, which records what already happened. We maintained several time horizons for our forward forecasts, from granular monthly forecasts to quarterly and annual forecasts to even five and ten year forecasts for the purposes of fund-raising and, well, strategic planning.
A great long read covering some interesting portions of UX and strategy in the future of social. There are some useful tidbits for the IndieWeb to consider here.
👓 Lifefaker
Lifefaker.com is a new tech startup with a mission: to help you fake a perfect social profile, whoever you are. Life isn't perfect, your profile should be.
I once heard someone say “Live an Instagrammable life” by which I think they meant live an impossibly beautiful professionally shot magazine-syled life that will make all your friends jealous.
As a result, I’m thinking about buying the “I Can Be Arty And Deep” package or the “I Own All The Things” package. Maybe both at the same time? They’re so cheap and simple… Surely this will make my life better and happier!
👓 Dropping Twitter Support on IndieAuth.com | Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki (Aaron Parecki)I've made the difficult decision to drop support for Twitter authentication on IndieAuth.com. Some time last week, Twitter rolled out a change to the website which broke how IndieAuth.com verifies that a website and Twitter account belong to the same person.
Another case of “silos gonna silo.”
👓 Up Close on Baseball’s Borders | The New York Times
An interactive map of the geography of baseball fandom.
👓 Facebook and Google hit with $8.8 billion in lawsuits on day one of GDPR | The Verge
Time to regulate
👓 How Social Media Became a Pink Collar Job | Wired
When companies ask for sociable, flexible, compassionate workers, they’re silently signaling women to sign-on to an undervalued job that powers the digital economy.
As a country we’re killing ourselves and our economy by devaluing women like this.
👓 Does Donald Trump write his own tweets? Sometimes | The Boston Globe
It’s not always Trump tapping out a tweet, even when it sounds like his voice.
I wonder how complicated/in-depth the applied information theory is behind the Twitter bot described here?
👓 How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness | The Economist
Youngsters report problems with anxiety, depression, sleep and “FoMO”
👓 The platform patrons: How Facebook and Google became two of the biggest funders of journalism in the world | Columbia Journalism Review
Taken together, Facebook and Google have now committed more than half a billion dollars to various journalistic programs and media partnerships over the past three years, not including the money spent internally on developing media-focused products like Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google’s competing AMP mobile project. The result: These mega-platforms are now two of the largest funders of journalism in the world.
The irony is hard to miss. The dismantling of the traditional advertising model—largely at the hands of the social networks, which have siphoned away the majority of industry ad revenue—has left many media companies and journalistic institutions in desperate need of a lifeline. Google and Facebook, meanwhile, are happy to oblige, flush with cash from their ongoing dominance of the digital ad market.
The result is a somewhat dysfunctional alliance. People in the media business (including some on the receiving end of the cash) see the tech donations as guilt money, something journalism deserves because Google and Facebook wrecked their business. The tech giants, meanwhile, are desperate for some good PR and maybe even a few friends in a journalistic community that—especially now—can seem openly antagonistic.
A stunning and relatively detailed overview of where we’ve been in the last several years on the journalism front with too many questions about where we may be going.
👓 A New Facebook Feature Shows Which Pro-Trump Facebook Pages Are Run From Overseas | BuzzFeed
The feature is called "Page History" but now it's gone.