Social Media

Before you take a break from social media, psychologists suggest assessing your existing online habits and what benefits you get from them.

A ‘day in the life’ at the end of a life

“Retention editing,” a video style featuring bangs and flashes, may have peaked.

How an idealistic community for exchanging free stuff tried to break away from Facebook and ended up breaking apart.

Social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade holds a lot of lessons that apply directly to AI companies and technologies.

Learn more about external validation. Why we crave it. Why it can be a good. And how to heal from constantly needing external validation.

It's the new Got Milk? for the social media era.

Only you can see who viewed your profile, but if you turn on the feature, then you're also consenting to let other people see that you've viewed their profile.

The constant inflow of information from my smartphone, always readily available in my pocket to capture any free moment of attention, had fragmented my attention span.

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Timeline of most popular social networks from 2003 to 2022. Measured by monthly active users worldwide. Data source: press releases, 10-k sec filings, indust...

The next time you catch yourself doomscrolling, take it as an invitation to own your own horror.

Sherlock Holmes says in the book, The Study of Scarlet: I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes…

Habit-forming features on social media apps are sparking class-action lawsuits. But does moral responsibility lie with product designers?

I’m going to tell you a few things you already know. Every time you open your phone or your computer, your brain is walking onto a battleground. The aggressors are the architects of your digital wo…

A new study found that song lyrics are now angrier, more repetitive, and vain. Consensus wavers, but what remains incontestable is social media’s impact on the music we hear most.

On TikTok Shop, influencers are profiting by promoting sketchy health trends in order to sell products.

Are You Caught in a Social Media Trap? - Freakonomics

Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at…

The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.

‘Tis the season of giving—the time to focus on those we love and those less fortunate than us. A time to do things “not for ourselves, but for others,” as Sir Thomas Carlyle once wrote. Which brings…

Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

Sarah Jeong reflects on the coordinated right-wing campaign to cancel her.

I’ve always thought Twitter makes you twice as informed but half as productive. On net it’s probably a wash. A lot of media works that way. Everyone has access to an astronomical amount of data…

The images offer a rare glimpse inside murky enterprises that artificially generate social media likes, comments and shares for less than a cent a click.

How would you describe your feelings about social media? Do words like “entertaining” and “connecting” come to mind — but also words like “exhausting” and “polarized”? You’re not alone if you find …

Mutual fund Fidelity, which owns stake in social media platform, marks down value of its shares in disclosure obtained by Axios

Experts and r/ChangeMyView subreddit moderators offer 10 tips to debunk conspiracy theories convincingly—and kindly.

Social media is our public diary — and it’s only getting more intimate.

A step-by-step guide to finding and removing your personal information from the internet.

1) Do not read the whole original post or what it links to, which will dilute the purity of your response and reduce your chances of rebuking the poster for not mentioning anything they might’…

Or how, exactly, platforms die.

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If Meta thinks that users are craving more AI, they’re ignoring the fact that the Facebook and Instagram experience is already full of AI.

Did smartphones actually "destroy" a generation?

“No one chasing money in media ever chased Twitter. But anyone chasing power found themselves irresistibly drawn to the platform.”