Facebook launches a new game: Organ Farmville
Facebook announced today that the social network's 161 million members in the United States will be encouraged to begin displaying "organ donor status" on their pages, along with birth dates and...
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Popular social networking service begins offering stock for public trading
Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen on a screen televised from their headquarters in Menlo Park moments after their IPO launch in New York. (REUTERS) Shares of Facebook (FB) opened at $42.05 on...
View ArticleAn algorithm to figure out your gender
Twitter opened its analytics platform to every user on August 27, allowing all of us — not just verified users and those with advertising accounts — to track how many people viewed and acted upon our...
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Former Facebook staff say they routinely manipulated trending news topics
Update: Facebook released a statement on Monday afternoon: “We take allegations of bias very seriously. Facebook is a platform for people and perspectives from across the political spectrum.” Facebook...
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Binky is a fake social network where nothing is real and nothing matters
Binky is an app equivalent of a baby pacifier. It presents an endless scroll of image posts that you can "like" or "re-bink" (which does nothing). It's easy to comment on a post, too. You just press...
View ArticleYoung people finally fleeing Facebook, say researchers
It's been predicted for years without much proof to show for it, but new data from Pew Research finally serves the pudding: young people are leaving Facebook for good. From Pew: There are, however, age...
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"spacehey", a new social network that reboots the design of MySpace
A teenager in Germany — who was only a toddler when MySpace originally launched — has launched spacehey, a social network that reboots MySpace's aesthetic and design flow. You fill out your interests...
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Minus is a finite social network with a limit of 100 posts—for life
Minus was created by Ben Grosser, and each user can only make 100 posts. Once you've made your 100 posts, there is no going back—that's it. On Minus, there are no likes, follows, or noisy...
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Why your friends have more friends than you do
Have you ever felt like your friends were more popular than you? You may have been onto something. In 1991, the sociologist Scott Feld compared two numbers: how many friends a participant had and the...
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Who is running ads on the far-right social network Gab?
Far-right twitter clone Gab (previously) now runs ads, and Molly Conger waded in to see who is advertising. Various far-right politicians are up there, such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, but the...
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