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☆ Facebook is still thriving 20 years later. Here’s how
  + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
Twenty years after its launch, social media giant Facebook continues to show unprecedented staying power after burying early competitors like MySpace and Friendster and establishing a distinct foothold in the burgeoning social media landscape. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesStrong social connection was the linchpin of Facebook, differentiating it from other primordial social media sites. MySpace’s monthly active users had trickled down to an estimated 35 million in mid-2011, according to a Comscore report at the time. In contrast, by September of that year, Facebook was seeing almost 800 million monthly active users. In April 2012, the company acquired photo-centric social media platform Instagram for about $1 billion.
Persons: Harvard University undergrad, Mark Zuckerberg, “, ”, Pablo Boczkowski, alums, ” Zuckerberg, Daniel Acker, Justin Timberlake, Friendster’s, Friendster, Boczkowski, Meta’s, ” Boczkowski, WhatsApp, Meta Organizations: New, New York CNN, Harvard University, Facebook, Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Harvard, New York Times, Bloomberg, Getty, MySpace, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Google, Meta, Inc, “, TikTok, Twitter Locations: New York, Zurich, India, Brazil, Argentina, Italy
☆ Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media
  + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Wired writes about how first-gen social media users have "nowhere to go." AdvertisementAdvertisementIn Wired, Jason Parham writes about how first-gen social media users have nowhere to go. Indeed, millennials have soured on the big social platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and even Instagram feel dead. He points out that "first-gen" users (like me) were part of a "golden age of connectivity," and for those years, it really was exciting. In time, we used social media to remake civic lifeI'm sad that golden age is over, and I'm not sure we'll ever experience anything like it again.
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☆ Can anyone save the internet? Neal Agarwal is trying, one Hampster Dance at a time.
  + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Brian Barrett | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
Internet Artifacts is the latest project from Neal Agarwal, the creative 25-year-old coder who launched neal.fun six years ago today. "I grew up at the tail end of that era of the internet," Agarwal said. Internet Artifacts has taken closer to three months. Internet Artifacts takes several touchstones of the anteplatformian internet and places them on literal digital pedestals. As delightful as Internet Artifacts is to click through, it also provides valuable context for Agarwal's larger ambition.
Persons: Neal Agarwal, Agarwal, antic, Steve Jobs, Jamie Cohen, It's, coders, he'd, —, Bill Gates, Josh Wardle, Neal, neal.fun, Brandon Chilcutt's, Jessa Lingel, Nicole He, Matthew Rayfield, Brian Moore, Wardle, what's, There's, Brian Barrett Organizations: today's, Adobe, Apple, Developers, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, CUNY, Virginia Tech, Ripley's, The New York Times, Napster, University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, Immaculate Grid, MacWorld, Wired, Yorker Locations: Queens, Fairfax , Virginia, MSCHF, New York
☆ In ‘City on Fire,’ the New York of the Early 2000s Burns Bright
  + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Austin Considine | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the younger actors there to help recreate the night of Aug. 14, 2003, what they “saw” required a leap of imagination. But thanks to postproduction wizardry, viewers of the new series “City on Fire,” debuting May 12 on Apple TV+, will see what for New Yorkers during the regionwide blackout that night was so extraordinary: a night sky dotted with stars. The 2003 blackout had a distinctly communal energy compared with the blackout of 1977, which features prominently in the Garth Risk Hallberg novel “City on Fire,” on which the Apple series is based. As in the late ’70s, New York City’s future then seemed uncertain and its underground rock scene was vital. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the beginning of Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial rezoning efforts.
☆ AI Tech Like ChaptGPT, Bing, Bard Is a Bigger Threat Than Social Media
  + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
Nowadays, the promise of social media as a unifying force for good has all but collapsed, and Zuckerberg is slashing thousands of jobs after his company's rocky pivot to the metaverse. Much like social media in 2012, the AI industry is standing on the precipice of immense change. And as Altman and his cohort charge ahead, AI could fundamentally reshape our economy and lives even more than social media. If social media helped expose the worst impulses of humanity on a mass scale, generative AI could be a turbocharger that accelerates the spread of our faults. Social media amplified society's issues, as Wooldridge puts it.
☆ The death of Twitter won't be the dramatic explosion you might expect
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Matt Weinberger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
So I'm confident saying Twitter won't wink out of existence, here one day and gone the next. That said, I'm also confident that Twitter won't be the same after Musk's gambit. Here's how I think will happen:Power users start to abandon ship. The combination of app unreliability and the increasingly-notable absence of power users and influencers will lead to average Twitter users spending less time on the site. If and when users stop refreshing Twitter because it's no longer reliable, they'll start spending more time on other platforms.
☆ Anxious Twitter users find few alternatives to platform after Musk deal closes
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
But with few obvious alternatives, Twitter users may be left with nowhere else to go. Other platforms, like Mastodon, have promised a more decentralized social media experience. “Excited to see what you accomplish here,” retired basketball star Shaquille O’Neill tweeted at Musk on Wednesday ahead of the deal closing. Musk has said he would restore Trump’s Twitter account, though Trump has previously said he would remain on Truth Social. By unbanning users and unwinding content moderation efforts, Musk could make Twitter less palatable for its most vulnerable users, typically women, members of the LGBTQ community, and people of color, according to safety experts.
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