9 Best Articles in 2020
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · 1084 saves · From 2016 · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it might do the opposite.
WIRED
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All
WIRED
1043 saves · From 2018 · How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Guardian Tech
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Guardian Tech
988 saves · From 2017 · The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race…
Facebook Newsroom
It’s Facebook Official, Dating Is Here
Facebook Newsroom
828 saves · 2019-09-05 · Facebook Dating makes it easier to find love through what you like.
Buffer
The 20 Best New Social Media Tools to Try in 2017 (And How to Use Them)
Buffer
~20 min read · 679 saves · From 2016 · The social media world is a fascinating one. Every so often, a new social media platform emerges to capture our attention (Peach) or?become part of our daily lives (Snapchat). The social media tools landscape can be just as fascinating — and robust! Every week, people build and?launch new social media tools, empowering us marketers in […]
The New York Times
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
The New York Times
4 min read · 656 saves · Nov 21st · The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born from the mind of a computer, and the technology behind them is…
The Economist Data Team
How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness
The Economist Data Team
5 min read · 619 saves · From 2018 · Youngsters report problems with anxiety, depression, sleep and “FoMO”
The New York Times
The Follower Factory
The New York Times
555 saves · From 2018 · Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market.
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The Atlantic
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
The Atlantic
~15 min read · 359 saves · Dec 15th · The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.
BuzzFeed News
Facebook Employees Leaving As Hate Speech Festers
BuzzFeed News
8 min read · 177 saves · Dec 11th · A departing Facebook employee says the social network's failure to act on hate speech “makes it embarrassing to work here.”
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Live, Social, and Shoppable: The Future of Video
a16z
8 min read · 148 saves · Dec 7th · Taking cues from gaming, entertainment, and abroad, video-first products are transforming the future of education, shopping, and solopreneurship.
WIRED
An AI Used Facebook Data to Predict Mental Illness
WIRED
2 min read · 144 saves · Dec 14th · Grace Huckins · Volunteers let an AI scan their messages from more than a year before they received a psychiatric diagnosis. It was able to flag signs of their conditions.
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Social Strikes Back - Andreessen Horowitz
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3 min read · 144 saves · Dec 7th · An innovative new wave of social networks has arrived—from audio-first apps to social gaming to the countless consumer apps built with social in their DNA.
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What Twitter Can Learn From Spotify
OM
7 min read · 121 saves · Dec 7th · Ever since Twitter unveiled its new Fleets, I’ve been mulling over the company’s future. What can they do that’s uniquely their own? How can they take advantage of their past and present in a way t…
BuzzFeed News
Facebook’s Global Ad Machine Is The Company’s $80 Billion Annual Lifeblood. Workers Say It Puts Profits Over…
BuzzFeed News
~17 min read · 118 saves · Dec 10th · Facebook is on track for record ad revenue this year. That’s partly due to its lax approach to stopping scammers, hackers, and disinformation peddlers who buy ads that rip off and manipulate people,…
a16z
The Stickiest, Most Addictive, Most Engaging, and Fastest-Growing Social Apps—and How to Measure Them
a16z
~12 min read · 118 saves · Dec 7th · When assessing a social app’s potential, what does “good” look like, anyway? The most important metrics—and benchmarks to aspire to—according to the data.
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The Next Phase of Social? Listen Closely
a16z
10 min read · 111 saves · Dec 7th · We’re on the cusp of a wave of audio innovation that will rival the explosion of video apps. Now new social + audio startups are stretching beyond podcasts.
Stratechery
Social Networking 2.0
Stratechery
10 min read · 88 saves · Dec 15th · Ben Thompson · Facebook and Twitter represent the v1 of Social Networking; it’s a bad copy of the analog world, whereas v2 is something unique to digital, and a lot more promising.
