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Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
8 hours agoPsychology says people who intentionally limit their social media use aren't more disciplined than everyone else - they became more honest about what the unlimited version was replacing, which was the interior life, the undirected thought, the boredom that produces things, and once they understood what was being replaced they didn't need discipline, they needed only the honesty to stop - Silicon Canals
Boredom can lead to meaningful engagement and creativity, rather than being a sign of lack of activity.
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
9 hours agoThe emptiness many people feel after 70 isn't the absence of purpose - it's the absence of an audience, and those are completely different problems with completely different solutions - Silicon Canals
Retirement often leads to a loss of audience, not purpose, causing feelings of uselessness among retirees.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoNobody tells you that expecting instant replies is a relatively new social norm - and that an entire generation learned to communicate in ways that never required it - Silicon Canals
Instant communication has created pressure that undermines meaningful relationships, which thrived in a slower-paced era of correspondence.
Media industry
fromFuturism
2 weeks agoCrowd's Reaction to BuzzFeed's New AI App: Uncomfortable Laughter
BuzzFeed faces severe financial distress with $57.3 million net loss in 2025 and substantial doubt about continuing operations, despite pivoting to AI-focused products that received poor reception at SXSW.
Online Community Development
fromwww.socialmediatoday.com
3 weeks agoReddit publishes report on its B2B marketing opportunities
Reddit presents significant B2B marketing opportunities through its 100,000+ active communities where buyers research products and seek expert advice before purchase decisions.
Digital life
fromTheSavvyGamer
2 weeks ago10 Things the Internet Made Better & 10 It Made So Much Worse - TheSavvyGamer
The internet fundamentally transformed modern life by enabling global connectivity and information access, while simultaneously creating significant new problems that warrant honest evaluation.
Social media marketing
fromCurtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning
2 weeks agoThe Pros And Cons Of Major Social Media Apps | 710 WOR | Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning
Discord and similar social media platforms face criticism for inadequate monitoring of private communications, enabling both harmful activities like terrorist recruitment and positive community building.
fromThe Verge
3 weeks agoTumblr updated reblogs to function more like tweets and users hate it
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. The new experience looks closer to how reblogs behave on X, Bluesky, and Threads. And the similarities haven't gone unnoticed by many Tumblr users who are now pushing back against the platform becoming another Twitter look-alike, and say the updated reblog chains are harder to follow.
Social media marketing
fromVogue
1 month agoHow Reddit Plans to Be the Antidote to AI Shopping
A quick ask around my Whatsapp groups tells me why it's appealing to the millennial female. "It's the source of all knowledge and free of influencers," says one friend. "I use it because it's real people, and ChatGPT is soulless and makes me sad," says another. "I like how old school the platform is - it feels quite separate from adverts, image saturation, influencing," says a third.
Tech industry
Social media marketing
fromwww.socialmediatoday.com
3 weeks agoReddit shares insight into the growth of sports fandoms in the app
Reddit published a comprehensive guide showing how users engage with sports content, revealing NFL season as the dominant driver of app downloads and engagement, with significant spikes during March Madness, Kentucky Derby, and other major sporting events.
fromwww.socialmediatoday.com
1 month agoThreads tests simplified DM connection in-stream
Threads is moving to drive more messaging use with a streamlined option to guide users towards messaging in-stream. The new process allows users to type DM me or message me in a post, which will then activate that term as a quick link into the Threads DM flow. Users can still control who can message them in their settings, so this won't open people up to unwanted outreach.
Social media marketing
Artificial intelligence
fromNieman Lab
2 months agoYahoo Answers 2.0? The forgotten tech giant promises to help you understand the memes in your feed
Yahoo remains a major web property and has launched Scout, an AI-powered, web-forward search/answer tool leveraging strong news, finance, and sports teams.
fromTNW | Socialmedia
1 month agoX goes quiet again
Outage trackers such as Downdetector logged a dramatic surge in problem reports around midday GMT, with tens of thousands of users across regions, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, and India, reporting problems accessing the service. Some described impossible login loops and error messages telling them only that "something went wrong." Here's where it gets curious: nobody from X has confirmed why the platform hiccupped.
Social media marketing
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