social networking

New emojis for 2019 include yawns, dogs and more blood
A yawning face, service and guide dogs, and a lone drop of blood that's being called the "period emoji" by a girls' rights group are just three of the new emojis found in Unicode's official 2019 update of the ubiquitous telecom ideograms. It's set to roll out this spring, CNN reports, and various smartphone operating systems and mobile apps are expected to comply shortly thereafter... Re
Facebook Messenger finally lets you delete texts for real
At long last, Facebook is implementing a new Messenger feature that gives users the ability to fully remove messages—from everyone's view—in a conversation on the social media messaging app. This, after Facebook co-founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly already had the Messenger unsend capability at his disposal, as pointed out by CNBC. How doe...
NAACP mounts Facebook boycott amid reports of discrimination
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is urging a boycott of Facebook today after two new reports show Russian trolls specifically targeted black communities on the platform during the 2016 election. The reports (from Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Project and cybersecurity firm New Knowledge) confirm previous suspicions of Russian meddling in the Uni
Taylor Swift, who barely tweets, is Twitter’s most influential woman
Do you know how many times Taylor Swift tweeted this year? If you guessed 13, you're absolutely correct! It seems the pop star is sticking to her lucky number when it comes to her recent tweeting. And that earned her Most Influential Women on Twitter in 2018, according to the annual list from social media analysis company Brandwatch. Re...
I Don’t Want A Social Life Anymore: How bands gauge success on Facebook and Twitter
It’s a fairly safe assumption that social networking and its trappings dominate our lives, whether we want them to or not. The proliferation of activity on platforms like Facebook and Twitter has helped millions of people gain access to more information than ever before, and similarly, has enabled musicians reach a much larger audience than ever thought possible, certainly moreso than the days w