Tag: Facebook

Think it’s time to get off social media? Then this is the reading list for you.

The algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps don’t know when your life changes course — and can keep up a stream of painful memories.

Can we survive the social web?

Eryn Loeb looks back on a summer spent taking pictures, and a friend she lost touch with.

Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid?

Maybe it’s time for an internet break… after you read this.

Asking for a friend called Facebook.

Amid controversies and unethical practices, tech giants like Facebook and Google are no longer dream companies to work for.

In the Parvati Valley, the road to enlightenment is paved with danger.

If you’re going on Facebook to join a support group, be wary of trolls and those who want to profit from your misfortune.

What happens when a tool created by a bunch of developers in California becomes the main news source of a country 7,000 miles away? Nothing good.

Facebook’s botched war against propaganda campaigns.

Tim Berners-Lee: “For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it.”

If we want to liberate ourselves from the tech monopolies, we have to figure out what to do with our data.

The Facebook CEO is in control of his company. He could just use a little more confidence.

What is Facebook *really* about? Surveillance and advertising, not about “the power to build community” as its new mission statement so disingenuously puts it.

Filmmaker Kyrre Lien was curious about what drives people who make hateful comments online, so he traveled the world to interview internet trolls in person.

After 25 years of fighting a losing war on drugs and with a heroin epidemic raging in his home state of Massachusetts, Gloucester Police Chief Leonard Campanello decided to take matters into his own hands. He opened his police station’s doors to any addict seeking help, promising to get them into treatment. Writing for Boston Magazine, Chris Sweeney […]

Over the next nine years the pair also watched Yahoo go through multiple ups and downs. Acton invested in the dotcom boom, and lost millions in the 2000 bust. For all of his distaste for advertising now he was also deep in it back then, getting pulled in to help launch Yahoo’s important and much-delayed […]

One thing about some of the new apps that will come as a shock to anyone familiar with Facebook: Users will be able to log in anonymously. That’s a big change for Zuckerberg, who once told David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect, that “having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack […]

What the Facebook founder did to outmaneuver his competitors, and the challenges he faces to keep employees motivated and investors happy after the IPO: One area Facebook will have to prove itself in is mobile. Earlier this month, it amended its public filings with the SEC to disclose that it doesn’t collect any meaningful revenue […]

[Not single-page] Facebook staffers once told Mark Zuckerberg he needed to take “CEO lessons.” How Zuckerberg responded, and what it means for Facebook leading up to its IPO: ‘Basically, there are two ways to build an organization,’ a former Facebook employee explains. ‘You can be really, really good at hiring, or you can be really, […]