The landscape of social media platforms, their design, culture, and impact on how people connect and communicate online.
Mike Carson is reviving Friendster as a mobile app that requires users to meet in person and tap phones to connect, aiming to prioritize real-world friendships over digital noise.
Automating your social media presence with AI destroys human authenticity and replaces genuine connection with hollow, performative metrics.
Meta is expanding its autonomous AI capabilities by acquiring Moltbook, a social network that allows AI agents to verify identities and collaborate.
Modern social media has transitioned from genuine social networking to manipulative 'attention media,' prompting a return to user-controlled, chronological platforms.
A contractor exploited TikTok’s engagement economics to fabricate anti‑migrant house tours for clicks, exposing how algorithms can monetize hate and trigger real‑world harm.
Reports of blocked anti-ICE posts on TikTok collide with a company-claimed tech outage and a new US-led governance regime, deepening user distrust without proving censorship.
TikTok’s new US privacy policy expands data collection—especially precise location and AI interactions—and extends ad targeting beyond the app via a broader ad network.
Join a low-pressure No Socials November: log off, try blogging instead, and share your experience via email.
In an AI-saturated, trust-poor feed economy, reclaim your work by making your website the canonical source and syndicating elsewhere.
Sora shows AI’s power to democratize creation, opening a social lane that could disrupt Instagram’s entertainment‑centric model and challenge Meta’s attention monopoly.
Dutch court orders Meta to persist user-selected non-profiled feeds under the DSA, reinforcing user autonomy and curbing dark patterns.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 brings a big leap in physically realistic, controllable AI video-and-audio generation and debuts a safety-first social app built around creative remixing and user-controlled cameos.
A week spent marketing instead of coding proved that relationships and visibility beat shipping one more feature.
A U.S.-led investor group is set to take an 80% stake in a new entity running TikTok’s U.S. business, with Trump and Xi poised to seal the deal.
Design a slow, humane social network that prioritizes real relationships over engagement: mutual connections, caps, chronological feeds, posting limits, and no ads or algorithms.
TikTok’s 60-second, algorithm-driven model now sets the template for culture, optimizing engagement while eroding depth and serendipity.
Deadly Gen Z–led protests over Nepal’s social media ban and corruption forced army deployment and a curfew as unrest spread beyond Kathmandu.
