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This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet. On Twitter, a place where a lot of bad things happen, there's a mostly harmless but decidedly annoying phenomenon. A lot of people, mostly women, have noticed that one or two men always, no matter wh
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For the last 18 months, UK lawmakers have investigated Facebook, and it's recommended they and other social media giants be regulated.A damning report released on Monday said after years of self-regulation, these companies were unable to protect users data and privacy, or from disinformation.SEE AL
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Jenner's followers dipped from 127 million to 124 million but rose back up to 126 million Thursday morning. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, and Influencers
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In the vast world of animals with social media accounts, common household pets like cats and dogs typically reign supreme. But if you’re not following your fair share of alpacas on the internet, you’re sorely missing out.Though social media accounts dedicated to alpacas are rare, they'r
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It was just a simple friend request. However, nothing is ever simple when the U.S. intelligence community is involved.A press release released Wednesday by the Department of Justice details an alleged effort by Iranian government agents to use Facebook to hack members of the American intelligence c
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Rest in peace, 69 jokes.It brings me no pleasure to report that President Donald Trump included "69" and "nice" in the same tweet on Wednesday, effectively killing the internet's most beloved tradition. That's right, folks: 69 jokes will never be the same again. Blame the president.The Gallup Poll
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To mark the first anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, March For Our Lives and its organizers will go dark on social media between February 14th through the 17th.They say their silence, which includes declining requests for interviews during
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There's no dearth of messaging platforms on the web, but Instagram DMs have likely become a big part of your online life.A prototype, spotted by software engineer Jane Manchun Wong, shows the platform making moves toward making its direct messaging service, Direct, accessible via your browser.SEE A
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Connecting with your Instagram followers is fun... until it isn't. Once it becomes part of your job description for marketing purposes, the hassle of scheduling, posting, and following up on #content can swiftly outweigh the thrill of racking up likes. And if those tiny red heart notifications stop
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Valentine's Day is kind of nice, but it's mostly a cloying, capitalist nightmare. It makes sense, then, that the anti-Valentine's Day community is a large and vocal one. V-Day skeptics aren't bitter; they just hate Russell Stover samplers from CVS!If you count yourself among the lukewarm this
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In November, the surreal meme creator @surrealvault decided to shutter her merch shop, which had existed for only two days. Though she'd originally seen the store as a viable way to monetize her page, she ended up feeling uncomfortable with the idea. "Surrealism exists to confuse, amaze, inspire an
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According to a Stanford-NYU study, quitting Facebook increased social interaction with family and peers. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Quitting Social Media, Quit Facebook, Stanford Nyu Study, and Mental Health Social Media
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Facebook is still figuring out how to keep teens, who have been leaving the network in droves.In January, Facebook was reportedly working on something named LOL, a bid to win over younger users with "a special feed of funny videos and GIF-like clips," which sat within the main Facebook app. SE
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In our Love App-tually series, Mashable shines a light into the foggy world of online dating. Just in time for cuffing season.Instagram has become a cemetery for my failed online dates. I don't accidentally tap into their Stories, or stumble upon their posts as I aimlessly scroll through my ti
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If a baguette was alive and could move around, how would it move?This is the vital question posed by a comedian and animator named Dave (@sheepfilms on Twitter), who gave the internet its latest thing to debate on Thursday. According to Dave, there are four possible ways a baguette could move: worm
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Twitter is making more money than ever before—even as it loses monthly active users.On Thursday, the company announced its latest earnings report, and it was loaded with positive financial news. Twitter reported a record-setting revenue of $909 million in the fourth quarter, a 24-percent incr
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It's a question that keeps popping up for Jack Dorsey.In an interview with Joe Rogan over the weekend, the Twitter CEO floated how editable tweets, an oft-requested feature, would work on the platform. SEE ALSO: Groundhog Day prediction is for an early spring but Twitter's not buying it this y
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After my college boyfriend and I broke up in the winter of 2011 (my senior year in college), I began to suspect he had a new flame, in large part because of the photos that started to appear on Facebook. "That was taken from the perspective of his bed," I remember thinking about one. "What wou
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Not everything can be 💯.At the bottom of the emoji hierarchy lie the derelicts: the mountain cableway, the baggage claim icon, a bunch of squares with letters in them. It might seem impossible to lift these poor guys out of obscurity, but they're actually full of untapped potential. Kind of
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Following the takedown of hundreds of pages and groups linked to Iran on Thursday, Facebook has continued its cull in Indonesia.The social media giant has been targeting "coordinated inauthentic behavior" on the platform, announcing the same the removal of accounts, pages, and groups linked t
