Bluesky surges as users flee Elon Musk's X
A million new users since the US election
As the numbers of users at Elon [look at me] Musk’s social notworking site Twitter X have been falling faster than a free-falling elephant without a parachute, numbers at its rival Bluesky have been increasing.
Apple cracks down on social networking
Contact sharing will be more restrictive
Apple, the fruity cargo-cult, has changed how apps can access a user’s contacts in iOS 18, making its contact-sharing prompt more restrictive -- after all it is not as if Apple fanboys have friends.
Trump’s social notworking does not work
Maybe asking the Mexicans to pay for it was a bad idea
Friend of Tsar Putin, Donald Trump’s social networking site for right-wingers appears to be about as successful as his attempts to build a wall between the US and Mexico.
UK looking to lock up tech executives for harmful content
Following Australia
The UK government took time out from its busy schedule of sawing its head off over Brexit to start designing legislation that would hold social media executives liable for harmful content distributed on their platforms.
UK Tories pledge to censor social media
When you are going to win you might as well be honest
The UK conservatives are so confident that they will win the coming election they are actually openly telling voters about some of their more unpopular plans so that they can claim they have a mandate.
Social media makes you lonely
Hit the anti-depressives
Social notworking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest are causing more people to feel alone.
US will demand foreigners hand over social networking passwords
Visit our country and we will spy on you
The US government is promising to spy on the social media accounts of any foreigner who has the misfortune to have to visit Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump's country.
Facebook announces Live Audio broadcast feature
Telling stories using words without video
Last December, Facebook introduced a mildly revolutionary, culture-changing feature called Live Video allowing users to broadcast their whereabouts in real-time from any place at any time, with the side of effect of having everyone on the network receiving pesky notifications.
Microsoft buys Linkedin
Business social networking
Microsoft has bought the business social notworking site LinkedIn.
Zuckerberg tried to get leading conservatives in one room
Humanity missed a chance to save the world
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has met several high-profile conservative figures in US politics in a bid to convince them that he was not really fixing it so their news was not being properly presented on the social networking site.