social media

pplkpr: The App That Judges Your Friendships

A new app name pplkpr (pronounced ‘people keeper’) can quantify users’ friendships and tell you which friends cause you the…

10 years ago

Facebook Apologises for Stirring Up Painful Memories With its ‘Year in Review’ Feature

Any Facebook user scrolling through their news feed over the last week have likely seen a slew of posts entitled…

10 years ago

Facebook Trial ‘Sell Something’ Button

Facebook is trialling a new sales system, offering users the ability to officially sell goods on the social media site. The…

10 years ago

YouTube Testing GIF Maker

Surely this is the biggest tech story of the year - soon you'll hopefully be able to make GIFs from…

10 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Considering Adding ‘Dislike’ Button

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is considering adding a “Dislike” button for members to utilize when interacting with…

10 years ago

Gaming Reviewer Contacts Mothers of Trolls

Alanah Pearce, an Australian gaming reviewer on the radio and on YouTube, has come up with a novel method of…

10 years ago

Social Media Should Simplify Terms and Conditions, UK Parliamentary Committee Recommends

The terms and conditions on social media websites should be radically simplified, the UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee has…

10 years ago

Social Media App Yik Yak Disabled Via Geofence On Wisconsin School Grounds

Phones in classrooms have been the bane of teachers for over a decade, further exacerbated by the advent of smartphones…

10 years ago

Facebook Now Officially Supports Tor

  Facebook has taken the unusual move of supporting Tor, the anonymising "dark web" service. The social networking site was…

10 years ago

Reddit Launches Their Own CrowdFunding Service

Redditmade, a new crowd funding website from Reddit is finally here! Taking inspiration from sites like Kickstarter, the new service was…

10 years ago

Gory Photos of Death Are Going to Be Removed from Twitter

Twitter has said that it will remove images and videos of dead people as long as immediate family members request…

10 years ago

Microsoft Launch Dedicated Xbox One Reddit App ReddX

Microsoft have just launched the first dedicated console app for Reddit. ReddX will allow Xbox One owners to browse the…

10 years ago

Reddit, Imgur and Twitch Join Forces as ‘Derp’ for Data Research

Some of the biggest names in social media have joined forces to form The Digital Ecologies Research Partnership (Derp). Somehow…

10 years ago

International Class Action Privacy Suit Targets Facebook

Activist and law student, Max Schrems, has launched an international class action suit against Facebook Ireland for not being in…

10 years ago

Facebook’s Outage Scares Everyone… Again!

Millions of users have noticed today that around 12 pm Eastern Time, the social media giant, Facebook, went down for…

10 years ago