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What Is the Metaverse and Do We Know What Facebook’s Vision for It Is?
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced the company will change its name to Meta, saying the move reflects the fact the company is now much broader than just the social media platform (which will still be called Facebook). The rebrand follows several months of intensifying discourse by Zuckerberg and the company more broadly on…
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What We Actually Know About How Social Media Affects Teens’ Mental Health
Instagram makes teen girls feel worse about their bodies, according to internal Facebook documents published in the Wall Street Journal. (Facebook owns Instagram.) The app is full of pictures of impossibly thin and beautiful people, so that tracks; and we’ve been fretting for years over the dangers of young people having access to digital devices.…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Making TikToks People Will Actually Watch
In case you somehow missed it, the TikTok revolution is here. What started in 2016 as a seemingly trivial Chinese music and dance platform for kids has mushroomed into one of the fastest-growing social media platforms in the world. It was the most downloaded app in 2020, with an estimated 1.1 billion monthly active users…
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You Should Use Your iPhone’s New Built-in Two-Factor Authentication
When it comes to protecting your accounts, the general consensus is to always use two-factor authentication, which traditionally uses a unique six-digit code that’s re-generated every 30 seconds. If you want to keep hackers away, it’s a big help…but the process isn’t seamless. You often need a third-party app, and you end up losing access…