2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web

"The regurgitation has a way of infecting damn near everything.

And damn near everyone"

Social Media's Relentless Shopping Machine Has Created an Army of Debt-Laden Buyers

At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors

study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spiked

New York City Sues Social Media Companies Over 'Youth Mental Health Crisis'

Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that "Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

The ‘knowledge economy’ promised cultural and social growth. Instead, we got worsening inequality and division. Artificial intelligence will supercharge it

Nepal’s government has lifted its ban on 26 prominent social media apps and messaging services after at least 19 people were killed and more than 200 injured in clashes on Monday

Social media platforms are still pushing depression, suicide and self-harm-related content to teenagers, despite new online safety laws intended to protect children

43 Prozent der Bundesbürger sind lineare Fernsehnachrichten die wichtigste Infoquelle für News. Online-Quellen inklusive Social Media kommen auf 42 Prozent

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Mehrere EU-Länder wollen ein Verbot von Social Media für unter 15-Jährige. Die Plattformen seien gefährlich für die Entwicklung der Kinder

Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

How Social Media Distorts Perceptions of Norms

“Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year for 2024, amid concerns over endless social media scrolling and mind-numbing content

‘No social life, no plans, no savings’: Americans aren’t reaping benefits of booming US economy

the blogosphere, and the public social media landscape, represented the spirit of this civilizational chapter in a much truer way than old media

Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, FTC finds

Agency accuses Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies of sharing troves of user information with third-parties