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A social networking service is an online platform that people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. This is a list of notable defunct social networking services that have Wikipedia articles.
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.
According to Oxford University Press, the first recorded use of the term traces back to the 1854 book Walden by Henry David Thoreau. [7] Thoreau was criticizing what he saw as a decline in intellectual standards, with complex ideas being less highly regarded, and compared this to the 1840s "potato rot" in Europe.
Just 34% of survey respondents from the U.S. said they think social media is good for democracy in the country. ... Social media “have given me a platform for discussion with other people ...
Threads is the company's latest social media platform Meta's most recent product, Threads launched in 2023 and offers much of the same functionality as X/Twitter. WhatsApp was a $19.3 billion ...
In the days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in New York City, many social media users took it upon themselves to try to solve the mystery of who killed him — and why.
Experts from many different fields have conducted research and held debates about how using social media affects mental health.Research suggests that mental health issues arising from social media use affect women more than men and vary according to the particular social media platform used, although it does affect every age and gender demographic in different ways.
In July 2018, a meta-analysis published in Psychology of Popular Media found that grandiose narcissism positively correlated with time spent on social media, frequency of status updates, number of friends or followers, and frequency of posting self-portrait digital photographs, [114] while a meta-analysis published in the Journal of Personality ...