|
Title: Cue the outrage: How our favorite social networks failed us in 2014 Post by: HCK on December 31, 2014, 09:00:17 pm Cue the outrage: How our favorite social networks failed us in 2014
<article> <section class="page"> <p> This year was all about the messaging app, and for good reason: Social networks behaved abysmally in 2014. Sharing information and photos privately with friends is a compelling alternative to social networks with their ads, weird research experiments, and harassment.</p><p> That’s not to say anyone is abandoning social media, but more and more users are pressuring companies to be better and more honest about how data is used and what is being done to make networks like Facebook, Twitter, and new anonymous social apps safer spaces.</p><p> <h2>Does Facebook finally have a rival?</h2></p><p> No other network can challenge Facebook in terms of active users (1.35 billion and still growing), but when the company deleted the accounts of well-known San Francisco drag performers (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2685518/drag-queens-force-facebook-to-reevaluate-real-names.html), a new kid on the block welcomed the influx of users with open arms.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2862226/cue-the-outrage-how-our-favorite-social-networks-failed-us-in-2014.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Cue the outrage: How our favorite social networks failed us in 2014 (http://www.macworld.com/article/2862226/cue-the-outrage-how-our-favorite-social-networks-failed-us-in-2014.html#tk.rss_all) |