social media
New York City suspends social distancing hotline after people flooded it with memes and obscene photos
Apr 23, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
The Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, invited the citizens last week to report anyone who breaks social distancing. He encouraged people to…
Instagram’s moral imperative: Make image embedding optional
Apr 16, 2020
Allen Murabayashi
The past few years have made it abundantly clear that platforms hold disproportionate power in the online sphere – from Uber to Grubhub to Amazon….
New York federal court rules website did not breach copyright by embedding Instagram post
Apr 15, 2020
John Aldred
Professional photographer, Stephanie Sinclair has had her copyright infringement case against Mashable dismissed in a New York federal court. Sinclair is not just some random…
You can now watch Instagram live streams through a browser
Apr 13, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
I don’t know if it has anything to do with the current situation, but Instagram seems to be working hard on improving its web-based experience….
Instagram finally lets you send direct messages from a browser
Apr 11, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
There have been hints that Instagram would let us send messages from your desktop. It was enabled in the desktop app for Windows 10 earlier…
Instagram copies Snapchat again, experiments with disappearing direct messages
Mar 21, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
It’s no secret that Instagram has been … inspired by Snapchat and some of its popular features. After Stories, Instagram is now experimenting with another…
New Zealand’s Wanaka Tree, the most Instagrammed tree in the world, vandalized with a saw
Mar 19, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
I’ve never heard of a tree more popular than “That Wanaka Tree.” Sadly, such huge popularity has attracted all sorts of people to the fragile…
Dry ice poured into pool at “influencer” party kills three
Mar 5, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
Russian influencer Ekaterina Didenko recently threw a party that went incredibly wrong. During the party, her husband reportedly poured 55 lb of dry ice into…
You can now (finally) send Instagram direct messages on Windows 10
Feb 28, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
If you would love to be able to send Instagram messages from your computer, here’s some good news. Instagram has officially made it possible for…
How many Facebook photography group members does it take to change a lightbulb?
Feb 27, 2020
John Aldred
This came to us via an anonymous source who said they saw it posted in a group they’re in on Facebook. I think it pretty…