Friends With Benefits

Friends With Benefits

FWB is a members club for people building culture on the internet.

Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been

Why didn't the FOAF standard give us distributed social networking in the 2000s?

Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking (Published 2021)

Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it’s struggling to deal with their effects.

Social Networking Utopia — Matt

In discussing the network topology of social networks — whether centralized like Facebook or federated like ActivityPub — I think the ult...

Decision to join W social network - a Freedom of Information request to Communication

https://bsky.app/profile/vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu/post/3moiosz24yk2j I wish to obtain any document that explains this decision, such as internal communication explaining the advantages of W, or contact with communications advisors who recommended this action. Yours faithfully, Alexander Fanta Follow the Money Rue Auguste Orts 2 1000 Bruxelles

Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses | TechCrunch

After 20 months in a closed beta under the working title Facebook at Work, (as we predicted it would the other week) today Facebook is finally

U.N. investigators cite Facebook role in Myanmar crisis

U.N. human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook <FB.O> had played a role in spreading hate speech there.

Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

Paid groups, bespoke social networks, and the meaning of community for internet-native businesses.

Cohort — A New Professional Social Graph

“Professional? Social? Isn’t that what LinkedIn is for!” Nope.

Bonfire

A federated social network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives.

Your Online Clubhouse

I’ve gotten in the habit of explaining Discourse to people as a clubhouse. A place on the Internet that belongs exclusively to you and your friends – whether you have 10 friends or a few hundred thousand.

Criticism of Facebook

Facebook (and parent company Meta Platforms) has been the subject of criticism and legal action since it was founded in 2004.[1] Criticisms include the outsize influence Facebook has on the lives and health of its users and employees, as well as Facebook's influence on the way media, specifically news, is reported and distributed. Notable issues include Internet privacy, such as use of a widespread "like" button on third-party websites tracking users,[2][3] possible indefinite records of user information,[4] automatic facial recognition software,[5][6] and its role in the workplace, including employer-employee account disclosure.[7] The use of Facebook can have negative psychological and physiological effects[8] that include feelings of sexual jealousy,[9][10] stress,[11][12] lack of attention,[13] and social media addiction that in some cases is comparable to drug addiction.[14][15]

First post: A history of online public messaging

From BBS to Facebook, here’s how messaging platforms have changed over the years.

Facebook and Facebook Users Getting Older - Insight Marketing Group

On a recent Facebook Demographics report, 3 million teens have left the social network in the past 3 years making room for the baby boomers to take over.

A New Social

Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.