“Facebook” Archives

Stop trusting social media platforms to do right by your website’s content.

This requirement benefits Facebook’s advertisers and shareholders more so than normal users like you and me.

The social media giant stands poised to reward the very same type of sensational and misleading content that it once condemned.

The inconsistent application of community standards is a frustrating experience for online publishers.

Why do seemingly innocuous posts quickly get ugly, and why are people so quick to fan the flames?

A study like this should raise questions about effective time stewardship, i.e., how we can best use the time that has been allotted to us for God’s glory and our good.

Or, reflecting on my recent Facebook experience in light of the latest “Big Tech” controversy.

It’s increasingly difficult to see Facebook as anything close to resembling a positive for society.

Sites like Facebook and Google exert massive control over what we read and see. Maybe it’s time to start bypassing them.

Also: Amazon’s new sci-fi titles, The Prisoner, VidAngel, Donald Trump takes on the NFL, Facebook and Russia, and much more.

Also: Artificial intelligence and “gaydar,” popular Star Trek episodes, Hollywood’s decline, Asian shoegaze, and imagining aliens.

Also: Facebook’s population, the iPhone’s future, North Korea, Donald Trump’s TV addiction, new movie formats, comic books, and Henry David Thoreau’s video game.

Also: Marvel’s comic woes, revisiting ‘Code 46,’ an atheist biopic, pretentious movies, the Republicans’ pro-life fail, and living the Lego dream.

Also: The design flaws of the U.S.S. Enterprise, sci-fi background, Facebook’s inadvertent cruelty, and some bonus links.

Also: Movie theaters vs. movie studios, MST3K and the Gospel, the problem with prequels, the history of hold music, and censoring classic works of art.

Also: The story behind a new HTML tag, Facebook damages public discourse, developing virtue, and leaked nude celebrity pics.

So-called frictionless sharing risks making Facebook statuses less trustworthy.