In a world of social media promoting curated images and likes, social media app BeReal is gaining popularity among University of Iowa students. First-year Isabelle Paulsen only has 15 friends on the ...

Social media apps have a tendency to ask for a lot of information. Some of this makes sense—if you want to upload photos, for example, Facebook is going to need access to your photo library.

The app one sec helps wean users off social media rather than cutting it off entirely This app forces you to pause for a few seconds after opening addictive apps. A scientific study shows it works.

According to the app screenshots, it has a similar UI to Instagram. Meta’s Instagram-Inspired Social Media App ‘Threads’ Set to Launch as Twitter Competitor Image source: 9to5mac.

Kyle Chayka writes about the effects of social-media redesigns, such as Twitter’s new Chirp font, on how we relate to the kinds of culture that we consume through social media and apps.

Social media has splintered across multiple services since the decline of Twitter. I’ve always managed a lot of social media accounts between my own and ones for MacStories, but today the situation is ...

Social networking app MeWe is adopting the Frequency blockchain, built on Polkadot, to bring self-sovereign blockchain-based identities to its 20 million users, the MeWe team announced at ...