Direct Message Spam on Social Media Only Gets Worse
I see more and more direct message spam from people I've just followed. That's a definite wrong move that gets a quick block.
I see more and more direct message spam from people I've just followed. That's a definite wrong move that gets a quick block.
Bluesky, a social media app designed to give X a run for its money wants do the same for Instagram with the Flashes app.
Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, is killing a fact-check program in favor of a community-based flagging system.
After watching my followers across social media platforms, I've decided I'm going to pause Mastodon posts for a bit.
If you spend much time browsing sites like Facebook, Instagram or Threads, you've surely seen some lousy photo captions lately.
How dependent are you on your social networks? You can quickly find the answer to that question during a social media outage!
Like everything else, the cost for social media management tools is going up. I decided to compare two of them: Buffer vs. Social Champ.
One thing that royally ticks me off these days is spam. But when I decided to report spam comments to Instagram, things took a weird turn.
Plenty of complaints cropped up amid new details about verification subscriptions for Twitter and Meta's Facebook and Instagram.
What hath Twitter wrought? Apparently, something potentially costly for users of Facebook and Instagram: Subscription verification.
A recent article from 'The Verge' lamented the loss of what it called personal blogging in favor of 'microblogging' on social media.
If you post something on social media, do you think the platform should fact-check posts for accuracy and call out false information?
I saw a recent question on Twitter about whether microblogging on social media is a good idea. Here's why I think it's actually a lousy idea.
Spam is a nearly unavoidable part of social media. But Instagram spam is a breed all its own...so why can't the platform stop it?
Instagram Messages are rapidly becoming an aggravation for a number of users because most of the time, they seem to be nothing more than spam.
You've probably already seen rumors about all of your private content being made public as of now. Stand down! It's just an Instagram hoax.
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