Tag: Facebook
UPDATE: Unethical Facebook Emotional Contagion Study Not Funded By The Army, Happens All The Time. Psychologists have known for a long time that emotions are contagious. If you hang out with someone who’s feeling shitty, you might end up feeling shitty too. Pretty basic. But now researchers have found that the emotions you see people express […]
A page on Facebook that purported to be the official account of British street artist Banksy was stripped of its verified status earlier this afternoon. The page has about 2.4 million likes and posts several items a day, which, given Banksy’s notoriously shadowy reputation, seemed odd, but the little blue check mark seemed to confirm […]
The future is already here, folks, and it looks a lot like Dreamcast. Following Facebook’s $2 billion purchase of hot button-virtual reality company Oculus VR — makers of the Oculus Rift — developers Bronson Zgeb and Gruau Pomme Lackey created Facerift, a Mac and Windows app that lets you browse the social network on your Oculus with […]
I’ve played wizard chess against a demon king. I’ve had space ship battles that rival Star Wars. I’ve “sat” in a virtual movie theater with my actual butt planted firmly in a chair in a back room at a technology conference. I’ve even ascended Game of Thrones’ towering wall—and fallen down the other side. I’ve […]
In his post “Why We Don’t Sell Ads,” co-founder of WhatsApp, Jan Koum rails against in-app ads and quotes Fight Club. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. – Tyler Durden, Fight Club But that was in 2012, before Facebook acquired the messaging application for a whopping […]
Four domains were blocked by Russian ISPs this weekend, including LiveJournal.com. According to new amendments signed into law by President Putin on January 30th and enacted on February 1st, access to websites can be temporarily blocked for any singular reported post containing “extremist information threatening society and individuals” under the orders of Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for […]
This morning, ANIMAL staff collectively deliberated whether an artist’s self-portrait was appropriate for a lead image. Presumably, we overestimated the general public’s tolerance for side-boob. We’re still following up on our story about a Chicago curator’s alleged “found art” exhibit of an “anonymous” artist, who we instantly recognized and proved to be the very non-anonymous […]
A new study from Georgia Tech on the intersection of politics and social media confirms what any casual Facebooker already knows to be true: it sucks when your friends post about politics, and it sucks even more when their politics differ from yours. The researchers, led by Catherine Grevet, found that people who believe most of their […]
A new website from UsVsTh3m mimics many of the absurdities one may encounter when adjusting to Facebook‘s occasional “security” changes. The Realistic Facebook Security Simulator is a race against the clock, employing terminology similar to Facebook’s own when asking users to update their privacy settings, but with a bit of social [network] commentary. The round begins with […]
I’m not so great with names but I never forget a face, neither does Facebook with its automatic tagging for newly uploaded face-images. But what if you don’t want to be recognized in last night’s drunk and shameful party photo? Too bad. In an effort to subvert this fact of #life, designer Simone C. Niquille has […]
