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Usage and Adoption | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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  • 46% of online seniors use social networking sites, but just 6% use Twitter
  • 46% use social networking sites such as Facebook
  • 27% of all Americans ages 65 and older, are social networking site users.
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  • older women are more likely than older men to use social networking sites. Half (52%) of female internet users ages 65+ are social networking site adopters, compared with 39% of older men.
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Facebook: 10 New Changes That Matter - InformationWeek - 0 views

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  • Facebook kicked off the summer of 2014 with a controversy that affected nearly 700,000 users. For one week in early 2012, the social network conducted an experiment to determine whether it could change the emotional state of some users by filtering the posts that showed up in their news feeds. (Spoiler alert: It could.) Many experts called Facebook's actions unethical.
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      ecwesche21 on 22 Jan 15
       
      None of these "apologies" actually address the ethical issues around informed consent/research conducted on human subjects...
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  • dropped the chat feature from its main app
  • a Buy button, which is in beta, and a Save button, which bookmarks content for later
  • "For example, we should have considered other non-experimental ways to do this research. The research would have also benefited from more extensive review by a wider and more senior group of people. Last, in releasing the study, we failed to communicate clearly why and how we did it."
  • started tracking users' shopping and browsing habits
  • cracked down on click-bait, like-gating, and other news feed spam.
  • The app's confusing permissions, however, caused a firestorm of misconceptions: Users blamed Facebook for intent to eavesdrop on conversations and snoop on text messages. Neither of these were true, of course, but that didn't prevent users from rating Messenger poorly in the app stores.
  • If you want to send and receive messages on your mobile device, Facebook requires you to download Messenger, which also lets you place phone calls -- including international ones over WiFi -- and send pictures and video.
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