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Prosecutors Weigh Whether National Enquirer Violated Earlier Agreement
If federal prosecutors determine American Media dealt unlawfully with Jeff Bezos, tabloid publisher could face criminal charges
Federal prosecutors are examining whether the National Enquirer’s publisher violated an earlier deal to avoid facing campaign-finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter, after Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc. and owner of the Washington Post, accused the tabloid of trying to blackmail him.
The Enquirer’s actions came under government scrutiny after Mr. Bezos wrote a lengthy post Thursday on the web platform Medium detailing recent communications with the tabloid’s representatives.
Mr. Bezos said the Enquirer threatened to release sexually explicit selfies of him unless he called off investigators he had hired to determine the sources and motivations behind an initial Enquirer article exposing an alleged affair he had.
The agreement reached last year between federal prosecutors and the Enquirer’s publisher, American Media LLC, allowed the company to avoid criminal charges for coordinating with the Trump campaign to make an illegal payment in 2016 to silence a woman alleging an affair with the then-presidential candidate.
Manhattan federal prosecutors agreed not to charge American Media with campaign-finance violations after the company cooperated in their investigation of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer who arranged the hush-money payment. The agreement, however, says American Media could be prosecuted if it commits any crimes in the three years after the deal.
Jeff Bezos Escalates Fight With National Enquirer, David Pecker
Whether the Enquirer’s handling of the situation with Mr. Bezos amounts to extortion or blackmail is a complicated legal question, according to experts. But if prosecutors conclude American Media broke the law, it could invalidate the non-prosecution agreement and expose the company to criminal charges.
In his Medium post, Mr. Bezos included what he said were emails he and his legal team received from executives at American Media describing the photos the tabloid threatened to run.
In a statement Friday, American Media said it “believes fervently that it acted lawfully” in its reporting and will investigate Mr. Bezos’ claims internally.
The crime of blackmail is notoriously hard to define, say legal experts, but court rulings suggest that the threats and demands as alleged by Mr. Bezos could meet the standard.
Threatening to damage someone’s reputation is extortion under federal law if the person’s goal is to get money or something else of value that doesn’t otherwise belong to the person.
For example, it wouldn’t be wrongful for a consumer to threaten to trash a company online about a defective product if the company fails to honor its warranty. Nor would a situation in which a private club threatens to post the names of members behind on their dues.
More problematic, however, are situations in which the demand and the requested outcome have little to do with each other.
A federal appeals court, for example, in 2017 upheld the conviction of a Virginia man for trying to extort an apology from an ex-girlfriend who dumped him. The man had threatened to expose on social media that she was a stripper and a prostitute unless she apologized for how she treated him. The appeals court said it didn’t matter whether the jilted man had a legitimate grievance; his threat amounted to extortion because it had nothing to do with why he thought he was entitled to an apology.
The Enquirer’s alleged actions may put the government in a difficult position. Prosecutors have said American Media provided “substantial and important” assistance to their investigation that has directly implicated Mr. Trump.
Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to nine crimes last year, including two campaign-finance violations related to hush-money payments he arranged during the 2016 presidential campaign to two women who said they had sexual encounters with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen, who is expected to soon begin a three-year prison sentence, told a federal judge that Mr. Trump directed both illegal payments.
As part of the government’s investigation, American Media admitted that it coordinated with the Trump campaign to pay $150,000 to one of the women, former Playboy model Karen McDougal, to prevent her story from influencing the 2016 election.
David Pecker, the publisher’s chief executive, also told prosecutors about Mr. Trump’s involvement in the payment scheme and received immunity for testifying before a grand jury in the Cohen investigation, The Wall Street Journal has previously reported.
Mr. Pecker has had a relationship with Mr. Trump for decades. He has previously acknowledged buying embarrassing stories about Mr. Trump and burying them, a practice known as “catch and kill.” American Media has denied there were any political motives behind the report on Mr. Bezos.
Write to Nicole Hong at nicole.hong@wsj.com
Appeared in the February 9, 2019, print edition as 'Prosecutors Scrutinize Enquirer Parent.'
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Randi Zuckerberg's Facebook Photo Shows That Anyone Can Be Flummoxed By The Network's Privacy Settings
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Posted: 12/26/2012 11:31 pm EST | Updated: 12/26/2012 11:31 pm EST
The Zuckerbergs, normal family folk like you or me, did what many did on Christmas Day: Posted an awkward family photo onto Facebook.
Except when Randi Zuckerberg does it -- and when that photo gets
inadvertently shared with the entire Internet -- it becomes a lesson in
Facebook's byzantine privacy settings.
Here's what happened, as first pointed out by Buzzfeed: Randi, sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, posted a photo of the clan checking out Facebook's new app, Poke, which lets users share photos that get automatically deleted shortly after being opened. Callie Schweitzer, a marketing director at Vox Media, saw the picture in her Facebook feed and, thinking it was a public photo, reshared it on Twitter.
Turns out, the pic wasn't public. Randi had posted it on her private Facebook account and the only reason it was visible to Schweitzer was because she's Facebook friends with Randi's sister. Randi chastised Schweitzer on Twitter, noting that one's photos show up by default in a non-friend's News Feeds when a third mutual friend is tagged in the photo. To her credit, Schweitzer then deleted the tweet.
Was that explanation confusing? We think so, too. The irony that publications -- including Buzzfeed, Gizmodo, Mashable, PC Mag and others -- are latching onto is that even someone related to Facebook's co-founder still couldn't manage to keep her "private" photos private.
Now that Zuck family pic exists on all those aforementioned websites forever. The lesson: Don't expect anything you share on Facebook to stay within the social network's walled garden.
The dangers behind private photos being reshared publicly is something Facebook implicitly acknowledges, too. After all, that's the reason it developed that Poke app.
Facebook get on the school timetable in anti-libel lessonsLord McAlpine's case has one headteacher to educate pupils about the dangers of social media Mark Zuckerberg's sister complains of Facebook privacy issues
Here's what happened, as first pointed out by Buzzfeed: Randi, sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, posted a photo of the clan checking out Facebook's new app, Poke, which lets users share photos that get automatically deleted shortly after being opened. Callie Schweitzer, a marketing director at Vox Media, saw the picture in her Facebook feed and, thinking it was a public photo, reshared it on Twitter.
Turns out, the pic wasn't public. Randi had posted it on her private Facebook account and the only reason it was visible to Schweitzer was because she's Facebook friends with Randi's sister. Randi chastised Schweitzer on Twitter, noting that one's photos show up by default in a non-friend's News Feeds when a third mutual friend is tagged in the photo. To her credit, Schweitzer then deleted the tweet.
Was that explanation confusing? We think so, too. The irony that publications -- including Buzzfeed, Gizmodo, Mashable, PC Mag and others -- are latching onto is that even someone related to Facebook's co-founder still couldn't manage to keep her "private" photos private.
Now that Zuck family pic exists on all those aforementioned websites forever. The lesson: Don't expect anything you share on Facebook to stay within the social network's walled garden.
The dangers behind private photos being reshared publicly is something Facebook implicitly acknowledges, too. After all, that's the reason it developed that Poke app.
Earlier on HuffPost:
Published December 26, 2012
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Facebook users have long fought both sides of a war with Facebook, eager for the company’s massive network of links and connections, but wary of what exactly happens to the content they post to the site.
Many Twitter users added their two cents on the topic, suggesting that the real issue lay with Facebook's sometimes confusing privacy settings.
"Instead of vilifying a subscriber for not reading your mind, maybe you should talk to your brother about recent FB changes," one person wrote.
It seems everyone has privacy issues on Facebook sometimes.
Talk about ironic.
Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook’s zillionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg, complained when a photo she meant to stay private on the social network was made public.
Randi, the 30-year-old former marketing director of Facebook, had posted a photo to her Facebook page showing her family’s reaction to the new “poke” application, a photo-sharing tool that quickly soared to the top of the charts for iPhone users. According to a story on Buzzfeed, a friend of a friend saw the photo and reposted it on Twitter, turning a semi-private moment into a very public moment.
Randi was not pleased.
“Not sure where you got this photo. I posted it to friends only on FB. You reposting it to Twitter is way uncool,” she wrote on Twitter.
"I'm just sensitive to private photos becoming 'news,'" she added later.
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It's a
school topic that seems to belong to an age far distant from home
economics, 1066 and jumpers for goalposts. A school in Somerset has
begun teaching 13- and 14-year-old pupils how to avoid defaming people
on Twitter.
It is the latest way schools are adapting to technology and teaching about subjects such as online safety and cyberbullying.
The move at the private school in Taunton to teach pupils about libel risks on Twitter, Facebook and other social media follows the Lord McAlpine case. Earlier this year, the former Tory party treasurer announced he would sue a number of prominent Twitter users after being widely and inaccurately connected to allegations of child abuse in north Wales children's homes.
Taunton school said this had prompted teachers to extend teaching on the use of the internet and social media, which falls into the personal, social, health and economic, or PSHE, section of the national curriculum. The scheme, which may be extended to older pupils, began with lessons on basic internet safety, said Carol Manley, senior teacher at the school. She added: "We then realised that actually this was becoming quite a serious issue with things like parties on Facebook, the sorts of traps students can so easily fall into. From there we've really tried to keep abreast of social networking.
"Being the wrong side of 50, I wouldn't profess to be an expert on Facebook, Twitter or anything else, but I'm very aware of how much the children use it. We've become increasingly aware as a school that university admissions tutors are now accessing Facebook sites to check up on students."
Prompted by media coverage of the McAlpine case, the decision was made to teach pupils in year nine the basics of libel and defamation, not least how to avoid being chased for compensation.
Manley said:
"Of course, celebrities tweeting the wrong thing is in a different league to us, but it highlights how easily you can get something horribly wrong. It's a good opportunity for us to say to the children, look, even something that starts off as a joke or something silly can actually get you into a lot of trouble. They're also being taught to not even forward anything like that.
" We've been trying to make them accountable – if you wouldn't say something to a person's face, if you wouldn't say it in front of me or your parents, then you don't say it. I think that's the key bit that we try to get across to them."
As a private school, Taunton has the luxury of dedicated PSHE staff and has also been able to call in experts for one-off lectures, but it seems likely other schools could soon follow suit. A Law Society spokeswoman said it seemed sensible for pupils to be taught the basics of libel law. She said: "Social media may be one of the first areas where children are confronted by legal issues, as something as seemingly innocent as a retweet can sometimes lead to legal action."
At Taunton school, meanwhile, Manley has just taken delivery of a new educational DVD, the self-explanatory Think Before You Post. Pupils had to be aware that anyone can be defamed, Manley said.
"We see it in the context of celebrity status, but it could just as easily be the person round the corner who sues you," she added.
"Students need to know that whatever they say may just come back to bite them."
It is the latest way schools are adapting to technology and teaching about subjects such as online safety and cyberbullying.
The move at the private school in Taunton to teach pupils about libel risks on Twitter, Facebook and other social media follows the Lord McAlpine case. Earlier this year, the former Tory party treasurer announced he would sue a number of prominent Twitter users after being widely and inaccurately connected to allegations of child abuse in north Wales children's homes.
Taunton school said this had prompted teachers to extend teaching on the use of the internet and social media, which falls into the personal, social, health and economic, or PSHE, section of the national curriculum. The scheme, which may be extended to older pupils, began with lessons on basic internet safety, said Carol Manley, senior teacher at the school. She added: "We then realised that actually this was becoming quite a serious issue with things like parties on Facebook, the sorts of traps students can so easily fall into. From there we've really tried to keep abreast of social networking.
"Being the wrong side of 50, I wouldn't profess to be an expert on Facebook, Twitter or anything else, but I'm very aware of how much the children use it. We've become increasingly aware as a school that university admissions tutors are now accessing Facebook sites to check up on students."
Prompted by media coverage of the McAlpine case, the decision was made to teach pupils in year nine the basics of libel and defamation, not least how to avoid being chased for compensation.
Manley said:
"Of course, celebrities tweeting the wrong thing is in a different league to us, but it highlights how easily you can get something horribly wrong. It's a good opportunity for us to say to the children, look, even something that starts off as a joke or something silly can actually get you into a lot of trouble. They're also being taught to not even forward anything like that.
" We've been trying to make them accountable – if you wouldn't say something to a person's face, if you wouldn't say it in front of me or your parents, then you don't say it. I think that's the key bit that we try to get across to them."
As a private school, Taunton has the luxury of dedicated PSHE staff and has also been able to call in experts for one-off lectures, but it seems likely other schools could soon follow suit. A Law Society spokeswoman said it seemed sensible for pupils to be taught the basics of libel law. She said: "Social media may be one of the first areas where children are confronted by legal issues, as something as seemingly innocent as a retweet can sometimes lead to legal action."
At Taunton school, meanwhile, Manley has just taken delivery of a new educational DVD, the self-explanatory Think Before You Post. Pupils had to be aware that anyone can be defamed, Manley said.
"We see it in the context of celebrity status, but it could just as easily be the person round the corner who sues you," she added.
"Students need to know that whatever they say may just come back to bite them."
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December of 2012 may be the most engagement action my Facebook has seen since I joined the site in 2007.
This isn’t about my Facebook page insights or promoted ads interaction. This is purely the number of engagement announcements from family and friends that have hit my feed over the past 30 days. That number is nine for anyone curious (seven in the past ten days, Merry Christmas people.)
For many, this deluging of their news feeds is irritating at its best and downright depressing at its worst. I’ve listened to many a friend wail on about the inadequacy they feel seeing posts racing in with stories of the accomplishments and life events that my friends are missing from their life. Some are frustrated because they have actively opted out of such milestones themselves and don’t care to have others’ milestones thrust on them. Others long to click that fabled link that will finally allow them to update their relationship status with a hunger that gnaws at their heart.
One girlfriend told me, after a healthy amount of martini consumption, that she was “quitting Facebook” because she couldn’t stand the seemingly constant reminders that everyone else seemed to be getting what they wanted from life but she was barely treading water. Treading water meant that she had a rocking triathlete’s body, a condo in the West End, a successful career, a stream of suitors at her door, an adorable kitten with white paw mittens, and much more. She was living a life that everyone else should seemingly covet, but she still couldn’t shake the sadness.
I nearly bit through my lip to refrain from asking her if she was planning to become a recluse and hide under a rock for the rest of time. Otherwise, I had no idea how she was going to avoid such life event updates in her world. Even when they aren’t cluttering our feeds, life events and milestones are a part of our daily lives.
From holiday dinners with your cousin’s new(est) boyfriend to co-workers’ baby announcements and college friends wedding receptions, there’s no escaping the changes in the lives of the people around you.
As a person who is almost always on the road and separated (often on the other side of the planet) from my closest friends and family, my Facebook news feed is like the local newspaper in my hometown. A daily digest of pictures and updates of the lives of the people who matter most.
This was not a quick update or implementation. I’ve spent months cultivating my lists and subscriptions to carefully architect a news feed that (at least on the web interface) generally provides exactly the information I want to know.
The first step to building a Facebook news feed you are excited to sift through is understanding Facebook’s EdgeRank system. EdgeRank is an algorithm that determines what updates (edges) make it to your news feed and where they land in the results. It is based on three metrics:
Cut Friends Out Of Your Facebook Life
Facebook subconsciously engrains in us the belief that everyone we connect with on our profiles are our friends. Yet Robin Dunbar, an anthropology professor at the University of Oxford, has spent years researching the cognitive limit of people with whom an individual can have a social relationship with. That number lies somewhere between 100-230, with most studies proving it is closest to 150. This also applies to social networks. Meaning that you are have some tough choices ahead. Some people will ruthlessly go through their friends lists, “unfriending” anyone they have not communicated with over a certain time. Others will refuse to “accept” friend requests from people they do not have a close current personal connection with. I prefer a third, less harsh, option…
Create Friend Lists
This one takes time investment on the front end (when I created my lists I had approximately 650 friends on my profile.) Fortunately Facebook has begun making it easier by allowing you to quickly categorize folks into two separate categories, Close Friends and Acquaintances. You can assign people by opening your full friends list and hovering over the Friend button to the right of their name. It takes a while to sort through everyone, but by the end you have defined groups of the people that you can follow by clicking the list name in the left sidebar of your Facebook homepage. This still doesn’t fully solve the problem of random folks random updates leaking their way through to your news feed…
Update Individual News Feed Settings
This step is best done in tandem with the creation of your new friends lists as the option lies under the same Friend button pull-down menu. Instead of assigning a list, however, you want to click on the Settings under Show In News Feed. Here you can choose to receive All Updates, Most Updates, or Only Important. For those being super diligent, you can hand pick the types of updates you want to get from certain people.
Manipulate Your News Feed Results
If you’d rather just avoid the news feed assault, there are a number of applications that can replace photos or fully filter updates. Travis Jamison, owner of Supremacy SEO and a professional search result optimizer, recommended Unbaby.me as an easy way to swap out various baby photos with those of your choosing. “Unbaby.me helps me focus my exposure on events that are more related to my life. I can’t even fathom having a little one of my own, and all of the posts that I see with babies are just completely out of touch with my world. ” Pug pics now flood Jamison’s feed.
With a little extra work you could install a browser extension like Social Fixer for Facebook, which will allow you to filter updates on your feed by variables like keyword, activity type, and Facebook users. This little extension came in particularly useful during the recent election season.
When All Else Fails, Unsubscribe
The truth hurts. That truth is that most likely your 7th grade biology lab partner did not friend you on Facebook because they genuinely wanted to re-kindle your stunted study hall conversations. They friended you so they could see your pictures to see how time has treated you, where you are working or what you are doing, and do a quick scan of your wall. Curiosity killed their cat. They most likely will barely look at your profile after that. So when you are subjected to the 92nd picture of their family’s apple picking adventure week, including neighbor kids that you have even less of a connection to than your random middle school acquaintances current spawn, you can rest assured that they are not going to be insulted that you no longer care to see what is happening in their world. They don’t really care what is going on in yours either.
This isn’t about my Facebook page insights or promoted ads interaction. This is purely the number of engagement announcements from family and friends that have hit my feed over the past 30 days. That number is nine for anyone curious (seven in the past ten days, Merry Christmas people.)
For many, this deluging of their news feeds is irritating at its best and downright depressing at its worst. I’ve listened to many a friend wail on about the inadequacy they feel seeing posts racing in with stories of the accomplishments and life events that my friends are missing from their life. Some are frustrated because they have actively opted out of such milestones themselves and don’t care to have others’ milestones thrust on them. Others long to click that fabled link that will finally allow them to update their relationship status with a hunger that gnaws at their heart.
One girlfriend told me, after a healthy amount of martini consumption, that she was “quitting Facebook” because she couldn’t stand the seemingly constant reminders that everyone else seemed to be getting what they wanted from life but she was barely treading water. Treading water meant that she had a rocking triathlete’s body, a condo in the West End, a successful career, a stream of suitors at her door, an adorable kitten with white paw mittens, and much more. She was living a life that everyone else should seemingly covet, but she still couldn’t shake the sadness.
I nearly bit through my lip to refrain from asking her if she was planning to become a recluse and hide under a rock for the rest of time. Otherwise, I had no idea how she was going to avoid such life event updates in her world. Even when they aren’t cluttering our feeds, life events and milestones are a part of our daily lives.
From holiday dinners with your cousin’s new(est) boyfriend to co-workers’ baby announcements and college friends wedding receptions, there’s no escaping the changes in the lives of the people around you.
As a person who is almost always on the road and separated (often on the other side of the planet) from my closest friends and family, my Facebook news feed is like the local newspaper in my hometown. A daily digest of pictures and updates of the lives of the people who matter most.
This was not a quick update or implementation. I’ve spent months cultivating my lists and subscriptions to carefully architect a news feed that (at least on the web interface) generally provides exactly the information I want to know.
The first step to building a Facebook news feed you are excited to sift through is understanding Facebook’s EdgeRank system. EdgeRank is an algorithm that determines what updates (edges) make it to your news feed and where they land in the results. It is based on three metrics:
- Affinity – How closely connected are you? This is a one-way metric that looks how you interact with the poster. Things like Liking, Messaging, Commenting, Sharing, and Search all matter
- Weight – How valuable are your interactions? Commenting on a friend’s baby belly pic is going to carry more weight in your algorithm than Liking a picture of their sonogram. Usually the actions that take more time and effort are going to be the things that yield the highest results
- Time Decay – How old is the edge? Good news, updates generally have a pretty short shelf life. This does not mean that your fraternity brother’s face smashing cake picture is going to disappear from your feed after a couple hours. It will eventually though. Have faith.
Cut Friends Out Of Your Facebook Life
Facebook subconsciously engrains in us the belief that everyone we connect with on our profiles are our friends. Yet Robin Dunbar, an anthropology professor at the University of Oxford, has spent years researching the cognitive limit of people with whom an individual can have a social relationship with. That number lies somewhere between 100-230, with most studies proving it is closest to 150. This also applies to social networks. Meaning that you are have some tough choices ahead. Some people will ruthlessly go through their friends lists, “unfriending” anyone they have not communicated with over a certain time. Others will refuse to “accept” friend requests from people they do not have a close current personal connection with. I prefer a third, less harsh, option…
Create Friend Lists
This one takes time investment on the front end (when I created my lists I had approximately 650 friends on my profile.) Fortunately Facebook has begun making it easier by allowing you to quickly categorize folks into two separate categories, Close Friends and Acquaintances. You can assign people by opening your full friends list and hovering over the Friend button to the right of their name. It takes a while to sort through everyone, but by the end you have defined groups of the people that you can follow by clicking the list name in the left sidebar of your Facebook homepage. This still doesn’t fully solve the problem of random folks random updates leaking their way through to your news feed…
Update Individual News Feed Settings
This step is best done in tandem with the creation of your new friends lists as the option lies under the same Friend button pull-down menu. Instead of assigning a list, however, you want to click on the Settings under Show In News Feed. Here you can choose to receive All Updates, Most Updates, or Only Important. For those being super diligent, you can hand pick the types of updates you want to get from certain people.
Manipulate Your News Feed Results
If you’d rather just avoid the news feed assault, there are a number of applications that can replace photos or fully filter updates. Travis Jamison, owner of Supremacy SEO and a professional search result optimizer, recommended Unbaby.me as an easy way to swap out various baby photos with those of your choosing. “Unbaby.me helps me focus my exposure on events that are more related to my life. I can’t even fathom having a little one of my own, and all of the posts that I see with babies are just completely out of touch with my world. ” Pug pics now flood Jamison’s feed.
With a little extra work you could install a browser extension like Social Fixer for Facebook, which will allow you to filter updates on your feed by variables like keyword, activity type, and Facebook users. This little extension came in particularly useful during the recent election season.
When All Else Fails, Unsubscribe
The truth hurts. That truth is that most likely your 7th grade biology lab partner did not friend you on Facebook because they genuinely wanted to re-kindle your stunted study hall conversations. They friended you so they could see your pictures to see how time has treated you, where you are working or what you are doing, and do a quick scan of your wall. Curiosity killed their cat. They most likely will barely look at your profile after that. So when you are subjected to the 92nd picture of their family’s apple picking adventure week, including neighbor kids that you have even less of a connection to than your random middle school acquaintances current spawn, you can rest assured that they are not going to be insulted that you no longer care to see what is happening in their world. They don’t really care what is going on in yours either.
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Facebook does not have to be a weapon of mass emotional destruction or a distraction to your social interactions. Like any community, it is filled with many levels and tiers of interpersonal relationships that have come together to make you the person you are in this very moment.
By taking the time to optimize your news feed results, you’ll be able to keep in touch with the most important people in your life. You’ll realize how much this matters when you live 8,000 miles away from them.
Elisa Doucette writes about modern feminism, relationships and life lessons for young professionals as she travels around the world. She spent two hours Skyping with her family at 3 AM on Christmas Day to make sure that she was about to share the holiday season, and loves the magic of such technology. You can visit her at ElisaDoucette.com or follow her on Twitter at @elisadoucette.
The fallout from Instagram’s terms of service change that wasn’t
actually changed continued Friday. Facebook, which owns the popular
social media app, saw its stock price fall 3 percent amid a report that
the TOS flap cost Instagram 25 percent of its users.
Whether that number is accurate — Instagram insists it isn’t — was almost beside the point as Facebook saw shares fall to $25.22 before gaining almost all of it back a few hours later. It is further evidence that Instagram completely blew it by ticking everybody off with the idea that it would license user photos to advertisers without telling, or paying, users. Instagram insists the whole thing was due to confusion over the rewritten terms, then made the point moot by reverting to advertising rules set out in the TOS published in April, 2010.
Friday’s dust-up started when AppData — a research firm that tracks user numbers for iOS, Android and Facebook apps — said Instagram had lost 25 percent of its users since attempting to change its terms of service. According to AppData’s numbers, Instagram had about 16.4 million active daily users last week, but only 12.4 million as of Thursday. It appears that the New York Post broke the story; it was followed by a dozen or so tech blogs. Wall Street got wind of it, and Facebook’s stock price started falling even as Instagram insisted the report was bogus.
“This data is inaccurate,” an Instagram spokeswoman told Wired by e-mail. “We continue to see strong and steady growth in both registered and active users of Instagram.” She declined, however, to quantify “strong and steady growth” and would not provide actual user numbers.
Investors appear to have gotten the message, because Facebook shares had rebounded to $26.03, just three cents less than Thursday’s closing price, by mid-afternoon Friday.
AppData, widely cited my major tech publications (and many mainstream news outlets too) as an authority on such matters, also reported user drops for Pinterest, FarmVille, and a number of other popular apps. But while AppData’s findings are generally considered accurate, they don’t appear to paint a full picture in this case. AppData’s metrics come from Instagram users who have linked the app to their Facebook accounts. According to a report from Marketing Land, only about 20 to 30 percent Instagram users have done this. While AppData indeed did record a drop in Instagram’s active users over the last week, it did so by measuring a slice of Instagram users, not the entire pie.
Although Instagram denies there’s been a decline in users, its refusal to offer specifics makes you wonder just what’s happened during the past week since we already know some users jumped ship.
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Hover your mouse to the upper right hand corner of their
update on your news feed and a small arrow will appear. Click the arrow
and a drop-down will descend with a couple options. By clicking on Hide
you will hide that particular story from your feed. Take it one step
further and select the first link that appears after you hide the
story – Change what updates you receive from XXX. You’ll recognize this
menu from the one on your friends list, but at the bottom is a magical
new field: Unsubscribe. You’ll still be friends with them. They can
still stalk you at random hours, and you can stalk back if you feel so
inclined. Occasionally you might even want to say hi or offer
congratulations and condolences on various life events. Your distant
social relationship is maintained, but neither of you have to keep the
other in your 150 cognitive limit.Facebook does not have to be a weapon of mass emotional destruction or a distraction to your social interactions. Like any community, it is filled with many levels and tiers of interpersonal relationships that have come together to make you the person you are in this very moment.
By taking the time to optimize your news feed results, you’ll be able to keep in touch with the most important people in your life. You’ll realize how much this matters when you live 8,000 miles away from them.
Elisa Doucette writes about modern feminism, relationships and life lessons for young professionals as she travels around the world. She spent two hours Skyping with her family at 3 AM on Christmas Day to make sure that she was about to share the holiday season, and loves the magic of such technology. You can visit her at ElisaDoucette.com or follow her on Twitter at @elisadoucette.
Facebook Shares Fall Briefly Amid Report of Instagram Quitters
- 12.28.12
- 4:34 PM
Whether that number is accurate — Instagram insists it isn’t — was almost beside the point as Facebook saw shares fall to $25.22 before gaining almost all of it back a few hours later. It is further evidence that Instagram completely blew it by ticking everybody off with the idea that it would license user photos to advertisers without telling, or paying, users. Instagram insists the whole thing was due to confusion over the rewritten terms, then made the point moot by reverting to advertising rules set out in the TOS published in April, 2010.
Friday’s dust-up started when AppData — a research firm that tracks user numbers for iOS, Android and Facebook apps — said Instagram had lost 25 percent of its users since attempting to change its terms of service. According to AppData’s numbers, Instagram had about 16.4 million active daily users last week, but only 12.4 million as of Thursday. It appears that the New York Post broke the story; it was followed by a dozen or so tech blogs. Wall Street got wind of it, and Facebook’s stock price started falling even as Instagram insisted the report was bogus.
“This data is inaccurate,” an Instagram spokeswoman told Wired by e-mail. “We continue to see strong and steady growth in both registered and active users of Instagram.” She declined, however, to quantify “strong and steady growth” and would not provide actual user numbers.
Investors appear to have gotten the message, because Facebook shares had rebounded to $26.03, just three cents less than Thursday’s closing price, by mid-afternoon Friday.
AppData, widely cited my major tech publications (and many mainstream news outlets too) as an authority on such matters, also reported user drops for Pinterest, FarmVille, and a number of other popular apps. But while AppData’s findings are generally considered accurate, they don’t appear to paint a full picture in this case. AppData’s metrics come from Instagram users who have linked the app to their Facebook accounts. According to a report from Marketing Land, only about 20 to 30 percent Instagram users have done this. While AppData indeed did record a drop in Instagram’s active users over the last week, it did so by measuring a slice of Instagram users, not the entire pie.
Although Instagram denies there’s been a decline in users, its refusal to offer specifics makes you wonder just what’s happened during the past week since we already know some users jumped ship.
Digital Diary: Facebook Poke and the Tedium of Success Theater
By JENNA WORTHAM
There’s a big problem in social media right now.
It’s boring.
A crucial and indispensable source of news and information, absolutely. But more often than not, it’s also tedious and predictable.
Don’t
get me wrong: My use of Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook has
never been greater. But I’m growing tired of seeing everyone’s perfectly
framed, glittering nightscapes of the Manhattan skyline, their
impeccably prepared meals, those beautifully blurred views of the world
from an airplane window seat. I’m getting tired of carefully crafting
and sharing them myself.
As these mediums have matured and more of our friends, colleagues, former flings, in-laws and friends have migrated to them, our use of them has changed. We’ve become better at choreographing ourselves and showing our best sides to the screen, capturing the most flattering angle of our faces, our homes, our evenings out, our loved ones and our trips.
It’s success theater, and we’ve mastered it. We’ve gotten better at it because it matters more. You never know who is looking or how it might affect your relationships and career down the road, and as a result, we have become more cautious about the version of ourselves that we present to each other and the world. Even Twitter, a service steeped in real-time and right-nowness, has added filters to its photo uploads, letting its users add a washed-out effect to their posts. It makes me miss the raw and unfiltered glimpses those services used to provide of the lives of my friends and the people I follow.
But the ubiquity of success theater is why I’ve become so fascinated with Snapchat and, more recently, Facebook Poke, services that let you send photos, messages and videos with a built-in shelf life, that self-destruct after a time interval that you choose. The beauty of these applications, perhaps their main redemptive quality, is that you can only send photos, messages and videos that you have created within the application. You cannot access your phone’s photo library for a more attractive self-portrait or an exotic locale to mask that you’re really sitting on the couch on Friday night in pajamas, wearing a face mask.
These applications are the opposite of groomed; they practically require imperfection, a sloppiness and a grittiness that conveys a sense of realness, something I’ve been craving in my communication. They transform the screen of your phone into a window into the life of your friend, wherever they are at that exact moment.
All of this is not to say that Snapchat or Facebook Poke have any permanent home in our daily routines. The applications, in their current iterations, have yet to gain significant traction in any of my social circles. Part of the fun is the novelty, as with any new service. And both have specific uses that are not as mainstream as services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or even Tumblr. After all, it’s much harder to find your comfort level within them. It’s startling, at first, to see the poorly lit, grainy pictures of your friends’ unfiltered faces, to adjust to the intimacy of realizing that the video of your friend that just landed in your in-box is meant for your eyes only, and that you are expected to send something of equal or greater intimacy in return. It is also possible that over time, Snapchat, VidBurn and Facebook Poke will become warped by their own versions of success theater, or lose steam if they gain seedier reputations.
But they capture a behavior my closest friends and I had already begun to adopt: The practice of showing each other where we are at any given moment in time, either through a short video or photo of our workstations, our faces as we lie half-asleep in bed on rainy Sunday afternoons, a look into our lives that is reserved for only those closest to each other. It is an acknowledgement that the version of ourselves we share through other social media is not the truest one, and has not been for a long time.
This is a variation of the same impulse that made Chatroulette a viral hit, and something that Apple has tried to capture with FaceTime, Google with its Hangouts, even Color’s ill-fated last and final iteration. It’s enough to make me think that the real real-time social Web is coming, in one form or another.
A crucial and indispensable source of news and information, absolutely. But more often than not, it’s also tedious and predictable.
Digital Diary
One woman’s look at technology and life.
As these mediums have matured and more of our friends, colleagues, former flings, in-laws and friends have migrated to them, our use of them has changed. We’ve become better at choreographing ourselves and showing our best sides to the screen, capturing the most flattering angle of our faces, our homes, our evenings out, our loved ones and our trips.
It’s success theater, and we’ve mastered it. We’ve gotten better at it because it matters more. You never know who is looking or how it might affect your relationships and career down the road, and as a result, we have become more cautious about the version of ourselves that we present to each other and the world. Even Twitter, a service steeped in real-time and right-nowness, has added filters to its photo uploads, letting its users add a washed-out effect to their posts. It makes me miss the raw and unfiltered glimpses those services used to provide of the lives of my friends and the people I follow.
But the ubiquity of success theater is why I’ve become so fascinated with Snapchat and, more recently, Facebook Poke, services that let you send photos, messages and videos with a built-in shelf life, that self-destruct after a time interval that you choose. The beauty of these applications, perhaps their main redemptive quality, is that you can only send photos, messages and videos that you have created within the application. You cannot access your phone’s photo library for a more attractive self-portrait or an exotic locale to mask that you’re really sitting on the couch on Friday night in pajamas, wearing a face mask.
These applications are the opposite of groomed; they practically require imperfection, a sloppiness and a grittiness that conveys a sense of realness, something I’ve been craving in my communication. They transform the screen of your phone into a window into the life of your friend, wherever they are at that exact moment.
All of this is not to say that Snapchat or Facebook Poke have any permanent home in our daily routines. The applications, in their current iterations, have yet to gain significant traction in any of my social circles. Part of the fun is the novelty, as with any new service. And both have specific uses that are not as mainstream as services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or even Tumblr. After all, it’s much harder to find your comfort level within them. It’s startling, at first, to see the poorly lit, grainy pictures of your friends’ unfiltered faces, to adjust to the intimacy of realizing that the video of your friend that just landed in your in-box is meant for your eyes only, and that you are expected to send something of equal or greater intimacy in return. It is also possible that over time, Snapchat, VidBurn and Facebook Poke will become warped by their own versions of success theater, or lose steam if they gain seedier reputations.
But they capture a behavior my closest friends and I had already begun to adopt: The practice of showing each other where we are at any given moment in time, either through a short video or photo of our workstations, our faces as we lie half-asleep in bed on rainy Sunday afternoons, a look into our lives that is reserved for only those closest to each other. It is an acknowledgement that the version of ourselves we share through other social media is not the truest one, and has not been for a long time.
This is a variation of the same impulse that made Chatroulette a viral hit, and something that Apple has tried to capture with FaceTime, Google with its Hangouts, even Color’s ill-fated last and final iteration. It’s enough to make me think that the real real-time social Web is coming, in one form or another.