• Facebook Algorithms Use Hate Speech to Help Target Advertisements

    Facebook Algorithms Use Hate Speech to Help Target Advertisements

    One of Facebook’s selling features to advertisers has been that you can use the company’s vast amounts of data to target users.  Further to that, you can target users based on almost any personal characteristic.  So, for example, if you join a Facebook Group for the baseball team that you are on, in theory, this…

  • Facebook is Testing Out a New “Private Profile” Feature For Your Closest “Friends”

    Facebook is Testing Out a New “Private Profile” Feature For Your Closest “Friends”

    Facebook is testing a feature that let’s you set your profile to “private” so that only your closest friends can see what you’re up to.  Which begs the question, who do you have on Facebook?  Clearly these aren’t all your “friends”, if you want to block them from seeing certain things.  I can understand if…

  • Facebook and Instagram to Start Streaming “Club Mickey Mouse”

    Facebook and Instagram to Start Streaming “Club Mickey Mouse”

    You can tell that times are changing now, by how we consume content.  Most specifically how we are watching TV shows.   Club Mickey Mouse will now be streaming exclusively on Facebook and Instagram.  What’s more interesting, maybe, is that the show will have around 70 minutes of content per week.  According to Disney, it’s…