Social Media
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Snapchat is bring it’s first parental control center. The new tool, called Family Center, promises to give parents more insight into who their teenagers are communicating with on the messaging app — without divulging the content of those conversations. Parents must create their own Snapchat account, and teens have to opt-in and give permission for them to use […]
After a social media threat was made towards the Gate Chili high school campus, the person accused of making a threat online that prompted a lockout is now in custody. The threatening social media post was not made by a student and students were not threatened. Summer meals and all activities were canceled yesterday but […]
You can now take a college course to become a social media influencer. Owens Community College in Toledo Ohio is offering the social media Influencer course. It will take two semesters to complete the course. Students can take the course by itself or with another degree. https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/want-become-social-media-influencer-201404137.html
To help stop inappropriate videos from young audiences, TikTok is rolling out a content maturity rating system. Along with new features that will allow viewers to customize their For You pages. Like maturity ratings used for movies and video games, the content rating system will organize videos based on “thematic maturity,” TikTok announced Wednesday. In […]
Those who are seeking to own a gun in New York State must now hand over a list of their social media accounts. In the wake of the Buffalo mass shootings, New York is launching a new strategy to prevent guns from ending up in the wrong hands by checking gun applicants’ social media accounts. […]
Do you take beauty advice from people on social media? If you do you may want to do your research on the beauty products before you apply them to your skin. Especially, if you don’t know what chemicals are in the products. There are not many rules or restrictions to keep products with toxic chemicals […]
A woman shared a video of her date telling her to either walk home or go back to his place. In a series of viral videos, user @jaipurlan documents a date gone wrong after she rejected her date’s invitation to go back to his apartment. paid for my own meal, slid him gas and this […]
Yesterday, New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced that her office will launch an investigation into social media companies in connection with the mass shooting in Buffalo. Specifically, James will be looking into the platforms that the shooter used to stream, promote, and plan the shooting, including Twitch (owned by Amazon), 4chan, 8chan, and […]
A New York State correction officer is suspended after a Insensitive social media post about the mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo. The correction officer identified as Greg Foster who is a long time employee as a correction officer. Reports said the corrections department is also seeking for Greg Foster to be terminated […]
After the horrific shooting that took place in Buffalo, Governor Kathy Hochul flew in to address the community and to call out CEOs of social media platforms for not doing more to monitor violent and racist content. Governor Hochul stated: “We don’t know if there are other people who are now going to be inspired, […]