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Social Data Analysis: The Pros and Cons of Social Data

Oktopost

You can collect data manually and use tools such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets to track metrics from the social networks you will analyze. Alternatively, you can use a social media management tool that automates data collection and creates dedicated reports with critical social platforms and data points.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

Welcome to dark social. Don’t worry, dark social isn’t the same as the notorious “dark web” trying to lure you into evil. Dark social is the oldest social network in action: private, untraceable human-to-human communication. Source: Hootsuite’s Digital Trends report 2. What about in 2023?

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Facebook Groups: Privacy Bait and Switch?

Almost Savvy

There was a little get-together for tech reporters at Facebook headquarters today. Tags: Facebook community Fun organize Students trust. You may have heard about it. Whenever Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, summons an audience because he’s got something to announce about Facebook, life as we know it grinds to a halt. Or so it seems.

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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

I like that my online communities help surface the content that is most relevant to me and it seems to keep me up to date with news and events. Today, we are hearing reports that Facebook is going to launch a reader application, and my first thought was, I hope this won’t change Facebook’s current update feeds. Image via CrunchBase.

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A member of my religious community disappeared. I started writing this shortly after he was reported missing but before his whereabouts were discovered. Over 700,000 individuals in the United States alone are reported missing each year. More than 2,300 people a reported missing each day.

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Unraveling Meta Threads: What we learned from our first 30 days on the network

Sprout Social

Nothing captured first-day-of-school energy quite like the release of Threads, a new text-based social media platform from Meta. The launch of a new social network is typically met with equal doses of curiosity and concern. Brands and the social media managers that run them took to the platform with enthusiasm.

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Social You Should Know—April Social Media Updates

Ignite Social Media

A lot happened this month in social media with most of the news centered around the Facebook privacy scandal. What we learned from that experience is that many people in Congress do not understand how social networks work and that Facebook has a lot of action items to follow up on. Facebook Faced Congress.