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  • Your Social Self-Portrait
  • Social networks, online video outweigh traditional media in 2026
  • Social networks, online video outweigh traditional media in 2026

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psychologytoday.com /5 days ago

Your Social Self-Portrait

Of all the ways we have of representing who we are, we are missing what most distinguishes us: our social networks. New software programs make it possible and revealing.

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japantimes.co.jp /1 month ago

Social networks, online video outweigh traditional media in 2026

The report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found 54% of respondents said they got news from social media or video platforms in the week before the survey.

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techcentral.ie /1 month ago

Social networks, online video outweigh traditional media in 2026

News consumers around the world are now turning more to social media and video platforms than traditional outlets for information, a report said Tuesday. The year 2026 marks “a sig...

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blog.apaonline.org /6 days ago

Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Nepotism, Networking, and Structural Injustice

“Network, network, network” is the advice given to many job-seekers and for good reason. It is thought, for example, that over 60% of jobs are never advertised and instead exist wi...

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asianefficiency.com /3 weeks ago

The Difference Between a Network and a Map (And Why Most People Build the Wrong One)

Building a big network is easy. Knowing what every person in it actually wants — before you need anything from them — is what makes it useful. Here's how that prep work works.

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getsocialguide.com /1 month ago

Community Connections Through Social Media

Cultivating Community Connections Through Social Media (2026 Edition) In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, social media has emerged as a potent tool for businesses to connect i...

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webwire.com /1 month ago

SocieVibe Expands as a Feature-Rich Dating, Friendship, and Social Networking Platform Across the U.S. and International...

SocieVibe, a modern dating, friendship, and social networking website and mobile app, is proud to announce its growing reach across the United States, including major cities and s...

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elnacional.com /4 weeks ago

Nace ‘W’, la nueva red social 100% europea que se estrena en fase de pruebas para competir con X

La plataforma sueca se apoya en el protocolo descentralizado de Bluesky, almacena sus datos en suelo comunitario y exige verificación humana para frenar a los 'bots' e impulsar la...

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marginalrevolution.com /1 month ago

Who Leads? Relative Age Effects on Social Capital

A fascinating paper and result: This paper studies the causal effect of being the oldest within a school cohort on social capital. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and...

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psychologytoday.com /1 month ago

Mechanisms and Mitigations of Social Media’s Socially Isolating Effects

Excessive social media use can lead to social isolation through reduced face-to-face interaction, social comparison, algorithm-driven engagement, and social displacement.

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artfulparent.com /1 month ago

People who accept friend requests on social media but don’t follow back often reveal something most of us do without adm...

Have a look, sometime, at the gap between how many people you’re connected to online and how many you’d actually message if something went badly wrong at two in the morning. For mo...

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marketingdive.com /1 week ago

Sociable: Reddit launches ‘People are the Best’ campaign

The platform’s new promotional message highlights the real conversations happening in-app each day and takes subtle aim at artificial intelligence.

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thehindubusinessline.com /1 month ago

Meta's social networks down for thousands of users

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inc.com /1 week ago

Mark Zuckerberg’s New Social Network Just Crossed 500 Million Users–and Put X on Notice

Threads has hit a level no other Twitter alternative has reached, giving Elon Musk’s X a run for its money.

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mwananchi.co.tz /1 month ago

Mitandao inapomharakisha mstaafu Kinondoni!

Miaka ilee ya 1970 tulipomaliza vidato na tukajiunga na wazee wetu, kaka zetu na dada zetu kuijenga nchi hii kwa jasho na damu yetu, kitu kinachoitwa sasa “mitandao ya kijamii” kil...

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thelocal.fr /4 weeks ago

Forget X here's W: The new European social network to take on Musk

As Europe pushes for more tech sovereignty, social network W believes it has the X-factor to win users away from other platforms: it's European.

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3dnews.ru /2 weeks ago

Соцсеть X упростила подключение сторонних ИИ-приложений

Соцсеть X упростила подключение к платформе помощников с искусственным интеллектом Claude, Cursor, Grok Build и других приложений, запустив новый MCP-сервер — интерфейс Model Conte...

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psychologicalscience.org /2 days ago

The Social Ritual That Made Me a Better Man

… This wasn’t just in my head. In a 2017 study led by the evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, researchers at the University of Oxford found that nights out with friends support...

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thisdaylive.com /5 days ago

Alumni Networks Key to Unlocking Hidden Job Market, Enterprise Growth, Says Expert

Omolabake Fasogbon  Professional relationships have become a key economic asset, with many jobs, business partnerships and investment opportunities now emerging through trusted net...

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aljazeera.com /2 weeks ago

How much of your life do you spend on social media?

On world social media day, Al Jazeera breaks down the numbers.

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marketingdive.com /3 weeks ago

Sociable: Reddit study highlights user purchase behavior

The research, created in partnership with WPP, examined how people on the platform gain insights into brands and make buying decisions.

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thenextweb.com /1 month ago

Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users

Bluesky launched group chats on Thursday and outlined a broader pivot toward community features, a strategic shift for a social network that has so far focused on open public posti...

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bbc.com /1 month ago

Excessive social media 'negatively impacts wellbeing'

The World Happiness Reports finds the more time spent on social media the greater loss of wellbeing.

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socialmediatoday.com /4 weeks ago

Threads reaches 500 million user milestone

The app added new communities and algorithm options as it nears the same number of actives as Elon Musk’s X.

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