Facebook Working On Burying Those Lousy Memories
San Jose, Calif. — Don’t go breaking my heart, Facebook. It’s a sentiment shared by people like 48-year-old San Jose resident Beth Burkley, who gets caught off guard when she sees reminders of her ex pop up on social media. “I have a couple of ex boyfriends that I’m still friends with on Facebook. We keep in touch,” she said. “Then there are others who I hope if I ever run into them again, it’s (with) the front end of my car,” she...
Enhancing Social Media for the Blind
Menlo Park, Calif. — Naquela Wright’s life took an unexpected turn when she lost her eyesight as a teenager, but even when her world became immersed in darkness, the New Jersey resident didn’t want to quit social media. “I’m not even going to lie. I was 18 years old and I was like a Facebook junkie,” said Wright, who is now 23. “Facebook is a good outlet to say how you feel and what you think.” Navigating Facebook was a challenge at...
Why People Quit Their ‘Beautiful’ Social Media Lives
In making her very public break with social media, Instagram model Essena O’Neill wrote that the drive for followers, likes and views “suffocated” her. “I would just spend hours looking at everyone else’s perfect lives,” she wrote, “and I strived to make mine look just as good.” Sounds familiar, right? That’s because it is. O’Neill’s social media use was sort of a heightened version of how most people engage with these platforms; she...
Yahoo Shuts Users Out of E-Mail
Yahoo confirmed reports that it is preventing some Yahoo Mail users from seeing their e-mails until they turn off their ad-blocking software. Users started complaining about two weeks ago on social media and ad-blocking forums that a message prompting them to disable ad-blocking software appeared when they tried to view their e-mail. On Monday, a company spokeswoman said the notices were a limited experiment. “At Yahoo, we are...
Seldon Technologies Headed to Auction
Windsor — In a move that likely signals a fire sale, the assets and patents of water filtration company Seldon Technologies are slated to be auctioned off next week, a deflating end for the startup that said it had achieved a technological breakthrough for making contaminated water fit to drink. Seldon’s majority shareholder, South Africa-based EcoNet Wireless, has hired Willisiton, Vt., auctioneer Thomas Hirchak Co. to solicit sealed...
