In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
If you opened Google Buzz today you would noticed a new feature added. The new features helps uses find all your posts much more easily and also posts you might have commented on. In all this is a new sharing experience launched by Buzz. Like their other roll-outs this one comes with the options to either use it or not. You can either click on the tab that says "Cool make these tabs public and visible on my profile" or you can choose "No thanks, keep these tabs only visible to me". If at a later date you would like to change these settings you can always go the Buzz Settings and choose to have them private or public from there. Buzz that you mark private will always remain private. These new tabs and likes incorporate a much more social media friendly options and allow more interactivity. As you can see from the image above you can choose your settings and make sure your followers can find all your stuff easily in one place. They do not have to hunt all over Buzz to...