Overusing social media in particular has been linked to mental illness such as depression and anxiety disorders. As convenient as mobile devices make our lives in terms of accessing information or completing day-to-day tasks, their overuse has also been associated with a rise in the instance of mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety disorders. Social media use is linked with both positive and negative impacts on its users, but overuse is problematic. Heavy social media users, particularly younger generations on mobile devices, have been spending substantial amounts of time…
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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses can now be used for livestreaming on social media
The gadgets, which haven’t proved as popular as Meta has hoped, can be used on its platforms. When Ray-Ban Stories first launched with smart glasses, people weren’t nearly as impressed as Meta had expected. The company has managed to sell only slightly over one third of its original sales goal. According to a report cited by Tech Crunch, Meta has only sold just over a third of the internal 300,000 smart glasses unit goal within the first seven months that the gadgets were available. Even worse, that same report indicates…
Read MoreThreads app briefly appears on Google Play as Meta’s Twitter rival
Screenshots showed that users would be able to log in to the Twitter competitor using an Instagram account. Recent screenshots showed that the Threads app, Meta’s competition for Twitter, briefly appeared on Google Play at the start of July. Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who commonly spots unreleased features buried in code, shared the images. According to the screenshots, people will be able to sign into the Threads app by logging in with their Instagram account. Moreover, from there, they can sync the accounts they follow from one application to the…
Read MoreTikTok social media platform value now 11 percent higher than Facebook
The short video app is also valued at 65 percent higher than Instagram according to a new report. TikTok has now overtaken Facebook as a considerably more valuable social media platform, as a new report from Business2community.com has indicated that the former now has a value 11 percent greater than the latter. This makes TikTok the most valuable brand in its category, based on the statistics in the new report. The analysis was based on data from Q1 this year, naming TikTok the most valuable social media platform in the…
Read MoreAll Discord usernames will soon need to be changed
The popular online chat service has announced that it will be asking everyone to make the changes. “Over the coming weeks,” all Discord usernames will need to be changed, according to an official announcement from the company behind the popular online chat service. The platform allows people to form and join groups based on various different kinds of interest. There are currently an estimated 150 million active users on the platform worldwide. They will all need to change their Discord usernames in the coming weeks. This will allow the platform…
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