When a female user posted on the Confessions of a Uni student page, describing how she gave a false number to a man bothering her in a club, the responses included "I would've knocked her the fuck out!" (four 'likes') and "I'd kick her straight in the cunt for that" (12 'likes'likes
Some rather inflammatory news has been making its way around the web today: a user posting on the Pirateweb message board has accused Google of removing copyrighted MP3 music files from a Gmail account — possibly using the scanning services that Google employs to block illegal content on YouTube, possibly using something else.
The federal Communications Decency Act protects Web sites against liability for what their users post on the sites.
The blocking of foreign news sites that revealed details of offshore holdings by the relatives of senior leaders has continued in China as reports emerged of a propaganda directive ordering websites and services to target users posting on the subject.
"After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations," the company's founder, Ladar Levinson, wrote in a statement to users posted on the front page of its website.
Twitter is arguably an online microcosm of society today and a glaringly obvious, if somewhat distasteful, upshot of this is that the users posting on the site reflect the views and interests of the people living in the world around us.
Meetup is still working to make the service stable, and it's keeping users posted on the outage on Facebook, Twitter and the company blog.
About 40percentt of PicsArt's users post on the app, putting it in a unique position where it competes with the social media juggernauts on one hand, and serves as a platform-agnostic app to facilitate content creation for its rivals on the other.
But any information users post on the site — hobbies, status updates, wall posts — is fair game for ad targeting.
