social networks

  • TikTok Wants To Be QVC For Teens

    TikTok Wants To Be QVC For Teens

    If you follow the updates on various social platforms for long enough, you start to notice a particular pattern: a product designed for socialising mutating into an attention trap geared towards shopping. We’ve seen it with Instagram. We’ve seen it with Pinterest and Snapchat. So it was only a matter of time before consumerism took…


  • Google Can’t Quit Trying To Make New Social Networks

    Google Can’t Quit Trying To Make New Social Networks

    Google has never made a successful social network, but you have to give the company some credit for never giving up. After the shutdown of platforms like Orkut, Google Buzz, and Google+ (and the shuttering of messaging services like Allo and Google Wave) it appears that Google is testing out yet another social network, this…