Google has always made it all too easy to join its not so beloved social network, but now it's forcing users to log in with Google+ in order to get better (and more lucrative) data for advertisers.
Even though Instagram has both apologized and now walked back its terms of service, the mutiny over the photo-sharing app has given its once universally loyal users a preview of a tech universe very much prioritizing money over user experience.
Now comes word, by way of an announcement buried deep inside the social network, that your Messages inbox will be monetized, whether you like it or not.
In an attempt to show us how much Google+ has grown, Google released numbers Thursday that prove little more than how few users it's gotten users to engage with the service's front end.
Aaron Greenspan, a former Harvard student, who has claimed to The New York Times that he founded Facebook, has published on his personal site some early IM conversations between him and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that show a side of Zuck we haven't seen since he took his social network public.
If all the coolest people have left and the lamest people have joined, does that make Twitter officially over? Kaput? Done?
After hearing about the multiple child rapes that happened on Skout, an online people-meeting app that links up with Facebook, we're convinced this so-called kids on the Internet debate needs to come to an end.
By the conventional understanding of the network effect, which states a service is as valuable as the number of people using it, Facebook can only benefit, right?
Third try will do it for Path, which has added a formal apology to the Twitter and comment thread explanations it's given for its iPhone scandal. Hopefully the company can appease its critics.
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