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Facebook, Inc. [est. 2004] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
official Facebook website

Instagram [est. 10/2010]
Instagram was the world's most popular photo-sharing app and social media site [in 2012]: Two years after its launch, the number of its daily mobile users
surpassed that of Twitter; then Facebook purchased it for a billion dollars - and it took the world by storm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram

	"Instagram Power: Build Your Brand and Reach More Customers With The Power of Pictures" [2013] by Jason G. Miles You get it all in a quick and easy to read format: from setting up an account, to implementing the ten proven monetization strategies, to integrating Instagram into your complete marketing strategy. Kindle Edition from McGraw-Hill [10/2013] for $9.99 McGraw-Hill Education 9x5¾ pb [10/2013] for $5.65 NOTE: 2019 Second Edition just below
	"Instagram Power, Second Edition: Build Your Brand and Reach More Customers With Visual Influence" [2019] by Jason Miles New edition has 15 new chapter subsections; the book shows you how to leverage all the new features, including Insights, IGTV, Shop-able Posts, Stories, and Instagram Ads. Kindle Edition from McGraw-Hill [3/2019] for $9.49 McGraw-Hill 9x6 pb [3/2019] for $9.99
	"No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram" [2020] by Sarah Frier, senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News San Francisco book won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster [4/2020] for $13.99 Simon & Schuster 8½x5½ pb [9/2021] for $13.69 Simon & Schuster pb [9/2021] for $14.25 Simon & Schuster 9x6 hardcover [4/2020] for $14.04 German Edition: Kindle Edition from Plassen Verlag [6/2020] for $23.99 German Edition: Plassen Verlag 8½x5½ pb [7/2020] for $26.62 Chinese Edition: Zhong Xin Chu Ban She 8½x5½ pb [11/2020] for $34.55 Spanish Edition: Kindle Edition from Conecta [9/2020] for $9.99 Spanish Edition: Conecta 9x6 pb [1/2021] for $19.76
	"Instagram Power: The 7 Power Strategies To Build A Brand On Instagram" [2020] by Darel L. Johnson 'take control of your Instagram page and turn it into a money-making machine' 34-page Kindle Edition from self-publd [10/2020] for $7.48 52-page self-publd 9x6 pb [11/2020] for $7.48
	"Instagram Power: Leverage Instagram To Build and Strengthen Your Business" [2022] by Gaye Borgstede 'Whether you're hoping to develop your image, construct a business, or quickly develop specialty Instagram accounts, this functional aide will tell you the very best way to go from zero supporters to connected and important devotees in a matter of seconds.' 55-page self-publd 9x6 pb [12/2022] for $10.74

LinkedIn social network [est. ?]
LinkedIn is business/job-related and operates the Lynda for-fee service

Mastodon - seen as potential alternative to Twitter
http://post.news/livableworld

Medium social journalism network [est. 8/2012]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_(website)

MeWe / Sgrouples, Inc. privacy-first social network [est. 5/2012]
now has almost 21 million…
http://www.mewe.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeWe
Jeffrey Scott Edell became CEO (4/2021) and was named Chairman in 2022
co-founder Mark Weinstein was CEO until April 2021
co-founder Jonathan Wolfe of Albuquerque, NM

pinterest.com wastes even more time than FB

Post is a mainstream alternative to Twitter that was sped into private beta to capitalize on the timing of Twitter’s recent chaos and is only just opening up to everybody; far from being decentralized, the Post platform offers a more curated experience that’s focused on attracting the journalists who usually while away the day on Twitter.
http://post.news/livableworld

reddit.com

conservative video-sharing platform Rumble [est. 2013]
sells coffee under the brand 1775, vowing that 'not a single dollar from your purchase will ever be donated to the woke political agenda';
Rumble's cloud services business hosts Truth Social; based in Toronto & Florida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_(company)

Snap Interactive, Inc. [2005-2018]
rebranded to PeerStream, Inc. [March 2018] • PeerStream entry at Wikipedia
renamed Paltalk, Inc. [May 2020]
PeerStream link redirects to the Paltalk website
2022 May: Snapchat was the sixth-most popular social media app in the U.S., right after TikTok. 2022 July: Snapchat comes to desktop: As part of its quest to remind people over 18 that it still exists, Snap is expanding beyond the app for the first time ever. In the newly launched Snapchat for Web, you can snap pictures, send DMs, and video chat with friends on a desktop. (Some caveats: It’ll be available only to Snapchat+ subscribers initially, and won’t work on the Safari browser.)

		"Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million" [2017] by Cliff Lerner Lerner's new online dating startup Snap Interactive connected on Facebook and was suddenly receiving 100,000 new signups each day . . . Kindle Edition from Clifford Ventures Corp. [11/2017] for $9.71 Clifford Ventures Corp. 8½x5½ pb [11/2017] for $14.49 Clifford Ventures Corp. 8½x5½ hardcover [12/2019] for $24.99
		"How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story" [2018] by Billy Gallagher, student at Stanford University In 2013 Evan Spiegel, the brash CEO of the social network Snapchat, and his co-founder Bobby Murphy stunned the press when they walked away from a three-billion-dollar offer from Facebook: Was this hubris, or genius? {CLUE: market value of Snap, Inc. in May 2023 is $13.7 billion} Kindle Edition from St. Martin's Press [2/2018] for $11.99 Random House UK 7¾x5 pb [1/2019] for $14.66 St. Martin's Press 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2018] for $24.99
		"The Ultimate Guide To Snapchat" [2021] by Phil Walton author is a top Snapchat Lens Creator, whose work has been viewed over 4 billion times; he is also famous as the creator of the infamous Snapchat Potato lens 95-page Kindle Edition from Turner [10/2021] for $9.99 98-page Turner pb [10/2021] for $10.99 98-page Turner 8x5 hardcover [10/2021] for $25.99

Spotify Technology - the streaming audio company based in Sweden & U.S.A.
[founded 4/2006, launched 10/2008, U.S. launch in summer 2011]
Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek and business partner Martin Lorentzon revolutionized the music industry through free and legal music streaming when they launched Spotify.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify

• 2019 May: Spotify announced the Car Thing, a voice-activated music-streaming gadget for automobiles. • 2021 April: Spotify rolled out its own voice assistant - with the hands-free wake word 'Hey Spotify' - which will perform various actions such as pulling playlists, launching radio stations, and playing or pausing songs. • 2021 August: Spotify launched quickly-popular playlist creation tool Blend, which allows 2-10 users to create a shared playlist that merges their recent music tastes and changes daily. • 2022 July: Spotify acquired the Wordle-inspired music trivia game Heardle for an undisclosed amount; the game was shut down less than a year later. • 2022 October: Spotify let go 38 workers at podcast studios Gimlet Media and Parcast. • 2023 Jan 23: Spotify announced that it will cut about 600 employees, roughly 6 percent of its 9,800-person workforce. • 2023 June 5: Spotify laid off 200 people, or about 2% of its staff, in an effort to reorganize its podcast division.

"The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon In The Race For Audio Dominance" [2021] by Sven Carlsson & Jonas Leijonhufvud original title "Spotify Untold: How A Small Swedish Start-up Changed Music Forever"; the David-versus-many-Goliaths story of the streaming music giant’s rise to success Kindle Edition from Diversion Books [1/2021] for $12.99 Diversion Books 9x6 pb [1/2021] for $14.21

"The Playlist" cable mini-series [Netflix Oct 2022] Netflix 6-episode docudrama about the evolution of the hugely-successful streaming audio company Spotify; the episode titles are 1)) "The Vision" - self-taught coder Daniel Ek; 2)) "The Industry" - music label head Per Sundin; 3)) "The Law"; 4)) "The Coder"; 5)) "The Partner" - eccentric entrepreneur Martin Lorentzon; 6)) "The Artist" - fictional musician Bobbi T • Filmed in Stockholm, Sweden; directed by Per-Olav Sørensen & Hallgrim Haug; based on the book "Spotify Untold" by Sven Carlsson & Jonas Leijonhufvud; head writer Christian Spurrier; music by Kristian Eidnes Andersen; starring Christian Hillborg {as Martin Lorentzon}, Edvin Endre {as Daniel Ek}, Gizem Erdogan, Severija Janusauskaite, Ulf Stenberg, Ella Rappich, Joel Lützow, Lucas Serby, Jonatan Bökman, Janice Kavander, Erik Norén, Alexander Gustavsson, Rufus Glaser, Sofia Karemyr, Valter Skarsgård, Brooke Newton, Orlando Wells {as Peter Thiel} full credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • watch 9/2022 Swedish-language (w/subtitles) official teaser trailer [1:02] online at YouTube watch 10/2022 Swedish-language (w/subtitles) official trailer [1:50] online at YouTube Netflix Music, LLC MP-3 soundtrack album download [10/2022] 25 tracks for $8.99 listen to 10/2022 soundtrack audio recording [46:30] online at YouTube

Substack [founded in 2017] is 'the home for great writing'; headquartered in San Francisco
while Substack has advertised itself as a friendly home for journalism, few of its newsletters publish original reporting: the majority offer
personal writing, opinion pieces, research, and amateur analysis; 'Sign up now, and publishing is free forever'
official website • G.E. Nordell's Substack account [est. 5/2024]
Substack entry at Wikipedia

TikTok is a short-form video platform that became famous for viral dances performed by the likes of fresh-faced tweens and teens whose queen was Charli D’Amelio. (Part of that DNA comes from Musical.ly, a lip-synching app that TikTok swallowed up in 2018.) TikTok truly exploded in the early days of the pandemic, when much of life moved online. In late 2021, the app hit 1 billion active users. An estimated 25 percent of TikTok’s users in the U.S. are 10-to-19-years old — a demographic that Meta is hoping to win back. TikTok is Apple and Google’s most popular app. 6/2022 The popular platform is owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance; suspicion of pressure from the Communist Chinese government has created demands by the U.S. government for ByteDance to sell wholly-owned subsidiary TikTok
http://www.bytedance.com/ [est. 2012] + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
Douyin [released Sept 2016] http://www.douyin.com/ + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#Douyin
TikTok [released 2017-2018] http://www.tiktok.com/ + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok

31 states have taken action to restrict TikTok on government devices, reflecting a wave of recent clampdowns by Republican and Democratic governors targeting the short-form video app. The accelerating backlash comes amid renewed security concerns about how the platform handles user data and fears that it could find its way to the Chinese government. It’s no secret that the government considers TikTok a national security threat. But in an interview with Bloomberg yesterday 3-2, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo suggested that the government is concerned about the dangers posed by other Chinese apps, too. “If what we’re worried about is Chinese-backed companies being on tens of millions of American phones, including members of the military and privacy concerns, data concerns, misinformation concerns—it doesn’t just apply to TikTok,” she said. Thing is, Chinese apps are the most popular apps in the US right now. The top three free apps on Apple’s App Store yesterday were Temu, CapCut, and TikTok, while Google Play’s were Temu, TikTok, and Street Fighter: Duel—with Chinese fast-fashion company Shein chilling at No. 4. Except for Street Fighter, all of these apps are based in China and have been downloaded onto American devices hundreds of millions of times. •CapCut is a video editor for TikTok owned by the same tech giant, ByteDance. •Temu is a shopping app that was already gaining traction in the US late last year but boarded a rocket ship to the most-downloaded spot after airing two spots for its “Shop Like a Billionaire” commercial during the Super Bowl. For now, TikTok has the biggest target on its back: •Legislation to ban TikTok in the US was approved by an influential House committee this week, though it still has to face trials by fire with the full House and Senate. •Government agencies have 30 days from Feb. 27 to ensure TikTok is deleted from all federal devices and systems. The US has recently demanded Chinese-owned ByteDance sell its stake in TikTok or else it would ban the app. -- An from the United Kingdom, on The move follows similar restrictions imposed by the US and other countries over how the social media platform could access users' personal data. TikTok expressed disappointment at the decision, saying in a statement that the recent bans "have been based on fundamental misconceptions and driven by wider geopolitics."

2023 late February: NATO officially banned all staffers from downloading the TikTok app onto their NATO-provided devices. 2023 March: New Zealand's parliament ordered the TikTok app be removed from all devices with access to the legislature. 2023 March 3: Australia banned the use of TikTok on government devices, putting the country in line with its allies in the U.S., Britain, and Canada, which have already announced similar restrictions. 2023 March: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew tangled with infuriated lawmakers on Capitol Hill last week, emerging as a Hero of the People: he seemed to many a sympathetic figure being unfairly singled out by tech-illiterate, disrespectful politicians. Chew also said that the company is moving its data into the U.S. to be stored on American soil – but Western governments remain skeptical. 2023 Wed March 15: The Biden Administration threatened to ban TikTok unless its Chinese owners sell their stakes in the video-sharing app; the demand by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which oversees national security risks in cross-border investments, marked a shift for the administration as some Republicans accuse it of failing to adequately address the potential security threat posed by the video-sharing app. TikTok has said that it would spend $1.5 billion to protect U.S. data and content from access by the Chinese government. 2023 Thu March 16: The British government banned TikTok from official government devices, over concern about the way in which this data may be used. 2023 Thu March 23: TikTok boss Shou Zi Chew testified before the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee, trying to make the case that a sale won’t alleviate U.S. lawmakers’ privacy concerns; lawmakers grilled Chew about concerns China could use the popular video-sharing app to gather data on users and spread misinformation, posing a security threat. Chew said that TikTok is "free from any manipulation from any government". Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) stated "To the American people watching today, hear this: TikTok is a weapon by the Chinese Communist Party to spy on you and manipulate what you see and exploit . . . future generations". 2023 April: The White House said that TikTok's China-based parent, ByteDance, would have to sell its stake in TikTok's U.S. operations or face punishment, possibly including a ban. 2023 April 10: Aussie broadcaster Sky News Australia quit the TikTok video app, saying that security risks are 'too great' for media; the broadcaster's digital editor called it 'a spy network masquerading as a social media platform'. 2023 April 15: The Montana legislature passed a bill that will block downloads of the popular TikTok app, while the federal government weighs doing the same nationwide; the governor already forbade the TikTok app on state government devices. The new law goes into effect on January First, and will not affect people who already have the app downloaded. TikTok plans to sue to challenge the ban. 2023 May 17: Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a law making Montana the first U.S. state to compre-hensively ban the Chinese-owned TikTok app. While other states and countries have banned TikTok on govern-ment-issued or -connected devices over national security concerns, Montana’s law blocks the app from operating inside its borders and penalizes app stores from making TikTok available for download in Montana. 2023 June: TikTok announced that it is testing its new A.I. chatbot Tako in the Philippines. 2023 mid-September: TikTop Shop was officially launched in the US. There is still no public evidence that the Chinese government has spied on people through TikTok.

	The Hollywood Reporter Magazine [est. 1930] 6 May 2020 cover story: Tik Tok Boom 'The explosive, 2-billion strong social media app is going Hollywood, leveraging a massive sheltering-at-home audience hungry for new content to draw A-listers onto the platform and turn its homegrown roster into bankable stars (with reality TV shows, of course)' single issue available at Amazon [6/2020] out of print/scarce single issue available at magazine website for $14.99 magazine website
	"Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance" [2020] by Matthew Brennan, Illustrated by Valentina Segovia author Brennan draws upon interviews with current and former employees & competitors, together with extensive research in both Chinese & English to forge a sweeping narrative packed with original insight and analysis that simply cannot be found elsewhere Kindle Edition from indep [10/2020] for $9.99 indep 9x6 pb [10/2020] for $18.00 Hunan Literature & Art Publng House Chinese-language pb [7/2021] for $26.98
	"TikTok For Dummies" [2021] by Jesse Stay expert digital strategist author delivers an easy-to-read discussion, walking you through the steps of installing the app, creating an attractive profile, securing your account and keeping yourself safe on the platform, finding the best content for engaging with your target community, and creating videos that have viral potential Kindle Edition from Wiley/For Dummies [4/2021] for $11.00 Wiley/For Dummies 8&frac35x5¾ pb [5/2021] for $15.99
	"TikTok Boom: China's Dynamite App and The Superpower Race For Social Media" [2021] by British journalist Chris Stokel-Walker Canbury Press 9x6 pb [7/2021] for $19.99
	"The Definitive Guide To TikTok Advertising: How To Access 1 Billion People In 10 Minutes!" [2022] by Perry Marshall & Dennis Yu Kindle Edition from self-publd [5/2022] for $8.99 self-publd 9x6 pb [5/2022] for $14.99
	"TikTok Marketing Secrets: The Simple Step-By-Step Guide To Unlock Millions of Views For Your Business" [2022] by Will Bower a guide to help brands, business owners, and marketers to achieve their goal of viral success in the scary ocean that is the TikTok algorithm 166-page self-publd 9x6 pb [10/2022] for $9.99

      
tribel - We are the kinder, smarter social network.
an innovative new social network that nurtures intelligence and kindness instead of hatred and ...
official website • no entry at Wikipedia •

      
Donald Trump's TruthSocial platform [est. 10/2021]
TruthSocial launched in February 2022
entry at Wikipedia

full data to be found on Spirit of America Bookstore's Loser Donald Trump Page

        
'Weibo' {pron. 'wee-bwah'} is the Chinese word for 'microblog'; Sina Weibo launched after China shut down national and foreign platforms following the 20th anniversary events at Tianmen Square and the Ürümqi Uyghur riots in Xinjiang in Summer 2009; Sina Weibo is a platform for "fostering user relationships to share, disseminate, and receive information". Sina Weibo is often referred to as 'weibo'; they moved to the standalone URL weibo.com in April 2011; despite fierce competition among Chinese social media platforms, Sina Weibo remains the most popular - more than 500 million registered users and 313 million monthly active users; former competitors Tencent Weibo, Sohu Weibo, and NetEase Weibo stopped providing services prior to September 2020. {{ NOTE: Tried signing up 1/2023 but the few English pages quickly revert to Chinese. }}
official Sina Weibo website • Weibo North America website • Sina Corporation [est. 2001] website

There are over 30 million live websites powered by WordPress, which is 41% of all websites using CMS. WordPress is undoubtedly the most popular platform in the world.
free and open-source content management system (CMS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress

X / Twitter, Inc. [est. 2006] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

Movies & Television,  Other  Media

"The Social Network"
[Relativity Media / Columbia Oct 2010]

"You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies": The story of the college student who created the Facebook phenomenon and six years later became the youngest billionaire in history • Directed by David Fincher; based on the book by Ben Mezrich; starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara & Joseph Mazzello Sony Pictures widescreen color Blu-ray [1/2011] 2 disks for $18.59 Sony Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [1/2011] 2 disks for $9.76 Sony Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [1/2011] 2 disks for $11.05 full credits at IMDb • official movie site

"The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook - A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal" [2009 bestseller] by Ben Mezrich Lacking access to central figure Mark Zuckerberg, the author fictionalized many important parts of the story, as well as sensationalizing college life; the result is a questionable but nonetheless exciting tale. Anchor 8¼x6 pb [5/2010] for $10.85 Doubleday 9¼x6 hardcover [7/2009] for $16.50

"Battle of Social Networks" documentary [La Kaseta Ideas Factory 2019]

During recent mobilizations - the Arab Spring, the Iranian protests, the Catalan Referendum - thousands of images and videos of police attacks recorded by citizens went viral on social platforms. Currently 5 billion people own a mobile phone - more than half of them are smartphones. Millions of texts, images, and videos circulate daily through social networks, a perfect weapon for social organisation. At the same time, a great deal of dis-information began spreading across the internet: fake news can be indistinguishable from real news. The battle to take control of the truth has begun . . . • Directed by David Fontseca; written by Cris Castilla & Marc Comas; featuring Elies Campo, John Carlin, Adam B. Ellick (New York Times), Jordi Fusté, Josep. M. Ganyet, Clara Jimenénez, Silvia Majó, Jennifer Robinson (Julian Assange's lawyer), Donald Trump, Claire Wardle bare credits at IMDb • official movie homepage DVD/Blu-ray not available (2024) • Amazon Instant Video [2019] HD rental $1.99, HD purchase $9.99 watch official trailer [2019] online at Vimeo

"The Social Dilemma" [Exposure Labs/Argent Pictures/Netflix streaming Sept 2020]

Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking; tech experts sound the alarm on their own creations • Co-written & directed by Jeff Orlowski-Yang; co-written by Vickie Curtis & Davis Coombe; music by Mark A. Crawford; featuring Tristan Harris (ex-Google, Center for Humane Technology), serial tech entrepreneur Jeff Seibert, Bailey Richardson (Instagram), Joe Toscano (ex-Google), Sandy Parakilas (ex-Facebook, ex-Uber), Guillaume Chaslot (ex-YouTube, IntuitiveAI CEO), Lynn Fox (ex-Apple, ex-Google), Aza Raskin (ex-Firefox & Mozilla Labs, Center for Humane Technology), Alex Roetter (ex-Twitter), Tim Kendall (ex-Facebook, ex-Pinterest), Justin Rosenstein (ex-Facebook, ex-Google), Randima 'Randy' Fernando (ex-NVIDIA, Center for Humane Technology), virtual reality computer scientist Jaron Lanier, venture capitalist Roger McNamee, Shoshana Zuboff PhD (professor emeritus Harvard Business School), Dr. Anna Lembke (Stanford University School of Medicine), James Fetter, Mary Fetter, Jonathan Haidt PhD (NYU Stern School of Business), Data Scientist Cathy O'Neil PhD, Rashida Richardson (NYU School of Law, A.I. Now Institute), Renee DiResta (Stanford Internet Observatory), Cynthia M. Wong (Human Rights Watch), Skyler Gisondo, Kara Hayward, Vincent Kartheiser, Sophia Hammons, Barbara Gehring, Chris Grundy, Sergio Villarreal, Catalina Garayoa, Sheevani Ignasinski Desai, Emi Zerr, Vic Alejandro, Oner Asir, Kristina Fountaine, Carlos Leos, Adam S. Ford, Jade Ryin, and body doubles Skye Folsom, Richard Lucchese, Reza Nosrati; film won two Emmy Awards and won Webby Award full credits at IMDb • official movie site • Netflix official movie homepage • movie entry at Wikipedia DVD/Blu-ray not available • watch 8/2020 official trailer [2:34] online at YouTube watch full movie [9/2020 upload; 1:15:18] online at YouTube

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Cyber Film Festival at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
Working Minds / Things To Worry About / Internet Freedom Page
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