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How to Download YouTube Videos. There are billions of hours of video on YouTube.

How to Download YouTube Videos

Literally. And that's hardly the most astounding statistic about the site, which has been the go-to destination for uploading and watching video since 2005. What Makes These Librarians TikTok? Facebook and its secret policies NY Times 5 28 20. On Tech: Take YouTube’s Dangers Seriously. My Social Media Life. 4 Things to Do Immediately When Your Facebook Account Was Hacked. Advertisement Another month, another Facebook scandal.

4 Things to Do Immediately When Your Facebook Account Was Hacked

What rarely makes the headlines is the silent struggle of thousands of users whose Facebook accounts got hacked. Facebook itself doesn’t offer much but a wall of silence and text. Education Influencers, Please Disclose Your Partnerships with Vendors. FTC Issues Guidelines to Social Media Influencers for Endorsement Disclosures. This Means You, Too, Educators. How to Find Out If Your Facebook Account Has Been Hacked. We continue to add our personal data onto Facebook.

How to Find Out If Your Facebook Account Has Been Hacked

People willfully share their favorite books, brands, and beverages, all in a quest for a social validation that will almost inevitably end in unhappiness. 70% of employers are snooping candidates’ social media profiles. Scrolling through your photos from this past weekend and laughing at the debauchery of your Hangover-esque charades? Ranting about your current job or co-workers because you think you're just among "friends? " Think again. According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 70 percent of employers use social media to screen candidates before hiring, which is up significantly from 60 percent in 2016. You Probably Don’t Know All the Ways Facebook Tracks You. The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Business Manager.

Facebook Ads Help Center. Facebook is Requiring the Business Manager for Custom Audiences. Toolkit - Facebook Business Manager. Facebook for Schools: Strategies for Building Brand Awareness and Engagement. How to: Create a killer Facebook Page for your school — Interactive Schools. [8] Know your privacy settings There are a lot of options to explore regarding your Page's privacy settings.

How to: Create a killer Facebook Page for your school — Interactive Schools

You will want most to be set to public, so people can easily find and engage with you. Social Media Cheat Sheet 2019: Must-Have Image Sizes! 2018 Social Media Image Dimensions [Cheat Sheet] Social media platforms are always being updated, which means they’re frequently changing their profile and cover photo dimensions, layouts, and requirements for uploaded images. It can be tough to keep track of it all. We understand you’re busy; you can’t spend all your time sweeping the internet for information that’s bound to change again tomorrow. However, high-quality and creative imagery is imperative to social media marketing success, so it’s important to know the proper dimensions for each network you use. Resize Your Images for Social Media. 5 New Ways to Search YouTube and Find Trending and Awesome Videos.

Given the amount of great content on YouTube, you’d think it would be easier to find a video you want to watch.

5 New Ways to Search YouTube and Find Trending and Awesome Videos

If you are frustrated with YouTube’s limited search functions or weird video suggestions, here’s how you can search for videos or find amazing things to watch. In the recent past, YouTube has become better with some new features. But discovering new videos to watch is still difficult, especially since YouTube’s suggestions aren’t always great. However, with the right third-party sites and apps, this is easy to fix. Can You Really See Who Viewed Your Facebook Profile? One of the biggest questions users ask about Facebook is whether you can see who has viewed your profile.

Can You Really See Who Viewed Your Facebook Profile?

In fact, a quick glance through search results shows dozens of apps and services that claim to let you see this information. But should you believe them? 4 Things to Do Immediately When Your Facebook Account Is Hacked. How to Craft Useful, Student-Centered Social Media Policies. Expert Viewpoint How to Craft Useful, Student-Centered Social Media Policies By Tanner Higgin Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat.

How to Craft Useful, Student-Centered Social Media Policies

The disturbing new reality of life online - CNN Style. Written by Olivia Sudjic Contributors Illustration by Alessandro Gottardo (Shout) Amanda Levete is a RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architect and founding principal of AL_A, an international award-winning design and architecture studio based in London.

The disturbing new reality of life online - CNN Style

For her September 2017 CNN Style guest editorship, she explored the theme of thresholds -- both real and imagined -- as applied in architecture and far beyond. Olivia Sudjic is a London-based novelist. 4 Reasons Why Facebook Is a Security and Privacy Nightmare. Facebook is no longer the king of the social media castle.

4 Reasons Why Facebook Is a Security and Privacy Nightmare

More and more people are starting to turn their backs on the network for good. And while it’s still possible to contend that you shouldn’t delete your account, the arguments in favor of ditching the service are piling up at an alarming rate. 10 Common Facebook Problems & Errors and How to Fix Them. Advertisement Nearly everyone uses Facebook, but can we all agree that it kind of sucks?

10 Common Facebook Problems & Errors and How to Fix Them

For every great story or picture you see on Facebook, you’ll have a dozen low-quality memes, annoying posts, and even frustrating user interface elements. Frustrated with Facebook? Social Bookmarking with Diigo. Popular Education Hashtags on Twitter. 10 YouTube URL Tricks You Should Know About. Though it has some competition, YouTube remains the premier video site on the web. With a staggering amount of videos uploaded every day, some people even make a living from the service. 10 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube 10 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube Here are 10 great alternatives to YouTube, although the "better than" is obviously open to debate... Read More No matter if you’re a casual YouTube user or go looking for the craziest channels you can find, there are all sorts of ways to tweak YouTube to make it just right for you.

Blue Feed, Red Feed. What is this? Recent posts from sources where the majority of shared articles aligned “very liberal” (blue, on the left) and “very conservative” (red, on the right) in a large Facebook study. In 2015, the journal Science published a research paper by Facebook scientists (Bakshy, Eytan; Messing, Solomon; Adamic, Lada, 2015, “Replication Data for: Exposure to Ideologically Diverse News and Opinion on Facebook”, Harvard Dataverse, V2) which looked at how a subset of the social network’s users reacted to the news appearing in their feeds.

For six months, Facebook tracked and analyzed the content shared by 10.1 million of its users (who were anonymized). These users had identified their political views in their own profiles on Facebook. Analyzing these users’ political labels, the researchers categorized each as very liberal, liberal, neutral, conservative or very conservative. Are you saying these sources are conservative and liberal? No. AllSides for Schools. Preparing students to participate thoughtfully in democracy - and in life.

Commentary: It’s Facebook’s algorithm vs. democracy, and so far the algorithm is winning — NOVA Next. Over the last several years, Facebook has been participating—unintentionally—in the erosion of democracy. The social network may feel like a modern town square, but thanks to its tangle of algorithms, it’s nothing like the public forums of the past. The company determines, according to its interests and those of its shareholders, what we see and learn on its social network. The result has been a loss of focus on critical national issues, an erosion of civil disagreement, and a threat to democracy itself.

Facebook is just one part—though a large part—of the Big Data economy, one built on math-powered applications that are based on choices made by fallible human beings. Many of the algorithms built for the Big Data economy contain mistakes that can undermine solutions to the problems they hope to solve. Facebook's algorithm—driven in part by likes and shares—has upended civil discourse. In many cases, WMDs define their own reality to justify their results. Getting Out the Vote. False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources. 8 New Things in Facebook You Should Know About. Advertisement The world’s largest social network is only getting larger every day.

As Facebook adds more users, it is also improving how people can use it. From introducing new services to simplifying existing tools, a lot has changed at Facebook in the recent past. It can be difficult to track all the changes. The company evolves and iterates constantly, like it should.