Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

According to the American Alliance of Museums, the average museum has 6 volunteers for every paid staff member , a ratio which s oars to 18:1 in museums with budgets under $250,000. The teens coming into adulthood are more likely than adults (57% vs. 49%) to pay more for brands that support the causes or organizations important to them.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most catastrophic security breach in company history , it must be said that the events were set in motion years ago. Honestly I’m with the teens on this one — that video is a cry for help. You can’t say you didn’t see it coming.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Broadly speaking, this practice — masking the true sponsor of an idea to make it appear as though it originates from average citizens — is called astroturfing, and it has a long history. It’s stuff you largely couldn’t do on Facebook. But you can do it if you are Facebook. Taylor Lorenz / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

How much of the low turnout should be attributed to the teens, and how much should be attributed to other factors — like that pandemic, for example? In the moment, Trump versus the TikTok teens offered a canvas that anyone could project their hopes and LOLs onto. Snap has a history of releasing disastrous filters.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

And those posts might get even wider distribution than their ads, if history is any guide. Rascally TikTok teens are trying to pull one over on the president again. At the end of the day, a smaller Facebook — which is to say, a Facebook that does not include Instagram or WhatsApp — has fewer potential recruits. That is not a typo.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang in Bloomberg : The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. Signal now lets users transfer account data and messaging history to a new iPhone or iPad from their existing iOS device. Things to do.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The idea that this is the first computing platform in the history of computing, where you really feel like you’re there with another person. Teen girls are dominating TikTok , going from zero followers to hundreds of thousands in a matter of days. The thing that excites me about virtual and augmented reality is the feeling of presence.

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