A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world

The platforms that won were the ones that kept people scrolling the longest, not the ones that made them feel the most ...
Techno-Science.net

Social Media Screenshot Alert: Apps That Notify Users

Snapchat alerts users for all chat screenshots. Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger do so only with disappearing messages. Telegram and Signal restrict or block screenshots in secret chats. WhatsApp ...
News4Jax

One Tech Tip: Wasting too much time on social media apps? Tips and tricks to curb smartphone use

Women look at a phone while sitting on the pedestal of statue on International Women's Day in downtown Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim ...
Yahoo

I love to mindlessly scroll social media. Then I tried an app that made me take steps to get screen time.

Steppin blocks me from my go-to apps unless I get my steps in. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Kerry Justich/Yahoo News) In a digital world where people track everything from calories to ...
Wired

A New Social Media App Punishes Users for Rage-Baiting

If there is one certainty of social media in 2025, it’s this: Rage clicks rule. Hyperbole, hate, cheap shock—it’s all par for the course—and often rewarded with virality. But Sez Us, an app just ...
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI Launches Video Generator App to Rival TikTok and YouTube

OpenAI is squaring up to TikTok, Google’s YouTube and Meta Platforms with a new social-media app for its AI video generator that allows users to create high-definition video clips with audio from text ...