In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
For those of you who have very into using Twitter might also want to find your favorite Twitter friends who are also using Google+. The fun thing about that is you get all the added benefits of Google+ that are not available on Twitter and therefore sharing with your Twitter friends on Google+ and following them is highly recommended. By this am not implying that Google+ is better than Twitter, not at all. Twitter and Google+ are totally different and each should be respected for the service it provides and we do not look at them as competitors either, since each functions entirely different from the other. Even then there are some of us who like to keep our regulars close on which ever social media network is being used. So if you would like to find and add your Twitter friends to Google Circles there is a web app for that, http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/twitter2plus/ All you need to do is to enter your Twitter name and you will see which of your friends and followers are on Google plus.

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