Author Archives: larrymagid

A study released today by the Pew Research Center has good and bad news for Facebook’s role as a teen destination.  The report, Teens, Social Media and Privacy, shows that Facebook’s popularity with teens has actualy grown by 1% since 2011 to … Continue reading →

ConnectSafely.org, the nonprofit Internet safety organization where I serve as co-director, just published two new parents’ guides to Instagram and Snapchat, answering the Top 5 questions parents have about these photo-sharing apps so popular with kids including: Why kids love … Continue reading →

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News By Larry Magid At Google’s I/O developers conference in San Francisco last week, Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai announced that Chrome is now the world’s most popular Web browser and that there are now … Continue reading →

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At the BlackBerry Live conference in Orlando, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins announced that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), the popular service that has long allowed BlackBerry users to chat and share voice notes, images and video, will now be cross-platform with free apps for iOS and Android. Read more … Continue reading →

I recently wrote about Snapchat, the popular photo sharing app that allows users to share photos that will self-destruct from between 1 and 10 seconds after they’re viewed.  As I said in that story, there are many reasons people use … Continue reading →

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News By Larry Magid We’re just a few weeks away from school letting out and — for lucky families — a chance to spend a bit of time together on vacation. Summer also … Continue reading →

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Instagram today introduced its new “Photos of You” feature that allows users to tag people in photos (read more) Read this post at Forbes.com