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• How to mute spoilers on Twitter and Facebook

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Spoilers have become a pitfall of modern life. They're a first-world problem, perhaps, but still something that can ruin one of the few pleasures ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How to use Instagram collections like a makeshift Pinterest

  Instagram's "collection" feature allows you to save any post on the app, and you can also turn every collection into a themed ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• A look at Facebook.com's homepage over the last 15 years

  It is a statement of fact that Facebook turned 15 today. You might call that a birthday. Perhaps Facebook's employees are ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The clueless parent's guide to understanding TikTok

  In September last year, TikTok surpassed YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, and even Facebook in monthly App Store downloads. For a fringe social network, the kind most would assume occupies a second-tier of the internet’s social media hierarchy, you’d be forgiven for not noticing ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Teens are eating their own fingers to Evanescence covers on TikTok

  Have you ever heard of Evanescence, the Arkansas-originating metal band — when we say metal we mean more like the shiny substance melted over the buckle of a Hot Topic piano key belt — who brought us the 2003 classic, “Bring Me To Life”? I remember wailing this into ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Medieval monster-drawing monks and why it's ok to hate-follow shitty people on Twitter

  What would a social media feed be without monsters? I’m talking figurative monsters here; your racist uncles, your Trumps, your worst influencers – people so terrible you have to read everything they say and see everything they post. Despite their awfulness, we can't go without ...

  • Alejandro Tauber

• Reddit's r/changemyview is a template for how all online discussion should be

  The threads start as they would anywhere else online: a contentious topic, the type that adds fuel to debate before engulfing an entire comment field in flames. "Just like anorexics are forcibly hospitalized and made to gain weight, overweight people should be hospitalized and ...

  • Bryan Clark

• You can now share your Netflix faves to Instagram Stories — if you have an iPhone

  When streaming first took off it felt like the period of shared viewership had ended. How could anyone gather around the water cooler to discuss a show or movie when you could all be watching different things at different times? But, recently, things have changed. The success of ...

  • Callum Booth

• Facebook's secretly working on LOL -- a meme hub meant to lure teens from Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok

  Facebook hasn’t given up on attracting teens. After numerous failed products aimed at teens — including LOL, Facebook ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Gillette triggers Twitter's right-wing elite with 'toxic masculinity' ad

  Who would have predicted that these fire-brand personalities would be shocked and offended over an ad asking men to be kind? ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why researchers want to build an AI that can predict a person’s attractiveness

  It's an age-old question – what makes someone attractive? We often say things like “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook and YouTube aren't even trying to enforce the Alex Jones ban

  After Alex Jones was effectively banned from the internet — or at least his major distribution channels — last August, ...

  • Bryan Clark