This Is What Your Face Looks Like to Facebook
Artist Sterling Crispin’s “Data Masks” remind us the machines are always watching.
The cookie is dead. Here’s how Facebook, Google, and Apple are tracking you now
The lifespan of the tracking cookie is about to expire. With the rapid emergence of mobile devices, the big three — Facebook, Google, and Apple — have turned to new and more potent methods for advertisers to keep track of you across multiple devices.
How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism
Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy.
Mr. Marra’s team designs the code that drives Facebook’s News Feed — the stream of updates, photographs, videos and stories that users see. He is also fast becoming one of the most influential people in the news business.
Facebook now has a fifth of the world — about 1.3 billion people — logging on at least monthly. It drives up to 20 percent of traffic to news sites, according to figures from the analytics company SimpleReach. On mobile devices, the fastest-growing source of readers, the percentage is even higher, SimpleReach says, and continues to increase.
How Much Time Have You Wasted on Facebook?
Estimate the total amount of time you’ve spent on the site with this tool.
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