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Srinagar, Aug 10: Stating that some social networking news groups are spreading false and fake news in the state, the Jammu and Kashmir Police Chief Thursday said that police is to initiate strong action against all such groups. Anti peace elements are using the social media as a tool to foment bloodshed and violence in the valley. Unfortunately some whatsapp news groups are also spreading false and fake news. The CID department will soon identify and initiate legal action against such groups and that the process in this regard has already been initiated, the DGP S. P Vaid said. He said that social media is playing a big role in radicalizing young people in the Kashmir Valley. We have received the reports that the social media is being used by groups and stone-throwers in the Valley to exploit the sentiments of people, he maintained. He said internet services in the Valley had to be suspended to prevent the spread of disinformation. It has been seen that the people are posting anything they want on WhatsApp groups. It is unfortunate that they dont understand the repercussions of spreading the misinformation, the DGP maintained. He said that the police will constitute dedicated teams to counter the anti-national propaganda on the social media. Meanwhile sources said that Intelligence agencies have singled out WhatsApp groups allegedly involved in mobilizing stone-throwers in the Valley. The Intelligent Agencies have identified WhatsApp groups which provoke the crowd and orchestrate stone-throwers to interfere with anti-militant operations, sources in the intelligence agencies said. As per sources, the analysis of mobile phones by intelligence agencies have revealed that creators, administrators and some members of the WhatsApp groups were based in Pakistan. In April this year, the authorities blocked hundreds of WhatsApp groups for instigating violence in the Valley. (KNS)

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Last year, Facebook had silently launched a teen-centric social networking application called Lifestage. Just as silently, the application has been pulled from the App store. The application shut out anyone over the age of 21, but users could fake their age to get in. Lifestage was launched to get teens to use Facebook services, over competing applicationsthat were particularly attractive to the demographic, such as Snapchat.

Lifestage

According to a report in Business Insider, Facebook will be using the learnings from the Lifestage experiment in its other products that have features similar to the camera-first Snapchat application, such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook "stories".

Lifestage was similar to a video version of a slambook, where teens could answer biographical questions and share a video profile of themselves on school networks. The application was primarily meant to be used among classmates.

Every time the profile was updated, it showed up in the feeds of other classmates. Users had to unlock school networks, and then could access the profiles of other users in the same school. A minimum of 20 users from the same network were required for any school to get active on the application. However, there was no integrated facility to check if a particular user actually went to the school they claimed they were going to. If users hit the age limit of 22, they could see their own profiles, but not that of others.

The application was initially an exclusive to the Apple App store, but was launched on Android in October 2016. However, adoption of the application was slow, and had dropped to the number 1289 in the Social Networking category on iTunes, according to analytics by App Annie by the time the app was launched on Android. Even then it was believed that the learnings and features from Lifestage would be included in Facebook, if Lifestage failed to catch on. The application never went viral.

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Ah, the modern world. The news we read is fed to us by Facebook. The jobs we apply for are filtered by LinkedIn. The perfect Instagram feeds of our friends instill a growing sense of social anxiety while our politicians communicate to us in 140 characters or less. Doesnt it just stink of progress? Well, the land of good beer, even better sausages and the very best sense of punctuality didnt get the memo. In fact:

According to a Pew Research survey, only 37 percent of Germans report that they use social networking sites, even though overall levels of internet use are comparable to those of countries like Sweden, the U.S. and the U.K. (with 71 percent, 69 percent and 61 percent social media adoption, respectively). In various surveys, Germany consistently ranks at the bottom of lists of advanced Western countries for usage of sites like Facebook and Twitter (the Pew survey also included the German-language professional network Xing in its question).

Plus, those few Germans with accounts are more often lurkers than posters, being relatively more passive online than their peers in other countries, says Welf Weiger, professor of marketing and innovation at the University of Gttingen. Many Germans on social media dont use their full real names (instead they use their first name split into two), which has led to a lengthy legal dispute involving Facebook, which wants the use of fake names on its site strictly verboten.

Politicians are very reluctant to frankly post opinions because it could backfire and initiate a spiral of bad comments. We call it a shitstorm.

Maik Hammerschmidt, University of Gttingen

So why dont the Germans twittern, facebooken and snapchatten like the rest of us? (Yes, those are actual German verbs.) It all comes down to concerns over privacy, says Sonja Utz, a professor of social media communication at the University of Tbingen near Stuttgart who conducts her studies on Dutch participants because shes worried she wont get enough participants in Germany. Given the not-so-distant memories of the Stasi, the secret police in the formerly communist East, Germans are keen to keep their private lives private, Utz says, from governments and big American tech firms alike. Oversharing details about ones personal life is considered narcissistic in the famously reserved country, she continues, and the countrys older-than-average population (with a median age of 47 years, compared with 38 years in the U.S.) also plays a role.

Although marketers still use social media to target young Germans, it plays a markedly reduced role in public life through either celebrity or politics. According to analytics company Socialbakers, soccer star Mesut zils 16 million followers comprise the largest Twitter audience in the country by a factor of three, though he comes nowhere near the followings of top soccer celebs in other countries, and he only really hit the big time while playing for clubs in Spain and England. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel doesnt even have an official Twitter account. Public figures rarely have professional social media managers, says Maik Hammerschmidt, a colleague of Weigers at the University of Gttingen. Politicians are very reluctant to post frankly because it could backfire and initiate a spiral of bad comments, he says. We call it a shitstorm.

And while young Germans are almost as social media crazy as their foreign peers, the older generation may never change its habits. On the upside, it seems German millennials need never worry about their parents awkwardly tagging them on Facebook. #wunderbar.

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Almost one at home two people in the world already owns at least one account in an existing social network on the internet. According to the Global Digital Statshot report for the third quarter of 2017 (with Q2 data), the survey was conducted by the social networking companies Hootsuite and We Are Social.

In total, they are 40% of all the 7.52 billion human beings on the planet with a profile on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, among others. Some messengers were also considered in the survey. The count only considers who has at least one account on any social network. That is, about 3 billion.

In the last three months, 121 million people have created their first social network account, in a universe of more than 3.8 billion people connected to the Internet, almost 80% already have a profile to share photos, videos or ideas.

Facebook dominates but YouTube is in the queue

The report also shows the largest social networks on the planet, including some messengers on the list. Facebook is the hottest leader, with over two billion active users monthly. YouTube has 1.5 billion. WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger put the company of Mark Zuckerberg also in the 3rd and 4th positions.

But the domain of the company Facebook does not stop there. Instagram is also the third social network (excluding messaging apps), or the seventh application to be listed, behind WeChat and QQ. Twitter, which has 328 million active users, is behind Tumblr (with 357 million). Snapchat is still far behind with 255 million users.

The world in the palm of the hand

In the last 12 months, the type of device used to connect to the internet has changed a lot. The number of PC and notebook users dropped by 18%, while mobile accesses grew 21%, reaching 54% of total Internet traffic which is 51% on PCs and notebooks. Other devices grew 27%, reaching 0.14%.

This number is easy to understand when we know that more than 5 billion people have a mobile device, with or without Internet access. And a little more than half of the mobile connections made on the planet, which reaches 8.2 billion (since many people have more than one line) is made through a smartphone: 55%.

And guess which is the most popular mobile operating system connected to the internet? Android is responsible for 72.9% of requests made to servers, against 19.4% of iOS. The remaining systems, which include Windows Phone, take up only 7.7% of the market.

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Ethereum-based social platform Indorse has some momentum behind it as it begins its token sale today.

Backed by blockchain business accelerator Coinsilium, Indorse uses peer-to-peer validation of an individuals personal reputation and branding while giving users ownership of their personal data. People clearly like what they see, as the company met its 17,000-ETH pre-sale limit in days.

Indorse is based the beliefthe existing model of how people interact with online social networks is deeply unfair towards the end user and flawed in how information is accurately portrayed, COO Dipesh Sukhani said.

Networks such as LinkedIn (and similar service offerings) have never been able to pass the litmus test of accurate sharing of information, leave aside letting its users also benefit from the growth. One cannot simply rely on the information put-up; every single claim has to be tested separately, which means time costs.

As an ex-Big 4 consultant, I was always on a hunt for my clients to write me testimonials, so as to add that extra edge to my credentials. We at Indorse make that step the first stepping stone, i.e., community based endorsement.

Dips Sukhani

Indorse said anyone should be able to profit from sharing their skills and accomplishments. They are one of the first blockchain startups to employEthereum Name Service (ENS) to address the phishing and fraud scams that have affected some recent token sales.ENS enables an easily identifiable and much more secure set of human-readable characters to be used as Ethereum token addresses.

Indorse users share information about themselves and stake their IND tokens. When someone in their network verifies that information, both sides are rewarded. Should someone make a false claim, they are penalized.This information can be leveraged across other networks too.

Indorse said Ethereum has several advantages.

Compared to other blockchains, Ethereum provides the compute engine capability and transparency needed for a decentralized economy to succeed and incentivize its own growth. The platform will be integrated with a number of decentralised applications (DApps) such as: Inter Planetary File System (IPFS), uPort identity system, Attores Certificate Issuance Platform, Truffle, Spectrum and Status.

David Moskowitz

Indorse will allow users to profit from sharing their skills and activities on the platform via reward tokens, founder and CEO David Moskowitz said. We envision a serverless, decentralized future, where the users will build their profiles and profit from their reputation. This future will need a decentralized platform where others can judge the quality of a persons profile not just by where they have gone to school, but what they have actually done in their professional and personal lives.

The Indorse white paper is available for download on the website.

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