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The article focuses on Perfectly Imperfect, a Substack newsletter and Instagram account, that has become a clout-chasing platform for Lower Manhattan influencers, podcasters, and cultural figures, offering cheeky and subjective recommendations that reflect a thriving online culture.

The article views that the overnight success of Thread, the rival of online social media app Twitter, may slip away. It discusses the challenge facing Meta Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg to dislodge Twitter and make Threads the prime app for real-time, public conversations. It raises questions about the absence of basic functions and features on Thread that would drive long-term interest among audience.

The article reports on the growing popularity of the social media site Bluesky, with major Twitter users like cookbook author Chrissy Teigen and Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joining the site.

The article reports on the criticism faced by online social network Facebook for undermining democracy and provoking violence across the world. Topics discussed include estimated profit of the company per quarter, solution offered by the company to monitor billions of posts daily in over 100 languages without disturbing the expansion that is core to its business, and remarks from executives on their effort to rid the platform of dangerous posts.

The article offers possible ways for changing how social networks operate from market-based pressures such as giving power to the people, creating a social federation and putting expiration dates on social graphs.

The article profiles Michael Skolnik, the political director for businessman Russell Simmons. Particular focus is given to Skolnik's ability to leverage his social and business networks to promote civil rights and social justice activism. Details on his identity and a white man and his role in race relations are presented. Other topics include social media and Skolnik's films "On the Outs" and "Lockdown, USA".

PARIS -- Citius, altius, fortius? LOL. At the Olympic Games in London, set to begin this month, the official motto of ''swifter, higher, stronger'' will be supplemented by a new label. If some marketers, fans and athletes have anything to say, these Games will be the first Social Media Olympics -- the ''Socialympics,'' as some are calling them. Even the Olympic movement, which sometimes steps into the future with great caution, has warily accepted the idea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Representative Anthony D. Weiner, one of the most prolific users of social media among politicians, said his Twitter account was hacked this weekend when someone sent out a lewd photograph under his name to a young woman in Seattle. The episode unfolded Saturday night when it was reported on the Web site biggovernment.com, run by the conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart. It played out all day Sunday on the Internet, with Mr. Weiner, a Democrat who represents part of Brooklyn and Queens, addressing the matter on his own Twitter and Facebook accounts, and with bloggers from the left and the right arguing about whether this might be the start of a scandal or an example of how easy it is for political rivals to harm each other's reputations using new technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are times when you just have to tell your friends about something -- but not necessarily your Facebook friends. Just ask Becca Akroyd. When Ms. Akroyd, a 29-year-old lawyer in Sacramento, Calif., wanted to share a picture of her new vegetable garden, she didn't turn to Facebook. Instead she posted it on Path, a service that lets people share pictures, videos and messages with a small group. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two days after using Flickr to display photos of police officers from Egypt's feared state security force, Hossam el-Hamalawy watched in disbelief as they vanished, one by one, from the popular social networking site, which he had been using since 2008. ''I thought I was being hacked,'' said Mr. el-Hamalawy, a prominent Egyptian blogger and human rights activist who had uploaded the headshots of the police from CDs found by activists early this month at the State Security Police headquarters in Nasr City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

IS your social network making you fat? Are your friends and family influencing you to smoke and drink more, or to sleep less? And if our relationships contribute to behaviors that erode our health, can social networks be harnessed to improve it? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]