Courtney Kwiatkowski

It was recently announced that Oculus Quest would be partnering with Facebook to reimagine the common work meeting. This new initiative will allow users to conduct meetings with avatar versions of themselves through the virtual reality lens provided by Oculus. The application will be known as Facebook’s Horizon Workrooms app and was created to take [...]

In competition against the uber-popular video-sharing app, Tik Tok, Youtube is launching Youtube Shorts. This new feature on Youtube will allow users to elaborate more resources and time on the video-sharing app. The editing features offered on the app will be more in-depth and allow creators to create and produce more advanced content. Much like [...]

It was announced that Tik Tok would be allowing users to pay content creators on the popular video-sharing app. The new feature will allow users to request shout-out videos through the app and set an amount of money they would like to get in return for their services. This feature is extremely similar to the [...]

Today is OUR favorite day – Social Media Day! With the launch of Friendster in 2002 and MySpace in 2003, social media became mainstream. Then 2004 brought the founding of the king of social media, Facebook. Twitter encouraged us to be succinct by posting our thoughts with fewer than 140 characters. When we express ourselves better [...]

Musicians are finding creative ways to stand out amongst the rest! With social media sharing sites such as Tik Tok and in the past Youtube, musicians and singer-songwriters are creating online spaces and communities in which they can be discovered and streamed. Facebook has decided to get in on this booming community of musicians looking [...]

Facebook is rolling out an initiative for Pride this month. Several new features will be added to both the Facebook and Instagram apps, allowing users to add moving images, stickers, and colored hashtags to their Pride-related posts. With brands and companies making an effort to become more inclusive during Pride month, this initiative does not [...]

A while ago, Instagram announced that they would be working with the idea of possibly removing the like count on users’ posts. This would be optional to users, and users would be able to customize their profile as to whether their followers could see it on their profile or not. This week Facebook announced that [...]

In a unique and emotionally charged initiative, Facebook launched an Emotional Health Center on their popular social network app in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. This new service and center that is being launched will offer tips, advice, useful links, and support of all kinds to users who seek it out.  This is a [...]