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In the age of social media, Mayor Gary Resnick wants more residents to participate in old-fashioned face to face social networking.

To that end, the mayor announced a potluck event so neighbors can meet each other again. Its scheduled for Thursday, April 6 at 5:30 p.m. at Coral Gardens Park, Northeast 27 Drive and Coral Gardens Drive, in the eastern portion of the city. Resnick said organizing the event was the fulfillment of a promise he said he made during his re-election campaign.

Resnick asked those who attend to bring food and to leave their smartphones. He added that there will also be games, activities and refreshments.

City Manager Leigh Ann Henderson said the first neighborhood block party will serve as a test and that the city hopes to do one every couple of months. Were looking for neighbors who want to host one, said Henderson.

That desire for face to face social interaction isnt only shared by the mayor.

The Circle of Friends is a group formed last year by residents Janice Fromal and Benjamin Little. But while the group is filled with members who want face to face socialization, Little said the members dont really think about the reasons why. Its just something they do.

Were an older group and Im not sure how much any of us are really happy using social media. This is an older crowd. Were all over 60. I dont think social media enters into our thinking at all.

The group meets the second Wednesday of each month from 4 to 6 p.m., usually at Hagen Park, and does a different activity each time. On April 12, members will be meeting in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea for dinner. Those interested must sign up before the event. The last event scheduled so far is on July 12.

Weve had card games. Weve had board games. Weve had bingo. Weve had somebody come and talk to us about the challenges of exercise [at an older age], Little said. We get together as a group and have a good time.

For more information on hosting a city block party, call 954-390-2120. To sign up for the Circle of Friends April dinner, call 954 390-2130.

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If there was an appropriate way to express our love for Apple, wed build a chapel and worship everything the geeks in California do.

But alas, thats not happening anytime soon. In the meanwhile, Apple brings good news in April. The newly-announced app, Clips will make social networking and image sharing even more fun. Users can combine video clips, photos and music into great-looking videos to share with friends through the Messages app, or on Instagram, Facebook and other popular social networks.

Is this going to be the newest app on the block?

Clips will have something fun in store to ensure it doesnt get lost in the hordes of apps out there, but we can be hopeful, coz its Apple, after all. We can definitely expect something exceptional from the makers of those drool-worthy gadgets that we love. For those who document every moment of their lives on social network will be able to do so better.

Clips is designed to give iPad and iPhone users a completely new way of expressing themselves through video. A few taps and the user would make for a great editor. The app is user-friendly and the Live Titles feature helps create animated captions and titles using voice command.

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Facebook is bringing reactions and mentions, two key features of its flagship social media platform, to the Messenger app.

Designed for use in group chats, reactions will work much the same way they currently do in your Facebook News Feed. Tapping and holding any message in a chat will bring up a selection of emoji similar to those that appear when you hover your mouse over the "like" button on a post on Facebook.

Messenger reactions will also include the thumbs up and thumbs down emoji, which might come in handy to accept or reject the restaurant that someone in the chat suggests for dinner, for example. Reactions also work in one-on-one conversations, and they'll show up on any message, including text, stickers, videos, and GIFs. They can even be used on other emoji (in other words, if your group texts are anything like ours, you'll need to get ready for even more emoji overload).

The other classic Facebook feature arriving on Messenger is the ability to directly notify someone when they've been mentioned in a conversation. As you would when you're composing a Facebook post or status update, mention someone in a Messages conversation by typing the "@" symbol or the first few letters of his or her name.

Everyone in the group chat will get a notification when you send the message, but the person you mention will get a different notification that tells them they were called out.

Facebook says the new mention and reaction features will be rolling out to Messenger users worldwide in the next few days, as well as users of the Chat app for Facebook Workplace.

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Snap (SNAP) received a buy rating and is said to have replaced Twitter (TWTR) as the No. 2 social networking platform among advertisers, but it faces a formidable rival in Facebook (FB), according to two analyst reports released Wednesday.

The buy rating came from Drexel Hamilton, while the viewpoint that Snap has moved above Twitter came from a report by Needham analyst Laura Martin.

Martin says she met with and quoted the CEO of a company that represents large brands that want to spend ad dollars on social media platforms. Though unnamed in the report, Martin said he's an expert who's worked with all social ad platforms and has spent "hundreds of millions of dollars" on social networking sites.

In the battle for dominance in social networking platforms, it's Facebook's game to lose, Martin's report said.

"Their data superiority, targeting capability, and myriad ad inventory options across four sites makes Facebook the go-to scale player for brands," she said.Martin maintained an underperform rating on Snap.

Snap is the operator of Snapchat, a mobile messaging platform used for sending photos and videos to other Snapchat users. The images disappear in under 10 seconds or can last for 24 hours, depending on user discretion. Facebook has copied many of the most popular features of Snapchat.

Drexel Hamilton analyst Brian White put a buy rating on Snap in a report Wednesday, with a price target of 30.

Snap completed its initial public offering on March 2 but has been hit mostly with a series of sell ratings. White was the second to issue a buy rating.

Snap stock was up 7.1% to close at 21.82 on the stock market today.

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White referred to Snap as a company with "high risk" but also with "explosive growth potential." But the company, which startedcommercial operations in 2011, did not start to monetize the site until 2015.

"The company's new business model is still unproven and Snap operates at a significant loss," White wrote. "As such, the company is still a little rough around the edges in its development and business model. However, this is one of the reasons we like Snap as an investment as we see the potential but it is not yet reflected in the stock price."

Snap competes against a number of companies. These include Facebook, with its Messenger and WhatsApp platform, the Google and YouTube outfits of Alphabet (GOOGL), Line Corp. (LN) and Twitter.

"Although other social messaging platforms enjoy a much higher user base, we believe Snapchat has a cachet with millennials that will be difficult for other platforms to garner," White wrote.

Snap ended 2016 with 158 million Snapchat users. Snapchat is one of the most popular mobile applications with millennials, a group highly sought after by advertisers.

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Considerations for youth and social networking Part 4: Sharing photos Helping youth make decisions about photos they share online.

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Christine Heverly, Michigan State University Extension

According to a 2015 Pew Research, 92 percent of teenagers 13-17 years old report going online daily and 71 percent are using at least one social networking site. With this high usage of social networking and teenagers going online, there are many factors adults should consider when helping youth navigate their usage of social networking sites. This article specifically looks at helping youth with the photos they share online. Adults need to help youth understand the different outcomes of sharing a photo online and to others.

Youth should consider the following two major factors.

Disappearing doesnt mean gone forever. With youth using disappearing apps like Snapchat, they need to understand that photo isnt necessarily gone. Once a youth sends the photo to another person, that person can easily share the photo with others. One should never assume your content is 100 percent safe from other people taking the information and sharing with someone else.

Youth could lose out on opportunities. The pictures one chooses to share online help paint a picture for others to make judgements about that youth. Potential jobs, college admission officers, scholarship selection committees, etc. could possibly see the photos that are being shared online. That could mean a youth may miss out on a job, scholarship or another opportunity.

To help adults educate youth about taking time to consider the outcomes of sharing photos online, Michigan State University Extension has some questions parents or other adults should share with youth:

Youth enjoy sharing photos through social media tools, so it is extremely important to help them understand what they share online can be seen by others, even if that wasnt the original intent. Adults should help youth understand that every picture that is shared with others paints a picture of that youth. Others can use this information to make assumptions about the youth or even locate a youth.

Technology changes, apps come and go, and the next wave in social media platforms will come about, but that doesnt change the guidelines youth should consider around the photos they are sharing. Adults should continually be reminding youth they need to take a few moments to think before sharing a photo.

Check out this previous articles in this series below, and watch for future articles that will continue to explore different areas of sharing information on social networks.

This article was published by Michigan State University Extension. For more information, visit http://www.msue.msu.edu. To have a digest of information delivered straight to your email inbox, visit http://www.msue.msu.edu/newsletters. To contact an expert in your area, visit http://expert.msue.msu.edu, or call 888-MSUE4MI (888-678-3464).

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