Fans were shocked to learn that Trey Songz had become a father, and since sharing the news with the world, the singer has slowly, but surely, been opening up about his family. The proud father regularly shares images and videos of his one-year-old son Noah, but the protection of his little boy and the mother of his child, Caro Colon, is of the utmost importance to Trey Songz. He's used to living his life out loud and in the limelight, but Trey recognizes that not everyone in his life has asked to be scrutinized.
In a recent interview with Devin Steel over on Instagram, Trey Songz chatted about why he decided to respect Caro Colon's privacy. He knows that people are going to show him love, but the internet can be a cruel place. "It’s really a sense of letting go of the control that you have when you let yourself be that vulnerable. You know, for me, I know my fans are happy for me," Trey said. "I know that in the beginning, it was very much like, ‘Who’s the mother?’ That’s one thing I don’t like about sharing my business."
“The moment that you allow a passing comment by someone you don't know to affect you and f*ck up your whole day or have your heart, that’s when you're too far gone," he added. "And that’s one of the reasons I took a break off Instagram. Because Instagram is a place where I think people are too much in concern of what other people are doing." Watch his interview with Devin Steel in full below.
View this post on InstagramMark Zuckerberg Reportedly Paid An Executive To Blow Dry His Armpits
According to an anecdote from the upcoming book, “Facebook: The Inside Story,” Mark Zuckerberg once hired someone to blow dry his armpits.
According to Business Insider’s Austin Carr, a portion of the upcoming book, Facebook: The Inside Story, details a time when Mark Zuckerberg paid an unidentified Facebook communications executive to blow dry his armpits before his public speeches.
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“He, too, is consumed by his public image. (A communications exec is shown blow-drying the CEO’s armpits before speaking appearances to eliminate anxiety sweat.),” Carr writes while describing the portrait of Zuckerberg the book paints.
“I doubt this is true and if so it would have been at our communications team’s request, but surely anyone who has ever worn a grey T-shirt can relate,” spokesperson Liz Bourgeois told Business Insider when asked for comment.
As noted by Complex, Zuckerberg has infamously dealt with perfusive sweating problems during public appearances. Speaking about the site’s controversial privacy issues in 2010 for a D8 interview with Kara Swisher, Zuckerberg suffered from a particularly bad case of the sweats that gained traction in the mainstream media.
The book will detail the rise of Facebook and how it has become one of the most important websites in the world. Its Google Books description says it “tells the story of how Facebook has changed our world and asks what the consequences will be for us all.”
You can pick up a pre-order copy of Facebook: The Inside Story here. The book officially releases on February 25.
Twitter Plans To Implement New Feature That Will Limit Who Can Reply To Your Tweets
No more reply guys!
Twitter has announced that it will soon be introducing a new set of features that will allow users to have more control over which range of people on the app will be permitted to reply to their tweets. Though the feature has been referred to as both Conversation Participants and Conversation Dynamics, its premise is to provide various ways for people to limit the users who can reply to their tweet, based on their Twitter relationship to the user. According to Endgadget, users will be able to choose from four different options: the "Global" option would indicate that the tweet can be accessed and responded to by anyone on the app; the "group" option limits replies to those you follow and mention; the "Panel" option limits the tweet to just those mentioned; and the "Statement" option limits the tweet completely, meaning absolutely no one will be able to reply.
Suzanne Xie, Twitter's Director of Product Management, said at the CES 2020 on Wednesday, "Getting ratio’d, getting dunked on, the dynamics that happen that we think aren’t as healthy are definitely part of...our thinking about this." Suzanne is definitely right to some extent in acknowledging how the complete and open access that others have to our tweet replies can have detrimental effects on our mental stability. Of course, this feature wouldn't prevent unwanted DMs or get rid of Twitter trolls in general, but it's certainly a start.