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• Feds lay down social media rules; enterprises should, too

  The U.S. government is making it clear to federal employees what they can and cannot post or tweet about on their favorite social networks.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, April 17

  WikiLeaks publishes stolen Sony info... IBM opens up threat data... China suspends rule on foreign IT vendors... and more tech news

• Instagram clarifies rules to ban revenge porn

  Instagram is clarifying its rules around sexual, illegal and other inappropriate content, including posts involving revenge porn.

• Instagram helps developers build better Apple Watch apps

  Instagram sees an opportunity for developing more complex apps for the Apple Watch and so has released the IGInterfaceDataTable open source library to make it easier to configure tables with multidimensional data.

• Facebook still king of social media among teens

  The findings of a new survey debunks theories that Facebook is losing its "cool factor" among teenagers.

• Instagram gives Apple Watch developers a hand

  With the Apple Watch set for release on April 24, third-party application developers are rushing to write extensions that can run on the device. Now Instagram is sharing some code it wrote for its own app to help others.

• Facebook's future could include app consolidation

  Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg has been on a mission to unbundle the company's many services and expand far beyond the single application that transformed it into the largest media platform that's ever existed. Zuckerberg says the changes represent an evolution in Facebook's approach to how it connects people around the world.

• How Facebook's Creative Shop aims to boost marketing ROI

  Facebook has no problem selling ads and encouraging marketers to launch campaigns on its platform, as consistently demonstrated by its financial results. However, the quality of campaigns varies widely. Facebook says it wants to help marketers and brands be more creative and increase the impact of their work by collaborating with a growing team of specialists who work at a special division within the company that's dedicated to this purpose, called Facebook Creative Shop.

• Iran to weed 'moral' crimes from social networks, starting with Facebook

  Iran has arrested several Facebook users on charges ranging from insulting religious figures to conducting immoral activities, even as it is said to be talking to Google about setting up operations in the country.

• 6 Ways You're Annoying People on Instagram

  One of the best, and most important, things about social media is that there are no hard and fast rules. Social media is what you make of it, and there's no right or wrong way to use it.

• Facebook, Instagram temporarily down in many countries, hack denied

  Facebook and Instagram were down temporarily late Monday, suggesting that common infrastructure used by these services was hit.

• White House uses social media to amplify Obama's big speech

  The White House updated its social media efforts in an effort to control the messages coming out of the president's State of the Union address last night.

• Forget Medicare and Social Security: Seniors are embracing Facebook

  If some kids are turned off by Facebook because their parents are on it, now they might be even more horrified: Grandparents are flocking to the social networking site.

• Twitter stock jumps on report that CEO is on way out

  After reporting slowing growth and getting passed by Instagram in number of users, Twitter's stock price jumped Tuesday on speculation that CEO Dick Costolo might be leaving the company.

• Instagram exposes 5 new filters for a more subtle effect

  Instagram's got five new filters that it hopes will improve people's smartphone photos by changing them less.