Anyone remember Ping - Apples music-oriented social network, the hot new thing back in 2010. No, we are not surprised if you do not. It flopped - hard - and shut down after just a couple years. Apple seems to have ceded the social media landscape to Facebook since then. Maybe thats just as well for Apple, since Facebook has been getting raked over the coals lately - accused of allowing the spread of fake news, of experimenting on its users, getting billions of people addicted to screens, and even of trying to market emotionally vulnerable teens to advertisers. Even Tim Cook, who became Apples chief executive in the middle of its ill-fated Ping experiment, in 2011, has apparently turned against the technology. I do not have a kid, but I have a nephew that I put some boundaries on,Cook told students at a college in Essex, England, late last week, according to the Guardian.There are some things that I will not allow I do not want them on a social network.