The one-time teen heartthrob is grateful for two things: Martin Luther King. Jr. and 10 million followers. Online backlash ensues.
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Shifts and nuances in the way we communicate online.
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Facebook is by a wide margin, the world’s largest social network. Hardly a week goes by that you can’t find a new article about how it makes us unhappy, lonely, narcissistic, jealous, or sad. Our culture is pervaded by a sense that for everything we’ve gained, something has been—is being—lost.
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From its slot-machine rewards to its ability to spur our fight-or-flight response, the Internet's structure makes it easy to use it compulsively.
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Going through life as a "tall, slim, blonde" woman is harder than it looks, according to British columnist Samantha Brick, who has become the focus of online criticism and ridicule for writing that her life as a beautiful woman has been especially difficult.
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In her resignation letter, Karen Handel, senior vice president for public policy at Susan G. Komen Foundation, acknowledged that she was closely involved in the decision to stop funding breast health services at Planned Parenthood. That decision, made public last week, provoked an immediate public backlash against Komen. Thousands of people protested the move on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. Komen reversed the decision Friday, apologizing to the public and announcing that Planned Parenthood would be eligible for future grants
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As part of a strong backlash in the wake of the mass shooting in a Charleston, S.C., historically black church, eBay said that it will ban Confederate flag-themed items from its online marketplace. This action follows in the footsteps of Walmart, Sears and K-Mart, at both online and brick-and-mortar presences.
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Remember when the internet used to be fun? In 2014, this platform was used for everything from charity to culture wars to gross acts of nudity. The human race is louder, angrier, shallower, and sometimes funnier than ever before and the stakes are getting higher every day. Thanks Martin Robbins and VICE for writing the piece that all of us who write about life online wanted to write, if only we could just have blocked out the online chatter long enough to do so.
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Computers, smartphones and other gadgets have made life easier, but now tech firms are worried that they may be harming people. “We’re done with this honeymoon phase and now we’re in this phase that says, ‘Wow, what have we done?’," says Soren Gordhamer, who organizes an annual conference about the pursuit of balance in the digital age.
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If you've been seeing things online like #MakeKonyFamous, #StopKony and even #Kony2012, you might be thinking that another Justin Beiber-like pop tween was bursting on the scene and needed 1) your help in climbing to the top of the charts or 2) to be stopped before (gasp!) we had another Beiber on our hands.
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BREAKING: The Susan G. Komen charity has rescinded its decision to withdraw funding from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), under a tidal-wave of criticism alleging that its new criteria for monetary grants was politically motivated.
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