Communications Major

"Regular people need to be aware that through almost no attempt of their own, their lives could just suddenly blow up and become fodder for public consumption and judgment,” Kate Lindsay, writer of the digital culture newsletter Embedded, said in an interview.

You know what's ironic? That this song translates perfectly well into today's online culture. Watch, listen and LOL.

As it continues to be the gatekeeper for more than 2 billion active users’ data, one has to wonder: What if we, and not Facebook, were the ones in the digital driving seat? What if we bought out social media platforms from the Zuckerbergs of the world and owned them ourselves, or simply demanded to know how our data is being used? What if we even owned and could sell our data for personal profit, treating it as an income stream, instead of handing it to tech firms?

A new study reports cell phones may be making us hypersocial, rather than antisocial as previous research suggests.

Steps to regain control over smartphone addictions :

• Relax and celebrate the fact your addiction reflects a normal urge to connect with others!
• Turn off push notifications and set appropriate times to check your phone intentionally.
• Create “intentional protocols” with friends, family and work circles to set clear expectations on when to communicate.

Twitter's experiment with doubling the maximum tweet length was apparently a success. The social network is expanding support for 280-character tweets to all users.

"Twitter is making the news dumber. The service is insidery and clubby. It exacerbates groupthink. It prizes pundit-ready quips over substantive debate, and it tends to elevate the silly over the serious — for several sleepless hours this week it was captivated by “covfefe,” which was essentially a brouhaha over a typo."

We’re witnessing the stirrings of a national popular movement aimed at defeating the policies of the president.

We construct precisely contoured echo chambers of affirmation that turn conviction into zeal, passion into fury, disagreements with the other side into the demonization of it.

The average person spends more time on Facebook than any other leisure activity surveyed by the government except watching TV and movies.

When something real happened, Americans found a way to pay attention. [O]n February 24, [when] the invasion began, American social networks, where the culture war normally rages ceaselessly, over COVID policies, school curricula, trans athletes, and more, suddenly went quiet. 

"Say you go out with a dude. It’s great or okay. You hook up. That’s great or okay. You never talk again. Eight-hundred miles and seven years later, they’re gone forever, right? Or so we thought till last summer, when Instagram Stories debuted..."

Digital nomadism and van life lie at the heart of today’s work aesthetics. These trends may create liminal experiences within job markets....

Over the next year, we’ll start spending less time on Facebook. Those of us who used it to catch up on the news will find less of it to read. We’ll watch fewer videos, and we’ll see fewer advertisements. In theory, Facebook will make less money off us — or, at least, the rate at which it makes more and more money off us will slow.

Had you presented this scenario to Facebook executives a year ago, it would have been cause for alarm: evidence that something had gone deeply wrong on the platform, and a situation that called for an immediate solution. And yet as of today, it’s the company’s stated ambition: Facebook wants to shrink.

A late night "butt tweet" freaks out America.

After a break up, intimate images possessed by a vindictive ex can end up online. Facebook is trying to address a uniquely modern and pernicious form of harassment, which is often but not exclusively aimed at women.

Whoops! A so-called "twitter rally" in support of the President quickly turned into a Trump "bash".

Vine was a place for people with talents across different disciplines — it allowed artists-slash-comedians-slash-musicians to flourish.

As more tech firms employ their own editing staffs, they are being viewed as something less than news organizations, but more than simple reflections of their growing audiences.