Category: social media
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This Is Your Brain on TikTok: And There Are Many, Many Questions
I’ve been an avid reader my whole life. The kind of person who disappears into a book for an entire Sunday and resurfaces confused about what year it is. Reading has always been my favorite escape, the one thing I could count on to quiet my brain down. A few months ago, I realized I…
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Zuckerberg Almost Had to Testify, So Meta Wrote a Check Instead.
Mark Zuckerberg was supposed to take the stand. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri had already testified for two days in an Oakland courtroom. And then, one day after Mosseri stepped down, Meta agreed to pay roughly $18 billion to make the whole case disappear before Zuckerberg ever had to answer a single question under oath. (CNN)…
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The Internet Never Forgets — And Your Kids Never Agreed to That
Somewhere on Facebook right now, a grandmother is posting a photo of her granddaughter in the bathtub, giggling, covered in bubbles up to her chin. It’s adorable. It’s the kind of photo people used to keep in a shoebox. She tags three friends, adds a heart emoji, and moves on with her day. In a…
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She Wasn’t Born a Monster. She Was Scrolled Into One.
I’ve been sitting with this one for a few days, trying to figure out how to say what I want to say without adding to the noise. If you’ve been anywhere near Netflix recently, you’ve probably already watched The Crash — the documentary about 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla, who drove her Toyota Camry into a brick…
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Invisible by Design: How Social Media Platforms Decided Women Over 40 Don’t Matter
Let me ask you something. Have you ever opened Instagram or Facebook, scrolled for twenty minutes, and walked away feeling vaguely terrible about yourself without being able to explain why? Or watched your teenage daughter disappear into her phone for hours, emerging quieter and more anxious than when she went in? That feeling isn’t a…
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Weekly Round Up 8/10/18
The Blonde Byte’s round up of her favorite tech stories from this week.
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Weekly Round Up 7/27/18
A round up of the Blonde Byte’s favorite Tech stories of the week!
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Weekly Round Up 5/4/18
The Blonde Byte’s round up of her favorite tech stories of the week.
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Weekly Round Up 4/6/18
A collection of The Blonde Byte’s favorite tech stories of the week.
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Weekly Round Up 3/23/18
The Blonde Byte’s collection of favorite tech stories from the week.
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