SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS are spaces in which diverse and disparate perspectives can be shared, creating an opportunity for learning, lively debate, political engagement, and…
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YOUR PHONE CHIRPS. Frantically, you reach into your pocket. With sweaty, eager palms, you see it sitting comfortably in your phone’s notifications: one new like.…
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YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN have been aware of the fact that Facebook offered a “fat” option to digitally describe your current mood, but they did, and now that…
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ARE YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA? Duh. Of course you are. How could you not be? You’re a social kind of guy or gal with an…
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THINK YOU COULD beat a computer at assessing the personalities of your nearest and dearest? Don’t be so sure, because you probably couldn’t. In fact,…
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IF YOU are a female employee of Apple or Facebook, you can now get your elective egg freezing procedure covered by your boss. What brand…
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REMEMBER THAT commercial from the ’80s with the guy and the egg and the hot frying pan? “This is your brain,” he ominously said, holding…
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TWITTER has long been maligned as the death of the written word. The Tower of London during Henry VIII’s reign, but for the English language. Off…
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YOU MIGHT not recall that when you signed up for Facebook ten years ago that you elected to be emotionally manipulated at Mark Zuckerberg’s discretion. Of…
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Q: “My boyfriend and I can’t decide whether we should be ‘Facebook Official,’ so we figured we would ask you what you thought we should…
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Though Facebook is known to be notoriously embattled over breast feeding photos or censoring cancer survivors sharing their post-mastectomy pics, they won’t disparage those having hearty laugh in the…
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Selfies have become such an ingrained part of contemporary culture that, besides forcing the addition of a new word to the dictionary and completely commandeering…
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