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Leigh K. Hoopes

Aug 24, 2021

17 stories

Social Media

Why it’s terrible, and why we can’t collectively quit it.

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Forge

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Paul Ollinger

Don’t Take a Break From Social Media, Manage It

As someone who recently checked my phone 1,000 times in a week, I’m finally learning how

May 20, 2020

Don’t Take a Break From Social Media, Manage It

May 20, 2020

Maya Kosoff

A Brief History of a Life Online

For two decades (!) it’s been blogs all the way down for me.

Sep 21, 2020

A Brief History of a Life Online

Sep 21, 2020

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Better Marketing

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Sean Kernan

Why Is LinkedIn Such a Cringefest?

What not to do to better your career

Aug 19, 2020

Why Is LinkedIn Such a Cringefest?

Aug 19, 2020

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Digital Diplomacy

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Sharon Hurley Hall

Sometimes It’s Hard to be a Woman (on Social Media)

What’s the answer to the constant tone policing and gaslighting?

Oct 8, 2020

Woman typing — cover image for Sometimes It’s Hard to be a Woman (on Social Media)

Oct 8, 2020

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Will Leitch

The Blissful Ignorance of Not Being on Social Media

I took my eight-year-old son to a birthday party on Friday afternoon, a party for a close friend of his that he hadn’t seen since the…

Oct 6, 2020

The Blissful Ignorance of Not Being on Social Media

Oct 6, 2020

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Fast Company

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Fast Company

Inside Nextdoor’s Wild 2020, From Essential Service to a Reckoning on Racism

The social network for local communities bet on kindness to power it to an IPO. If only the locals don’t ruin it.

Oct 15, 2020

Inside Nextdoor’s Wild 2020, From Essential Service to a Reckoning on Racism

Oct 15, 2020

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GEN

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Jessica Valenti

How To Stop Conspiracy Moms

If we want women to stop pushing dangerous ideas online, we need to understand why they believe this bullshit

Dec 8, 2020

How To Stop Conspiracy Moms

Dec 8, 2020

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OneZero

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Will Oremus

The End of Social Media’s ‘View From Nowhere’

Trump’s extremism is forcing tech companies to abandon the pretense of political objectivity — for now

Jan 13, 2021

The End of Social Media’s ‘View From Nowhere’

Jan 13, 2021

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OneZero

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Nir Eyal

Maybe Social Media Isn’t Making Us Depressed, After All. Here’s What Likely Is.

Moral panics over new technology always hide deeper problems we don’t want to deal with.

Apr 15, 2021

Illustration of people reaching towards a smartphone with a rainbow over the smartphone to represent LGBTQ youth.

Apr 15, 2021

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OneZero

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Douglas Rushkoff

We Can’t Fight Fake News with More Fake News

We must help one another strive for integrity over impact

Jun 1, 2021

We Can’t Fight Fake News with More Fake News

Jun 1, 2021

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Forge

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Rosie Spinks

A Modest Proposal: Just Log Off

You’re simply not going to find what you’re looking for online

May 5, 2021

A Modest Proposal: Just Log Off

May 5, 2021

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Melissa Ryan

Is Facebook Killing People? Apparently, That’s Up for Debate.

Last week President Biden made headlines for stating the obvious. Disinformation on Facebook is killing people, telling reporters…

Jul 25, 2021

Is Facebook Killing People? Apparently, That’s Up for Debate.

Jul 25, 2021

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Write Like a Girl

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Fleurine Tideman

When Did Instagram Become So Scary?

To post or not to post, that is the algorithm

Jul 25, 2021

When Did Instagram Become So Scary?

Jul 25, 2021

Julio Vincent Gambuto

Maybe We Don’t Need to Unplug. Maybe We Need to Unbrand.

What my Facebook detox taught me

Feb 24, 2021

Maybe We Don’t Need to Unplug. Maybe We Need to Unbrand.

Feb 24, 2021

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