Lately, I’ve come to accept that my phone knows me better than my closest friends. Which is both impressive and deeply disturbing. Every time I open a social media app, the algorithm whispers softly, “You good?” and then promptly floods me with dog videos, mental health affirmations, and […]
Do you remember life before the internet? The internet. The web. Social media. Online activities. These all rule our daily lives now. Some online platforms may even cause mental health harm overall and specifically may be harming young girls. I may be showing my age, but there was […]
It is Valentine’s Day! I have no pretty poetry to share. I have no ode. But I wish you all well. What I do have are a few words on sports. My love of sports. So there you go. When people look at me they often incorrectly assume […]
French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, no doubt with a typically French sneer, once commented, “Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth”. Well, compared to Europeans, we do indeed have wonderful teeth, but in addition to that we have learned the fine art of living without […]
Dear Diary, Yesterday was as loopy as the day before and probably just as loopy as today promises to be. It is amazing that people are always talking about not crossing a certain line, but they then find their own line they feel comfortable crossing to the dismay of […]
To quote the Beatles, “they say there’s gonna be a revolution”, when it comes to social media and HIV. Or maybe it’s already happened. Wikileaks, the Arab Spring (turning out to not be so Spring-like), and the various Occupy movements certainly demonstrate that social media, in which we […]
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