Fighting the Negative Impact of Social Media!
As a British person, to me Black Friday was just an American phenomenon. Every year video clips of hundreds of people trampling each other to buy cheap junk the day after Thanksgiving would shock and amuse us. “Oh those strange […]
Over the past few years we’ve been seeing world governments attempt to tackle an issue they’ve long ignored: social media and its harms. At the beginning of this year I wrote about the United Kingdom’s new Online Safety Bill and […]
I don’t want any doubt here: I love Halloween. I didn’t grow up in the US, so I’ve never fully experienced things like trick or treating, but even in our tiny rural Alpine village in the 90s we had a […]
This is a pattern we’re seeing again and again. A shocking and tragic news event will capture the world’s attention and become surrounded in lies and deceit. Social media platforms do not have the power to stop this misinformation, even […]
Since the dawn of the internet, humans have been using it to look at cute, funny animals. The I Can Has Cheezburger? and Keyboard Cat memes are retro at this point. Social media has given us the ability to vastly […]
My Tiktok feed is probably pretty standard: book recommendations, cooking videos, MANY cats. Mind-numbing but generally harmless. Interspersed throughout are a smattering of mental health support videos. Some share their own experiences of lifestyle and treatment. Others discuss their concerns […]
A brand’s presence on social media may suggest otherwise. We need to remember that everything they do is a marketing strategy. Funny posts about current events are ads. Activism and support of civil rights movements are ads. One-on-one engagements with […]
In my last post I discussed the possible consequences of posting images of children online. A part of that discussion was consent. Even if children give their consent to their image being shared, it’s unlikely that they understand the full […]
Social media posts centered on children are extremely popular. Parents think they have the most gorgeous, hilarious, perfect offspring in the world. And so they should! So of course they would want to show them off to their friends/family/followers/the world. […]
Stunning beaches, azure seas, exotic cocktails, and lots and lots of sun. The flood of summer holiday snaps into our social feeds has begun, as it does every year. Your friends/colleagues/family members have jetted off to warmer destinations to have […]