social networking

“You still haven’t met?”My cheeks flush at the question, and I feel a combination of frustration and shame not dissimilar to when someone questions why I’m…

Yes, it falls within the realm of deception if people pass on AI-generated lingo as their own, but that’s why it's vital to create a standard of disclosure.…

It only took three days of swiping before he popped up. I froze, thumb hovering over the X. I scrolled through his photos and prompts, looking at what he had…

Six months after I first posted on Instagram, I left my husband and kids behind and set out, alone, to drive 348 miles to meet a bunch of strangers in Las…

Without context, fanworks might not seem like something worth preserving—a problem that long predates the web. Many fanzines and other collections have been…

In mid-2021, Gabor Cselle bought a $15 Moleskine notebook to sketch out ideas for new startups. On the first page, he wrote “T2” and began taking notes for a…

Not everyone is impressed with Mastodon. Some call it clunky and slow, some in the security world say it's far from perfect, and because different servers…

Any platform that supports free speech should have a content warning system pretty much like the one Mastodon offers. I bet Musk won't implement it, though,…

Meta says it applies the concepts of “adversarial design” to build systems with the assumption that attackers will try to exploit them, rather than ignoring…

I am a millennial. That means the majority of my friends either have babies or jobs where they spend most of their day at a computer. These are not lives…