Every morning I wake up and reach for my phone. I check Instagram, Snapchat, emails, text messages and even Facebook if I am feeling adventurous. I do this without fail every morning. But wouldn’t it be nice to break this streak? Over winter break, my family and I went on a trip to South…
Imagine receiving an acceptance letter to Harvard, one of the most prestigious colleges in the world. All of your hard work, the hours of studying for the SAT and the stress of AP or IB tests have finally paid off. But, after exchanging messages with other students on a private chat, your acceptance is…
There’s no avoiding it: social media is everywhere. I tried to escape it, and you may have too, but by now I’ve joined every major platform besides Facebook. We’re exposed to so much content that it can be overwhelming, and we begin to feel negatively about our lives. We live in an insecure world,…
Instagram recently introduced a Story feature over this past summer. However, the addition has sparked some controversy because of the function’s close similarity to Snapchat’s pre established Story feature. Snapchat’s use of the Story feature, though, is unwarranted and has only left consumers confused and enraged. According to Instagram’s blog on Tumblr, Instagram Stories…
“It was one of those things where playful teasing slowly developed into more psychological abuse and it eventually developed to the point where it got physical,” Jeancarlo Yela, junior, said, describing his past experiences with bullying in elementary school. “I would end up getting beaten almost every day; they would say, ‘Oh if you…
It’s common practice for parents to go through their child’s technology. I mean, my mom follows me on Instagram, but there’s nothing there that I want to hide. In fact, I consider myself a pretty good kid. But there’s one thing I’m extremely grateful for: privacy. It’s not like I keep many secrets from…
The simple “like” button has been used to pay acknowledgement to millions of Facebook posts on the internet. As the popularity of emojis increased, people began to feel restricted by a single option for response. Facebook recently decided to turn to the animated faces and released a set of “reactions” to posts, rather than…
Finsta (n) – a private Instagram account made under a variation of one’s name that promotes anonymity, shared only with trusted friends synonyms: fake Instagram, private, P.I. If you are one of the 300 million Instagram users, chances are you have been followed by, or asked to follow, someone’s private account. For people who…
Yik Yak has become the most popular app used for all the wrong reasons. Useful for cyber bullying, one cannot scroll down more than four anonymous “yaks,” without seeing a nasty comment posted towards another. Yik Yak was first released in November of 2013 and quickly became one of the most downloaded apps in the…