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Shifts and nuances in the way we communicate online.
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Hoaxes and bad information are circulating online in the aftermath of the Paris attacks. 
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I don’t ♥ Twitter’s decision to abandon the ★. The change may reflect an identity crisis for the social network known for the 140-character message.
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Deleting the name of a dead friend from your phone can feel like removing that person from the world.
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Her announcement on Sunday afternoon seemed to stop a nation of tweeting political obsessives in their tracks.
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Instagram banned a picture of a fully clothed woman, poet Rupi Kaur, twice because it showed her period stain. She fought back. And won.
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Josh Ostrovsky, also known as “The Fat Jewish” or the “Fat Jew,” is making a new name for himself as an Instagram sensation. What started as an outlet to simply share funny memes and pictures has turned into a full-time job for Ostrovsky.
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White and gold, or blue and black? The debate over the colors of a dress set off a social media conflagration that few were able to resist.
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Remember when the internet used to be fun? In 2014, this platform was used for everything from charity to culture wars to gross acts of nudity. The human race is louder, angrier, shallower, and sometimes funnier than ever before and the stakes are getting higher every day. Thanks Martin Robbins and VICE for writing the piece that all of us who write about life online wanted to write, if only we could just have blocked out the online chatter long enough to do so.
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With major brands on board, some 15-second spots have already hit the popular photo-sharing platform.
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Facebook activated its Safety Check tool while Twitter put its new Moments tool to use, highlighting top news tweets about the attacks.
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Instagram feeds — those treasure-troves of personal photo galleries — often are bonanzas of decadent meals, brilliant sunsets and perfectly poised centerpieces. These slices of life might be authentic moments, but often our daily life doesn't resemble these carefully curated slide shows.
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P!nk responded to Internet criticism on Twitter about her weight gain, saying her body is having "some much deserved time off. And, then she signed off as "Cheesecake".
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Facebook is the glue that's holding large portions of the web together, whether we want it to or not.
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There's a lot of debate these days about whether young and young-ish people, particularly those using social media, are too sensitive to perceived insults toward women and minorities. Do we take offense too easily and take too much pleasure in shaming others? These are important questions. None of them will...
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There’s so much we can’t express because the symbols don’t exist. Created in Japan, emoji have no equivalents for pieces of Americana like pickup trucks and bacon.
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As social media platforms value ever-smaller snippets, Internet fame is shrinking from micro to nano.
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A social media phenomenon tells the full story of instant web celebrity.
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The wife of a husband missing for nine years found him on Facebook, and noticed that he has been living a new life without her.
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The very profoundness we absorb in their novels rarely translates into the digital world, where tweets and blog posts can expose a very different (i.e., real) side of writers.
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