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Love in the Times of Social Media
It’s no longer just a boy-girl thing. It’s now him, her, and social media.
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Grindr and My Tales of Technosexual Love
For technosexuals, the potential of digital, photoshopped lovers is more pleasurable than actual interaction with them. We send out dick pics minus faces so it doesn’t get personal.
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Read Receipts: The Bane of Modern Love
Read receipts are everywhere: as blue ticks on WhatsApp, “Seen” messages on Facebook and “Opened” on Snapchat. They sow seeds of doubt, further complicating modern relationships.
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The In-Betweeners: Millennials Who Aren’t Millennial Enough
We were born in the ’80s; and we’re millennials too. But we’re also the last generation to have actually known what life without internet and mobile phones looked like.
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The Secret Life of an Instagram Star
Instagram influencers live their lives in service to the camera, creating a “perfect life” that their followers can aspire to. Often, the line between fact and filter is blurred.
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Hey Gen Y, Can You Please Cut Snapchat Some Slack?
Snapchat exemplifies everything that’s different between millennials and Gen Y. It’s created for a generation that has abandoned the term “brb” because its never offline.
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Sex Coro Na! In the Time of Social Distancing, Sexting is Your Best Bet
The sexting must go on. Before you decide to send dick picks to your latest Tinder match, remember there are rules to this breathless sport.
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Snapchat is Dead. Long Live Snapchat
It was only in 2014, when all of India was talking about the saffron wave, India’s millennials were lost in Snapchat’s simple world of disappearing pictures. Four years on, after Kylie Jenner’s deadly tweet and a much derided interface update, it is finally time to bid the app farewell.
Posted inTechnology
Why Are We Freaking Out About LinkedIn’s Red Light District?
Social media is only following Rule 34 of the internet – if something exists online, a porn version of it must exist too. Social media’s Rule 34 avatar is sexual media. And LinkedIn’s Red Light District is only a by-product of this.
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Can Any of Us Afford to Live Offline?
Going offline is not an option. The work culture today demands that you are available 24X7 – over the phone, on WhatsApp, and email. And even if it’s not work, can you walk into a conversation if you have nothing to say about that viral tweet from @wokeboyhimtoo.
