The decline of the news industry is sapping journalism of a crucial tool.

The world faces many troubles. Pervasive social media is stealing innocence from children; there is the breakdown of the family in the…

Try out the BBS yourself! http://bbs.fozztexx.com Follow me on Twitter for previews & behind the scenes pics of projects I'm working on: http://twitter.com/FozzTexx A little Show & Tell of what was involved in going online in 1979 and doing a very early form of social media. The computer used is a TRS-80 Model II, the modem is a rebranded Novation CAT, and the telephone is a Western Electric model 500.

Most people seem to agree that something should be done to protect kids from what sure looks like an addictive product. But almost no one knows what that something is.

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The highly transmissible new variant is playing havoc with China’s Covid Zero policies.

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

When the app suffered a six hour outage this week, millions of people's lives were thrown into turmoil. Why were they there at all?

Social media is too important to be owned by a few private companies — or governments

The platforms are new, but the form has been around for most of a century.

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Heavy social media use was linked to negative wellbeing and self-esteem, regardless of a young person's mental state, with more girls experiencing feelings of depression and hopelessness.

Crafters in search of Harry Styles’s colorful cardigan and Bernie Sanders’s inauguration mittens are designing their own patterns.