Social Media & Online Life

22+ min ago   (308+ words) It is both dazzling and a tad depressing. You see, looking back not too far, my cohort of sisters and friends who reproduced in the not so distant past were downright cheated of our rightful dose of attention. To tell…...

23+ min ago   (564+ words) That worry carries real weight, and it deserves a better reception than a shrug. It also hides an assumption so familiar that most of the debate never stops to inspect it: that morality has to be objective in order to…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (977+ words) “Bro is zesty.” “She ate and left no crumbs.” “Nah, we're cooked.” If these expressions make you pause for a second and wonder what people are actually talking about, you're not alone. Some Gen Z expressions sound completely different from…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (501+ words) Cultural industries are increasingly asserting their role in the creative economy, opening up new opportunities to promote Viet Nam’s image, identity, and values. To elevate Vietnamese brands, the strengths of culture, technology, and creative capacity must be harnessed in tandem…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago   (154+ words) If you are using X, formerly Twitter, I would seriously advise you to give up your blue tick and downgrade to the lowest-cost subscription tier, where you can still publish longer posts without paying for premium verification. The blue tick…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1215+ words) Mariam recently disabled Facebook Messenger. As the administrator of a regional Facebook group for women with close to 400,000 members, she had become accustomed to receiving messages from strangers. But the volume – and nature – of those messages had become impossible to…...

2+ hour, 12+ min ago   (78+ words) Türkiye tightens social media rules for children under 15 Myanmar International TV Türkiye tightens social media rules for children under 15 Türkiye is tightening regulations on children’s access to social media, with new rules requiring platforms to prevent users under 15 from accessing…...

3+ hour, 2+ min ago   (126+ words) On my way home, I heard someone say, “Even if you’re good at something, people won’t care about it because you’re not that pretty” to someone who’s trying to show off the award they got. And that sentence really ignited…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (174+ words) Above, traffic along Osmeña Highway in Malate never lets up. Below, in a tunnel where families began settling in the 1990s, the National Housing Authority counts 94 low-income families. Then came the cameras. The settlement recently drew international attention after American vlogger…...

2+ hour, 50+ min ago   (1711+ words) Every episode ends with a final score, a definitive number that is hard to argue with. What the format delivers is neither pure information nor mindless entertainment but the sensation of having gotten to the bottom of something, handed to…...