By Adriana Lee |
We all know trolls have a penchant for derailing comment threads. Who among us hasn’t witnessed an intelligent discourse devolve into name-calling, errantly accusing cesspools of time-sucking drivel? That may sound harsh, but there’s clear science to back up the detrimental effects of this particular…
By Adriana Lee |
Hello. I’m here because your mother asked me to talk to you. After years of urging you to eat your vegetables, brush after every meal and clean your room, she figured you’d know by now how to care for yourself and your stuff. Then she…
By Adriana Lee |
Do you slip the word “hashtag” in real-life conversations? (As in, “X-Y-Z, hashtag are you kidding me?”) Well, stop it. Stop it right now, says writer Eric Mack. In his CNET piece, “The spoken hashtag must die — here’s how,” he writes, ”The word ‘hashtag’ simply does…
By Adriana Lee |
While Europe might be less infatuated with mobile phones than they once were, it seems we Americans still can’t get enough, judging by a recent study from Lookout. The mobile security company contracted Harris Interactive to survey American smartphone owners about their “mobile mindset,” in…
By Adriana Lee |
How many kinds of Facebookers are there? According to Buzzfeed, there are 46 different types of users (really? only 46?), including the person who thinks Facebook is a diary, the person who’s trying to get over an ex and some extremely inappropriate parents and aunties.…
By Adriana Lee |
I was at a party when an interesting topic came up — inventions that changed the face of humanity. One by one, the entries came: Computers, the telephone, the steam engine, the alphabet, etc. Occasionally, various people would look up from their devices to say…
