Category: Internet culture
Beware the n00bs
| May 23, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture |
Ah, nostalgia – how we love thee. That song your dad used to sing you to sleep with (The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever). That movie you’ve seen so many times you could practically recite it by heart (Beetlejuice). That TV show you used to watch over and over and over again during long lazy summer days (Bewitched). When it comes to the…
Book excerpt: The Age of the Remix
| May 7, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture |
It’s fun to find something cool on the internet. It’s even more fun to share it with somebody else. Such is the ethos behind the wildly popular Reddit community, a social news website where eight million active users[i] submit content and vote it up or down in popularity and site ranking. With over 111,000 topical “subreddits”[ii] and a voting-based comment system that encourages…
I’m a time-shifter (and so are you)
| March 26, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture |
I used to be one of those people who hated TV. You know the type – I didn’t own one and I wouldn’t allow one in my home. My laptop was my own personal movie theater, and for me that was enough. A few years later I upgraded to a dedicated monitor, and not long after that I caved in and got myself…
Your Facebook identity: comic edition
| March 23, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Identity, Internet culture |
So apparently Facebook no longer has a privacy policy. Yep, that’s right – what was once its “Privacy Policy” has now become its “Data Use Policy,” which, to be fair, is a more accurate assessment of the policy’s actual content. After all, what Facebook is talking about here is all the different ways it’s going to use the mounds of personal data we…
Be my valentine, Internet
| February 14, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture |
Dear Internet, Will you be my valentine? You don’t have to show me your tubes or anything (though maybe when Grandpa Cray goes to sleep I can sneak a peek at your fiber optics). It’s just that… well, Internet, I love you. There, I said it. I’ve loved you since I first laid eyes on you, back in 1995 when you were still…
10 crazy things that tweet
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture |
Whoever said that Twitter is reserved for the living and literate? Certainly not the folks that invented these tweeting products. From the useful to the absurd, here are 10 devices making 140-character waves – from before the cradle to after the grave. #1: Tweeting straight from mommy’s womb Expectant father Corey Menscher was perhaps more expectant than most – rather than waiting for…
Phone addiction: comic edition
| January 16, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture, Mobile technology |
It’s not exactly a secret: pretty much all of us are addicted to our smartphones and other internet-connected devices. Gizmodo recently posted a real-world game where everybody at your lunch meeting / romantic dinner / non-LAN-party social gathering stacks their phones face down on the table; the first person to check their phone pays the entire bill. Saturday Night Live poked fun at…
Then and now: comic edition
| January 11, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture |
This week marked a first in my 17 years of internet use: my mom forwarded me a legitimately funny email (and one that originated on Reddit, to boot). The email in question contained a bunch of then and now comics and, coming from somebody whose leisure internet usage consists of family photos on Facebook and prolonged solitaire battles (I love you mom), it…
The impossibility of a screen-free life
| January 4, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Internet culture, The offline world |
When was the last time you went screen-free for a day? I’m not even talking about a whole week or a month here – just a single day. When was the last time you went screen-free for a whopping 24 hours? Spending any amount of time without a screen is getting harder and harder with each year that goes by. So how exactly…
Are there memories without pictures?
| November 1, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Identity, Internet culture |
Less than twelve hours after the last guest left, the first question was already being asked: did anybody take any pictures? The question itself was rhetorical. Of course people took pictures. Most of them, in fact. The real question was this: did anybody take any pictures with me in them? The event in question was a Halloween masquerade thrown by respected New York…
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