social media trends
Brain Rot: Thoreau’s Reproach, Turned Into a Joke
In 2024, Oxford named a 170-year-old phrase its Word of the Year. What endless scrolling actually does to attention, and what science has yet to prove.
When the Photograph Became Proof We Had Lived: From the Family Album to Instagram
There's a heavy, leather-bound album that sits on the same shelf in every older family home - black-and-white photographs glued at the corners onto cardboard pages, just a handful of images for an entire year, each one carefully chosen to represent something worth remembering: a wedding, a birth, a summer holiday, the first day of school.
Offline Is the New Luxury: When an App Makes You Put Your Phone Down
There was a time when the goal of digital platforms was simple - keep you there as long as possible. Today, an opposite concept is emerging: apps that want you to leave. Not metaphorically, but literally. To step outside, meet people, and return to a life that doesn’t fit inside a screen.
