"Links" Weekend Edition: THE FUTURE
This being Friday, you may have plans for the weekend that involve eating attractive restaurant food. And this being 2016, you might Instagram that meal for your friends to view. Is this habit ... unhealthy? distracting? annoying? Indefensibly rude? Or issss it an homage to the inherently communal nature of food????!
Speaks for itself, I think!
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(Psst, new readers: On Fridays, the newsletter takes a slightly different form! I put together a little ebook of reads from the week to help you catch-up and/or unplug.) You can download this week's round-up of digital culture #longreads as ~an ebook here~, OR you can click directly into the links that strike your fancy. In either case, your regularly scheduled Links will be back Monday!
Modern Grief (The Walrus)
Death of a Troll (The Guardian)
The Useless Agony of Going Offline (New Yorker)
The Big Myth Facebook Needs Everyone to Believe (WaPo)
Inside Facebookâs Decision to Blow Up the Like Button (Businessweek)
Why Goats Are the Internet's New Cats (Fusion)
Inside The Most Vicious Conflict On The Internet (Buzzfeed)
Happy reading!
@caitlindewey
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