Tag Archives: social media
How far would you go for fro-yo?
By: Emilee Youn At the start of an hour of shifting her weight from one foot to the other as she waited for a taste of yogurt she’d seen on TikTok, Maria Kadaba, 18, was the 57th customer in the line. “I mainly came to visit the city because I wanted to try out Mimi’s,” […]
How selfies reshape the concert experience
By Cailyn Williams Concert-goers Lara Afolayanka and Ashley Simplice steadied their cellphones, positioning the camera lens to capture the Barclays Center display screen as it shifted from a WNBA player advertising an upcoming game to a banner touting that evening’s Brooklyn stop on Tyler the Creator’s sold-out Chromakopia tour. “I definitely went on Pinterest and […]
Screentime: How much is too much?
By Christian Payne Eighty-seven percent of Americans owned a smartphone, according to Pew Research Center. They spend an average of 5.4 hours a day on those devices, according to Verizon, which also warns of smartphone addiction and notes research linking smartphone overuse to anxiety and other behavioral health problems. And 47% of Americans admitted that […]