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This would have been really cool maybe 8 years ago. Almost everyone I know at my university uses Facebook only for sharing "life updates" with older relatives who aren't on more trendy social media sites.

Where did I lie? Apple was hit with a $500 million fine for nothing?

I'm not an Apple hater by any means. I understand they had their technical reasons, I was just pointing out the dichotomy between their perceived willingness to support older models and the lawsuit that says they are slowing them down.

Is it really too much to ask of a company for them to tell us when they're throttling our phones? Yes, they had a technical reason to do so, but people are right to be skeptical about this when it takes a lawsuit for this to come out.

This seems like an odd thing to say about a company that was caught purposefully slowing down older models

Ulterior motives aside, Trump alone does not have the power to postpone Election Day.

It has been a fixed day since 1845, set by federal law, which means that any alteration would require legislation passed by Congress. This would be next to impossible given the current composition of the House.

The article mentions that the 7.5 hours a day specifically excludes time spent at school or doing homework.

So, you're absolutely correct that the figure is much higher, and the rest of the article shares potential health and social risks that children (instead of adults) have when they are so plugged in, "modern life" aside. I believe, however, that children are more vulnerable to these risks than us who work in tech all day.

Exactly, which is why so many companies have transformed their professional corporate accounts into "sassy" viral sensations. Wendy's is fast food burger joint, but have millions of Twitter followers and high engagement because of their unrelated humorous tweets. Ads are starting to look less and less like ads every day.

The Indiana University Social Media Observatory created something similar: https://fakey.iuni.iu.edu/

It's interesting to play through, and they've created other tools such as Twitter bot detectors to help curb disinformation: https://osome.iuni.iu.edu/tools/

I had a similar experience as well- I attribute most (if not all) of my typing ability to an unhealthy Runescape habit in my younger years.

I agree. The few times I accidentally swipe to that page and tap something that seems interesting (usually Sports Center), I haven't actually been sent to that news article. Rather, I'm subjected to the entire lineup of videos from the advertiser and lose my patience trying to find the particular story I tapped on.

Really turns me off of tapping future sponsored content.

I wonder how difficult it would be to interpolate the frames of the GIFs to have a decent frame rate.