by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 21, 2015 | Social Media
At first, I think some of us were worried the internet was going to give us all unrealistic body expectations. Photoshopping, #thinspiration, and just the amount of images there are have done some of that. Listening to a WNYC program about what the internet/social...
by Kassandra Strout | Jun 12, 2015 | Social Media
Note: this post is purely for fun, and all social observations are based on a very small sample of the population. Actually, just 2 people. A couple months ago, I was visiting my family in the midcoast Maine area and went out to lunch with my cousin JD and one of his...
by Kassandra Strout | Jun 4, 2015 | Social Media, Tech
Since around 2012, there have been an increasing amount of studies/articles going by about social media’s harmful impact on our psychological/emotional health. Even technology in general gets a bad rap for causing these and physical ailments. Most of the...
by Nicole Ouellette | May 26, 2015 | Social Media
The internet began as an anonymous place. Chat rooms asked us ‘a/s/l’ and I’m sure I am not the only one who pretended to be a completely different age, sex, and location than I was. There was something about trying on a new identity. As social...
by Kassandra Strout | May 22, 2015 | Social Media
Whenever you get on the internet or social media, eventually as you scroll through various posts, you’ll probably encounter a “before and after” image. I recently saw this article about a woman’s photoshoot before/after her gastric bypass...
by Kassandra Strout | May 18, 2015 | Social Media
Earlier this week, I received the following email from Pinterest: You may wonder why this is at all significant. Kassie, Pinterest sends emails like this all the time…Yes, they do. But guess what? I don’t hate running- I really, really love...
