Tag: politics
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Don’t call it scrolling. Give the malaise a name it deserves.
Our language isn’t keeping up with technology. Referring specifically to social media, why do we say we’re scrolling? Real scrolls have an end. You open a scroll, you get to the end of the roll, and that’s it. That’s not what’s happening here. Scrolling sounds so harmless. Like I’m in an old bureau with an…