Technology, AI & Digital Life
I asked my teenager for their phone one evening, ostensibly to look something up, and ended up scrolling their For You feed for almost twenty minutes before I remembered why I had…
Somewhere between my aunt’s forwarded health tips and my cousin’s baby photos, I realized our family group chat had quietly turned into something I check the way I used to check the…
Four years after I finished my degree, a chat named after a project that no longer exists is still sitting in my messages app, still occasionally lighting up with a notification. It…
I realized something was off when my friend Maya got engaged and I found out from a screenshot someone else posted in our group chat, forty minutes after she’d apparently told the…
My mother called me three times last Tuesday before I finally picked up, and my first reaction wasn’t concern that something was wrong. It was mild irritation, the specific modern irritation of…
I deleted TikTok on a Friday night, the way people quit smoking: dramatically, at midnight, with a mental speech about reclaiming my attention. I expected the first few days to be the…