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At first glance, it sounds like a dark joke. There’s a new app going viral called “Are You Dead?”  And yes, that’s actually the name. But once you look past the shock value, the reason people are downloading it hits uncomfortably close to home. The app was created in China, where it recently became the #1 paid app  on the Apple App Store. It’s also climbing the charts in the U.S., and the reason it’s blowing up has nothing to do with humor; it has everything to do with how m

There’s a strange thing happening in the way we connect today. We’re more “linked” than ever before, hundreds of friends online, infinite posts to scroll through, and new digital communities forming every day. Yet many people wake up feeling something that wasn’t supposed to exist in a hyper-connected world: loneliness. This isn’t a cliché; it’s backed by what researchers and mental health professionals are seeing. The vast majority of people use social platforms daily, but t

December arrives with sparkle, celebration, and constant reminders of togetherness. Christmas dinners, holiday parties, New Year’s countdowns, everywhere you look, connection is on display. Yet for many people, this season doesn’t feel warm or joyful. It feels isolating. The holidays have a way of amplifying what’s already there. And in a digitally connected world, loneliness can feel even sharper, not because connection is impossible, but because meaningful  connection often

If you’ve spent any time on TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts this year, you’ve probably felt it too: social media doesn’t feel like it did even three years ago. The way we scroll, the platforms we trust, the communities we hang out in, everything is shifting in real time. And we finally have numbers to prove it, thanks to the latest 2025 data from the Pew Research Center. The platforms we think are “dying” aren’t really dying… and the ones we think are “taking over

Artificial intelligence was supposed to make learning easier. Faster essays. Smarter tutoring. A tool to level the playing field for students everywhere. And it has, in ways no one could have predicted. A new report from the Center for Democracy & Technology  reveals that 86% of students  have used AI chatbots like ChatGPT in the past school year. Half of them used it for schoolwork. But here’s the surprising part: Almost one in five  say they or a friend has used an AI chatb

We all signed up for social media to connect. To share moments with friends, keep in touch, and maybe post the occasional embarrassing...

Mark Zuckerberg just dropped a bold take on the future of friendship: your best friends might not be human.  That’s not science fiction —...

In 2004, a college kid named Mark Zuckerberg launched something called Facebook . It started off as a simple campus tool to help students...