Social Issues

Magazine articles on the internet's impact on society, privacy, spam, hacking, scams, regulation.

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Fast Company Chris Gayomali	FYI: The New Foursquare App Will Track Your Location Even When Closed Foursquare revealed a splashy overhaul yesterday that transformed the location service into an app that serves up smart suggestions for your next meal.
Fast Company September 2014 Baratunde Thurston	We Cheer! We lead! We Know There is a Need! Hundreds of people transformed Big Earl's Yelp page into a platform for satirical political expression, celebrating how gay-friendly the place is.
Fast Company Alice Truong	The Million-Dollar Play To Make The Internet More Meaningful In January, the advertising company Sharethrough quietly established a $1 million fund to highlight standouts on the Internet.
Fast Company Austin Carr	Get Inside Whisper's Secret Economy It's a smartphone confessional that's caught on with millions of millennials, who now flip through an eye-popping 6 billion Whispers per month.
AskMen.com	Smartphone Addiction Your attention span is so short, you can't even remember you've just closed that app? Clearly, you need help.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2014 Om Malik	Man and his Machines The world of information has surpassed human cognitive powers, And that means machines have to help us make decisions.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2014 Baratunde Thurston	Unplugging's a Beach One of the biggest things I've learned since my initial unplug is that it's possible to maintain a better digital balance without resorting to full-time, abstinence-only extremes.
Fast Company Chris Gayomali	If You Don't Read The Onion's New Clickbait Parody Site, They'll Kill This Dog The Onion's brand-new site, Clickhole, skewers the clickbait economy while providing sharp, incisive social commentary into the way we Internet.
HBS Working Knowledge May 19, 2014 Dina Gerdeman	Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy Consumers are sometimes willing to trade personal data for lower prices. How should companies compete for that valuable information? A discussion with Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane.
Fast Company June 2014 Baratunde Thurston	Help, I've been Growth-hacked! "Growth hacking" is what happens when developers (mostly app makers) go beyond merely building in social hooks that help products go viral and instead try to force virality at the expense of the user.
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