Reading Time: 3 minutesInstead of watching a 10 minute video of someone reviewing makeup while updating on their life, it can be done in one minute.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBeReal encourages people to live in the moment, but if you really lived in the moment and put the phone away, you’d miss the notification.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Oct. 22, the Fulcrum’s Facebook page was unpublished for, allegedly, breaking Facebook’s page policies. Which policies? We couldn’t tell you. Since then, our editor-in-chief has launched two appeals to Facebook, but we still have yet to hear back from the social media giant.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA viral Instagram sticker that claimed one tree would be planted for every share was used over four million times before the creator of the sticker admitted its promise was false.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe waiting game is no fun Point: The frustrations with slow texters by Mariam Fawaz Are you really busy, or do you just simply not feel like texting back? Both are valid excuses — being unable to communicate your situation is where it gets frustrating. A quick “I’m busy” or “TTYL” will suffice. I don’t …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe same people who said my name sounded like a taco and made Islamophobic comments back in middle school are now posting infographics—how ironic.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“It’s just another example of the power of the internet – you have to be careful,” said University of Ottawa student Chloe VanGroningen, who saw one of her tweets go viral.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiterally moments after having liked someone’s selfie, my partner will message me and ask why I liked it.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSocial media is manipulating every part of our lives, and this film is here to show you how.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPrivate meme accounts on Instagram really don’t make any sense, and people who send posts by these accounts are just as bad. Do everyone a favor and make your memes public, or at least send screenshots.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA picture published on the University of Ottawa’s official Instagram page featuring a Protection Services officer sporting a thin blue line flag patch on Aug.25 has sparked outrage in the U of O community. After being lambasted by students the publication was taken down hours after it was published.
Reading Time: 10 minutesSeven students now make over 6,000 fellow students laugh on a daily basis with their Instagram page @uottawa.memes. In an exclusive interview, the Fulcrum had the chance to discuss some crunchy topics with them.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Australian wildfires, the Iran plane crash, climate change, Kobe’s death — it seems impossible to escape bad news. Media saturation can impact our socialization, mood, mental health and ability to interact, for better and for worse.
Reading Time: 7 minutes“It’s a scary world … I’m just thankful to not have been a teenager in the world of the iPhone.” — Lynne McInally, clinical social worker, therapist and instructor at Humber College.
