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Snapchat’s new ‘Live Location’ feature: dangerous or genius?

by Zoe Stratos | opinions editor Feb. 24, 2022 According to PBS, at Virginia Tech, four sexual assaults were reported in one November week, University of North Carolina linked one individual to three sexual assaults over three months, and school police have been investigating more than two dozen cases at Indiana University. Many college students returned to in-person learning for the 2021-2022 school year, with … Continue reading Snapchat’s new ‘Live Location’ feature: dangerous or genius?

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Social media restrictive; limiting of real-life experiences

10/04/2018 By Kendra Kneisl | Staff Columnist  Social media is ever-present in our lives. We wake up and send streaks. We go to the bathroom and scour Instagram for likes. We mindlessly refresh Twitter between lulls in the conversation. Within the last decade, connectivity has gone from a somatic to an automatic function. We feel lost without those mobile devices clutched tightly in our hands. … Continue reading Social media restrictive; limiting of real-life experiences

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Facebook comes under fire for selling identities

03/22/2018 By Duke Staff Online privacy may be a new oxymoron. News broke this week about Facebook’s involvement with the far-right Cambridge Analytica data firm that showed the world that social media sites don’t much care about your privacy. A user, to Zuckerberg or any other data analyst, is just some point that can be packaged and then sold or shared. It’s a social network … Continue reading Facebook comes under fire for selling identities

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Police officer fired for slur in Snapchat

By Rebekah Devorak | Opinions Editor  With reports of police brutality happening all across the country, just know that Pittsburgh isn’t immune to having its own problems, as well. Melissa Adamson, a part-time police officer with the McKeesport Police Department, was fired on Sept. 27 after using a racial slur on social media. Adamson posted a selfie on Snapchat while in uniform with the caption, … Continue reading Police officer fired for slur in Snapchat

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Social media websites experience a drop

By Addison Smith | Sports Editor While we all still continue to use it, social media is not as appealing as it was before. Vine was no longer cool after Instagram began to include a video feature. Facebook has become the mom spot (my mom posting photos of her hotel room in Boston included). Twitter just gets oddly repetitive after a while, especially if someone tweets upwards … Continue reading Social media websites experience a drop

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