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Opinion | We’ve lost the love touch

By Abigail Dobry, Senior Staff Columnist • February 15, 2024

Technology has made people lazy when trying to pursue a love interest. I hear people complain that “You can’t find anybody in person anymore,” so they resort to dating apps like Tinder, Hinge, Bumble etc. But imagine if dating apps did not exist in today’s world.

Opinion | We need to stop doing “What I eat in a day” videos on TikTok

By Grace Harris, Staff Columnist • January 22, 2024

It is important that one of the most widely used social media apps doesn't contribute to more harm that adolescents and the general public will succumb to.

Opinion | In and Out lists are out for 2024

By Gabriela Herring, Staff Columnist • January 11, 2024

The most recent iteration of the New Year’s resolution is less formal, less traditional and less confining. The In and Out list is the casual, much cooler, younger sister of the New Year’s resolution.

Opinion | Social media and shopping should stay separate entities

By Kelly Xiong, Senior Staff Columnist • December 8, 2023

In a society where we already overconsume so much content, we do not need social media to make it worse than it already is. Social media should be a platform for content creation, sharing pictures and videos and just an overall peaceful place where you can mindlessly scroll for hours. What it should not be is a shopping platform.

Opinion | AI art does more harm than good

By Danae Poteat, Staff Columnist • November 9, 2023

Although I do find AI art amusing, sometimes I feel guilty whenever I find myself enjoying it too much. I know that, in reality, a hardworking artist could have easily made this.

Opinion | Have fun at concerts

By Jameson Keebler, Staff Columnist • May 31, 2023

Concerts are for having fun, and social media shows how people are losing the point in attending shows.

Pitt students share high screen-time usage, worry over its increasing prevalence in their lives

By Elle Kenney, Staff Writer • December 2, 2022

When Kate Ryan, a sophomore psychology major, checked her screen time on her phone, she found she had an average of over seven hours a day.

Local vintage resellers take over social media

By Maya Valletta, Staff Writer • November 11, 2022

With the pop-up market season coming to a close, vintage resellers are increasingly using social media to spread the word about their handpicked collection of stylish, uncommon pieces.

‘We’re going back to Tumblr, bitch’: Brittany Broski talks pitfalls of online relatability culture, the power of fangirls

By Tanya Babbar, Staff Writer • October 21, 2022

The conversation between Pitt students and social media personality Brittany Broski on Wednesday night covered everything from irony poisoning and cancel culture, to the absurd delight of A03 fanfiction.

Satire | The real villain is Linkedin

By Paige Wasserman, Senior Staff Columnist • August 28, 2022

Many people blame social networking sites as the main culprits of our society’s ills, but they fail to address the true villain — Linkedin.