Releasing more expensive stuff that no one asked for
Mere weeks after announcing the brand new product âApple Watch,â Apple has announced a slew of even more innovative, interesting, and inane products for the consumer market.
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College ConfessionalâŚ
When I gave my landlord notice, he immediately had the Craigslist ad up and viewings scheduled. I told him what times worked for me, and when I would be out, so to just knock and if Iâm not there he can just come on in.
The War of the Web
The year is 2018, though to those of us in the trenches, we just consider it Year Three. Three years of struggle. Three years of strife. Three long years since the Great Evil âbroke the Internet,â actively destroying any semblance of order, decency, and originality within these electric halls.
âIâll admit that I never foresaw the potential for sextingâ
With all of the SnapChatting and Tindering and Grindring thatâs going on nowadays, itâs hard for a modern Luddite to find someone to really take the blame for everything thatâs wrong in the world.
Habitual âvaguebookerâ revealed as legit high-level government security official;
In a move that left her 768 Facebook friends both shocked and weirdly satisfied, 24-year-old Douglas College pseudo-student Monica Gellar revealed today that she is actually an undercover federal agentâwhich fully explains why her online posts are always so damn vague.
Cash and burn
With the ubiquity of credit cards and mobile payment, fewer and fewer people are carrying cash with them on a daily basis. I barely ever carry cash around, just a couple of bills in case of an emergencyâlike if a hot dog stand doesnât accept debit.
Donât be that guy: Digital fugitive
Laptops and smartphones have revolutionized our ways of communicating, our ways of paying for coffee, even how we read the morning paper. People in the modern world canât get enough of these devices.
Your device puts you in public
The more we know, the more frightened we become, but that shouldnât be the case. Technology has pushed people to the fringes of paranoia. The devices in our bags and pockets know more about us today than our parents do.
In and out of the net
When we think of the Internet we think about the free flowing traffic between us and endless information and connections. Without having to put on shoes or brush our teeth we can go shopping, hang out with our friends, attend a course, and watch a movie. That is the Internet we know of.
Like the real thing
I can be certain that when I write a Facebook post, someone will read it. There are few other places where you can push a message publicly and have it received by those who you intended it for.