Social Media

NBA Twitter is Changing the Way We Watch Sports

The NBA is tailor-made for social media—will that help it supplant the NFL as America's game?

Don’t Delete Your Digital Past

What happens when we erase our online lives?

How Monopoly Capitalism Is Ruining Twitter

The social network's rigid simplicity has been a liability from the beginning.

Tyler Oakley’s Radical YouTube Memoir

The social media star, beloved of One Direction fans, guides us through gay millennial culture

How (and Why) Do You Create a Personal Brand?

A Twitter conversation with Ann Friedman

Me, Inc.

The paradoxical, pressure-filled quest to build a “personal brand.”

How Will Hillary Break the Internet?

By announcing her candidacy with these hip technologies

I Was Once a Racist, Sexist Jerk. Thank God I Didn't Have Twitter.

Don't Let "Black Lives Matter" Become Another Ice Bucket Challenge

GOP Staffer Shouldn't Have Scolded Sasha and Malia on Facebook. But She Shouldn't Resign.

A Senator Tweeted My Ebola Story. Then Things Got Ugly.

Dear White People, You Need To See 'Dear White People'

A Q&A about moviemaking, race, and Shonda Rhimes with the film's writer and director.

Facebook Did Screw With You, and It Wasn’t Even Worth It

A Defense (Sort of) of Twitter

I don't tweet, but I see why some of you do

The Smart Fan's 2014 World Cup Social Media Guide

All the feeds you need to be following, right now

Dear Facebook, I'm Fed Up

How social media has changed indignation

The 20-Year-Old Crime That's Blowing Up on Chinese Social Media

The Social Media Afterlives of the Tsarnaev Brothers

Facebooking Through Tragedy

When disaster struck nearby, I logged off Twitter for a different kind of news