You spend 20 minutes editing a video, syncing the audio, and rewriting the caption three times before finally uploading it to TikTok, Facebook, X, Instagram, etc. Whether it's a 45-second clip of you around a campfire with family and friends, announcing a gym milestone, or weighing in on trending political discourse, the post-upload ritual is predictable. You close the app, wait two minutes, then reopen it. Zero engagement. Five minutes pass. Three likes: one from your aunt, two from automated bots. You refresh. Wait. Refresh again. A knot forms in your gut, a mix of rejection and creeping regret. You second-guess the video, your timing, and ultimately yourself. It's a low-grade erosion of self-esteem, looping through millions of minds every minute.
Teens on the Colorado Youth Advisory Council pitched policy ideas to state legislators at the Colorado Capitol Friday, with a large focus on new regulations for social media and artificial intelligence. Committees within the council focus on different problems the teenagers want to find policy solutions to. Students on this year’s council focused on issues […]
(The Center Square) - A bill banning the practice by rideshare companies such as Uber or Lyft of "surveillance pricing”- using a consumer’s personal information to set an individualized price - passed in the House on Monday in a 198-to-4 vote.
