Like trees shedding tree bark or the ocean giving up on water, MTV will cancel Ridiculousness, a show that across 46 seasons and more than 1,700 episodes came to dominate MTV's programming. Launched in 2011 and hosted by Rob Dyrdek, Ridiculousness featured panel discussions about viral videos. As the show took over more and more of MTV's schedule, it became the poster child for how social media was eating the rest of culture,
"If we look back on the last 10, 15 years on social media, I think we'd be hard pressed to say that the velocity and the impact and the adverse effect of social media is equal to, or more than, the benefits that have occurred," he said. "And one of the reasons is the fact that there wasn't regulation, and the regulation that has come is too late." He said AI is progressing so fast and "the regulators are so far behind, they don't even know what the questions are because of the speed of this thing."
Each minute, millions of teens scroll through videos on social media platforms. These platforms are designed to connect people, but their overuse among young users is leading to serious, unintended consequences. The impact of social media on teen mental health has received significant media attention. After Facebook became available to American college students, their rates of depression rose by 7% and anxiety by 20%.
There was something about the internet of old. The leisurely, dial-up conjuring of a digital page via Netscape was certainly revolutionary, but to a seven-year-old me it was more; at once novel and expansively thrilling, it literally put the world at my young fingertips. Later, even when the paradigm shifted to high-speed, there was still a certain idealistic nascency to the web.
On Sunday (20 July), she took to social media to share "a message to the fans", saying she had "experienced a lot of racial abuse" from the start of the tournament in Switzerland.
Canada's Competition Bureau is in an ongoing lawsuit against Rogers, alleging false advertising for their phone plans and claiming the company's "Infinite" plans actually had data speed limits. The school boards, organizing as Schools for Social Media Change, are hoping for damages to the tune of $8 billion from Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok.