social software
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The Best Sites and Apps to Track Your Books, Movies, Music, and Video Games
This week in the Guardian, writer Rachel Sigee pondered the question of why so many of us frequent sites like Goodreads and Letterboxd to log our media consumption, and came up with an answer that seems obvious in retrospect: It’s dopamine.
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Make Instagram Less Terrible on the Web With These Chrome Extensions
Instagram’s website design isn’t exactly the epitome of user experience. At best, it can be described as usable. You can use it to view your feed, stories, and you can finally even post photos from the website. But just being usable isn’t enough. That’s why it’s time to improve Instagram’s web experience using these Chrome…
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How to Finally Add Links to Your Instagram Stories Without Having 10,000 Followers
One of the many hierarchies of Instagram has been the link-in-stories feature. You only got access to it if you had more than 10,000 followers, or if you had a verified account, so most users couldn’t add a link directly from their Instagram story. This is also why the link aggregators for Instagram bios got…
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How to Make Friends After a Big Life Change (or Ever)
Did your friends move away during the pandemic? Did you get a new job and find yourself among mysterious colleagues you only know through Slack and Zoom? Did you recently move to an unfamiliar city? Are you simply looking to overhaul your existing friend group or add to it? Yes, it’s easier in kindergarten, but…