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The Feed
Protecting Minors In Virtual Reality
The capabilities of video games have exploded tremendously in the twenty-first century. Many adults and young adults grew up with game controllers and a screen in front of their faces. It was entertaining, engaging, it felt real. Virtual reality games are just like any other game, except for one thing: they allow players to transport […]
The Feed
I Was An iPad Kid Before It Was An Insult
I was in elementary school when I got an iPad. My favorite thing to do was watch Minecraft videos on YouTube. That was my introduction to social media. It wasn’t with a smartphone, not with an app tied to a personal profile, just a tablet and an algorithm that never wanted me to stop watching.
The Notification
New Resources, New Faces, and the Stories We're Telling This June
June 2026 at the LOG OFF Movement
The Feed
A Late User: The "Unimaginable" Possibility of Living Independent and Free of Social Media
For young people today, social media appears as an absolute necessity. A norm that is unquestioned. Everyone has a mobile phone. Everyone is on social media. So, is it possible to live in the mainstream of society without social media? How about without a phone?
ScienceNews
The truth about brain rot, according to science
Emma Lembke joined Instagram at age 12. Soon, she found herself “scrolling mindlessly for hours, addicted to gaining a certain number of likes, a certain number of comments.”
The Feed
Is Social Media Social Anymore?
In 2025, nearly half of U.S. teenagers said social media has a mostly negative effecton people their age. For a generation that has never known life without platforms like Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat, that statistic is striking. Social media was designed to make communication instant, communities accessible, and friendships borderless. Yet if so many young […]
Parent Map
Meet the Gen Z Activist Leading the Fight to Fix Social Media
Young people like Emma Lembke are challenging social media to reduce its harm to teen mental health
The Feed
A Critique of 'Excuse Culture'
Not subscribing to popular technology immediately set me apart from my peers. In classrooms, I often feel the other-ness of having a “hot take” on a topic that is generally unspoken. I got a flip phone over a year and a half ago, and quit social media years before that. The most frequent reaction is […]
