Features
Testing a scrolling habit change in a fictional experiment over two weeks
A fictional editor tests notification batching, direct feed entry, stop cues, and bedtime rules over two weeks, with invented results and a reusable template.
Archive
September 2026
Rules
What goes wrong with scrolling and attention
Scrolling and attention problems explained: diagnose purpose drift, alerts, autoplay, context switching, sleep loss, upsetting loops, metrics, and failed limits.
Maintenance
An attention-friendly scrolling checklist
Attention-friendly scrolling checklist: set purpose, notifications, time, place, source checks, autoplay, stopping cues, sleep boundaries, access, and measures.
Reviews
Scrolling modes compared by purpose, stopping cues, and attention
Scrolling modes compared: assess social feeds, short video, news, messages, search, and saved reading by purpose, ranking, stopping cues, switching, and control.
Guides
How to reset a scrolling habit without abandoning your phone
Reset a scrolling habit by defining a problem, logging cues, changing notifications and access, adding stopping points, testing replacements, and reviewing results.
Guides
Scrolling habits and attention: a practical guide
Scrolling habits and attention: how feed cues, autoplay and ranking shape a session, and how to test one change against a result you can check.
Features
A fictional social media feeds example
This fictional social media feeds example covers a personal audit's sampling method, source categories, and limits on interpreting invented results.
Rules
Social media feeds problems: a general diagnostic guide
Social media feeds problems can appear as repeated creators, missing accounts, stale posts, disguised ads, failed controls, narrow feeds, or upsetting material.
Features
A fictional parasocial boundary plan case: time, money, contact, and four weeks of results
Parasocial boundary plan example: follow a fictional podcast listener who tracks time, spending, contact, social ties, source checks, and invented four week results.
Rules
What goes wrong with parasocial relationships
Parasocial relationship problems explained: identify spending pressure, misplaced trust, isolation, boundary crossing, fan aggression, impersonation, and distress.
Features
Testing an online identity decision against the evidence
Online identity example: review a fictional illustrator's stage name, portfolio, audience boundary, credential claim, payment request, and impersonation risk.
Rules
What goes wrong with online identity and self-presentation
Online identity problems: diagnose takeover, impersonation, context collapse, stale credentials, linked pseudonyms, oversharing, copied work, and failed recovery.
Features
A Fictional Meme Literacy Workshop Example
Meme literacy workshop example: a fictional 75-minute library plan for reading, tracing, describing, creating, and assessing memes, with invented results.
Rules
Meme context loss: failure types, symptoms, and repairs
Explains common meme context failures, with a symptom table and repairs for missing references, altered captions, accessibility, harassment, rights, false claims.
Features
Testing a digital community rule change against the evidence
Digital community example: review a fictional forum rule, moderation data, member feedback, appeals, pilot results, decision limits, and next review.
Rules
What goes wrong with digital communities
Digital community problems: diagnose unclear purpose, hostile norms, uneven moderation, volunteer burnout, raids, privacy leaks, lost archives, and failed appeals.
Guides
Opt Out of People Search Sites: DIY Steps and Checks
Opt out of people search sites with a site-by-site DIY sequence for Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, Intelius and FastPeopleSearch, plus California's DROP, Google's Results about you tool, and checks for paid services.
Guides
How to Spot AI Generated Images Social Media Users Share
To spot AI generated images social media users share, inspect visual clues, search with Google Lens or TinEye, and check available metadata and provenance.
Guides
How to create and share a meme without losing the point
Write the observation first, pick a meme template that fits it, clear the copyright source material, and check facts before the post goes out.
Maintenance
A practical digital communities checklist
Digital communities checklist: review purpose, membership, rules, governance, moderator authority, privacy, security, archives, accessibility, appeals, and closure.
Reviews
Digital community models compared by purpose and governance
Digital community comparison: weigh open forums, private groups, chat servers, wikis, creator spaces, professional networks, and federated communities.
Guides
Digital communities: purpose, norms and governance
Digital communities run on shared purpose, visible rules and real moderation work, so judge one by its conduct and decisions rather than its member count.
Guides
How to Build Digital Communities With Clear Boundaries
Learn how to build digital communities with clear boundaries, from purpose and entry rules to platform choice, moderation, appeals, and meaningful measures.
Guides
How to review an online identity before you trust or publish it
Before you trust or publish an online identity, review account control, stated role, credentials and exposed personal data against your actual decision.
Guides
How to make sound decisions about a social media feed
Social media feed process: define what you want, capture a baseline, adjust follows and controls, verify important posts, limit interruptions, and review results.
Guides
Meme culture: a practical guide to meaning, context, and sharing
Meme culture explained: learn how formats, captions, context, remixing, communities, attribution, accessibility, and sharing choices shape meaning online.
Reviews
Meme formats compared by production load, context, and communication need
A comparison of image macros, reaction images, GIFs, short video patterns, text patterns, and remixes, with guidance on choosing by context and communication need.
Maintenance
A practical meme publishing checklist for small accounts
Meme publishing checklist: confirm context, factual claims, source rights, consent, readable design, alt text, captions, credits, and a correction plan.
Maintenance
A practical online identity and self-presentation checklist
Online identity checklist: review purpose, audience, names, images, credentials, disclosures, privacy, security, impersonation, recovery, and search results.
Reviews
Online identity approaches compared by audience and risk
Online identity comparison: weigh real-name, professional, pseudonymous, anonymous, private-group, and separate-account approaches by purpose and exposure.
Guides
Online identity and self-presentation: a practical guide
Online identity and self-presentation explained through how accounts, personas, credentials and audiences shape what a profile really proves about you.
Maintenance
A parasocial boundaries checklist for audiences and creators
Parasocial boundaries checklist: review expectations, time, spending, disclosures, advice, privacy, direct contact, moderation, fan conduct, and exit routes.
Guides
Parasocial relationships: what they are and how audiences and creators set boundaries
Parasocial relationships are one-sided bonds. This guide explains how they form, how money changes them, and how audiences and creators can set boundaries.
Reviews
Parasocial, social, fan, and paid connections compared
Parasocial and social connections compared: distinguish one-sided familiarity, mutual friendship, fan community, creator replies, memberships, and client work.
Guides
How to set boundaries around creators and online personalities
Set parasocial boundaries by reviewing time, spending, notifications, expectations, advice, private contact, fan activity, social ties, and exit options.
Maintenance
A pass-or-review checklist for social media feeds
Social media feed checklist: identify the surface, source, date, recommendation path, evidence, ad status, context, controls, privacy risk, and next action.
Reviews
Social media feed types compared by use case
Social media feed comparison: weigh chronological, ranked following, recommendation, topic, group, trending, and custom feeds by control, coverage, and use.
Guides
Social media feeds: a practical guide to reading them well
A feed is a ranked selection, not a record of what everyone posted. Here is how posts enter, why order shifts, and how to read one deliberately.