But at what point does mooching become a problem? It’s all fun and Gilmore Girls until your parents unceremoniously drop you from their phone plan on your 30th birthday, or you’re locked out of streaming the Game of Thrones season premiere because too many digital hangers-on are trying to use your credentials at the exact same time.
How Much of a Digital Mooch Are You?
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Lawhon of Leave No Trace agrees. “We know, fairly definitively, that people are not as connected to the natural world as they once were,” he says. “Kids go to the grocery store and see milk and don’t even know there’s a cow involved. We’ve lost our connection to the natural world. The benefit is that [this increased interest in the outdoors and parks] is good for psychological health, physical health, and it’s good to have more p...
How Instagram Is Destroying Our Natural Wonders
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What are the rules of geotagging? A popular location — say, the Grand Canyon — has been discovered and categorized. No controversy there. The Instagram generation (or the “selfie generation” as a recent National Geographic article put it) has spurred renewed interest in national parks, which are celebrating their centennial; last year, there were a record 307 million visits, according to... How Instagram Is Destroying Our Natural Wonders
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This is all part of a larger problem that isn’t specific to the outdoors and Instagram. Secret spots have been ruined for food lovers, too. Some restaurants have risked losing publicity by banning the posting of photos on social media. Waze is an enemy to anyone who lives on a formerly quiet sidestreet. (A particular problem for those in...
How Instagram Is Destroying Our Natural Wonders
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I’m not guilty of this, but I am guilty of documenting and geotagging my trips, potentially ruining someone else’s sacred space. In a 2015 Select All story, Modern Hiker editor-in-chief Casey Schreiner (who broke the story of Creepytings, an artist who vandalized parks with artwork that she shared on Instagram) spoke about thi...
How Instagram Is Destroying Our Natural Wonders
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It’s also not fucking around. It knows why you came to McDonald’s, just as you know why you came to McDonald’s. Fast-food ads generally fall into one of three categories: (1) Hey, look at this burger, it has more bacon on it than you will goddamn believe; (2) Your kids will shut up for a second if you bring them here, we swear; and (3) The consultant we hired told us you like salads, we’re spending a lot of money on this, look how crisp and green and ...
McDonald’s Apple Pie Is the Finest Food on Earth
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...ook’s 51-point bonanza. Billy Donovan likes running a modern offense featuring player and ball movement, but with Westbrook pounding the ball in isolation, this looks more like a blast from the past. If Westbrook were to maintain his 40.2 usage percentage, he would break the record.
Russell Westbrook’s Liberation Tour Is Everything We’d Hoped It’d Be
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