No One Is Ready for Digital Immortality
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Kate Lindsay
Kate Lindsay is a former newsletter engagement editor at The Atlantic. She writes the internet culture newsletter Embedded.
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Illustration by Daniel Zender It’s Just an App
America won’t miss TikTok.
Anna Moneymaker / Getty Something Went Terribly Wrong With Online Ads
What isn’t an ad these days?
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani Airbnb Really Is Different Now
At this point, the company hardly seems part of the gig economy at all.
Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: Getty My Mom Will Email Me After She Dies
It’s common now for people to linger as digital ghosts after they die, transforming the nature of loss.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified
How would you feel if millions of people watched your childhood tantrums?
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Alex Zabusik / Getty. Social Media Is for Strangers Now
As Instagram and Facebook fade from relevance, the connections between friends are fading online too.
Mauro Pimentel / AFP / Getty Instagram Is Over
The app’s original purpose has been lost in the era of “performance” media.
Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Is the Status Update Over?
As Twitter descends into chaos and Meta sheds thousands of jobs, online sharing may be going the way of MySpace.
Scott Olson / Getty The End of a Millennial Internet Era
Kaitlyn Tiffany on how Slack and Giphy hastened the decline of a treasured mode of online expression, the GIF
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