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Every moment on social media

H. Colleen Sinclair (Mississippi State), Diane Felmlee (Penn State), Susan Sprecher (Illinois State), and Brittany L. Wright (Texas): Don’t Tell Me Who I Can’t Love: A Multimethod Investigation of Social Network and Reactance Effects on Romantic Relationships. Nick Wolven on feeding the social media slot machine. How do you make something go viral? Elizabeth Tobey on why you’re asking the wrong question. Abby Rabinowitz on the meme as meme: Why do things go viral, and should we care? The Bot Bubble: Doug Bock Clark on how click farms have inflated social media currency. “Pics or it didn’t happen”: Jacob Silverman on how sharing our every moment on social media became the new living. Peer-to-peer pressure: We all know social networking has enriched our lives in astonishing ways — but it seems a shame that it must be run on for-profit lines that promote insecurity, compulsive phone-checking, and connection addiction. Molly Knefel on how kids are uploading their adolescence in real-time, and the Internet refuses to forget — will it change the way we live as adults? Brian Bethune interviews Jon Ronson, author of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (and more and more and more and more). Latoya Peterson on how social media changed the Internet and what it costs for us. The digital world is warmer than you think: Elizabeth Tenety on how social media builds empathy.