Have you seen the Esurance commercial with the two white-haired older women? One suggests the other doesn’t “get” Facebook, and the insulted woman says, “I unfriend you.”
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4/12/18
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Faces down, thumbs tapping, simultaneously relating to and isolating from, communicating and ignoring, exchanging information and yet limiting responses, without the challenge of face to face or even the duel of voice to voice, we text.
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2/23/18
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I recently attended a breakfast meeting, and sat in a room full of successful business leaders along with a large number of attorneys. The subject was the business climate on Long Island, and somehow . . .
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9/28/17
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Really, the world outside is conspiring to corrupt us. The mindless chatter is deafening, the distractions are pervasive and the temptation to indulge ourselves on every level is highly seductive.
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9/8/17
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The American Revolution might never have happened if social media had existed in the 1770s. George Washington might have vented his fury at the Brits on his Facebook page.
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1/19/17
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I began a summer internship at the Valley Stream Herald last week, one month before I start my sophomore year at South High School. As I was brought up to speed on recent coverage, I noticed one article that caused some controversy: The Black Lives Matter march that took place in July. Reading some of the online reactions to the demonstration was startling because I was there.
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By Wayne Chen
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8/10/16
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Q: Are my child's private Facebook postings truly confidential?
A: Maybe not. It has long been the law that schools can look at and use social media postings done outside …
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By Lynn M. Brown
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7/22/15
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The longest resident at the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter has been getting a lot of attention lately. This, however, is not the kind of attention a dog would expect to get in a home with a family. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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6/24/15
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At 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 21, seven cars put their hazard lights on, and filed out of the Peninsula Shopping Center on Mill Road in Hewlett and drove to Valley Stream at about 15 mph.
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By Vanessa Parker
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10/22/14
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Well, summer is finally here. We suffered through a very nasty winter, so the months ahead of us should be relaxing and soothing.
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7/9/14
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