I'm Gen Z and don't use a smartphone or social media. It's made me more extroverted and led to deeper friendships.

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Gabriela Nguyen
Gabriela Nguyen, 24, primarily uses a phone with no internet or social media.

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Read the pitch decks of 12 startups looking to disrupt dating apps and social networking that have raised millions

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Money in the shape of a heart

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Gen Z held an anti-social media event. Here's how they heard about it.

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Gen Zers at Delete Day in New York City
Delete Day encouraged attendees to delete one app of their choice from their phones.

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Famed for its 1960s anti-war protests, New York's Tompkins Square Park hosted another countercultural movement on Friday: rejecting social media.

Gen Alpha loves a photo dump — and a social media startup is looking to capitalize

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Rollcall Locket assets
Locket is launching Rollcall, a new photo dump feature, on its app in October.

Locket

New York City sues social media companies, alleging they 'created a youth mental health crisis'

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An aerial view of downtown New York City.
New York.

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AOC says people are being 'algorithmically polarized' by social media

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"There are people that are living in a MAGA universe online," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And that happens as well in progressive content and algorithms."

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Sora 2 makes me realize the AI future really is here. It's wonderful — and terrifying.

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Sora 2 with Katie and Sam Altman
Sora 2 can make videos of me flying a dragon or Sam Altman robbing a store. They look real — which is fun, and also terrifying.

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Could making silly AI videos of your friends be social media's next frontier? Let's talk about OpenAI's Sora.

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Two screengrabs of Sora videos, one of Geoff and Sydney in front of a laptop, the other of them holding microphones in Central Park.
Sora-generated videos of Geoff Weiss and Sydney Bradley collaborating on this story.

Sora

YouTube to pay $22 million to Trump to settle post-January 6 ban case

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President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump

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Here's what we know about who's buying TikTok's US business

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US President Donald Trump signs an executive order about Tiktok in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 25, 2025.
Trump signed an order blessing a sale of TikTok's US assets.

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