Creeping

Born from a Japanese tech arms race and immortalized in Fred Benenson’s 2009 masterwork “Emoji Dick,” the emoji has become a staple of the way we communicate. Such that the Oxford dictionary named the cry-laugh emoji its word of the year in 2015. Whether you’d like to convey comp ...  Show more

Call them what you will: hactivists, cypherpunks, phone phreaks, e-bandits… these digital vigilantes may be the last bastions of hope in an Information Age where information is not dispersed equally. Growing from a group of pranksters at MIT in the 50s to the “ultra-coordinated m ...  Show more

Have you ever felt as if somebody was watching, following or even stalking you? If so, you're not alone. Most people have, at some time or another, had an experience like this -- and, tragically, many people are physically stalked every year. Yet there's a strange twist to the ta ...  Show more

<div>Stories in this episode: 

Dog Walking Encounter | MilesKaySolomon (0:41)
The First Time I Went to a Hairdresser | HelenAlias (3:24) 
The Night the Woods Knocked | Lisa (8:19) 
Pub Creep | creech84 (11:12) 
Trust Your Gut, Your Dog...or Your Cat | emi ...  Show more

After a really good date or two, have you ever found yourself scrolling through the other person’s social media pages . . . to a slightly unhealthy degree? Maybe you’ve even tried to find their exes’ profiles to see how you compare with them? (It’s OK, we’ve all been there.) T ...

How does social media exploit our evolutionary instincts? How dangerous is it to post about your children online? And does Angela regret talking about her daughters on the podcast?