Social Media

OkCupid

Priority request. OkCupid is owned by Match Group, which also owns Tinder, Hinge, Plenty of Fish, and many other popular dating apps and sites.

Bumble

Users swipe right to "like" a potential match and left to reject them. In matches between a man and a woman, the woman must initiate the conversation with their match or the matches disappear within 24 hours unless the woman has set an opening question, to which the man can respond -- wikipedia.

Snapchat

On average more than four billion Snaps are sent each day. Snapchat is popular among the younger generations, particularly those below the age of 16, leading to many privacy concerns for parents -- wikipedia.

TikTok

Hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes -- wikipedia.

ChatGPT (AI chatbot)

A sophisticated artificial intelligence system, made by the Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI, that responds to complex queries with the appearance of striking intelligence and accuracy -- bloomberg.

GoFundMe

For-profit crowdfunding platform that allows people to raise money for events ranging from life events such as celebrations and graduations to challenging circumstances like accidents and illnesses -- wikipedia.

Hinge

Priority request: It's perhaps the most popular dating app in the UK and is explicitly aimed at long-term relationships: "Go on your last first date... The app designed to be deleted... We’re looking for people who want to make dating effective, not addictive."

Tinder

"Meeting new people is exciting, but you should always be cautious when interacting with someone you don’t know. Use your best judgment and put your safety first, whether you are exchanging initial messages or meeting in person" -- Tinder safety tip.

Bluesky

Request: A social network modeled after Twitter, with over 21 million users.

Instagram

Social network to share your lifestyle with the world.

YouTube

YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users, who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos every day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute -- wikipedia.

effect: removing social media under 200...

...in your personal life. By request.

Facebook

As of December 2022, Facebook claimed almost 3 billion monthly active users. As of October 2023, Facebook ranked as the third-most-visited website in the world, with 22.56% of its traffic coming from the United States -- wikipedia.

Twitter / X

"Twitter, officially known as X since July 2023, is a social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media websites and one of the most-visited websites" -- wikipedia.

percentage of YouTube Shorts (quick videos) under 200

Request: Shorts on YouTube seem to be the worst.