Six months ago, we wrote… “While a lot of people are betting on the Metaverse and crypto and going deeper into the wormhole, we are betting on the opposite — betting that people want another option, at least.” Since then, crypto has crashed. Meta’s first try didn’t work. Elon bought…

Unexpected Chaos Ensues — I posted this video on Tik-Tok about an 18 year-old girl suing her parents for posting pictures of her on Facebook not expecting much. I usually get 0–250 views on videos. But when I checked later in the day, 6,000 people had watched it. By the time I went to…

Parents, Kids, and Social Media A recent study from @Digital Information World and @1Password finds some shocking things about parents, kids, and…www.youtube.com A new study from Digital Information World and 1Password has revealed some interesting things about parents, kids, and social media. 72% of parents are happy they did not have social media growing up. 73% of kids wish their parents would ask before posting pictures of them online.

Studies show that by 2030, 2/3 of identity fraud cases will be from parents sharing their children’s content online. We don’t share our kid’s stuff online because we want their identity stolen, clearly. We share it because we love them and are proud of them. …

Sharenting and Children's Rights in the Digital Age — Quick note, in case you didn’t grow up listening to copious amounts of rap music in the 90’s, the title of this article refers to, “Wu-Tang is for the children.” Obscure references out of the way, let’s get into it… When we started building Footprint, I thought I was creating…

An Interview with Dr. Michelle Solomon — …We evaluated mood after an Instagram scroll, and found increased anxiety, depression, FOMO, low self-esteem, and the pressure, for lack of better words, to be “cooler” or more interesting. To our collective surprise there was a clinically significant difference. Our self-evaluation influences how we think, feel, and connect. These were…

I wanted to play in the big leagues, but I didn’t make it. It was the beginning of a long and illustrious line of failures. I wasn’t going to be a ballplayer, so I became an artist. I started a street art project called Brick of Gold. I went around…

A Superpower — It is one of the insane ironies of our species that we seem unable to do the most obvious thing, cut out from ourselves the things we don’t like about our parents... My dad, Jerry, was born in the Bronx in 1937…

Time For Another Option — I was born in 1980. That means I am from the last generation born into a world without computer technology. Not just born. We lived, for a long time, in this world, the old world — no internet, no laptops, no social media, no GPS, no phones. Our lives were…