Why'd You Push That Button?
The Verge’s Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany ask the hard, weird, and occasionally dumb questions about how your tiny tech decisions impact your social life. Do you turn read receipts on? Do you share your Netflix passwords with friends? Why'd You Push That Button examines the choices technology forces us to make, through interviews with consumers, developers, friends, and strangers.
- Website
- https://art19.com/shows/whyd-you-push-that-button
- Description
- <p><em>The Verge’s </em>Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany ask the hard, weird, and occasionally dumb questions about how your tiny tech decisions impact your social life. Do you turn read receipts on? Do you share your Netflix passwords with friends? <em>Why'd You Push That Button </em>examines the choices technology forces us to make, through interviews with consumers, developers, friends, and strangers.</p>
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-03-20 14:50
- last episode published
- 2020-07-15 12:00
- publication frequency
- 19.01 days
- Contributors
- The Verge
- Author
- Vox Media
- Owner
- button@theverge.com (Vox Media)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 54
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Technology
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2020-07-15 | Why’d You Push That Button? is back for a special episode all about virtual dating in 2020. The pandemic has forced us all to stay at home when we can, which means if you want to go on a date, it may have to be done online. Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Ti... |
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| 2019-08-07 | I have sad news today: we’re publishing the season 4 finale of Why’d You Push That Button? The good news, though, is that it’s a really great episode! Today, Kaitlyn Tiffany and I (Ashley Carman) are asking what verification on social media accounts re... |
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| 2019-07-31 | Instagram introduced its Close Friends feature, the ability for users to assign followers to a Close Friends list and only post Stories for them, nearly a year ago. At the time, it seemed like an official product response to the user behavior of Finsta... |
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| 2019-07-29 | Land of the Giants is a new podcast from Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network about the five major technology companies (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google – or “FAANG”) that have reshaped our world. Each season focuses on one of the gian... |
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| 2019-07-24 | In the social media world, Instagram has dominated as the most used app in 2019, but what happened to Snapchat? Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany dive into where Snapchat is after Instagram stole their innovative "story" feature, and what the people wh... |
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| 2019-07-17 | In 2019, what's really going down in people's Instagram and Twitter direct messages? How has the behavior and usage changed over the past few years? Kaitlyn Tiffany and Ashley Carman interview people who found love in the DMs and others who didn't. Lat... |
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| 2019-07-10 | Do you use Gmail's "smart reply" feature when answering e-mails? Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany explore the world of the automated email responses and how it makes us feel as both the sender and the recipient. |
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| 2019-06-26 | In the third and final episode of the Death Online series, Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany analyze why people flock to Twitter after a celebrity dies. Guests include a reporter who is all too familiar with the phenomenon, a writer who fears the day h... |
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| 2019-06-19 | What happens when your robot friend dies? Ashley Carman explores the grieving community surrounding the short-lived social robot Jibo. |
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| 2019-06-12 | What’s going to happen to all of your tweets, Instagram photos, and emails when you die? To kick off a special three-part miniseries about Death Online, Ashley and Kaitlyn are in search of the perfect digital afterlife — and the skills they’ll need to ... |
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