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All The Freebies To Help You Through The Coronavirus Shutdown

Anna Radinsky & Cristina Gonzalez/PantherNOW Staff Saving money and preventing stress from the coronavirus pandemic has been made a lot easier thanks to free or discounted services.  From free food delivery to free WiFi, companies are providing customers with services and products to help make quarantine a little easier.  Read below for all of the […]

Internet trolls can no longer ruin movies for us

Ursula Muñoz Schaefer/ Staff Writer “Captain Marvel” is a critical and commercial hit. The newest spandex-clad super heroine had the sixth-biggest box-office opening of all time, exceeding expectations far and wide and blowing away its competition like the dust at the end of “Avengers: Infinity War.” It currently stands at 79% on Rotten Tomatoes meaning […]

Americans should not forget net neutrality

Gabriella Pinos/Staff Writer The past two years have been a tumultuous time in America, full of disagreement and bitter rivalries.But if there’s anything most citizens agreed on when it came to legislation, it was that net neutrality should not be repealed. Net neutrality refers to the principle that internet service providers should treat all content […]

Social media consumption in teens mark positive changes

Gabriella Pinos/ Staff Writer The media landscape is mutating at breakneck speed, and every year, I understand it less and less. With a new generation of users and new apps released daily, my brain can only handle so much change in such a short period of time. It wasn’t too long ago when I was […]

Employers should lay off their workers’ social media

Eduardo Alvarez/ Assistant Opinion Director No wonder people make multiple accounts on Facebook. Every picture you’ve ever posted; every empty beer bottle may end up diverting your employer’s attention from your education, internships and work experience. Unfortunately, private discretion has become indispensable for public success. That’s bad for confidentiality, opportunity and freedom. Can you imagine […]

EU’s Copyright Directive jeopardizes innovation and freedom of speech

Gabriella Pinos/Staff Writer In the next six months, the current state of the internet in the European Union may take a turn for the worst. On Friday, June 20, the EU’s Legal Affairs Committee, or JURI, voted in favor of the Copyright Directive, a piece of legislation that includes a series of proposals on copyright […]

Spending too much time on social media is emotionally draining

Rina Factor/Contributing Writer Whenever I am feeling either pressured or upset, and do not want to do anything productive, I tend to sit on the couch and scroll through social media for hours on end. Even when I successfully close a tab or app, I simply reopen it again because it’s an effortless distraction. Before […]

Religion evolving to fit modern world

Ashley-Anna Aboreden/Contributing Writer   Studies show a decline in religious affiliation across the country. In seven years, there has been a nearly eight percent decrease in Christianity and an over six percent increase in people unaffiliated to a religion, including Atheism and Agnosticism, according to the Pew Center. Non-Christian religions, such as Judaism and Islam […]

Student Thoughts: We do not need a ‘Yelp for humans’

The difference between Peeple and other social media sites is that when someone is judged based on their latest photo or status on social media, they’re judged on something that they have consented to post.

Student thoughts: Society’s love for the Internet is an addiction

All people are different, with some using technology more than others. We all have and understand our own wiring. Internet addiction is sucking the life out of us, taking us away from the engagement of reality.

Student Thoughts: Beware the comment section

The comment section of any piece on any website is often a dangerous place to venture. The irony of this piece is the probability that some unnecessarily negative comment will be made about it upon its publication.

Vloggers: the celebrities of the internet

Image by puck90 via Flickr Jessica Soler | Contributing Writer opinion@fiusm.com   The popularity of social media can be credited either to society being so bored that anything will entertain them or, perhaps, that there really is some visceral connection created through computer screens. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, the list goes on. There are so […]

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