Is this app the next Instagram? - by Jacqueline Nesi, PhD
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Welcome to Techno Sapiens! Subscribe to join thousands of other readers and get research-backed tips for living and parenting in the digital age. BeReal is now one of the most downloaded social media apps in the App Store. From January 2021 to April 2022, its daily active users grew from 10,000 to 2.93 million. BeReal prompts users to post a photo (with front and back camera) once per day during a two-minute window But what does it mean to be authentic when the features of our environments, both online and off, shape our behavior? During the pandemic, my husband and I left the city,…
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