Early this year, rising social media app BeReal rapidly caught tens of millions of teenage eyes across the nation. Unlike other social media apps, BeReal stands out by encouraging users to...
Emma Holsclaw, Talon Co-Editor in Chief
• November 17, 2020
Junior Addy Meadows doesn’t remember why she was in the hospital the first day of spring break, but she does remember filming a TikTok to Ke$ha’s “Cannibal” out of boredom from her hospital bed.
Meadows’...
Zanna Ingram, Online Copy Editor
• October 9, 2020
The gay and trans panic defense is used in courtrooms to defend those accused of violent crimes against members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Junior Hays Hummel wants to put an end to that practice.
Hummel...
Sydney Gard
Social media is a big part of my life. I can’t help it; we’re told everyone around us is on social media too, and if we’re not we’re bound to be missing something exciting. This...
Cropping, editing and adding filter to her mirror selfies and singing videos, senior Marcya Floyd takes pride in her
Instagram with over 25,000 followers. While social media, such as Twitter,...
Last September, parents filed into Southwest and South middle schools for a meeting geared towards discussing the realities of what their children were doing on social media and explaining how to use social...
Don’t let social media posts fool you: we girls like to eat just as much as guys do.
To all the girls who only instagram pictures of their salad: we know your guilty pleasure is chocolate ice cream....
Our generation revolves around technology. Social media is all the talk with a billion people on Facebook, over 500 million Twitter users and four billion views on YouTube per day. A certain resentment...
sam boatright, co-editor-in-chief
• January 17, 2013
I've got to be honest, I'm writing this post on the fourth day of my technology-lacking adventure because I didn't have time yesterday.
Currently, I am being taunted and tortured by Reddit, the amazing...
sam boatright, co-editor-in-chief
• January 15, 2013
I'm an addict.
As I was sitting in the break room at work, I dug into my pocket to find my iPhone, habitually opening up my Twitter app. I quietly shouted "No!" and immediately closed the app.
Guilt...
sam boatright, co-editor-in-chief
• January 14, 2013
Let's ignore the irony that I am blogging my week without technology on a computer: we'll pretend I'm begrudgingly typing on a typewriter or scribbling with that old-fashioned tool (a pencil?).
To be...
![Working on AP Calculus BC homework, sophomore Anwen Williams refers back to the previous lesson. Among other classes she took, Williams said that calculus was one of her classes she was most stressed about. “In calculus class,[test grades] are weighted as 10% of your grade, so it can increase or decrease your grade by about anywhere from two to five points,” Williams said.](https://www.fsfreepressonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-26-at-3.39.34-PM-900x667.png)
