“Online privacy” can seem like a contradictory statement. How private can our online lives really be? This week we find out! We tackle how and why our activity is tracked, the pros and cons of targeted ads, and if anyone actually reads those daunting Terms and Conditions. Colin tells us he’s more than happy to pay the ads away, especially after slogging through The Bachelor with ads. Anna shares her favorite data breaches of all time…including a popular vibrator company that was making VERY detailed profiles of its users. In our Troubleshooting segment, we give you tips on how to improve your privacy settings, the benefits of a VPN, and why regular privacy check-ups are good technology self-care. Then as always we end with some Internet Gold for you. Subscribe and stick around!

Connect with us at @themoreuscroll on Instagram & Twitter,  and check out our webpage. Have any internet sanity tips? Any topics you want us to cover? Email us at [email protected].

Tips and Tricks from our Troubleshooting segment:
Check out the VPNs that Colin and Anna use: Mullvad VPN and ExpressVPN
Here is a link to TweetDelete.net that lets you bulk delete old tweets.

Internet Gold of the week:
Anna: Following Dionne Warwick's Twitter journey 
Colin: Band Camp A music platform that directly supports the artists that make them

Video calls have made some things easier, some things harder, and pretty much everything weirder. This week we’re talking about that sweet Zoom life we’re all living: how moving our social and work lives into gallery mode has affected us, the murky waters of Zoom etiquette, navigating co-working from home with our partners, and how “business casual” has gotten a little more...casual. Colin tells us about his existential crisis over drinking OJ on camera and argues that the deck of the Starship Enterprise is an appropriate background for all occasions. Anna lays down the one Zoom rule you should NEVER break, and shares her struggles with keeping NSFW art out of her background. In our Troubleshooting segment, we give you tips on how to manage Zoom fatigue, make your home look good for video, and some hidden tech features you will want to take advantage of. Then, of course, it’s Internet Gold time!

Connect with us at @themoreuscroll on Instagram & Twitter,  and check out our webpage. Have any internet sanity tips? Any topics you want us to cover? Email us at [email protected]. Access the transcript for this episode here.

Tips and Tricks from our Troubleshooting segment:
Check out these Zoom Video Enhancement features.
Here is a link to Amazon Ring Lights to better your lighting on Zoom calls!

Internet Gold of the week:
Anna: A Black Lady Sketch Show on HBO 
Colin: Slack Channels for everyday use

Social media is a hot mess of risk and reward. In this episode, we tackle a core element of our social media lives: following and unfollowing. We talk about who we follow, who we don’t, and how you can reconnect with people (and sometimes marry them). Colin shares how he pulled off a mass follower culling, and Anna tells us how dramatic run-ins with basset hounds and a vengeful hairdresser made her think hard before ever hitting ‘follow’ again. In our Troubleshooting segment, we give tips on how to unfollow friends gracefully, plus alternatives to unfollowing or unfriending people. Then as always we end with some 🌐🥇

Connect with us at @themoreuscroll on Instagram & Twitter,  and check out our webpage. Have any internet sanity tips? Any topics you want us to cover? Email us at [email protected]. Access the transcript for this episode here.

Tips & hacks from our Troubleshooting segment:
Want to purge your Twitter followers? Try the TokiMeki app!

Internet Gold of the week:
Anna: @SUBPARparks on Instagram
Colin: Future Fonts, get in on the ground floor with new fonts. 

The news is like your shadow: you can’t get away from it and it is DARK. In this episode, we tackle wrangling our newsfeeds and ask “how do we stay informed without losing our minds?” We talk through how and why we pick our news sources, the boundaries we set around our news consumption (and whether they work), and how getting your news from social media is like reading the review before you see the movie. Colin suggests some aspirational rules for posting articles on social media. Anna argues that part of staying sane is not engaging with content that really upsets you even if it’s “newsworthy." I mean really, is The Bubble always a bad thing? In our Troubleshooting segment, we give tips for how to check the quality of your sources, stay mindful of how news affects you, and ways to make sure you’re getting your info from diverse viewpoints. Then as always, we end with some Internet Gold.

Connect with us at @themoreuscroll on Instagram & Twitter,  and check out our webpage. Have any internet sanity tips? Any topics you want us to cover? Email us at [email protected] 

Tips & hacks from our Troubleshooting segment:
Where do your favorite news sources fall on the Media Bias Chart?
Here are some tips for telling real news from fake news

Internet Gold of the week:
Anna: Writer/Humorist R. Eric Thomas
Colin: "Palm Springs" on Hulu

In our premiere episode, co-hosts Anna Van Valin and Colin Foy take their quest for a healthy relationship with the internet back to the beginning. The two Millennials reminisce about their earliest memories of the internet coming into their middle-schooler lives. For Anna, it was AOL message boards for “The X-Files” superfans, and Colin remembers when his dad gave his mom the most romantic gift of all: her own email address. They trace how we got from waiting all night for a Dave Matthews Band music video to download, to everything from dinner reservations to thermostats being online. In the Troubleshooting segment, they suggest how to take a thoughtful look at our current relationships with the internet, and end the episode with a couple pieces of Internet Gold. Subscribe and stick around!

Connect with us at @themoreuscroll on Instagram & Twitter,  and check out our webpage.

Introducing "The More You Scroll" - a podcast about trying to stay sane on the internet. Hosted by Anna Van Valin (Every Day is a Food Day, Screen Dive) and Colin Foy (Lindenfield, SeriusXM. Subscribe now & connect with us on Instagram at @themoreuscroll and at themoreyouscroll.com