Rethink your relationship to the internet

Since 2016, the national conversation has exploded in many directions. Make sense of our evolving political landscape with in-depth political commentary, analysis, and reporting, from Capitol Hill to the border and beyond. Guiding You Through the World Wide Web Time to refresh your relationship to technology? Microprocessing, a weekly column by Angela Lashbrook, aims to help you do just that. Each week, she dives deep into the internet of things so that we all might emerge from our online lives feeling better. Follow OneZero Click the button above and tap "follow" at the top of the page to stay in the loop on the latest stories from Microprocessing. "Headphones, in and of themselves, are not a risk. You could listen all day at a low-to-middle volume without health worries. It's only once you start listening to loud volumes for sustained periods of time that they can start damaging your ears." Dial down "You could use productivity apps to track your habits, but they're not as endlessly customizable, creative, or purposeful as spreadsheets. It's fun to puzzle out the best way to organize them and maximize the amount of information you can include without making them unwieldy." Make an entry "[A]bsolute terror of spoilers abounds across the internet. On Twitter, people treat spoiler warnings like alerts that you're about to drive into a radioactive fallout zone. Entertainment websites plaster spoiler warnings on articles, rightfully terrified of the hordes who rage against anything they recognize as the vaguest plot detail." Get spoiled "Checking a text or posting on Instagram when you're in a real-life social situation may seem harmless, but studies have shown that it isn't — not for you and not for the person you're with." Put it away Download with care. Read more in OneZero

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