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Why’d You Push That Button? is a podcast about the choices technology forces us to make, featuring interviews with consumers, developers, friends, and strangers. Hosted by The Verge’s Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany, Why’d You Push That Button? asks the hard, weird, occasionally dumb questions about how your tiny tech decisions impact your social life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ashley and Kaitlyn try to answer the question of why someone would use the “Super Like” feature on Tinder’s dating app.
Here it is! The second episode of a new Verge podcast called Why’d You Push That Button. On this show, my colleague, Circuit Breaker’s Ashley Carman, and me, the Culture section’s most self-indulgent blogger, talk about all the tiny decisions your gadgets and apps force you to make every day. All day, every day, we’re pushing buttons and thinking about the intended or unintended consequences...
We aren't stopping here at Why'd You Push That Button? HQ, aka The Verge's offices. We've still got more episodes, and this week, we're asking: why do you like celebrity photos on Instagram? This question might sound familiar if you're a Verge reader. I asked it months ago in this iconic post: "Why did my boyfriend like Emily Ratajkowski's butt on Instagram?" We now have the definitive, audio version of the article. We're going to get through it together as a family...
Ashley and Kaitlyn discuss sharing passwords with friends and family for accessing subscription services.
Kaitlyn and Ashley discuss Venmo’s public activity feed. Some people never look at it; some people scroll through it during their daily commute, inexplicably curious about why their friends are exchanging money.
Ashley and Kaitlyn want to know why people rewatch their own Instagram stories and obsessively check who's viewed them.
75426645.mp3 Sending a naked photo of yourself doesn't need to be complicated, but with hundreds of thousands of messaging apps to choose from, deciding how to send that nude can require some thought.
How do you decide to delete or save text threads from friends, family, or significant others?
Kaitlyn and Ashley ask why you share your location. Do you share with your boyfriend? Does your mom make you do it?