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Why You Missed All Of The CMJ Bands You Were Totally Going To See

In today’s era of connected entertainment, Facebook, Twitter, text messages, ‘smartphones’ and other avenues of ‘multiplatform social networking exist to make it easier for one to communicate with...

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How To Continue Using Text-Based Communication And Social Networking To...

If you go to relevant news websites, you are likely to read several articles about how text-based communication and online social networking are ‘destroying intimacy,’ possibly making us more...

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The Craziest Emails & Messages Received By A Video Game Journalist

People that are into video games are really effing serious about it. A significant subset of the video gaming audience prefers to immerse itself in video games to the exclusion of all other...

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Five Emotions Invented By The Internet

A vague and gnawing pang of anxiety centered around an IM window that has lulled. During this time an individual feels unsure whether they have offended the IM recipient, committed a breach of IM...

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What It Was Like At Montessori School

As a child, as soon as I reached public school age I began to demonstrate behaviors associated with a highly intelligent child who is bored in an insufficiently challenging environment, or indicative...

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How To Be A Freelance Writer

Being someone who ‘writes for a living’ is a sort of aspirational fantasy. Abstractly, it’s appealing: Who wouldn’t want to be some kind of self-styled word mercenary who is ‘in demand’ enough that...

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Christmas: Limbo In New York City

When I was quite a small child and we had to sing Christmas songs in school, I changed every word regarding Santa Claus to some kind of juvenile slur. Later I made a habit of revealing to other...

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Top 25 Thought Catalog Articles Of 2011

To close the year out, we’ve created a list of 25 of our favorite articles we ran in 2011. They’re in no particular order. Enjoy. 10 Things 90s Kids Will Have To Explain To Their Children by Chelsea...

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There’s More To Being A 20-Something Woman In New York City Than Bad Dates...

Stephanie Georgopulos here. You may recognize me from sites such as…well, this one, mostly. I was an editor at Thought Catalog for two years, over the course of which I met many, many wonderful...

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Anatomy Of Rejecting A Guy I’m Using For Weed And A/C

This is a preface to the chapter, “If Irritation Occurs, Discontinue Use,” in our new book Girls? While I had anticipated the dog days of summer before moving to the East Coast, nobody warned me about...

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