Podcasts by Whyd You Push That Button?
Why’d you like that celebrity photo on Instagram? Why’d you leave that restaurant review on Yelp? Why’d you text in lowercase, or turn on read receipts, or share your location? The Verge’s Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany ask the hard, weird, and occasionally dumb questions about how your tiny tech decisions impact your social life.
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What does ‘being verified’ actually mean? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
I have sad news today: we’re publishing the season 4 finale of Why’d You Push That Button? The good news, though, is that it’s a really great episode! Today, Kaitlyn Tiffany and I (Ashley Carman) a...
ListenWhy do you use Close Friends on Instagram? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Instagram introduced its Close Friends feature, the ability for users to assign followers to a Close Friends list and only post Stories for them, nearly a year ago. At the time, it seemed like an o...
ListenWhat keeps people on Snapchat? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the social media world, Instagram has dominated as the most used app in 2019, but what happened to Snapchat? Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany dive into where Snapchat is after Instagram stole t...
ListenWhy do you slide into DMs? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 2019, what's really going down in people's Instagram and Twitter direct messages? How has the behavior and usage changed over the past few years? Kaitlyn Tiffany and Ashley Carman interview peop...
ListenIs auto-replying ruining email? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Do you use Gmail's "smart reply" feature when answering e-mails? Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany explore the world of the automated email responses and how it makes us feel as both the sender and...
ListenDeath Online: When celebrities die from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the third and final episode of the Death Online series, Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany analyze why people flock to Twitter after a celebrity dies. Guests include a reporter who is all too fam...
ListenDeath Online: Mourning a robot from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What happens when your robot friend dies? Ashley Carman explores the grieving community surrounding the short-lived social robot Jibo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ListenDeath Online: Planning your digital afterlife from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What’s going to happen to all of your tweets, Instagram photos, and emails when you die? To kick off a special three-part miniseries about Death Online, Ashley and Kaitlyn are in search of the perf...
ListenDoes deleting Instagram make you happier? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
People are becoming more conscious of their phone and app usage to a point that tech companies, including Google and Apple, are building software to deter them from scrolling through apps like Inst...
ListenWhy are you anonymous online? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anonymous accounts can be essential for creatives on the internet and also a tool for others to detach themselves from their work. This week, The Verge’s Ashley Carman and Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany tal...
ListenWhy do you promote your tweets? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Promoting a tweet has been a tool for brands, influencers, and entrepreneurs to spread their message, but why do regular users promote their tweets? Ashley Carman of The Verge and Kaitlyn Tiffany o...
ListenWhy do iPhone users judge people with green text bubbles? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Do you scoff at people who appear in iMessage as a green bubble? Or are you the person with the green bubble that has been unaware of your friends secretly judging you? In the season premiere, Ashl...
ListenWe’re back this week! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A new season of Why’d You Push That Button? is coming May 15th! Ashley Carman of The Verge and Kaitlyn Tiffany of The Goods by Vox will explore more of the tiny decisions that technology forces us ...
ListenShould we be kind to our smart assistants? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Hosts Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany travel to Las Vegas for CES 2019 and chat about what it means to have smart speakers in our homes and as part of our families. Do we need to be kind to them?...
ListenWhy do you use an exclusive dating app? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It’s the season finale of Why’d You Push That Button, and this week, hosts Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany discuss exclusive dating apps. Unlike Tinder, Facebook Dating, Hinge, or most other dati...
ListenWhy do you ask questions anonymously? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
My Instagram followers want to know whether I like veggie chips and how many push-ups I can do in a row. The answer is no and one. On this week’s Why’d You Push That Button, Vox.com’s Kaitlyn Tiffa...
ListenWhy do you post on fake holidays? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Verge’s Why’d You Push That Button squad is in the holiday spirit, so in this week’s episode, hosts Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany discuss hashtag holidays. You might not know the term, but ...
ListenWhy do you send voice messages? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The people who love voice messages love voice messages. Vox.com’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and The Verge’s Ashley Carman aren’t those people. On this week’s Why’d You Push That Button, they discuss voice me...
ListenHow do you choose your emoji skin tone? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How do you choose which emoji skin tone to use? This week on Why’d You Push That Button, Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and The Verge's Ashley Carman discuss the five emoji skin tones (not counting the defa...
ListenWhat makes a place Instagram-worthy? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What makes you post a photo to Instagram? What space is truly worthy of a post? Are we willing to destroy nature for a good pic? This week on Why’d You Push That Button, Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and T...
ListenWhat have you bought on Instagram? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It’s nearly Black Friday, and we’re gearing up with a podcast about shopping, of course. This week on Why’d You Push That Button, Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and The Verge's Ashley Carman discuss Instagr...
ListenWho is your Instagram boyfriend? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on Why’d You Push That Button, Vox.com’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and The Verge's Ashley Carman give the people behind the camera some attention. We’re talking about Instagram boyfriends, or simpl...
ListenWhy do you text like that? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and The Verge's Ashley Carman ask why we type the way we do. Are we really that cool? First, they chat with Ashley's friend Laura who also types in all lowercase al...
ListenWhy did you leave the group chat? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Some of us love our group chats. Others of us hate them and would love nothing more than to leave them all. But why do we want to leave? Maybe you’ve had someone leave a group without giving you a ...
ListenWhen is it okay to record someone? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sometimes you see something happening out in the world, and you feel compelled to record it. You just have to capture it. Is that okay? Legally, are you allowed to record someone without their perm...
ListenWhy do you delete your tweets? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Why’d You Push That Button is back for season 3, and our first episode is a relatively serious one. Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and I catch up on our summers and then dive into everyone’s favorite social...
ListenHow do you break up on Instagram? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The time has come, everyone. Summer is basically here, and Why’d You Push That Buttonis wrapping season two just in time for us to get our butts to the beach. But before we do, we have an episode f...
ListenHave you turned off push notifications? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
I’m deeming this year the year of the push notification solely because of the disaster that was Hawaii’s accidental ballistic missile alert. On this week’s Why’d You Push That Button, Kaitlyn Tiffa...
ListenWhy did you unfollow me? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
I’m calling this week’s episode of Why’d You Push That Button the “politics of unfollowing.” What makes someone click that unfollow button, and why does it hurt our feelings when they do? Kaitlyn a...
ListenHow do you save your Tinder date's phone number? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this special throwback episode of Why’d You Push That Button, Kaitlyn and Ashley revisit an old, one-off podcast episode from Verge Extras about saving phone numbers of people they meet online. ...
ListenWhy is it so hard to build a successful music social network? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We’re chugging along with Why’d You Push That Button. We’ve got a few more episodes left in the season, and today’s is about music social networks. Kaitlyn loves stalking her friends’ Spotify feeds...
ListenWhy do you leave restaurant reviews? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kaitlyn and I love food; take that above photo of us as proof. We’re often conflicted about leaving reviews for restaurants, however. Kaitlyn has never written a Yelp review, whereas I’ve written o...
ListenWhy do you have a finstagram? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on Why’d You Push That Button, Kaitlyn and Ashley analyze fake Instagrams, aka finstas, to find some truth. We talk to a teen, a model, and a reporter to get answers about why people keep...
ListenWhy did you ignore my Facebook event invite? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
I know you only have a Facebook account for event invites, and I get it. This week on Why’d You Push That Button, Kaitlyn and I explore ignored Facebook events. More specifically, we talk about the...
ListenDo you take selfies in public? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Do you take selfies? Do you take them in public? Do you watch other people take selfies in public and judge them harshly, as if it is any of your business? Or, uh, why does anyone have an opinion o...
ListenDoes tech encourage ghosting? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kaitlyn and I went to Texas, ate breakfast tacos, each gained five pounds of happy weight, and more or less became certified brands. We had a good time together. We also successfully pulled off our...
ListenWho owns a meme? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Our first episode of season 2 is about memes and the law, which sounds both boring and scary and is neither. First, we chatted with Vox Media’s Sara Reinis, who told us an unsettling story about he...
ListenHoliday Spectacular 2017 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We've done it, fam. We've finished season one of the podcast. Because it's also the season of giving, and because we love you all, today's episode is dedicated to you. In today's Holiday Spectacula...
ListenWhy do you share your location? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We only have a week left in season one of Why'd You Push That Button?. So savor this episode. Really, soak it up. It's all you'll have to get through winter, other than our Holiday Spectacular epis...
ListenWhy do you hold on to text threads? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on Why’d You Push That Button, we’ve been hypnotized by the romance of New York in December and we’re acting accordingly! Twinkle lights, snow banks, and love letters. I recommend listeni...
ListenHow do you send nudes? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on Why'd You Push That Button?, we're talking about sending nudes. Sending a naked photo of yourself in 2017 doesn't need to be complicated, but with hundreds of thousands of messaging ap...
ListenWhy do you rewatch your own Instagram stories? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Why'd You Push That Button? is back. We took a break last week to feast on Thanksgiving side dishes, and now we've returned to break down why we snack on our own Instagram content. More specificall...
ListenWhy do you stalk people on Venmo? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on Why’d You Push That Button, we’re getting into one of the real soap operas of modern life: Venmo’s public activity feed. Some people never look at it; some people scroll through it dur...
ListenWhy do you share streaming service passwords? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on Why’d You Push That Button, we’re talking about a series of buttons. Specifically, the buttons on your keyboard that you have to use to type out the password to your Netflix, Hulu, or ...
ListenWhy do you like celebrity photos on Instagram? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 q...
ListenWhy do you turn on read receipts? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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-indulge...
ListenWhy do you Super Like people on Tinder? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Our podcast has arrived. You made it. Thank you. In Why'd You Push That Button, my friend and colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany and I, Ashley Carman, ask the questions you're probably already talking about...
ListenComing soon: Why'd You Push That Button? from 2017-10-11T19:19
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...
ListenComing soon: Why'd You Push That Button? from 2017-10-11T19:19
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...
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