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If Emily Posted: FTC Disclosure and The Rules of Civility

If we want to be taken seriously as bloggers, we must take blogging seriously. I wrote that when I began If Emily Posted, when I found myself overwhelmed by the Wild West behavior online. Almost a year and a half after I began writing IEP, I still believe my initial hypothesis to be true: Most […]

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Thinspiration and Social Media: No More Mixed Messages

A week ago Thursday, I took a break from writing to wander off to Twitter, as one does. A message came up in my feed, with an Instagram link, and I clicked to view. Without thinking twice, I immediately responded. The tweet was sort of a social media snowball – Jonathan Adler’s company was tweeting […]