Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.
Trending today: a Wall Street Journal piece about the rise of push notifications on cell phones, especially for social-media apps like Instagram. This enables Victor to rant about annoying push notifications – and Aaron to rant about how our behavior as consumers is actively incentivizing businesses to do all these things we claim to hate so much. (See also: why companies keep raising prices, or why we’re still burning so many fossil fuels, or why the media is the way it is.)
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