The More You Scroll Van Valin Productions

“Online privacy” can seem like a contradictory statement. How private can our online lives really be? This week we find out! We tackle how and why our activity is tracked, the pros and cons of targeted ads, and if anyone actually reads those daunting Terms and Conditions. Colin tells us he’s more than happy to pay the ads away, especially after slogging through The Bachelor with ads. Anna shares her favorite data breaches of all time…including a popular vibrator company that was making VERY d...

Video calls have made some things easier, some things harder, and pretty much everything weirder. This week we’re talking about that sweet Zoom life we’re all living: how moving our social and work lives into gallery mode has affected us, the murky waters of Zoom etiquette, navigating co-working from home with our partners, and how “business casual” has gotten a little more...casual. Colin tells us about his existential crisis over drinking OJ on camera and argues that the deck of the Starshi...

Social media is a hot mess of risk and reward. In this episode, we tackle a core element of our social media lives: following and unfollowing. We talk about who we follow, who we don’t, and how you can reconnect with people (and sometimes marry them). Colin shares how he pulled off a mass follower culling, and Anna tells us how dramatic run-ins with basset hounds and a vengeful hairdresser made her think hard before ever hitting ‘follow’ again. In our Troubleshooting segment, we give tips on ...

The news is like your shadow: you can’t get away from it and it is DARK. In this episode, we tackle wrangling our newsfeeds and ask “how do we stay informed without losing our minds?” We talk through how and why we pick our news sources, the boundaries we set around our news consumption (and whether they work), and how getting your news from social media is like reading the review before you see the movie. Colin suggests some aspirational rules for posting articles on social media. Anna argue...

In our premiere episode, co-hosts Anna Van Valin and Colin Foy take their quest for a healthy relationship with the internet back to the beginning. The two Millennials reminisce about their earliest memories of the internet coming into their middle-schooler lives. For Anna, it was AOL message boards for “The X-Files” superfans, and Colin remembers when his dad gave his mom the most romantic gift of all: her own email address. They trace how we got from waiting all night for a Dave Matthews Ba...

Introducing "The More You Scroll" - a podcast about trying to stay sane on the internet. Hosted by Anna Van Valin (Every Day is a Food Day, Screen Dive) and Colin Foy (Lindenfield, SeriusXM. Subscribe now & connect with us on Instagram at @themoreuscroll and at themoreyouscroll.com