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The '90s were a simpler time. We were so excited about the internet -- as soon as your sister got off the phone, a landline, of course, you could dial back in to the World Wide Web through your soul-crushingly slow modem. If only we'd known about the horrors to come. We even had a warning: "You've Got Mail.""The Net" had already hinted at the nightmare of a connected world. But it was "You've Got Mail," the first rom-com about online dating, that really rang alarm bells.Directed and cowritten by Nora Ephron, "You've Got Mail" was a 1998 update of the classic 1940 movie "The Shop Around the Corner." (Bonus trivia for film nerds: a musical adaptation called "In the Good Old Summertime" came out in 1949.)
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lacktivismThe real-life conflict between the two pen pals involves Kathleen's independent bookshop taking on the might of Joe's corporate retail chain. But like today's online "slacktivists" who sign digital petitions and share memes rather than, say, donate money or volunteer their time, Kathleen is all talk. Instead of supporting her local coffee spot, she's shown treating herself to a Starbucks every morning.Honestly, there's no genuine commitment to causes. That's the problem with today's activists.