These movies fuel the absurdly overblown notion that Christians in America are being persecuted.

• How the Christian movie series God’s Not Dead fails to be Christian

A substantial portion of this article examines the idea of chasing trends. SEO and SMO, in particular, are targeted as scapegoats. To an extent, that's a fair assessment - if news media cover a particular topic only because it's trending on search or social, it doesn't necessarily lead to quality content. The better route is to cover the topics of your own expertise and view search and social as tools for getting your content to an audience interested in it. The "O" in SEO and SMO stands for optimization, not game-the-system.

• Why so many media companies are on the brink of disaster

I often wish I could abandon Facebook altogether. I find Twitter extremely useful for work, but I rarely use it outside the office. Instagram is littered with junk posts (personally, I consider anything that isn't a photo you shot yourself to be spam), and I can't keep up with their stories vs. Snapchat's.

Social media has become a mostly joyless pastime that we turn to out of habit with the hope that maybe, just maybe, we'll stumble across something interesting.

As I've argued for years, Facebook's failure is that your friends aren't interesting. However, on the platforms where we follow people based on interest rather than acquaintance, social media works.

• The End of the Social Era Can't Come Soon Enough

This issue of kids being targeted by rogue YouTube accounts frightens me, but having worked in media, I know the solution is far from simple.

• Is YouTube's Algorithm Endangering Kids?

Mara Wilson delivers a scathing commentary of the sexualization of child actors that we should be ashamed even needed to be written.

• Matilda Actress Mara Wilson: A 13-Year-Old Girl Is Not "All Grown Up"

Looking back at how ignorant news media were regarding social media in its early days, we should continue to question what aspects of social media newsrooms are neglecting now.

• After a decade, it’s time to reinvent social media in newsrooms

Whether or not you supported Bush, it's stuff like this that makes you miss his presidency.

• Why George W. Bush stood there and took the wrath of a soldier's mom. Listen up, Donald Trump.