On the Radar: Bring Your Bible, ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ and Why Crumbl Cookies Went Viral, Best TV Shows to Binge Watch

Bring Your Bible Was a Smashing Success

What? More than one million students (representing more than 5,000 churches and 50,000 schools) took their Bibles to school on Thursday as part of Focus on the Family’s annual Bring Your Bible Day event.

So What? Bring Your Bible Day aims to empower and encourage kids, teens and adults to boldly share their faith everywhere they go. And it educates them on their rights regarding religious freedom.

Now What? It’s never too late to participate. Visit focusonthefamily.com/live-it to learn more about Bring Your Bible and the Live It Challenge. You’ll be joining more than 223,000 families who have already signed up. And you’ll receive information about fun challenges, how to talk about Jesus and more.

The ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ Trend Won’t Protect Your Privacy

What? Folks are sharing the “Goodbye Meta AI” Instagram Story template in the hope that it will prevent Meta from using their information and photographs to train its new artificial intelligence generator.

So What? Lead Stories fact-checked this trend and found that this is, in fact, not true. Users in Europe can object via a form in their account settings, but posting the Goodbye Meta AI text anywhere on your account will not legally exempt you. (The MIT Technology Review reported that setting social media accounts to “private” might be helpful though.)

Now What? This trend has been identified as “copypasta,” or text containing information that’s often not true, but which is repeatedly copied and pasted online. Natalia Cortazar, founder of the influencer agency The Good Egg, compared it to the email chains of the 1990s and 2000s that threatened death if you didn’t forward to at least five friends.

Social Media Turned a Cookie into a Status Symbol

What? Crumbl Cookies is a popular bakery chain that recently went viral after fans flew to Hawaii, purchased $6000 worth of its cookies and resold them at an upcharge in Australia. (The brand currently only operates in the United States.)

So What? There are many debates regarding the legality of these actions, but what’s really interesting is how much Australian influencers were willing to pay in order to post about the cookies on social media. The desserts sell for about 5 bucks a pop stateside, but Aussies paid $17.50 per cookie, all in the name of social media.

Now What? Parents, we live in a world where the ultimate status symbol might be (at least this week) being able to afford a cookie. Personally, I don’t buy the Crumbl hype. They’re too sweet for me. Plus, for the same price, I can bake three or four dozen of my grandma’s chocolate chip cookies. So maybe it’s time we talk to our kids about what we place value in.

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