--- --- # The Like Button Ruined the Internet by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 24, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 24, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how the like button ruined the internet.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/how-the-like-button-ruined-the-internet/519795/) By James Somers in the _Atlantic_ **2\.** [**Why are our kids sleep-deprived? Blame suburban sprawl.**](https://www.citylab.com/navigator/2017/03/suburban-sprawl-stole-your-kids-sleep/520317/) By Mimi Kirk in _CityLab_ **3\.** [**The rest of the world is facing a refugee crisis. America is not.**](http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/there-no-refugee-crisis-here-how-united-states-refugees-differ-europes) By Hamutal Bernstein at the _Urban Institute_ **4\.** [**This drone might soon be airlifting casualties out of war zones.**](https://www.defensetech.org/2017/03/23/dp14-hawk/) By Matt Cox in _DefenseTech_ **5\.** [**The gig economy celebrates working yourself to death.**](http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death) By Jia Tolentino in the _New Yorker_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas: The Like Button Ruined the Internet ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4712230/the-like-button-ruined-the-internet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4712230/the-like-button-ruined-the-internet/"},"headline":"The Like Button Ruined the Internet","datePublished":"2017-03-24T16:00:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:58.711Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4712230/the-like-button-ruined-the-internet/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Social Media","Innovation","Sleep","Refugees","Drones","Gig Economy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4712230/the-like-button-ruined-the-internet/","name":"The Like Button Ruined the Internet"}}]}] ```