When I turned 13, I wanted a Facebook account because I wanted to play Farmville. I was not interested in posting selfies, updating my status or making virtual friends—I just wanted to produce my own virtual crop and animals. My mom made me complete summer school for the privilege of my first social...

It has been nearly two years of living in a new reality consisting of viruses, masks and online work—something vastly different from what we knew before COVID-19. The pandemic began with toilet paper shortages, which suddenly shifted to disbelief and conspiracies surrounding the virus. Not long after...