When Annlyse Retiveau leaned in to sniff my armpits, I held my own breath as she inhaled. I’ve spent a vast majority of my life using products to avoid this precise critique—another human intentionally evaluating my armpit aroma. Yet, whether we like it or not, humans do smell each other, and we can glean useful social cues and health information from the body odor of others, albeit sometimes unconsciously. There’s nothing unconscious about Retiveau’s sniffing.

A few days ago, I received an email from a man I’ll call Mark (that’s not his real name) who follows me on social media. Mark’s message to me went like this: “The girl I love tells me all the time that I’m immature and need to grow up. How can I make myself more mature?” Upon reading this message initially, I chuckled. Something about the idea of just making yourself more mature sounded silly to me.

If you’ve signed into Twitter in the last month or so, you may have noticed that your newsfeed feels a little different. You’re probably seeing lots more tweets from accounts you don’t follow. Some of those might be tweets that people in your network have “liked.” Others might be those Twitter says are “based on your likes.” What you’re probably seeing far fewer of are tweets from accounts that you, you know, actually chose to follow yourself.

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