![]() ![]() Welcome to Green Bank, population 143, where Wi-Fi is both unavailable and banned and where cellphone signals are nonexistent. “We fight over the computer,” said Charity, 18. When Charity wants to get online at home, she sits at her family’s desktop computer, which has a broadband connection that is so sluggish, it takes minutes to load a YouTube video. Texting and driving? “It’s not a thing here,” she said. She makes phone calls from a landline, and she rarely texts her friends. Sure, Charity has an iPhone, but she uses it mostly as a clock and a calculator. So do viral sensations like augmented reality filters on Snapchat and Instagram.Īnd when a Facebook fad had people all over the globe dumping ice water on their heads a few summers ago, Charity Warder, now a senior at Pocahontas County High School, was late to the game. Viral dance memes and dance challenges on TikTok largely bypass Green Bank, West Virginia. ![]()
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