Zoe Strimpel Zoe Strimpel

Clubhouse left me with one question: why am I here?

The latest social-media sensation is like Twitter but with actual screaming

Clubhouse satisfies our new, pandemic-fuelled appetite to yammer. Credit: Nina Leen/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images 
issue 13 March 2021
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For my 13th birthday in 1995 I requested — and got — my own ‘line’. This meant that I could jabber all night without taking the phone out of service for everyone else. Getting your own line was a rite of passage for teenage girls in America back then, and everybody just sighed and let us get on with it.

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