If my grandma were to read my inbox (an event I sincerely hope never takes place), she would rejoice in the knowledge that I had finally found a boyfriend and his name was LinkedIn. Since signing up to it five years ago to try to stalk a boy at my …

Instagram users fed up with the service becoming more and more such as Facebook are flocking to a hot new app called Vero. … word-of-mouth interest from online groups and a frustration with the flood of ads, lack of privacy options and the recent end to the chronological ordering of …

According to TechCrunch, Instagram app's APK for Android has hidden codes and icons for “Call” and “Video Call” function. The function has been spotted in the platform's codes as well as in its standalone Direct messaging app. While Instagram refused to comment on the existence of these features but … Read …

Instagram users fed up with the service becoming more and more like Facebook are flocking to a hot new app called Vero, the CEO of which is Ayman Hariri – half-brother to Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Vero lets you share photos and video just like Instagram, plus it lets you …

Instagram might soon follow on the footsteps of Facebook-owned WhatsApp to add voice and video calling features. Instagram, which started as a photo-sharing platform, is likely to transform into one-stop shop for social messaging and staying in touch with friends in the future. According to TechCrunch … Read More

Currently, the feature lets a user delete a message within seven minutes, but now, WhatsApp is raising the time hurdle to 4,096 seconds. The instant messaging app will now allow a user to use the 'delete for everyone' option on messages for approximately 68 minutes, which means you can delete …

Finally, WhatsApp is reportedly working on a forward message tag feature which will mark/tag every forwarded message in a chat. Its a great feature that indicates if a message has been forwarded from other chat. The move if nothing classifies forwards, and could be amongst the first steps to combat … …

For months, university students Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte had been tracking about 1,500 political propaganda accounts on Twitter that appeared to have been generated by computers when they noticed something odd. In the hours after the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the bots, … Read More

Facebook's self-regulatory contortions in the wake of fake news and trolling scandals have gone on, with little visible effect, for months. Now Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey has announced his company is going to try a different tack — but Dorsey's approach is arguably even more far-fetched than … Read …

The bigger the role that social media plays in our lives, the more annoyed we get at its imperfections. Whether it's personal abuse, invasive advertising, worries about privacy or just sheer information overload, people vent their frustration (on social media, naturally) in their tens of thousands, and many … Read More