A social media influencer Rossi Lorathio Adams II has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for plotting to steal a domain name at gunpoint. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa, Adams on Monday received the sentence after he was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to interfere with…

American singer-songwriter Jason Derulo has been offered $500,000 [₦180,750,000] by a porn site in exchange for posting his semi-nude pictures. TMZ reports that the adult site, CamSoda is making Derulo the offer just to share sexy photos of himself in his underwear. CamSoda says that it will create his own page where he can share…

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri on Friday said that a test of hiding "likes" at the image and photo-sharing social network will spread to the US.

Facebook and Instagram have banned some emojis for being too sexually suggestive. The banned emojis include aubergine, peach and the water drip characters. The aubergine and peach emoji were originally created to represent foods, however the characters are mostly used for the sexual connotations associated with them. The change is part of an update to…

Earlier this year, Instagram clamped down on images that might encourage suicide or self-harm. Now, the video and photo-sharing platform has added drawings and other fictional snippets that also depict self-injury to the list. The Facebook-owned platform started this campaign against such contents after a British teen who went online to read about suicide took…

The Dark mode feature, in recent times, has become widely accepted with the likes of Twitter making it popular and other applications like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Android all following suit. As the name suggests, these involve adjusting the color scheme of the software to prioritise blacks and dark greys, rather than whites and light…

Facebook on Thursday launched Threads, an image-centric messaging app designed to weave tight circles of Instagram friends together while ramping up its challenge to rival Snapchat. Threads is its own separate smartphone app, but ties into lists of "close friends" that Instagram began letting users create late last year, according to the director of product…

A recent article in The Guardian of the UK, titled “Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language,” critically outlines the issues regarding the possibility of a breakdown in communication due to the deterioration in the quality of the English language spoken in the world today.

According to a new study published in the 'Journal of Research in Personality' says Selfies on Instagram May Hurt Your Likability. The study was conducted by researchers at Washington State University and the University of Southern Mississippi. Around 100 undergraduates were asked to rate the Instagram profiles of 30 study volunteers. The volunteers granted researchers access…

It is perhaps no longer news that a once upon moral, cultural and spiritual society of ours has so degenerated in values to the extent that some perverted people now openly advertise their erogenous zones for commerce.

Posing in a bath of pink balls or throwing up handfuls of multicoloured confetti, teenagers and 20-somethings snap away at a purpose-built London mini-studio for social media selfies.

Social media giant Facebook is apparently taking tips from Snapchat's playbook with their new companion messaging app for Instagram called Threads, which is currently being tested out by the company’s employees, The Verge reports. Threads is "designed to promote constant, automatic sharing between users" that will be determined by their Instagram "close friends" list. It’s…