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Ghost Posts Arrive on Threads – Smart Move or Just Following Trend?

The Threads app by Instagram now lets you create posts that disappear in 24 hours.

By Alexandra Arici – Oct 29, 2025

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Meet Irys: The Photo Social Network Instagram Will Never Be

Tired of ads, trends, and algorithms on Instagram? If you love photography, try out Irys, a new social network for photographers.

By Crystal Crowder – Oct 28, 2025

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With the Messenger desktop app shutting down, it’s time to quickly save your Messenger desktop chats before they’re gone forever.

By Crystal Crowder – Oct 27, 2025

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Prank Your Friends By Sending a Blank Message on WhatsApp

If your social media conversations are starting to feel a bit dull, try playing a harmless prank on your friends by sending them a blank message.

By Alexandra Arici – Oct 24, 2025

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Tips for Finding Your Next Job on Facebook Marketplace

Find out how to use the Facebook job board in the Marketplace for your next role.

By Crystal Crowder – Oct 15, 2025

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Use WhatsApp’s New In-App Translation Feature on Your iPhone

WhatsApp now allows you to communicate without any language barrier.

By Oluwatokiloba Folami – Oct 14, 2025

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How to Keep Your Snapchat Memories Without Paying

Snapchat has announced it will start charging for storing Memories, prompting frustration among many long-time users.

By Alexandra Arici – Oct 7, 2025

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What Do Symbols Mean on Instagram Direct Messages

You will find a bunch of icons in the Instagram chat that may feel a bit overwhelming. This guide covers all the Instagram symbols in DM, along with their meanings.

By Alexandra Arici – Oct 3, 2025

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Why Shuffles Makes Creating Collages Surprisingly Addictive

Shuffles attempts to make collages cool again, by providing a surprisingly fresh way to create, share, and connect with others.

By Alexandra Arici – Sep 30, 2025

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What is Hype on YouTube and Why You Should Do It

If you’ve seen hype on YouTube videos, this is your chance to help your favorite smaller creators finally get the recognition they deserve.

By Crystal Crowder – Sep 18, 2025

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How to Get a Streak Pet and Play More Games on TikTok

You can hatch a virtual pet by creating a streak with your friend, or dive into mini-games to play together.

By Alexandra Arici – Sep 17, 2025

Snapchat Infinite Retention

Snapchat Infinite Retention: The End of Disappearing Chats?

Snapchat’s infinite retention feature saves chats forever. Discover how it changes the app and its implications.

By Henderson Jayden Harper – Sep 16, 2025

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How to Recognize Grokking On X and Avoid Being the Next Victim

Do you always trust Grok? Find out about Grokking and how to avoid becoming the next victim just from asking Grok about an ad.

By Crystal Crowder – Sep 13, 2025

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How to Create and Use an Instagram Avatar

Discover how to create an Instagram avatar based on your own appearance, then turn it into fun avatar stickers with our step-by-step guide.

By Alexandra Arici – Sep 6, 2025

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How to Delete Your Facebook’s Browsing History

If the thought of your digital footprint lingering online makes you uneasy, you can delete your partial or all Facebook history.

By Alexandra Arici – Aug 22, 2025

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How to Create a Shortcut on Snapchat

If your Snapchat activity revolves around the same few friends, you’ll love the app’s shortcuts feature.

By Alexandra Arici – Aug 20, 2025

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How to Hide Likes & Comments in Instagram Reels Friends Tab

Instagram’s new Friends tab has sparked some privacy concerns among users who don’t want their likes and comments on display.

By Alexandra Arici – Aug 18, 2025

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How You Can Bypass Snapchat’s Screenshot Without Notification

Ever tried to screenshot Snapchat without a notification, only to be stopped by its tightened security?

By Henderson Jayden Harper – Aug 14, 2025

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Use Instagram Map to Share Your Location with Friends

If you just want to check in on where your friends are posting content from, you can now check Instagram map.

By Crystal Crowder – Aug 9, 2025

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How to Notify Friends You Got Home Safely on Snapchat

Snapchat now lets its users notify friends and family when they’ve arrived at their destination.

By Alexandra Arici – Aug 5, 2025

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ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

Jun 9, 2026

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

Jun 9, 2026

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The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Jun 9, 2026

French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

Jun 9, 2026

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When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many

Jun 9, 2026

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When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked up its signal in January 2018 while hunting for a classified spy satellite, and the spacecraft turned out to be still spinning, still powered, and still trying to phone home after 13 years of silence.

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