Scrolling through Instagram recently, I saw a picture that an old friend from high school had posted of his dad with the caption announcing his father’s death. It was terrible news, and I immediately ...

NEW YORK -- Bad news for people who frequently use the "laugh cry" emoji: It is no longer cool. In recent weeks, two internet-savvy generations have been clashing in videos and comments on TikTok over ...

The Stanford Internet Observatory has released an extensive analysis on Gettr, the largely unmoderated right-wing Twitter clone founded by longtime Trump spokesperson Jason Miller. The details—which ...

When words fail on social media, emojis often step in to fill the void: Those smiling, laughing and crying faces, among many other weird little images intended to help communicate emotion. Just be ...

Optical illusions have emerged as a favorite pastime of people, becoming viral on social media. These puzzles are not only fun, but they also test how sharp our eyes are and how quickly the mind works ...

Bad news for people who frequently use the 😂 emoji: It is no longer cool. In recent weeks, two internet-savvy generations have been clashing in videos and comments on TikTok over the hallmarks of ...

Yesterday, Oxford Dictionaries announced that its Word of the Year of 2015 is 😂, otherwise designated as “Face with Tears of Joy” by the Unicode Consortium. Who did this, fam? In the announcement, ...