It was back in 2016 when Yo Gotti first popularized the phrase, “It goes down in the DMs.” While some tech fads come and go, direct messages have continued to be one of the most happening areas of ...

Ilana*, 24, who lives in New York City, met her boyfriend because he slid into her Instagram DMs. As the story goes, she listed her Instagram handle in her Bumble dating profile, and he found and ...

Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...

Dating in the modern era is especially hard. Which is why we’ve enlisted qualified dating coach and relationship expert Sera Bozza to use her famous ‘no bullshit approach’ to untangle the curliest of ...

Whether your crush is one of your best friends, a classmate, a friend of a friend, someone you've never actually met IRL, or Chris Evans himself, the DMs are typically a common and safe place to make ...

Sending a direct message is like taking a shot in the dark and hoping the numbers come correct. It’s like gambling, basically, which is why when Yo Gotti proclaimed in glory that “It does down in the ...

Instagram is one of the social networks where you might find yourself endlessly scrolling through various feeds and looking at reels, all while dealing with the ads that make Meta money. That ...