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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Picture this: You're out with friends and you really hit it off with a hottie you couldn't resist. You love their laugh, compliment them on their smooth pickup lines, and bond over how Supernatural ...

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 ...

A DM slide is the act of greasing into someone’s Direct Messages inbox on Twitter or Instagram with the intention of having some private banter. It’s a way to take an otherwise public conversation ...

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 ...

Lizzo may have no trouble getting people to slide into her DMs, but if you happen to not be a Grammy-nominated singer/rapper/flautist with confidence of steel, sending a direct message might be ...

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 ...

Hey, DM-ers, let us let you in on one of Instagram's little secrets, shall we? It's called Vanish Mode, and it allows you to send direct messages that vanish once you exit the chat (aka there's no ...

Jenna Bush Hager just put Hoda Kotb onto the art of sliding into someone’s DMs. Country singer Kelsea Ballerini recently revealed she and her boyfriend, Outer Banks actor Chase Stokes, met after she ...