Instagram is not only a place for sharing photos and videos, you can also send direct messages to other users. In this article, we will explain how to send and receive direct messages from both people ...

Facebook is making it easier to contact people via Messenger: all you need is their name. Now, when someone sends you a message who isn’t at least a friend of a friend or has your phone number, it ...

Despite how many notifications you might have enabled on your phone, there could be more hiding in Instagram's secret inboxes. Not familiar with Instagram's Message Request inbox? The feature is not ...

Users who you don't follow are able to send you direct messages on Instagram. Unlike messages sent by your contacts, these messages appear as message requests in the Instagram direct message folder.

Now, people you don’t follow can only send you one, text-only message to request to connect. Now, people you don’t follow can only send you one, text-only message to request to connect. is a news ...

Srivatsa has been an Android loyalist for a long time. He quit his IT job to share the same passion as a writer and reviewer. Previously, he was at TechRadar. Signal is probably the best option ...

Waiting for a response to an important, time-sensitive email can be frustrating. You're left wondering whether the person you want to hear from is busy and hasn't yet gotten to your mail or has read ...

Phone numbers are dumb. Once someone has yours, you can’t stop them from contacting you. Someone might want you to call them, but if you don’t have their random string of digits, you can’t. And you ...

In an earlier column I showed how to add custom processing to every request or response that your ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET Web API site receives or produces. In that column, I offhandedly remarked about ...

So, your old high school buddy just messaged you on Facebook that your account has been cloned. What should you do? The correct answer is to do nothing. The act of sending the message is the scam.