Just as you wouldn’t want to give any personal identity information to someone via email, you want to use the same practices via text message. There is a new wave of fraud that tries to trick... Read more >>

When human communication becomes bound by the size of a phone screen and the number of keys that your finger can zap in one second, relationships can take some pretty windy detours. Especially in the... Read more >>

As IMs, text messages, and emails have become the predominant way to ask someone out on a date, I think it has gotten easier to figure out whether someone is actually interested in you. It’s... Read more >>

Last year I dated a guy who snooped through my phone while I was in the shower. He admitted this to me after my obligatory, halfhearted prying of, “What’s wrong?” in response to his... Read more >>

It’s 6 a.m. I wake up to the text message bleep on my phone alerting me that my boyfriend, Paul, has sent me a “good morning luv <3” before heading to his first class of the day.... Read more >>

Most teens do a lot of texting on their phones. But just one—sixteen-year-old Alexander Kendrick—has come up with a new invention in text messaging that could save lives and revolutionize... Read more >>

If your work is putting a strain on your relationships (thanks to the constant connectedness technology allows today), it may be time to step away from the PDA—at least long enough to work on... Read more >>

It was an afternoon of non-sequiturs. As if serendipity herself had decided to take me by the arm this sunny day in Palo Alto. I live in San Francisco, and rather half-heartedly had agreed to meet... Read more >>

We started sending messages to each other on and off maybe two or three years ago. I was probably in third year college when we started sending messages to each other. I took his number from my... Read more >>