If you were worried that your constant texting was ruining your ability to write prose like the masters, chill da fuck out. A new study out of Australia and Canada shows that your simple human brain is actually skilled enough to go from standard English to txt spk and back again. Cool!
Have you been praying for some sort of cataclysmic global event to bring about the end of technology so you no longer have to endure the technological tyranny that is texting? Well, good news!
Young Americans are widely presumed to be sexting constantly — in class, at home, on a plane, on a train, while eating green eggs and ham. But, according to a new study, not all those dirty messages are sent out of an overabundance of hormones. Turns out there are a lot of unenthusiastic sexters out there.
Before OMG meant "Oh My God," SWALK meant "Sealed With A Loving Kiss," ITALY meant "I Trust And Love You," EGYPT meant "Eager to Grab Your Pretty Tits." Your grandparents were pervs.
It's hard to be a passive-aggressive person in an age of waning face-to-face communication, all but robbed of the microexpressions you need to make people feel bad without actually saying anything. Thank goodness our old dotty end of sentence friend the period is here to help.
Hey, remember this guy? The one who posted a hilariously specific list of stringent requirements for his ideal (super hot and DEFINITELY NOT BLACK) girlfriend? Well, I'm sorry to inform you that he's back. And this time, we've got sexts.
Everyone thinks love times were simpler in past eras, when you got married to the first guy you looked at the second you turned 16 after exactly three dates, one side-long glance, and an accidental hand-brush. But if Jane Austen has taught us anything, it's that it has never been simple to like a person, not even…
A woman was driving while distracted on her cell phone, and veered into oncoming traffic. Then, a fellow driver took her phone and smashed it. TCB, sir.
An art gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn will be dropping trou on a brand new exhibition this weekend: a treasury of dick pics, many of which were obtained under false pretenses, and all of which are being showcased without consent. Gentle readers, I know I say this a lot, but this time I mean it, hard: I hate this.
Dudes. DUDES. If you're concerned that you may be overstepping boundaries by doing something creepy — like, say, texting a reporter you don't know to tell her she's distractingly hot — ask yourself whether you'd attach your name to the deed. Not willing to stand by your Nice Guy compliments, however well-intentioned…
Not content to leave all those trend pieces to its rival the Grey Lady, the Wall Street Journal joins us this week to let the world know that millennials like to text and Gchat with their moms, especially while at work. Click out of this box and get over to your email to send this link to the woman that birthed you…
Allow me to paint you a picture. Imagine you're asked to attend the wedding of a former colleague, and suppose you say yes. Instead of giving a more traditional wedding gift, you decide to go rogue by curating your own gift baskets filled with culinary delights like marshmallow fluff and Jolly Ranchers. You attach a…
In 2011, the National Sleep Foundation polled over 1,500 Americans and found that ninety-five percent of respondents used some form of technology in the hour before bed. That's not great, especially considering new research suggesting that all that time you spend reading Wikipedia's Unusual Deaths page in the comfort…
Bird flu. Spanish flu. SARS. Zombification. Smallpox. These diseases strike fear into the hearts of hypochondriac humans everywhere, as well they should. We live on an overcrowded planet teeming with drug-resistant bacteria, unwitting biological terrorists like Gwyneth Paltrow in Contagion, and a CDC that, let’s…
As any human being who has ever set foot upon a college campus can tell you, kids these days love to spend their time hunched over any screen they can find, and most of them find that way more diverting and fulfilling than every other thing in the world.
In the ongoing effort to curb the disquieting rash of texting-while-driving incidents, transportation officials in Alberta have rolled out a glossy new $380,000 radio, billboard, and online ad-campaign warning drivers not to be distracted by their luminescent nethers while merging onto the highway.
Womanzine's Emoji issue (!!!) is chock-full of emotive goodness — emoji haiku, emojis we all wish existed (example: "Did I leave my scarf at your house?"), slut-shaming emoji, The Shining summarized in emoji — it's dreamy.
The next time you wake up in a cold sweat after a terrifying nightmare about being kidnapped, it might not be the fault of your crazy neuroses/reading too many inappropriate thrillers as a child. A new national Amber Alert system rolled out earlier this month to millions of cell phones around the country, and the…
A Philadelphia private school may have quite the legal mess on its hands after Arthur "Chuck" Matthews, a former math teacher at the school, filed a racial-discrimination suit claiming that he was fired from Springside Chestnut Hill Academy without cause. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Matthews was terminated…
It seems like a dangerous precedent to start dialing 911 every time you get a nonsense text from a relative—if we're using that as a metric then pretty much everyone in my family over the age of 50 is having a stroke at all times. But, of course, as interpersonal communication shifts more and more toward the digital…
