In an interview with Access Hollywood on the Emmy Awards red carpet on Monday, 14-year-old Stranger Things actor Millie Bobby Brown proudly broadcasted that she is friends with 31-year-old rapper Drake and the two sometime text about boys.
People are tweeting, this week and always. Poorly considered takes, myopic loyalties, slow drips of neurosis, and things we should conceal from others but instead, indulging our confessional urges or a drive toward self-sabotage, share publicly. When I see the tweets I wonder: Do they not have group text?
A new study from the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University found that in an analysis of over 450 stories from teenage girls aged 12 to 18, over two-thirds of the participants reported being asked for nude photos.
Dear Jane,
Michelle Carter, the woman who in 2014 urged her boyfriend to commit suicide, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, ABC News reports. She will serve 15 months of that sentence, with the rest suspended, with five years of probation to follow.
Welcome to Dear Jane, Jezebel’s new advice column.
To much applause, a Texas man named Brandon Vezmar is suing a woman he took out on a date because she texted during Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Vezmar is seeking $17.31, the cost of a ticket for a 3D screening of the film. This is bad.
Nicki Minaj: boss of all media or textual fascist? Either could apply to the multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, depending on your point of view, after beholding the following string of tweets she unleashed this weekend regarding things she does and does not accept in the text messages she receives:
If you love receipts—in the Whitney Houston “I wanna see the receipts”-for-my-alleged-$730,000 drug bill sense of the word (which others just call “proof”)—well, has Page Six got a story for you. Last week, Married to the Mob clothing line boss Leah McSweeney called SNL’s Michael Che “so arrogant and so rude and…
A reminder to anyone who wasn’t already feeling sick with fear at the prospect of our society’s swift and inevitable decline: there is going to be a movie about emojis, it is called—wait for it—Emojimovie: Express Yourself, and it is coming out next August. Maybe we’ll all be dead by then.
A recent poll conducted by BuzzFeed reveals that not enough people are swapping nude photos.
Warning: if you’re someone who uses a period at the end of a sentence in a text, the person on the receiving end might think you’re full of bullshit, according to a new study. Researchers at Binghamton University found that text messages ending with a period are perceived to be less sincere compared to messages that…
Fashion Month: So exciting! So glamorous! So many beautiful models, who are very bored and tired!
Have you ever texted the wrong person by mistake and then wondered if that person was maybe your soulmate and then the person texted back, “New number, who dis?” That did not happen to these two strangers who fell in love after randomly texting each other.
Go ahead. Just try to deny that you’ve ever texted while hoofing it across town. You’re only lying to yourselves, my babies. In any case, it’s time for all of us to change our ways before we kill ourselves.
In order to physically get with a person, it helps to meet in person, OK? This is not rocket sex science, it is a fact. So if you have met someone you like, do this one simple trick: Try texting them and asking them to hang out with you at a specific place on a specific day at a specific time. Come on guys, you got…
Life is full of regrets. And for so many of us, those regrets live inside our phones, in the form of awful, terrible, no good sext attempts we can never, ever take back. In this world, each of us is doomed at some point to be the Jonathan Franzen of our own private erotic novel, churning out the most genital-withering…
Sexting is embarrassing and regrettable and bad, and none of us can stop doing it. That’s the conclusion, anyway, that we can draw from the news of a married Missouri Republican sending emoji-filled sexts to an intern. Or married Democrat Anthony Weiner doing the same thing. Or Ben Stein. Or an anesthesiologist who…
Congressman James Clyburn is the latest elected official to demonstrate they don't necessarily have a nuanced understanding of new technology.
An unidentified French man was sentenced this week to 10 months in jail for a campaign of harassment against his former girlfriend, which resulted in the tens of thousands of calls and texts in less than a year.
