Every social media platform has something that sets it apart from the rest. And while my big three happen to be a TikTok sun, Instagram moon, and Pinterest rising, even the most “offline” people can ...

Go ahead and flaunt those wonderful comments for all to see. Credit: Photo illustration by Omar Marques / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images If you're trying to inject some positivity into ...

In the 2010s, news publishers couldn’t shut their comment sections fast enough. The space “below the line” had become a noisy, thankless place to spend your time, where bile and bad-faith arguments ...

There's an estimated total of 44 million social media users in the UK (at Statistica's last count, which was in early 2018). That's 66 per cent of us who are selfie-ing, Story-ing and Snapchatting on ...

No one should be made to feel unsafe, harassed, targeted, abused, or harmed online or off. When it's happening on social media apps, it's up to the platform itself to effectively tackle this. So what ...

If you're old enough to remember Vine, you've probably heard of its spiritual successor, TikTok. TikTok is a social media app that has gained popularity in recent years. TikTok users can film videos ...

Whether you’re digging up cringey old comments from years ago or racking your brain to remember the joke you made under someone’s post last week, searching for Instagram comments can be a useful way ...

On YouTube, highlighted comments serve many purposes. At a basic level, however, they are there to grab your attention so you can interact with the comment. And, for clarification, only you can see ...

Content warning: This article contains mentions of racial discrimination against First Nations people. Comments pages on social media too often constitute an echo-chamber for racist rhetoric being ...

Toxic and hateful comments on YouTube have been a constant headache for the company, creators and users. The company has previously attempted to curtail this by introducing features such as showing an ...

Earlier this week, Vice's technology and science news site Motherboard dropped its comments section, opting to replace it with an old school "letters to the editor" feature. Then Reddit launched a ...

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