Facebook launched a Messenger desktop app for Windows and macOS on Thursday, allowing users to text, voice and video chat for free outside of the social media platform’s website. In a press release, Facebook noted, “Over the past month, we saw more than a 100% increase in people using their desktop browser for audio and…

In two years, TikTok has become a cultural force to reckon with. With over a billion downloads and nearly 500 million active users, the short-form video app is today dominating screens across the world and catching the attention of several western tech giants. Now, YouTube has reportedly trained its sights on the short-form video format’s…

For the longest time, if you wanted the best of Instagram, you needed to go to the app. If you use a desktop as much as you use your phone, this could be frustrating. Slowly but surely, though, the social media favorite has brought more and more of the app features to the Instagram website.…

Hateful online abuse targeting Asian people has increased by a monstrous 900% since the coronavirus outbreak began, according to a report. The Israeli startup L1ght, which tracks online hate speech and cyberbullying, reported that as people have begun spending more time on social networks, gaming services, and chat rooms, hate speech has increased across the…

YTMND — one of the internet’s oldest meme sites — is back to entertain us as we’re all cooped up inside.  Creator of the site, Max Goldberg, announced the meme community’s glorious return to the internet on Sunday after a nearly year-long absence.