It’s their calling, er, texting card. Fashion, vernacular and musical preferences aren’t the only cultural indicators of age. A digital wizard claims he can tell whether someone’s a boomer, millennial or Generation Z solely based on how they text. “This is how you can tell someone’s age by how they type on their phone,” declared … Read more
He made her an offer she (almost) couldn’t refuse. A savvy granddaughter saved her grandma from divulging sensitive information to a scammer posing online as Robert De Nero. Gina Morgan, a 76-year-old from South Wales in the United Kingdom, got into a lengthy chit-chat on Facebook with someone posing as the “Godfather Part II” star, … Read more
WTF BRO, LOL?! Trying to decipher Gen Z-speak can be like endeavoring to crack the DaVinci code for most folks over age 30. While millennials and Xillennials have largely grown accustomed to spicing up their in-person and online communications with cool acronyms like “LMAO,” “G2G” or “YOLO,” teens and twenty-somethings are now ushering out the … Read more
It’s an age-old question: How do you really feel? Comprehending someone’s communication style can be challenging, especially through text messages, which can lead to misunderstandings and unintentionally hurting the other person’s feelings. And one of the hardest obstacles that women specifically encounter when dating someone is unclear communication, according to an expert. “These conversations generally … Read more
DEAR ABBY: I am a gay man who matched with another guy on a dating site two years ago this month. At first, we texted constantly. No one has ever made me feel the way he made me feel through texting alone. He displayed qualities that set him apart from anyone else I have talked … Read more
It’s an act of text-pionage. A concerned parent has issued a warning after she discovered her child sending “concealed” texts to their friends, as detailed in a viral Reddit post. “My child has found a way to conceal texts,” the unnamed guardian lamented while describing her child’s incognito correspondence on the subreddit Apple/help. They also … Read more
Grandma, did you mean to send that eggplant emoji? A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Nottingham found that older people tended to misuse emojis — such as surprised, fearful, sad and angry reactions — to express their emotions through texting. Many people use emojis in chats to add spice, laughter or … Read more
One text from a woman’s potential suitor landed him in the doghouse. Utsha Saha, who goes by @shahutasaha on TikTok, posted a video on the platform explaining why she canceled on her date while he was on the way to pick her up. “I’m in shock and I need to tell people what just happened,” … Read more
DEAR ABBY: My oldest daughter, “Teri’s,” mother-in-law snooped into Teri’s text messages and found a cartoon I had sent of two early Colonials at a bar, one saying to the other, “I’ve been in the doghouse ever since I tried to get my mother-in-law hanged as a witch.” An argument ensued over her looking at … Read more
Fans of “Big Little Lies” can rejoice — star Nicole Kidman said that Season 3 of the hit HBO series is kicking into high gear. “We’re at work on it,” Kidman, 56, told Variety Sunday night at the premiere of her new Prime Video series, “Expats.” Kidman said she and “Big Little Lies” co-star Reese … Read more
Harrison Ford has not entered their chat. First-time Emmy nominee Jessica Williams said her “Shrinking” co-stars have a group text chain, but Ford, their fellow cast member, is not included in the conversation. “Harrison’s definitely not on it. You could say it’s a group chat minus one,” she told The Post ahead of the Emmy Awards, airing on … Read more
Correct grammar is so last generation. If you’re still using proper punctuation and capital letters while texting, your age might be showing, as typing in all lowercase has become a Gen Z hallmark. The younger generation believes the letters “look better” than “ugly” capital letters, and saves full sentences and good grammar for the classroom. … Read more
A woman has been called out in a popular Facebook for calling a man’s seemingly benign text “patronizing.” The woman posted a text exchange between her and a man she’d matched with online in a Facebook group that is usually a safe space for women to call out the bad behavior of men. The group … Read more
A viral trend of women sharing text messages from men has exposed a gross reality that is horrifyingly common. The TikTok trend is ironically called ‘sweet messages’; and women share the furthest thing from cute messages they’ve received. Social media trends typically start wholesome and sometimes become far more harrowing, exposing a hard truth about … Read more
Here’s an alert you won’t want to ignore. Teens are being flooded with constant notifications on their phones at all hours of the day — even during school and when they’re supposed to be sleeping. New research released Tuesday from Common Sense Media found that on a typical day, nearly half of 11- to 17-year-olds … Read more
Everything is not what it seems. A woman named Lily confessed that she discovered her boyfriend was never that into her. While snooping through her beau’s phone while he was asleep, she told the Daily Mail that she found several degrading text messages about her. “[He] and his friends spent hours making fun of what … Read more
Casey was excited to marry her fiancé Alex* – that was until she received an anonymous text the day before their wedding. They’d been together for six years and she had thought she had found ‘the one’. But the message changed everything. According to Tyla, Casey was celebrating in a hotel room with her friends and saw her phone … Read more
Mom to the rescue. Jax Anderson and her 12-year-old daughter, Evelyn, have their own private distress signal. The secret “S-O-S” allows the preteen to quickly and discreetly telegraph the need for parental intervention, in case of uncomfortable or even life-threatening situations — without anybody knowing she’s calling for help. It’s the “poop” emoji. “Whenever Evelyn … Read more
Young people are more likely to fall while they’re texting and walking at the same time as opposed to walking without texting, a new study has found. Neuroscientist and engineer Dr. Matthew Brodie and Dr. Yoshiro Okubo at the University of New South Wales in Australia conducted the study. Brodie told SWNS, the British news service, that … Read more
A woman claims she is “devastated” after discovering old text messages on her husband’s phone calling her “ugly” and bragging about how he was using her. Jane Lewis, 40, from New Jersey revealed that she was scrolling through her unidentified husband’s phone with permission when she came across disturbing text messages from when the two … Read more