I SIT IN the fertility clinic waiting room at Penn Medicine, large bay windows overlooking the city of Philadelphia. There’s a paper bag tucked under my arm, hidden under my oversized peacoat. Inside ...

GroupMe, a service that lets users start a group chat using text messages, announced today that it has raised $10.6 million in its second round of funding — but it won’t be generating any kind of ...

Recently, I came upon a meme that exemplified perhaps the darker part of group friendships: exclusion. The meme, which I'll detail below, highlights that while friendships and group bonds can offer us ...

If you’re in multiple text threads with different people in your life — your family, your partner, your kid’s teacher — it can be hard to stay on top of your messages. Who should you respond to first?

As the latest season of “The White Lotus” unfolds, fans are glued not just to their screens but also to their phones—texting friends about theories, sharing memes and scrolling through social media.

President Biden, on a visit to Atlanta, wears a “Regulate Guns NOT Women” button given to him by members of a text-messaging group attending the event. (regulategunsnotwomen.com) I became part of a ...

That “thinking of you” text might feel sweet to send at 1:47 a.m.—until the recipient thinks you have been kidnapped, are ...