You can use Facebook Messenger Rooms to video chat with up to 50 people at once from the Messenger app for mobile or desktop, ...

Facebook has built a new feature codenamed “Host Chat” that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the feature tells us. I’ve contacted ...

It’s been almost a month since Doja Cat issued an apology after controversial videos and songs from her past resurfaced. But the singer has yet to put in her last words about the situation. On Tuesday ...

Social networks make us lonely, and messaging feels transactional. There’s still no vibrant, real-time place to hang out with friends online. That’s why four years after Sean Parker’s chat roulette ...

Life is far from normal, right? Fortunately, there’s one form of technology that’s been holding together the bonds of friendship and the functionality of the economy since the coronavirus outbreak ...

A flurry of greetings — all colors, fonts and sizes — welcomed Alissa Wylie into the AOL teen chat room. “Hi!” “HELLO” “a/s/l?” It was 2003, and Alissa, 13 and an eighth-grader in Deerfield, Ill., had ...

Video chatting platforms like Zoom are continuously growing in popularity, thanks to the easy-to-use features which allow friends and family to connect when they're not together. If you're looking to ...

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They’ve been friends for 23 years. Yet they’d never met in person. Not even once. An entire ocean and more than 3,000 miles kept them apart. James Hodgdon and Anne Osborne met long ago in an online ...

When Rabbit, a video chat application that lets far-flung friends watch Netflix and YouTube together over the Internet, debuted last year, it was plagued by a not-insignificant problem that snowballed ...

Each installment of The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she ...