What if Instagram could automatically tell your Close Friends you’re 🏠 (home), 🤓 (working), 🚗 (on the move) or 🛋️ (chilling and might want to hang out)? That’s the idea behind Instagram’s new ...

While Messages and RCS is how Google wants you to message friends, Google Chat also fits that role and the company today reminded people of that personal use case. Google is out today with a “7 new ...

As data scientist Izzy Miller puts it, the group chat is “a hallowed thing” in today’s society. Whether located on iMessage, WhatsApp, or Discord, it’s the place where you and your best friends hang ...

Facebook really wants you to talk to your friends — so it's making it even easier for your inner circle to interact in and around its Live videos. The social network just announced two new features ...

If you ever wanted to video chat with 16 of your closest friends and family all at once, you can now do that and more thanks to a new Snapchat feature announced on Tuesday, April 3. In today’s ...

You can use this feature to see video of a game you’re all playing together, or you and your friends can play different games and showcase gameplay all while you chat. GameChat is a pretty versatile ...

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Steam has announced a slew of new updates to its chat and social features, all currently part of an opt-in beta program. The beta update allows Steam users to group their friends into a “favorites” ...

If you have a friend or relative living a bit further away than you'd like, you can stay in touch with the magic of video chat. It's actually quite simple to set up; here's how to do it. You can check ...

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Steam’s overhauled chat client is now available to all Steam users. The client, which comes off as Valve’s answer to Discord, had been available in beta since June. The bottom line: the client is a ...