Social Media

According to an article in the New York Times that just came out today, Mark Zuckerberg is planning to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. That's right, over the course of 2019 and into 2020, these apps will be reconfigured in …

You've probably seen the letter "F" in the comments of a Facebook post. Or perhaps you've typed the word "Following" yourself, because when you comment, you'll get notifications of other comments and get to follow along. However, there's…

Our friends over at Common Sense Media recently conducted a survey study of teens 13-17 years old, and we have to admit that the results are fascinating, and well, reassuring. If you have a tween or teen, it's worth taking the few minute…

If you suddenly see someone trying to call you from Instagram, don't freak out. It's the new Instagram video chat feature that just launched. Related: How to post photos from your Instagram Feed to your Instagram Story To make a call, yo…

If you noticed a new little TV icon at the top of your Instagram feed, then you've already discovered IGTV (Instagram TV), a new app from Instagram that allows users to upload longer form videos for their followers to watch. And yes, it …

If you were already a big fan of the Instagram Story poll feature, but felt like it was a little limiting (why only two answers, Instagram?), they just launched a new emoji slider poll that might just give you the voting nuance you were …

Updated on 4/11/18 below Today, Facebook will be rolling out a feature to help you check to see if your data, along with around 87 million other people, was stolen by Cambridge Analytica. While we haven't seen anything on our own Newsfee…

Last year, I fell in love with the A Color Story app for photo editing, and named it my cool pick of the week on our Spawned podcast . Just this weekend, they launched A Design Kit , their equally fun, friendly, and really wonderful app …

Thanks to Twitter user Red Long , who describes himself as blind in his bio, I found a terrific tip to use a feature in your Twitter accessibility features to help your visually impaired readers. However in digging deeper, turns out ther…

Just this past week, Facebook launched a brand new feature allowing you to order take-out right from the restaurant's Facebook page. So, if you've ever gotten a hankering for some Chipotle guacamole or Five Guys burgers while scrolling t…

Leave it to my twelve-year-old-daughter to be way ahead of me on the Instagram design tricks -- in this case, how to make an ombre text overlay in Instagram stories. I fell instantly in love. Now we're not the types (ha) to spend hours m…

We've probably all had photos we've shared on social media that we would very happily forget, like say my lovely "before" shot I took when I was starting a workout regimen a few months after having a baby that now pops up every single ti…

When it comes to smart phone addiction , we've done our own experiments with putting away our phones around our kids here at Cool Mom Tech. We've even used various techniques to manage screen time for our own kids and tweens. That's why …

Just when you thought you needed to worry about your kid's screen time, it turns out that the amount of time you spend on your phone could be affecting your child's behavior. According to a new study conducted at the University of Michig…

There's a new option in the online fundraising world that's going to make giving so convenient because it's right in your Facebook feed. Yes, it's true! Facebook has added the capability for any user to start a personal fundraiser on Fac…

As someone who's not on Snapchat (what? I'm old!) I admit I'm excited about the novelty of the new Instagram 3D facial filters, as anyone who follows our @CoolMomPicks Instagram Stories can tell today. I put together the quick, Cliff's N…

Maybe we need to be worrying more about our own social media addiction more than our teen's, at least, that's according to a new survey conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research . They discovered that teen…

Just when you got the hang of Instagram Story, Facebook decided to launch their new Facebook Story, which you've seen across the top of your News Feed if you've got the most recent version of the Facebook app. This is not to be confused …

We've shared lots of different ways you can take back your Facebook News feed and make it your own again. Well, as much as possible, anyway. That includes everything from using the See First to Hide Post. But it turns out, there's actual…

You might have noticed the new Instagram albums feature that allows you to post up to 10 photos at once for people to flip through. If you're wondering how it works, and why you'd even try it, we've got a quick tutorial, plus some great …

For the last week, I have wanted to put together a list of the best science accounts on Twitter focusing in particular on climate and the environment. But wow, there are so many good ones, that it's like I couldn't stop. In fact, there's…

I won't pull punches here; I am horrified, it not entirely shocked by the vast number of women in particular who have confessed how traumatic this election season has been for them, thanks in no small part to abuse on social media from t…

If you need a five-minute time killer today (because we know you have just oodles of extra time to kill, parents) check out the very fun if questionably accurate Analyze Words . It's as simple as plugging in your Twitter handle -- or any…

We cannot tell you how many of our readers and Twitter followers ask if you can edit tweets. And if you spend any time on the network at all, you've probably seen those requests pop up too. So at long last --hooray! -- Twitter is rolling…