Social Media

It may seem harmless, but there's more to it than meets the eye.

Claimants in the lawsuit against Snapchat for violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act have started receiving payments, but don't get too excited.

Let's just say you missed out on the big Facebook payday, you won't want to miss out on this one.

Will another social media payout be coming to Illinoisans? A new lawsuit claims Snapchat violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act too.

The major difference for the victims is that in a real kidnapping someone is actually taken from someplace by force and held somewhere else until the ransom is paid. In a virtual kidnapping, loved ones of the victim are the ones who really suffer.

Two people in my life are avid TikTok consumers. One is my daughter, Molly, and the other is my on-air partner, Joe Dredge. Molly is 24 and Joe is 42...and frankly, I'm more worried about Joe's mental health (with or without TikTok).

Maybe 2021 is winding down, but the efforts of scammers targeting the public have done nothing but intensify over the course of the entire year.

News anchor, Whitney Martin, joins the fun on Twitter while Facebook scrambles to get all their apps back online.

Facebook's laughing reaction, launched in 2015, is now a quick way to identify toxicity.

In the interests of full disclosure, I must confess to not being a TikTok user. I'm completely aware of TikTok, and what the world's fastest-growing social media platform is all about thanks to my daughter Molly, a somewhat avid user.