Despite how many notifications you might have enabled on your phone, there could be more hiding in Instagram's secret inboxes. Not familiar with Instagram's Message Request inbox? The feature is not ...

Phone numbers are dumb. Once someone has yours, you can’t stop them from contacting you. Someone might want you to call them, but if you don’t have their random string of digits, you can’t. And you ...

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Facebook is making it easier to contact people via Messenger: all you need is their name. Now, when someone sends you a message who isn’t at least a friend of a friend or has your phone number, it ...

Secure instant messaging app Signal has rolled out a new feature called Message Requests that lets users approve or block who can contact them via text or voice call, or when they can be added to ...

Facebook has released a new Messenger feature called Message Requests, which lets you accept or ignore messages from people that you are not friends with. In the past, messages sent by out-of-network ...

Twitter will now allow you to review Direct Messages received from people who you don’t follow before responding to them in a consolidated inbox, adopting a feature that Facebook has long used for its ...

Users who you don't follow are able to send you direct messages on Instagram. Unlike messages sent by your contacts, these messages appear as message requests in the Instagram direct message folder.

You shouldn't just have to deal with abuse on Instagram — and now you can filter it out. Credit: bob al-green Instagram will now let you filter out abusive messages that contain offensive words, ...

As easy as DM “sliding” might sound, making the move to initiate an Instagram direct message conversation can often feel less like a smooth transition across a well-greased surface and more like ...

In October 2018, Facebook users began receiving and sharing a message stating that the sender had received "another" friend request from them, and urging recipients to "check your account" and send ...