Communications Major

Ahoy, Instagram mateys — shake the paw of Yogurt the Pirate Dog.

The rest of your filtered feed can walk the plank because this 5-year-old chihuahua doesn't need two eyes to recognize her cuteness.

Each time you swipe through more images of people’s meals and soirees and renovation projects and holiday sunsets, you are potentially blurring the boundary between stranger-you-haven’t-met and sleazy voyeur skulking around the cabana with an iPhone.

With a new year just around the corner, are you looking for a challenge to improve your photography skills, test your stamina and win new Instagram followers and influence the future of photo documentation as a means to record your life and capture history in the making? If you’re answering yes to one or more of these questions, then a Photo a Day project might be just the vehicle you need to commit to this emerging documentary form and be regularly inspired.

We are not always happy and on vacation all the time. It just looks that way....

Another study confirms what we've always believed: Facebook makes you feel lonely and bad about yourself.

Can a Snapchat-like app be built to deal with email overload?

If you're over 25 (or under 13), you are forgiven. Those carefree, youthful years between 13 and 25 are the sweet spot demographic for our connected culture's latest cause célèbre. Snapchat is an app that lets you send a photo to one - or hundreds - that has a shelf-life of about 10 seconds. You set the limits, but once your friend(s) see the image it will vanish from the online ether before you can even think to share it.

To get adults' attention, the typical stories making the rounds are that Snapchat can really up your sexting game. If Anthony Weiner had Snapchat instead of Twitter, he'd be President by now (or at least still have his seat in Congress).