Somewhere in the world, a man is sat behind a computer screen telling a group of strangers his most shameful secret. The story is long, but the details are thin. At some point when he was 15, he writes, he got wrongly accused of bullying a girl in his class. “We were in maths, and I accidentally knocked her bag off the desk so I went to pick it up because her things fell out,” he explains. “She must have thought I did it on purpose and she screamed like someone stabbed her.

They fly the American flag in Hawaii. You can pay for things there with U.S. currency. If you're American, don't need a passport to visit. That's because it's part of the United States of America — not that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions seems to care.

When I left high school in 2006, I thought I'd kissed goodbye to the days of not being one of the cool kids. But, 11 years on, I'm back to feeling like the class loser. And it's all thanks to Instagram "pods". An Insta pod is a secret group of bloggers who join forces in group messages in order to like and comment on each others posts and gain more engagement on Instagram. It's been compared to "a family of dolphins who live together in harmony and support one another.

Murphy the Goldendoodle is gunning for your gig as floppy-eared distributor of colorful eggs and springtime cheer. The brown-haired Goldendoodle — part golden retriever, part poodle — recently transformed a plastic cone collar into an Easter basket, replete with rainbow-colored filler and plastic eggs (that were hopefully not filled with chocolate candy). Murphy donned the cone collar on other occasions too, using its plastic perimeter to create a popcorn bowl, or a martini glass.

Australian supermodel and beauty entrepreneur Miranda Kerr is a seperate person from her fiancee, Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel. But you wouldn't know it from the hectic trolling she's receiving on social media. The hashtag #UninstallSnapchat went viral in India three days ago, following Spiegel's alleged comments that "This app is only for rich people. I don't want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain," according to a lawsuit filed by former employee Anthony Pompliano.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." According to a new study, that's true—and we're not very good at recognizing which of our profile pictures others will find beautiful. In a small experiment with 102 students, researchers at UNSW Sydney in Australia found that the photos we pick of ourselves for our social media profiles, dating apps and professional networks don't put us in the best light.

Snap here. Snap there. Snap everywhere — especially in stores. Snapchat, the disappearing messaging turned mobile storytelling app, released a new ad product Wednesday that is a quick swipe at Facebook's big offer to advertisers and retailers: online to offline conversions. That's jargon for Snapchat's pitch to help retailers get more products off their shelves and prove to them that ads on Snap helped create the magic behind those sales.

I'm sorry, Twitter, I really am. I've been a user for exactly a decade, and though I've never been a fanatical tweeter, I have been active all these years. But right now the state of Twitter is such that pretty much anything resembling it could replace it. The main requirement of this new service? Just don't be Twitter. Case in point: Mastodon.

Oh boy. United Airlines is trending on Weibo, China's version of Twitter — but it's not pretty. On Monday, United forcibly removed an Asian man from a Chicago-Louisville flight. In disturbing footage, the security staff are seen struggling with the passenger, before he is removed from his seat and dragged down the aisle with a bloodied mouth.

When someone you love passes away, turning to Facebook can be a profoundly helpful way of processing that loss and expressing your grief. But, for the deceased's nearest and dearest, social media can be deeply overwhelming and upsetting in the immediate aftermath and even the long after a person's death. People grieve in different ways What's upsetting for some people can be comforting for others. Knowing what is and isn't appropriate can be extremely hard to gauge.