Outage reports had come down to less than 500 as of 6:30 p.m. ET (2230 GMT), according to ... The once-cool social media platform born before the iPhone is approaching two decades in existence.

Social media has become commonplace for most Americans, and particularly for college students. What was once used primarily for staying connected with friends and family and posting personal life ...

It's less pressure — they won't mind if I didn't blur out the pimple on my forehead — but this side of Instagram hardly fulfills the original free-flowing promise of social media. "There's ...