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How to set boundaries in the early stages of dating source: Mashable  I'd just got in the bath when my phone buzzed on the window sill. It was, alas, out of reach. But I had a sneaking suspicion of who the message was from.  I got up and leaned across to my device, bath suds and water dripping all over the floor. With wet fingers, I swiped up to see the WhatsApp and instantly wished I'd stayed in the bath.  "Send pics," read the message from the guy I barely knew.  Until this moment, things had been going so well. So well, in fact, that I was deeply suspicious.  Sending nudes to a near-stranger in the early stages of dating is a boundary for me. That might not be the case for everyone, but in my case, it's not something I do unless I'm sleeping with the person. But at this point, I hadn't even gone on a first date with this guy yet. We'd simply kissed on a night out with friends and started texting each other. Read more... More about Dating, Mental H

Would you pay Instagram to let you put a link in your posts source: Digit.in Clickable links may finally come to Instagram captions, but only if you can pay for it. Instagram is one of the most popular social networks and it primarily revolves around images and videos as posts. However, the platform does not allow users to promote website links as openly as Facebook. Only users with more than 10,000 followers are allowed to post links on their Instagram Stories, while everyone else has to rely on the profile bio to add a link. That may soon change with a new patent filed by Facebook. A new patent application filed by Facebook dated September 8 2020, shows a payment pop-up appear when a user adds a link to a caption and make it clickable, asking the user to pay $2 (roughly Rs 150). The patent reads, “If the online system detects the text content of the caption includes a string of link text identifying an address, the online system prompts the posting user to pay a fee in exchange fo