Whatever you call them, flirty text messages are the reality for most people dating in 2017.

And text message flirting can be just as scary as in-person flirting.

I've also spent a lot of time laughing, but I'm not here to evaluate the hilarity of bad sex jokes and unwarranted dick pics (pro tip: or you can avoid dick picks all together with dating apps like Spotlight, where you see videos of singles, not pics). I don't mean that guys should start sending girls dick pics that they don't want, or incessantly text them asking for sex, or insult them when they don't want sex.

This mobile surveillance software enables you to see any photos and videos that have been saved on the target phone.

Increasingly, SMS messages are being used as a way of duping people into giving up their online accounts, and out of their identities and their money.

Many of those messages arrive looking perfectly innocent, and even useful.

She argues that despite their potential, communication technologies are threatening human relationships, especially intimate ones, because they offer “substitutes for connecting with each other face-to-face.” If the technology is not fraying or undermining existing relationships, stories abound of how it is creating false or destructive ones among young people who send each other sexually explicit cell-phone photos or “catfish,” luring the credulous into online relationships with fabricated personalities.

The next text message you receive could ruin your life.