If Mark Zuckerberg is to be believed, 2018 is going to be a year of change for Facebook. Fresh from announcing the social network is getting back to basics by favoring friends and family, Facebook is testing a new feature that could, if rolled out further, bring people back together. While social networking has brought […]
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Facebook is changing the News Feed, focusing on posts from family and friends rather than those from pages and brands. The social network is also trying to initiate more meaningful social interactions, which will be promoted above more passive activities such as watching videos. Facebook had mixed fortunes in 2017. One the one hand its […]
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Facebook is adding a Snooze button to your timeline. This enables you to temporarily unfollow someone without having to unfriend them. And their updates will start appearing again automatically after 30 days. Which is perfect for those who have annoying Facebook friends. Facebook is all about friends. Not your real friends, of course, but “friends” […]
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Facebook appears to have killed the Ticker, which previously showed you what your friends were doing on the social network in real time. Facebook is well known for changing things up on a regular basis, but the killing of the Ticker is odd in that there’s been no official announcement. The Algorithmic Timeline Ticks Off […]
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Facebook has launched a new feature that sees the social network asking users questions about themselves. Did You Know, as the feature is called, is reminiscent of tbh, which Facebook acquired back in October 2017. The problem is trusting Facebook enough to answer truthfully. In October, Facebook acquired an app called tbh, which was adding […]
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Vidme is shutting down, and it’s all the fault of Google and Facebook. The popular online video platform will go offline on December 15th, 2017, at which point all videos will be “permanently deleted from the Vidme servers”. And with that, Google and Facebook’s stranglehold tightens. A Brief History of Vidme Vidme was launched in […]
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