Facebook seriously needs its own Bitmoji
Your Facebook profile used to be the online version of “you”. But over the past year, Bitmoji has usurped Facebook to become the preferred way to share your identity over the web. The Facebook profile...
Facebook tests facial recognition for account recovery
Facebook has its own version of Apple’s Face ID. If you get locked out of your Facebook account, the company is testing a way to regain access by using your face to verify your...
Facebook helps blood donation go viral
Facebook doesn’t just want to make it easy to sign up to be a blood donor from the News Feed. It’s also creating a special kind of post for requesting blood donations of a...
Advertisers use Google and Twitter to target anti-Semites and racists
Just a few days after Facebook was outed for doing the same for advertisers, Google and Twitter have been dragged into the same debate. Google’s ad tech is the main contributor to its parent company...
Facebook Snooze button temporarily hides people in your feed
Sick of a friend’s non-stop vacation photos? Bored of hearing about some business Page’s big launch? One of your groups won’t shut up about their upcoming get-together? Now Facebook has a Snooze button that...
Facebook is rolling out a New Feature That’ll Show You Strangers’ Posts
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Facebook, long known for connecting people globally is set out to offer a new feature to improve its users’ experience. According to our sources, the new feature called “Latest Conversations”...
Facebook launched a standalone Events app
A prominent part of modern social life is the Facebook Event. It's the concert, fundraiser, book reading, gala or pub crawl you say you're going to attend, but probably won't. Now Facebook wants to make...
Facebook is testing a new way for you to spam your friends
Facebook is testing a new feature that will let users alert their friends about posts, potentially allowing people to bombard others with notifications. The feature is currently being tested among certain users in the UK, Canada...
Facebook shoves mobile web users toward the Messenger app
Remember when Facebook divorced instant messages from the main app and forced folks to download Messenger if they wanted a direct way to send quick missives while on the go? Well, the social network is...
Facebook planning encrypted version of its Messenger bot
Facebook users this summer may have to make a choice: Do they want extra privacy – or better artificial intelligence? In the coming months, according to three people close to the project, the social media...