Popularity used to be something that made you recognised wherever you went, get you invited to all the social functions and ensure that you have an endless stream of friends and dates. These days, popularity lies in the number of likes and shares you can get on social media. Some of those rules may be changing as an increasing number …
Facebook wants to continue their quest of dominating your social media attention by launching a new messaging app called Threads which is set to directly challenge the popularity of Snapchat in allowing for more intimate sharing between users and their closest friends (as revealed by The Verge). Threads is seen as more of a companion app to Instagram which allows …
Some US politician want to regulate the UI design of the internet to prevent addictive design patterns
What’s in a name? Well if you ask companies like Google and McDonalds, they’ll probably tell you quite a lot. And now two of the internet’s most widely used sites and apps, Instagram and WhatsApp, are getting new names. Both massive social media and communication apps are owned and developed by Facebook, a fact that not everyone realises, which his …
It doesn’t take long for scammers to smell an opportunity and take advantage of it. Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency, Libra, isn’t even functioning yet and it turns out there are already a host of people setting up accounts, pages and groups on Facebook and Instagram claiming to be the official hubs of Libra, as discovered by The Washington Post. This perhaps …
With cyberbullying on the rise on social media platforms, Instagram is looking to roll out new features to tackle this issues in their platform.
This past week saw yet another big social media outage as Facebook, along with its sister sites Instagram and WhatsApp, had an outage that prevented images from loading feeds or WhatsApp from sending image and video-based messages. It was an outage that I only read about in the news as the timing of the outage combined with the fact that …
WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will allow you to post your update from there directly to other social media platforms.
Blizzard continues to delight players. This time, the developers have shared information about what’s …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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