Facebook to bring social media features to the Oculus
VR may be the next big escape for many, but Facebook wants to ensure that even in a virtual world you can't outrun their social media presence.
Facebook considering hiding like counts
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 allow local governments to send emergency alerts
Facebook wants to give governments and emergency providers the ability to send out alerts during emergencies.
Google launches new meet-and-greet app for celebrity content creators called Fundo
With the growth of social media and popularity of content creators across them, Google believes they may have the next big thing for the industry with the creation of a new app named Fundo, a digital meet-and-greet service for creators, revealed today in a report from Variety. The new app is a result of Google’s Area 120 initiative that is designed to come …
Social media meets magic in Image Comics’ new series The Marked
Think magic isn’t real? Well I ran a wizard over just the other day, using the spell of Expecto Petroleum. HA! Now imagine the power of magic, if it were channelled through an even more primal and powerful force that keeps the world turning: Social media. That’s the idea behind The Marked, which combines the power of influencers with spellcasting as the next generation of wizards protect the world from malevolent magic running amok.
After yet another Facebook outage, are tech outages becoming more dangerous?
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 …
Twitter wants to start hiding offensive messages from public figures
Social media, while great for keeping us informed, is rather terrible at giving the wrong sort of people a platform and a voice. And by wrong people, I’m mostly referring to various politicians and leaders who seem intent on causing division rather than bringing people together. Twitter is taking steps to possibly change that, as the company has announced that …
WhatsApp testing a feature to directly post your status to other social media apps
WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will allow you to post your update from there directly to other social media platforms.
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