Category: Facebook
Meta Facebook Says They Will Remove Facial Recognition Following Outcries and Concerns
Meta (c’mon, who is going to stop calling it Facebook? How about ‘MetaBook’ or ‘FaceMeta’?) says that they will stop using facial recognition, and will remove more than 1billion individual’s face recognition templates. This coming as, we are sure, heightened scrutiny when it comes to privacy in general, and facial recognition in particular, leads to Facebook Meta seeing the handwriting on the wall, and that handwriting says “there be potential lawsuits”.
Facebook Explains Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Were Down Yesterday October 4 2021
Anyone who uses the Internet was aware of the big Facebook outage yesterday, October 4th, 2021. Of course, it didn’t just affect Facebook; WhatsApp and Instagram were down too. Here’s what happened, according to Facebook. That this system-wide, multi-hour outage came on the heels of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealing, among other things, that (she alleges) Facebook knew that the service was being used to facilitate human trafficking, knew that the Instagram platform was contributing to poor body image among teenaged girls, and intentionally was eliciting angry responses from Facebook users seems to be pure coincidence, at least if Facebook’s engineers are to be believed.
Yes Facebook is Down, Instagram is Down AND WhatsApp is Down on October 4th 2021
Facebook and Facebook companies WhatsApp and Instagram are currently experiencing a massive outage, and all three sites and services are down and unreachable. We are reporting this on Monday, 10/4/2021. According to our sources, this is the result of a failure in DNS resolving as it should.
Research Says that Instagram Leads Teen Girls to Feel Bad about Their Bodies and that Facebook Knows It
Research recently released by Instagram supports claims that the social media site contributes to poor body image among teenaged girls and boys. The results of the studies, commissioned by and released this week by Instagram itself (well, parent company Facebook) suggest, rather than, as they claim, refute the claims made recently that Instagram leads an appreciable percentage of teen girls (in particular) to feel badly about their bodies and themselves.
Facebook Service WhatsApp Fined $267million for GDPR Violations
In what is the second-largest GDPR fine to date, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced today that they have fined Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp €225million, or the equivalent of $267,198,750.00 USD, for several gross violations of GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation in effect in the EU, as well as the UK since the UK’s ICO adopted it’s own “UK GDPR” following Brexit).
5 Rising Social Media Platforms to Watch-If You Are Business Minded
Smart entrepreneurs and marketers use social media to promote their products and services, as they have realized these social hangouts are ideal for connecting with customers. And as new platforms keep coming up all the time, it is important for savvy entrepreneurs and marketers to keep an eye out for…
Internet Deception: Why It’s So Easy and How to Detect It
In January 2013, Deadspin, a sports blog owned by Will Leitch, exposed an Internet dating hoax that shocked the world. Manti Malietau Louis Teʻo, an American footballer had consistently held that he was in a relationship with a woman he met online known as Lennay Kekua. In the exposé, Deadspin…
Facebook Dark Mode Explained
Facebook’s dark mode is a refreshing and long-overdue change of design
How To Sell on Social Media by Turning Followers Into Customers
Social media has become an important component of digital marketing for any brand with a successful marketing strategy. Though social platforms started out as fun places to hang out with friends, family, and colleagues, they have evolved to become some of the best mediums for building a reputation and boosting…
Reposting Images on Social Media? How it Can Get You in Trouble
At a time when social media is dominating almost every area of our lives, posting pictures on social media has become a highly effective way of connecting with people, sharing with loved ones, and doing business. It is common for social media users to share other people’s images without a…
You May Be Missing Private Messages on Facebook If You Aren’t Looking in These Two Places
Did you know that you have three separate message inboxes on Facebook? And that Facebook only notifies you about messages in one of them?
How the Like Button Has Changed Us and How the Internet Works
On the 9th of February 2009, Facebook announced it was launching a new feature: The Like button. During its launch, Leah Pearlman, co-creator of the Like button before moving on to start Dharma Comics wrote “Your friends, and their photos, notes, statuses and more are what make Facebook great. When…
Is The Internet Changing Our Brains?
The Internet has been around for less than half a century. However, it has impacted every aspect of our lives including how we interact and source information. The Internet has pervaded our lives so much that you can hardly avoid it whether at home or at work. Since the online…
What You Should Know About WhatsApp’s Business App and WhatsApp Business API
WhatsApp is without a doubt one of the most popular social messaging apps in the world. Riding on its popularity, the social platform, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014, launched a business version of its app in January 2018 commonly known as WhatsApp Business. Later in the year, it…
Does Private or Incognito Mode Make Browsing Anonymous?
By now you know that your online activities are an open secret and can be tracked by various parties. While some users resort to deploying VPNs, others activate the incognito or private mode when browsing to keep their online activities away from prying eyes. So, how private is the incognito…