Tag: Facebook
Your Digital Trail: Can Your Online Past Haunt You?
Have you ever paused to think about what you tweet or post online and how it might affect your life in the future? if you are like most people, you hardly worry about your online activities as long as you have secured your personal information to prevent data leaking. After…
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?
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…
Google Photos Will No Longer Back Up Images From Messaging Apps by Default
Google Photos has been backing up images and videos from social media apps by default. But going forward, it is no longer going to be business as usual as they are putting the backup feature on hold. Previously, the app would automatically upload images and videos on your iOS or…
Twitter Allows Employees to Work from Home Indefinitely
On Tuesday, May 12, Twitter announced that it was allowing its employees to work from home indefinitely if they wished in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an email sent to Twitter employees, the company’s CEO, Jack Dorsey explained that they were free to work from home permanently even…
How to Protect Your Digital Footprint from Prying Relatives and Friends
Whenever you sit down at your computer or grab your phone to chat with friends, search the internet, watch videos on YouTube, order something online, log in to websites, post, or comment on social media, you leave a trail of your activities. This trail is commonly known as a digital…
U.S. Government in Talks with Google, Facebook, to Track Location of Where Individuals with Coronavirus Have Been
The U.S. government is talking with Google, Facebook, and others about getting your location data to help track and fight the spread of the coronavirus.
Dance of the Pope Virus Warnings are a Hoax and Not True
Warnings going around Facebook warning about a video called Dance of the Pope that supposedly wipes your cell phone are themselves a hoax.
Facebook Bug Causing Legitimate Posts to be Marked as Spam
Facebook is marking legitimate posts as spam, especially Coronavirus posts, due to a bug in Facebook’s anti-spam software.
Yes, Facebook IS Down – and So is Instagram – Happy Thanksgiving!
If you have been trying to get to Facebook today, Thanksgiving Day, 2019, and are unable to, it’s not you. Facebook is completely down. And Instagram is down. Both through the app, and via the web. Catastrophic failure for both sites.
How to Turn Off Notifications for Facebook Likes and Other Reactions
Tired of getting Facebook notifications for everything under the sun? Here’s how to turn off notifications for Facebook Likes and other reactions (frowny faces, hearts, etc.).
What to Do When Your Phone Number is Associated with Someone Else’s Facebook Account
What should you do when your phone number is connected to somebody else’s Facebook account? It happens more often than you might think! Here’s what to do.
How to Convert an Audio File to Video to Post an Audio File to Facebook or YouTube in 1 Easy Step!
If you are looking for how to post an audio file to Facebook or on YouTube, the answer is that you have to first convert it to a video format file. So here is how to convert an audio file to a video file on a Mac or a PC for posting to YouTube or Facebook.
About the Weird Codes that Appear When You Dictate Something on Facebook from Your iPhone
In the past few weeks some people who have upgraded to iOS 13.1.2 have noticed that when they post something to Facebook which was dictated on their iPhone, these weird little codes or artifacts show up at the beginning or end, or even in the middle, of their comment or Facebook post.
Words with Friends Hacked – Data of 218 Million WWF Users Breached Along with Zynga Draw Something
Sometime in the past few weeks a hacker calling himself Gnosticplayers hacked into Zynga’s Words with Friends database; the Words with Friends hack breached the personal data of more than 218 million Words with Friends players.