Facebook launched its group video chat app ‘Bonfire’ in 2017. It was a clone of the group video chat app ‘Houseparty’ and today, Facebook has announced that it will be shutting down the Bonfire app as it did not receive the interest the company expected.
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At day 1 of Facebook F8 2019, Facebook announced a lot of new features and changes to its popular social media platforms i.e., Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc and the company opened the two-day event with a keynote on how they are building a more privacy-focused social platform.
At the Facebook F8 annual conference 2019, Facebook introduced new design and feature to its platform including a new redesign, WhatsApp support on Facebook’s Portal, Dark Mode and more. Alongside, Facebook has also introduced new features and brought design changes to Instagram.
In recent days, various reports have been emerging on brands like Amazon, Microsoft working on various products with their voice assistant built in. While Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana has been present for years now, we haven’t seen voice assistants from social media companies like Facebook, Twitter become popular among consumers. But, looks like it is going to change as a new report suggests that Facebook is said to be working on its own AI voice assistant to rival the offerings in the market.
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What else do you do when you need to pass the time on the Internet? Apart from videos and movies, one of the logical answers could be gaming. There are numerous websites available with a huge collection of online games. Continue reading “Facebook rolls out dedicated gaming section to find and connect around games”
After launching ‘Watch Party’ to let groups watch videos together, Facebook expanded the feature globally few months back. Now at the SXSW, the company has introduced Live TV support for the Watch Party that lets people host Watch Parties around what’s happening on live TV.
In the recent development, the social media giant Facebook will no longer allow ads that spread misinformation regarding vaccines as a part of an effort to reduce the spread of “vaccine hoaxes”. Continue reading “Facebook aims to crack down vaccine misinformation”
With increasing usage of social media across the globe, concerns regarding privacy are at its peak. With Facebook owning the majority of social media apps worldwide including Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has put forward his privacy vision where the main focus revolves around user privacy.
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Update – March 5, 2019: Facebook has released Dark Mode for Messenger officially. The company says that you still need to send crescent moon emoji to enable it, and the feature will be fully rolled out in settings in the coming weeks.
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Facebook brings a new update to Stories feature where you can now share events in Stories. This ability makes much more sense and makes it easier to invite your friends to Facebook events you’re attending. To share events in Stories, visit the page of the event and click “Share” below the date/time of the event. Instead of sharing the event in a post or sending to someone on Messenger, you’ll now be able to click “Share to Your Story.” Continue reading “Facebook now allows you to add event invites in Stories”
Facebook, Instagram, Signal are said to be planning to roll out new cryptocurrencies over the next year which are aimed at allowing users to send money to contacts on their messaging systems like Venmo or PayPal that can move across international borders. Facebook is silently working on a coin that user of WhatsApp could send to friends and family instantly, according to a latest report from The New York Times. Continue reading “Facebook said to be in talks with crypto exchanges for listing its crypto coin for WhatsApp”
Facebook’s CFO David Wehner has confirmed that the company would launch its clear history feature later this year. It was first announced in early 2018 and it allows users to see information about apps and web sites they’ve interacted with and delete this information from their Facebook accounts. Continue reading “Facebook confirms it will launch “Clear History” feature later this year”
According to a latest report from The Wall Street Journal, Facebook is receiving highly personal information from apps that track your health and help you find a new home. Facebook can receive this data from certain apps even if the user does not have a Facebook account. Continue reading “Several apps reportedly share sensitive personal information with Facebook”
Facebook has announced an update to the Facebook app’s location controls on Android to give people more choice over how it collects location information and how it stores the data it collects. The company clarified that it is not changing users previously made choices nor it is collecting any new information as a result of this update. Continue reading “Facebook now allows you to block background location tracking on Android”
A complaint has been raised on Facebook with the FTC accusing the company of failing to protect sensitive health data in its groups. The complaint was released publicly earlier today and was filed in January 2019. It urges that the company improperly disclosed information on members of closed groups. Continue reading “FTC complaint accuses Facebook of revealing sensitive health data in Groups”
