Meta has revealed new measures to help stop the spread of young people’s intimate images online on Instagram and Facebook. Take It Down, a platform developed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), is being supported by the two social media sites to prevent intimate images from being shared in the future. Continue reading “Meta backs ‘Take It Down’ to help teenagers manage their privacy on Facebook and Instagram”
Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Verified, a subscription bundle to help up-and-coming creators grow their presence and build community faster. Earlier this year, Meta bundled Facebook and Instagram Settings. Continue reading “Meta rolls out paid verification for Facebook and Instagram”
Meta has announced that it is merging the Accounts Center, which is located in the settings menus for Facebook, Messenger and Instagram. With this, Personal details, Passwords and security, and Ad preferences will now live in a centralized place, so it’ll be easier for people who use multiple apps to manage their settings, said the company. Continue reading “Meta now bundles Facebook and Instagram Settings”
Today, Meta announced an update to protect young people from harm and said that it is working to promote safe, age-appropriate experiences for teens on Facebook and Instagram. Continue reading “Meta introduces new privacy updates on Facebook, Instagram to protect teens”
Meta has announced a new feature for creators to create their own NFTs (or digital collectibles) and sell them to followers and collectors on and off Instagram today. Also announced are new tools for creators to build businesses on Facebook and Instagram. Continue reading “Meta introduces new tools to help Facebook and Instagram creators earn”
At the sixth annual Facebook Communities Summit today, Meta unveiled new features for Facebook Groups in addition to announcing a number of adjustments to help users engage more deeply with the issues that matter to them, strengthen community culture, and make managing their groups simpler for admins. Continue reading “Meta adds Reels and more new features to Facebook Groups”
Facebook, which is owned by Meta, today announced new options to tailor what you see in your Facebook Feed, so you can find the content that is most pertinent to you. You may now choose whether to show more or less posts from the individuals and communities you’re linked to, as well as posts that Facebook suggests to you. Recently, Meta introduced Community Chats on Facebook Messenger. Continue reading “Meta introduces new ways to customize your Facebook feed”
Meta has announced new features that will make it easier for people on Facebook and Instagram to access, create, and navigate between multiple accounts and profiles. The new features include a new profile-switching interface and new account registration and login flows. Continue reading “Meta tests account switcher between Facebook and Instagram”
Meta announced a new parental control feature dubbed “Parental Supervision Tools” for Instagram and the new Family Center tool back in March 2022. Now the firm has announced that the rollout of these parental control tools has started in India. Continue reading “Instagram rolls out parental supervision tools and Family Center in India”
Meta has announced new Reels tools for Facebook and Instagram. The firm is introducing an “Add Yours” sticker feature for Reels on both the platforms. The sticker enables users to reply to other users’ Reels on a particular topic or in response to a request. You could share a Reel with an Add Yours prompt, for instance, asking people to post clips of their pets. Continue reading “Meta rolls out new Reels tools, ‘Add Yours’ sticker to Instagram and Facebook”
Meta has unveiled several new Messenger app features and also confirmed that with the upcoming update, personal messages and calls will be encrypted end-to-end by default. One of the most interesting new features is “safe storage,” which lets users back up their end-to-end encrypted Messenger conversations and then get them back with a PIN or a code that the app generates. Continue reading “Meta is testing default end-to-end encryption for Messenger”
The Meta-owned Facebook app is getting a revamp to its interface. This time it’s not the design changes, instead the company has split up the content we consume on the news feed (i.e. the feed we see when opening the app). Till date, we were consuming both our personal content—friends’ posts, posts from pages we follow, etc.—as well as suggested posts from Facebook in the news feed. Continue reading “Facebook is getting new Feeds tab — Here’s how it works”
Facebook Groups are a great platform for people with like-minded interests to come together and form communities. A number of updates have been introduced to Facebook Groups that improves the organisation of joined groups and adds new ways to discuss topics.
Continue reading “Facebook Groups update bring a sidebar and Channels”
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has reportedly halted the development of their smartwatch and has also decided to limit the release of their AR headset to developers. The two decisions are part of the company’s larger move to scale back their investments in their Reality Labs hardware and AR/VR division.
Continue reading “Meta halts development of smartwatch and commercial release of AR glasses”
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced a couple of creator-focused updates to Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels. Creators on these platforms now have access to new editing tools, the ability to create and schedule Reels on desktop, and more.
Continue reading “Meta introduces new editing tools for Facebook and Instagram Reels”
