Facebook has secret game hidden on its website, and this is how to find it

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> FACEBOOK users can play against one another in the ultimate game of online chess by using this simple code in the Facebook Messenger window.</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopL25OPfjqiYWzSQ7rkDZkHxNa6M0Z2Y7cRAcmGBMrjvyp9ANO8Roreib0DaDrZIU_nZY_R9RM8dJ3aOXmDVYY4_mqP3mRq6xFC3t2RDI34SfB-I55xaajH7bWGD7C5uP43ZuTwKkzZ8x/s1600/Facebook+has+secret+game+hidden+on+its+website%252C+and+this+is+how+to+find+it.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook has secret game hidden on its website, and this is how to find it " border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopL25OPfjqiYWzSQ7rkDZkHxNa6M0Z2Y7cRAcmGBMrjvyp9ANO8Roreib0DaDrZIU_nZY_R9RM8dJ3aOXmDVYY4_mqP3mRq6xFC3t2RDI34SfB-I55xaajH7bWGD7C5uP43ZuTwKkzZ8x/s640/Facebook+has+secret+game+hidden+on+its+website%252C+and+this+is+how+to+find+it.jpg" title="Facebook has secret game hidden on its website, and this is how to find it " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook has hidden a game tucked inside</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook Messenger recently announced it has over 800 million users, but many of its avid fans probably don't know about a game secretly hidden inside.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The classic game of chess can be played by sharing the simple message "@fbchess play" with any of your contacts.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As soon the message is sent a basic chess board appears on the screen – although playing the brain-testing game isn't quite as simple as finding it.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Gamers are able to play by typing in a specific Algebraic Notation – for example, @fbchess e4 or @fbchess Pe4 will move a pawn to e4 on the board.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> B is used for bishop, R moves the rook, Q for queen, K for king, and, because K is already used in King, the letter N moves your knight.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It's pretty frustrating to begin with but learning the codes soon speeds things up.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If you're finding things confusing full instructions on how to play can viewed by typing "@fbchess help" into the messaging app.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBVFxidgfQa9IfytDImoGXEuAFEjv6WDbJ41WxoG9kYt8Q8afHkFVXmDznmmOhaV8eGJuf5Bp8tZsOoXQcGRSYUAgwm5FYo_M9rcLxW7_MCS_ZD21UHGU7YkANjAXdfsMtRg68kkfwb5NQ/s1600/Facebook+has+secret+game+hidden+on+its+website%252C+and+this+is+how+to+find+it++2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBVFxidgfQa9IfytDImoGXEuAFEjv6WDbJ41WxoG9kYt8Q8afHkFVXmDznmmOhaV8eGJuf5Bp8tZsOoXQcGRSYUAgwm5FYo_M9rcLxW7_MCS_ZD21UHGU7YkANjAXdfsMtRg68kkfwb5NQ/s640/Facebook+has+secret+game+hidden+on+its+website%252C+and+this+is+how+to+find+it++2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sending the simple @fbchess play message starts the game</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div class="p402_hide htmlappend"><section class="text-description"><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --> <div style="display:none"> </div> <!-- By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C found at https://accounts.brightcove.com/en/terms-and-conditions/. --> <script src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js"></script> <object class="BrightcoveExperience" id="myExperience4574446673001"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="width" value="640" /> <param name="height" value="360" /> <param name="playerID" value="4581640862001" /> <param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89U_VDxSv3YHBd4nA3r5ipc3" /> <param name="isVid" value="true" /> <param name="isUI" value="true" /> <param name="linkBaseURL" value="" /> <param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true" /> <param name="htmlFallback" value="true" /> <param name="includeAPI" value="true" /> <param name="templateLoadHandler" value="onTemplateLoaded" /> <param name="templateReadyHandler" value="onTemplateReady" /> <param name="@videoPlayer" value="4574446673001" /> </object> <!-- This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after the rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line. --> <script type="text/javascript">brightcove.createExperiences();</script> <!-- End of Brightcove Player --></section></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The game can be played on both mobile and web versions of the popular social platform with no need to download any additional software.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> And users can continue to chat without interrupting the match.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This isn't the first time games have been hidden inside the web.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/are-you-brave-enough-to-play-google.html" target="_blank">Google have snuck an addictive running game into its hugely popular Chrome browser</a>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The endless runner can be accessed when your computer drops its internet connection.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Hitting the spacebar whenever Chrome flashes up its "Unable to connect to the Internet" warning – the little dinosaur mascot will spring to life.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Tapping the spacebar makes the sprinting dinosaur jump.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Another neat game involves typing the words "Atari Breakout" into Google image search.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This instantly turns your browser into the popular retro game complete with 70s sound effects.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRc0JWoaZFdp2cA_fmnB7xllRuTKnbpbHrFwgbVBCb4qeRtaKjNRLlo_vX8hjMB2mfru91QqrUOrHlkJCoRg2O2nRK-949pobULglR-JX2Lafnrb2OsSJsTSp_YCYQ2wzoVXKnYykS9q4/s1600/Facebook+has+secret+game+hidden+on+its+website%252C+and+this+is+how+to+find+it++3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook has secret game hidden on its website, and this is how to find it " border="0" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRc0JWoaZFdp2cA_fmnB7xllRuTKnbpbHrFwgbVBCb4qeRtaKjNRLlo_vX8hjMB2mfru91QqrUOrHlkJCoRg2O2nRK-949pobULglR-JX2Lafnrb2OsSJsTSp_YCYQ2wzoVXKnYykS9q4/s640/Facebook+has+secret+game+hidden+on+its+website%252C+and+this+is+how+to+find+it++3.gif" title="Facebook has secret game hidden on its website, and this is how to find it " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The endless runner game hidden in Google's Chrome browser</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3p8jt9KsSfn1AzPKemg4q9AnvUYvuXd-hDh_i9icS1va8sH0b_l5-Ok0eLdJpwJUeHoHrpuOO8mIJgIghOMUZ3EuLi3IvJ7pITnRjxdc4V6mxgFJdFuSD9WgUmR-bJU_POm5zQeVwsLri/s1600/Facebook+has+secret+game+hidden+on+its+website%252C+and+this+is+how+to+find+it++4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook has secret game hidden on its website, and this is how to find it " border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3p8jt9KsSfn1AzPKemg4q9AnvUYvuXd-hDh_i9icS1va8sH0b_l5-Ok0eLdJpwJUeHoHrpuOO8mIJgIghOMUZ3EuLi3IvJ7pITnRjxdc4V6mxgFJdFuSD9WgUmR-bJU_POm5zQeVwsLri/s640/Facebook+has+secret+game+hidden+on+its+website%252C+and+this+is+how+to+find+it++4.jpg" title="Facebook has secret game hidden on its website, and this is how to find it " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Google users can play Atari's classic brick game</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopL25OPfjqiYWzSQ7rkDZkHxNa6M0Z2Y7cRAcmGBMrjvyp9ANO8Roreib0DaDrZIU_nZY_R9RM8dJ3aOXmDVYY4_mqP3mRq6xFC3t2RDI34SfB-I55xaajH7bWGD7C5uP43ZuTwKkzZ8x/s1600/Facebook+has+secret+game+hidden+on+its+website%252C+and+this+is+how+to+find+it.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> </div>

Facebook has secret game hidden on its website, and this is how to find it

FACEBOOK users can play against one another in the ultimate game of online chess by using this simple code in the Facebook Messenger window...

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Facebook has a second, ad-free website and you're probably not using it

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> IF YOU login to Facebook to message your friends from a desktop computer, you should probably try this second, ad-free website.</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizFud5Ov2P8Y6es9Gdu_egu0g0MRzhxB5QO-3yTKU-sj8Helt1yfJddMBapBMaNHUfeBrXafMvdj1YXmlnUhZXb86ooNYF3M6yoBLTB2OxI5qFY7ybBizzECdkUgbKm2Rih3K5COo1hM2h/s1600/Facebook+has+a+second%252C+ad-free+website+and+you%2527re+probably+not+using+it.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook has a second, ad-free website and you're probably not using it" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizFud5Ov2P8Y6es9Gdu_egu0g0MRzhxB5QO-3yTKU-sj8Helt1yfJddMBapBMaNHUfeBrXafMvdj1YXmlnUhZXb86ooNYF3M6yoBLTB2OxI5qFY7ybBizzECdkUgbKm2Rih3K5COo1hM2h/s640/Facebook+has+a+second%252C+ad-free+website+and+you%2527re+probably+not+using+it.jpg" title="Facebook has a second, ad-free website and you're probably not using it" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook Messenger is a pretty solid cross-platform messaging platform </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook is a pretty solid cross-platform messenger.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Aside from the slew of baby photos, event invites, over-emotional statuses, throwback thursdays and Candy Crush invites, the Facebook website is a great way to contact your friends.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But if you find yourself using the world's most popular social network as a messenger app, then Facebook's little-known, second website might be a better fit.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook's <a href="https://www.messenger.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Messenger.com</a> website is an online version of the hugely-successful smartphone and tablet app.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The news comes after <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/facebook-scam-warning-have-you-been.html">police warned about a dangerous new scam on Facebook</a>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJISlBnT198x1oeL9r0wCnxf3Tqej5WLTIVS27rU5DYfpyUPxn5h3XBoy6fN8eusTOer4Ssw2BiojW78RGooQLOOT1VJqkbxerh0xCfL5NyOjuHTs8H5UK5SCL1AOaGKksE1eF7vYNGq7/s1600/Facebook+has+a+second%252C+ad-free+website+and+you%2527re+probably+not+using+it+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook has a second, ad-free website and you're probably not using it" border="0" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJISlBnT198x1oeL9r0wCnxf3Tqej5WLTIVS27rU5DYfpyUPxn5h3XBoy6fN8eusTOer4Ssw2BiojW78RGooQLOOT1VJqkbxerh0xCfL5NyOjuHTs8H5UK5SCL1AOaGKksE1eF7vYNGq7/s640/Facebook+has+a+second%252C+ad-free+website+and+you%2527re+probably+not+using+it+2.jpg" title="Facebook has a second, ad-free website and you're probably not using it" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Messenger.com is an online version of the hugely-successful smartphone and tablet app </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It's like WhatsApp Web, but for Facebook users – and it strips away the onslaught of adverts, status updates, memes and more, found on the standard social network.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> You can even kickstart video or voice calls with your friends from the simple online messenger.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Any photos sent between your Facebook friends in either individuals conversations or group chats can be downloaded from your browser, too. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> You'll need your Facebook account details to login to the website, but if you're already logged into the social network you can proceed with the same username.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to a report in <em>Business Insider</em>, Messenger.com is only used by some 70 million users each month – a slim portion of the 1.44 billion users that login to Facebook.com each month.</div>

Facebook has a second, ad-free website and you're probably not using it

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Why you should DELETE Facebook from your smartphone, right NOW

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> FACEBOOK'S official mobile app is slowing down smartphones and draining battery life, according to reports.</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzkZd0KngZkdaGEkrlssK3MdUW7W7iKF2_z2kNALjs2BePzTCano5GMqC7RzKGm0D4Ndj2SxQbW1YhkLvJj2SSCsaBrhKfqKBu4xidzveC6rXIBkfvJs34IVX90YralhPisPSIC4vDjYpk/s1600/Why+you+should+DELETE+Facebook+from+your+smartphone%252C+right+NOW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Why you should DELETE Facebook from your smartphone, right NOW" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzkZd0KngZkdaGEkrlssK3MdUW7W7iKF2_z2kNALjs2BePzTCano5GMqC7RzKGm0D4Ndj2SxQbW1YhkLvJj2SSCsaBrhKfqKBu4xidzveC6rXIBkfvJs34IVX90YralhPisPSIC4vDjYpk/s640/Why+you+should+DELETE+Facebook+from+your+smartphone%252C+right+NOW.jpg" title="Why you should DELETE Facebook from your smartphone, right NOW" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you do one thing today, you might want to delete Facebook from your Android smartphone </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If you have the Facebook app installed on your smartphone, you might want to consider deleting it.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The hugely-successful smartphone app has been hit with controversy this week after a number of reports showed the app drained battery life and slowed phones.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Tests revealed that when Facebook is installed, Android smartphones can run up to 15 per cent slower.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook fans discussed the impact of the US social network's app on Reddit, with one user publishing a chart to show the drain caused by the Android app.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The user's test involved launching 15 popular apps in succession.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Each app loaded significantly <strong>faster</strong> when Facebook wasn't installed on the same smartphone.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMMm_ANuQ0mFtPAQzPfKudvqc89eQESjxAwtYIsWg9KbPp4qk4W_7Z1wdS6zR9mcCUDlgfirfJXhGQ_1nkW4-OO09DVMybxPy8Ohsbc6tETkC9aX9C_MZDKHHWJAM6j8UVGJso1CxufI6/s1600/Why+you+should+DELETE+Facebook+from+your+smartphone%252C+right+NOW+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Why you should DELETE Facebook from your smartphone, right NOW" border="0" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMMm_ANuQ0mFtPAQzPfKudvqc89eQESjxAwtYIsWg9KbPp4qk4W_7Z1wdS6zR9mcCUDlgfirfJXhGQ_1nkW4-OO09DVMybxPy8Ohsbc6tETkC9aX9C_MZDKHHWJAM6j8UVGJso1CxufI6/s640/Why+you+should+DELETE+Facebook+from+your+smartphone%252C+right+NOW+2.jpg" title="Why you should DELETE Facebook from your smartphone, right NOW" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Reddit user pbrandes_eth was so shocked by the performance issues he uninstalled Facebook, posting: "So yeah, I think that settles it for me... I am joining the browser-app camp for now."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Messenger seems to be worse than FB," pbrandes_eth has claimed. "Both apps individually caused a slow-down of roughly 5% in the test."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In order to perform the test and measure the impact of Facebook and Facebook Messenger, the prominent Redditor used an app called DiscoMark.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to the Google Play Store listing, "DiscoMark tests your phone's performance based on the launch-times of your applications.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Instead of artificial computations that result in numbers that are hard to interpret, DiscoMark tells you how long it takes to start your Apps. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "This is a performance metric that reflects the real-world performance of your phone."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8mxMCFHzrJ7mvNyPWp9g0Y1snzCdTn8jnsqdFjvnGD_eynnKUyK5YDQy2lQgE3qG8PPovL6FBIil5iGw8by-ppYg1gOxIWPmEWUeeTjEwOV-fm_L_L8MaIVsxHIGJqwR8hDo52bDaZBOX/s1600/Why+you+should+DELETE+Facebook+from+your+smartphone%252C+right+NOW+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Why you should DELETE Facebook from your smartphone, right NOW" border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8mxMCFHzrJ7mvNyPWp9g0Y1snzCdTn8jnsqdFjvnGD_eynnKUyK5YDQy2lQgE3qG8PPovL6FBIil5iGw8by-ppYg1gOxIWPmEWUeeTjEwOV-fm_L_L8MaIVsxHIGJqwR8hDo52bDaZBOX/s640/Why+you+should+DELETE+Facebook+from+your+smartphone%252C+right+NOW+3.jpg" title="Why you should DELETE Facebook from your smartphone, right NOW" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tests show the Facebook app on Android can significantly slow your other smartphone apps</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Reddit user pbrandes_eth also explains, "I picked a number of apps and selected 15 runs for averaging. Then before each try I restarted my phone to make sure that the experiment is as fair as possible."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Another user added: "I am not sure if the app is poorly written or just does so many things in the background that it seems that way."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "I think it had just become so bloated with features, things they kept adding to the main site that people wanted in the mobile apps also," one Android fan posted to the discussion.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Combine this with Android's tendency to let apps run wild in the background."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Users flooded the forum with pictures and screenshots of their own tests, trying to prove that Facebook was slowing their hardware.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">    </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih608RfAA2-tRLC8qXFQd05lJUYy0yt8Dc2OO2CHNvJN7krJreTTL34ZiwHzemomijKxLcz-oEsrab9UblXTCod3hlOr6F5hLYdM1BbbAAWAlmuUspu15Ba7CFrrFriVec-y2R-edhTvPK/s1600/Why+you+should+DELETE+Facebook+from+your+smartphone%252C+right+NOW+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Why you should DELETE Facebook from your smartphone, right NOW" border="0" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih608RfAA2-tRLC8qXFQd05lJUYy0yt8Dc2OO2CHNvJN7krJreTTL34ZiwHzemomijKxLcz-oEsrab9UblXTCod3hlOr6F5hLYdM1BbbAAWAlmuUspu15Ba7CFrrFriVec-y2R-edhTvPK/s640/Why+you+should+DELETE+Facebook+from+your+smartphone%252C+right+NOW+4.jpg" title="Why you should DELETE Facebook from your smartphone, right NOW" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Guys I just tested their benchmark on my phone (Nexus 6). With Facebook 3.8s without 2.9... Nice!" one added.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As well as a drop in speed, it appears the official Facebook app can drain Android batteries, too.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In a test performed by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/01/uninstalling-facebook-app-saves-up-to-20-of-android-battery-life" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>, the Facebook app munched its way through an extra 20 per cent of the smartphone's juice.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Their findings showed that while the Facebook app itself doesn't consume a huge amount of power, when uninstalled the Android operating system appears to be far less battery hungry.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="378" id="flashObj" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=4730388166001&playerID=2538956444001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89XEkLQHlpWPz_5DAA2-uG70&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=4730388166001&playerID=2538956444001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89XEkLQHlpWPz_5DAA2-uG70&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="640" height="378" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em>NewsNewsBlog.blogspot.com</em> is running our own set of power tests and we will bring you a full report soon.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For now it seems the best way to avoid the Facebook issues is to browse the site via your smartphone's Chrome browser.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This isn't the first time Facebook has caused power issues on phones.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Last year <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/this-is-why-you-should-delete-facebook.html">a glitch within the app began sucking the life out of iPhones</a>, with some users reporting a drain of <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/612493/iPhone-Facebook-App-Delete-Battery-Drain">almost 40 per cent</a>.</div>

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Facebook scam WARNING: Have YOU been targeted by this shocking con?

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> CYBERCRIMINALS are targeting Facebook users with a shocking new scam, police have warned.</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script async src="// pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js "></script> <!-- exclusiveprince.com.ng --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2016963266146686" data-ad-slot="8942638455" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjySwHJTXNk9EaLw_Ir3oUv_vChKdasku64OdJEpXjKiWP7xFpFEbb-tQmIDdN9RhEb2cYMAHoBj6dpWkBjhVNR7TubNFbEc0_nPbMgObl9XzB_Sly72ypFCFf9jGHhJH3lkMH2V-0Fz78C/s1600/Facebook+scam+WARNING-+Have+YOU+been+targeted+by+this+shocking+con.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook scam WARNING: Have YOU been targeted by this shocking con?" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjySwHJTXNk9EaLw_Ir3oUv_vChKdasku64OdJEpXjKiWP7xFpFEbb-tQmIDdN9RhEb2cYMAHoBj6dpWkBjhVNR7TubNFbEc0_nPbMgObl9XzB_Sly72ypFCFf9jGHhJH3lkMH2V-0Fz78C/s640/Facebook+scam+WARNING-+Have+YOU+been+targeted+by+this+shocking+con.jpg" title="Facebook scam WARNING: Have YOU been targeted by this shocking con?" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook users are being targeted in a shocking new scam</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook users are being targeted in a shocking new scam, where payday loans are taken out in their name – thanks to stolen details.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> British social network users have had their accounts hacked, with crafty cybercriminals then posting on the Facebook users' timelines to trick their friends into revealing personal details.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> These details – including mobile phone numbers volunteered by friends – have been used to take-out payday loans.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> These incidents date back to June 2014. The most recent scam was reported last month.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Northumbria Police highlighted the scam on their website, noting "never pass any personal details online to strangers."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A number of other scams on Facebook have also been reported.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Hacked Facebook accounts have been used to post adverts on their timeline about opportunities to earn money.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The victim's friends have seen the adverts and believing they have been posted from their friend they 'like' the post and message them about the advert. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> They then get a message back, believing it is from their friend, but from the fraudsters and get their phone number from them.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <script async src="// pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js "></script> <!-- exclusiveprince.com.ng --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2016963266146686" data-ad-slot="8942638455" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRSldMo_L-oFCCsNW3CVI79fQcFOupblOhphLhOEPGupWCqndJq3Xdbzb3PSnFpd2DCvj7tzaN0FkZ3l8cmW2ewEc2TAP3sSvm492ZAIr5eGmBhjFjcQi6JKkMmQtyfhM_QAopopKI8RAd/s1600/Facebook+scam+WARNING-+Have+YOU+been+targeted+by+this+shocking+con+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook scam WARNING: Have YOU been targeted by this shocking con?" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRSldMo_L-oFCCsNW3CVI79fQcFOupblOhphLhOEPGupWCqndJq3Xdbzb3PSnFpd2DCvj7tzaN0FkZ3l8cmW2ewEc2TAP3sSvm492ZAIr5eGmBhjFjcQi6JKkMmQtyfhM_QAopopKI8RAd/s640/Facebook+scam+WARNING-+Have+YOU+been+targeted+by+this+shocking+con+2.jpg" title="Facebook scam WARNING: Have YOU been targeted by this shocking con?" width="596" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Northumbria Police highlighted the scam to Facebook users </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><div class="p402_hide htmlappend"><section class="text-description"><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --> <div style="display:none"> </div> <!-- By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C found at https://accounts.brightcove.com/en/terms-and-conditions/. --> <script src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js"></script> <object class="BrightcoveExperience" id="myExperience4642546851001"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="width" value="640" /> <param name="height" value="360" /> <param name="playerID" value="4581640862001" /> <param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89U_VDxSv3YHBd4nA3r5ipc3" /> <param name="isVid" value="true" /> <param name="isUI" value="true" /> <param name="linkBaseURL" value="" /> <param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true" /> <param name="htmlFallback" value="true" /> <param name="includeAPI" value="true" /> <param name="templateLoadHandler" value="onTemplateLoaded" /> <param name="templateReadyHandler" value="onTemplateReady" /> <param name="@videoPlayer" value="4642546851001" /> </object> <!-- This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. 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Facebook will roll-out its emoji-filled Reactions worldwide 'within weeks'

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> FACEBOOK is bringing a slew of new emotions to its hugely-popular social network, thanks to a redesign to the iconic Like button, which is about to roll out worldwide.</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script async src="// pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js "></script> <!-- exclusiveprince.com.ng --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2016963266146686" data-ad-slot="8942638455" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZKhxEfA619kBIOLLaeKRo4cgp4FVAvN2rgB6hlbbkbjWpWDGGKcPZMbIiRe8XBzmGfK_cHMdkLHfSKtN0JW3zjm_lShPXzWoeNB_boYxkTaSkEZe5Uiy44gI4ZXEAvm2Q-NoQLr8FvGF-/s1600/Facebook+will+roll-out+its+emoji-filled+Reactions+worldwide+%2527within+weeks%2527++3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook will roll-out its emoji-filled Reactions worldwide 'within weeks' " border="0" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZKhxEfA619kBIOLLaeKRo4cgp4FVAvN2rgB6hlbbkbjWpWDGGKcPZMbIiRe8XBzmGfK_cHMdkLHfSKtN0JW3zjm_lShPXzWoeNB_boYxkTaSkEZe5Uiy44gI4ZXEAvm2Q-NoQLr8FvGF-/s640/Facebook+will+roll-out+its+emoji-filled+Reactions+worldwide+%2527within+weeks%2527++3.jpg" title="Facebook will roll-out its emoji-filled Reactions worldwide 'within weeks' " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook is rolling out its solution to the long-rumoured dislike button </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script async src="// pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js "></script> <!-- exclusiveprince.com.ng --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2016963266146686" data-ad-slot="8942638455" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook has confirmed it will be rolling out a new set of emojis – dubbed Reactions – to replace the traditional Like button.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Reactions debuted<a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/facebooks-dislike-button-is-finally.html"> as part of a small pilot program in Ireland and Spain</a>, before trickling out to Chile, Portugal, the Philippines and Colombia, <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/facebooks-dislike-button-is-finally.html">last year</a>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But now the Californian social network is ready to roll-out the improved Like button to its 1.49 billion monthly active users.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to a report in <em>Bloomberg</em>, Facebook will begin pushing out Reactions to the UK and the rest of the globe "within weeks."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script async src="// pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js "></script> <!-- exclusiveprince.com.ng --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2016963266146686" data-ad-slot="8942638455" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVfnVOkH-Hs3zZ9-pgv2A108Yawkp5yYBSqBM9izFVu6NCqUJUNVy0wbjODCb5c3NP2ESudxH6VbVDWvHQjZJrJNThBkv4FQrTX_Y4fX50CTyLRZH1OOhG-5KIvhZ5pqAtYgNWOV4NI1I/s1600/Facebook+will+roll-out+its+emoji-filled+Reactions+worldwide+%2527within+weeks%2527++4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook will roll-out its emoji-filled Reactions worldwide 'within weeks' " border="0" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVfnVOkH-Hs3zZ9-pgv2A108Yawkp5yYBSqBM9izFVu6NCqUJUNVy0wbjODCb5c3NP2ESudxH6VbVDWvHQjZJrJNThBkv4FQrTX_Y4fX50CTyLRZH1OOhG-5KIvhZ5pqAtYgNWOV4NI1I/s640/Facebook+will+roll-out+its+emoji-filled+Reactions+worldwide+%2527within+weeks%2527++4.jpg" title="Facebook will roll-out its emoji-filled Reactions worldwide 'within weeks' " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Negative emotions, including sadness and anger, are included in the new Like button menu</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script async src="// pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js "></script> <!-- exclusiveprince.com.ng --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2016963266146686" data-ad-slot="8942638455" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqt-Z1SiFLtowUJaxXHXnIbhAmbtiObDWgpBQUoJy6M8syCGHqFh_NRkPjtK2Um51BscdHWDKX61s0TPZHt3aM2ujZf4rAikztnvsbuX1eODgZwWMHuHujWtM3QLvC4UAS9dTLgdFw9Rki/s1600/Facebook+will+roll-out+its+emoji-filled+Reactions+worldwide+%2527within+weeks%2527.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook will roll-out its emoji-filled Reactions worldwide 'within weeks' " border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqt-Z1SiFLtowUJaxXHXnIbhAmbtiObDWgpBQUoJy6M8syCGHqFh_NRkPjtK2Um51BscdHWDKX61s0TPZHt3aM2ujZf4rAikztnvsbuX1eODgZwWMHuHujWtM3QLvC4UAS9dTLgdFw9Rki/s640/Facebook+will+roll-out+its+emoji-filled+Reactions+worldwide+%2527within+weeks%2527.jpg" title="Facebook will roll-out its emoji-filled Reactions worldwide 'within weeks' " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook is calling the emoticons Reactions</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script async src="// pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js "></script> <!-- exclusiveprince.com.ng --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2016963266146686" data-ad-slot="8942638455" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_csS7Kfwd4bz3tqXsmmjFBVipmo_4Sm6nN0qgTkTsDuhfEe-it920bBR_xDbF2WkVFj8d-bPWolGb22m8VVoB7Q9nvdHCjILARa5PlFf3CtAkrvOw5ACx6T2BnUFQgweYMqOqDfnL3W8o/s1600/Facebook+will+roll-out+its+emoji-filled+Reactions+worldwide+%2527within+weeks%2527++2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook will roll-out its emoji-filled Reactions worldwide 'within weeks' " border="0" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_csS7Kfwd4bz3tqXsmmjFBVipmo_4Sm6nN0qgTkTsDuhfEe-it920bBR_xDbF2WkVFj8d-bPWolGb22m8VVoB7Q9nvdHCjILARa5PlFf3CtAkrvOw5ACx6T2BnUFQgweYMqOqDfnL3W8o/s640/Facebook+will+roll-out+its+emoji-filled+Reactions+worldwide+%2527within+weeks%2527++2.jpg" title="Facebook will roll-out its emoji-filled Reactions worldwide 'within weeks' " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pressing and holding on the Like button gives users the choice of a range of animated emotions</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script async src="// pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js "></script> <!-- exclusiveprince.com.ng --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2016963266146686" data-ad-slot="8942638455" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Reactions appear as animated emoticons and pop-up whenever the Like button is long-pressed on Facebook mobile apps.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Desktop users can hover their mouses over the Like button to bring up the new emojis.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The new expressions will allow users to express a range of emotions including love, happiness, anger and sadness.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook hopes the inclusion of negative emotions will finally "address" the demand for a Dislike button on the Californian social network.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script async src="// pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js "></script> <!-- exclusiveprince.com.ng --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2016963266146686" data-ad-slot="8942638455" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Chief product officer Chris Cox wrote on Facebook: "As you can see, it’s not a “dislike” button, though we hope it addresses the spirit of this request more broadly.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "We studied which comments and reactions are most commonly and universally expressed across Facebook, then worked to design an experience around them that was elegant and fun.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "We’ll use the feedback from this to improve the feature and hope to roll it out to everyone soon."</div> <script async src="// pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js "></script> <!-- exclusiveprince.com.ng --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2016963266146686" data-ad-slot="8942638455" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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Facebook is making some MAJOR changes to YOUR WhatsApp data

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook-owned messenger WhatsApp is planning some MAJOR changes to the way it handles your data. And its not going to be popular.</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyP1x8maMWzNqqGuX8pUTCFIbF7AAVt4823OZJK8T2eg2IVJrJXrEMDhxhUWcnfw4DWasNgc6QOl1J2HqogRKyrD0AnyYrJrl9N6uqf40U8XmyK2jF_S4gIvu9mfUiW9wJFhDHQKHTL3dW/s1600/Facebook+is+making+some+MAJOR+changes+to+YOUR+WhatsApp+data.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook is making some MAJOR changes to YOUR WhatsApp data" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyP1x8maMWzNqqGuX8pUTCFIbF7AAVt4823OZJK8T2eg2IVJrJXrEMDhxhUWcnfw4DWasNgc6QOl1J2HqogRKyrD0AnyYrJrl9N6uqf40U8XmyK2jF_S4gIvu9mfUiW9wJFhDHQKHTL3dW/s640/Facebook+is+making+some+MAJOR+changes+to+YOUR+WhatsApp+data.jpg" title="Facebook is making some MAJOR changes to YOUR WhatsApp data" width="596" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WhatsApp has added a new option to share your data with Facebook</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook-owned messenger WhatsApp is making some major changes, <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/whatsapp-is-now-completely-free-but.html">less than a week after its overhauled its in-app costs</a>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The cross-platform messenger service, which boasts almost one billion active users, looks set to share your data with Facebook.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Developer Javier Santos unearthed the new option in the latest WhatsApp beta for Android. He quickly posted screenshots to his Google+ page.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Share my WhatsApp account information with Facebook to improve my Facebook experiences," the new WhatsApp feature reads.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It's unclear exactly what information will be exchanged between the two services, but the Contact List seems an obvious starting point.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-KZ42wF5cvLHndGQEg21XK2ilhpQuM1bK3j7ua2WZQq87_uBaW9Wv3b1fCb5z1857cvwMKchs85NFLjMJGMSFZcRF3qS6TehY0dvTnaYGvLhKU2jXVpKvgfFVm8_9Sj-5EOehKDioYcZP/s1600/Facebook+is+making+some+MAJOR+changes+to+YOUR+WhatsApp+data+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook is making some MAJOR changes to YOUR WhatsApp data" border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-KZ42wF5cvLHndGQEg21XK2ilhpQuM1bK3j7ua2WZQq87_uBaW9Wv3b1fCb5z1857cvwMKchs85NFLjMJGMSFZcRF3qS6TehY0dvTnaYGvLhKU2jXVpKvgfFVm8_9Sj-5EOehKDioYcZP/s640/Facebook+is+making+some+MAJOR+changes+to+YOUR+WhatsApp+data+2.jpg" title="Facebook is making some MAJOR changes to YOUR WhatsApp data" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new option allows WhatsApp to share your data with Facebook</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> That means you're likely to see a few of your WhatsApp contacts populating your suggested Friends on Facebook.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Whether the content of your WhatsApp conversations will be used to suggest relevant Facebook Groups, or Celebrity Pages remains to be seen.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Fortunately, the latest beta also includes a new end-to-end encryption option, which the messenger promises will make your messages and media even more secure.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <section class="text-description">Finally, a new Documents section has been added to the app. This aggregates all the files you receive from your WhatsApp contacts.</section><section class="text-description">These features are in testing at the moment, and might not make an appearance in the final WhatsApp update.</section><section class="text-description">The news comes days after <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/whatsapp-is-now-completely-free-but.html">Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced it had dropped its annual 69p subscription fee</a>.</section><section class="text-description"><center> </center> </section><section class="text-description">Founder Mr Koum said the subscription model “really doesn’t work for some people” and that other cross-platform messaging apps, like Facebook Messenger, are completely free to use.</section><section class="text-description">WhatsApp plans to replace the 69p charge by connecting companies directly with users via the app.</section><section class="text-description">Mr Koum admitted they have not settled on a final plan yet, but as it stands, it appears WhatsApp will charge multi-national companies to conduct customer service chats and calls via WhatsApp.</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">For example, an airline could use the app to contact customers about a flight cancellation or upcoming delays.</section><section class="text-description">WhatsApp says despite the changes, its goal remains to avoid spam and unwanted advertising within the hugely-successful app.</section><section class="text-description">Facebook, which acquired WhatsApp for an eye-watering $19 billion in 2014, is already testing out the feature in its own Facebook Messenger app.</section><section class="text-description">Select US companies have been given the opportunity to pay for the ability to message their customers directly via the app.</section><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="378" id="flashObj" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=4703621727001&playerID=2538956444001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89XEkLQHlpWPz_5DAA2-uG70&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed 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disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought.</section><section class="text-description">"At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data, upgrading the servers that hold all the data and making sure it's all being logged and collated and sliced and packaged and shipped out... And at the end of the day the result of it all is a slightly different advertising banner in your browser or on your mobile screen.</section><section class="text-description">"Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product. At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. </section><section class="text-description">"That's our product and that's our passion. Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it."</section><script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script>

Facebook is making some MAJOR changes to YOUR WhatsApp data

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How many of YOUR Facebook friends could YOU rely on?

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> IF YOU think the number of friends you have on Facebook is an accurate representation of your real-life friendships – you are sorely mistaken, new research has revealed.</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Leaderboard --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4237771986582754" data-ad-slot="1127966622"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQHU2bR06nYdBVQ90d8mklmt2To9b15IPecbnjmE45iOyNuAWn4KfSJ3YAJNJB4iwnUdemDWaBn6B5lzlUPUZkGAvY-wrOgycPoaEsL8LVeAUq8elXJrMM4opCJPKi1U0ujs-XjKIwb4eC/s1600/How+many+of+YOUR+Facebook+friends+could+YOU+rely+on.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="How many of YOUR Facebook friends could YOU rely on?" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQHU2bR06nYdBVQ90d8mklmt2To9b15IPecbnjmE45iOyNuAWn4KfSJ3YAJNJB4iwnUdemDWaBn6B5lzlUPUZkGAvY-wrOgycPoaEsL8LVeAUq8elXJrMM4opCJPKi1U0ujs-XjKIwb4eC/s640/How+many+of+YOUR+Facebook+friends+could+YOU+rely+on.jpg" title="How many of YOUR Facebook friends could YOU rely on?" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">People with significantly more than 155 Facebook friends have a fewer dependable friends</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Anthropologists from the University of Oxford have found that people only have the capacity to maintain friendships with around 150 people.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This figure was based on a study led evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar which analysed the social relationships of more than 3,300 people.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook users consider some 28 per cent of their online friends to be "true friends", the University of Oxford study found.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “This is because friendships ultimately require occasional face-to-face interaction if they are to be maintained over time,” the study argued.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0szwjVLxD18_TvAdgy4ccgVJW8HZC2Qa-Ts3oETrD5eIIOQBB-Fb6bw2mxr6JXyzhgcalbExX4fS1fhWvm7Gbx5vQpzNGFtrNh0-RhBDHoAUSwbnZuqeu6JTgLkHptL1-ju4InkwMT1Qo/s1600/How+many+of+YOUR+Facebook+friends+could+YOU+rely+on+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="How many of YOUR Facebook friends could YOU rely on?" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0szwjVLxD18_TvAdgy4ccgVJW8HZC2Qa-Ts3oETrD5eIIOQBB-Fb6bw2mxr6JXyzhgcalbExX4fS1fhWvm7Gbx5vQpzNGFtrNh0-RhBDHoAUSwbnZuqeu6JTgLkHptL1-ju4InkwMT1Qo/s640/How+many+of+YOUR+Facebook+friends+could+YOU+rely+on+2.jpg" title="How many of YOUR Facebook friends could YOU rely on?" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook users consider some 28 per cent of their online friends to be "true friends"</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> And people would turn to only four per cent of their Facebook friends in the event of an emergency.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Test subjects with significantly more than 155 Facebook friends typically had a smaller circle of dependable friends.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> These findings were published in the journal Royal Society Open Science.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Rectangle --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4237771986582754" data-ad-slot="5418565426" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Professor Dunbar said: "Social media certainly help to slow down the natural rate of decay in relationship quality that would set in once we cannot readily meet friends face-to-face.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "But no amount of social media will prevent a friend eventually becoming ‘just another acquaintance’ if you don’t meet face-to-face from time to time.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "There is something paramount about face-to-face interactions that is crucial for maintaining friendships.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Seeing the white of their eyes from time to time seems to be crucial to the way we maintain friendships."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook currently boasts some 1.4 billion average monthly active users. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Happiness Research Institute last year asked a group of test subjects to give up Facebook for a week – and discovered that levels of contentment <em>soared</em> during the time offline.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Facebook distorts our perception of reality and of what other people’s lives really look like," Happiness Research Institute CEO Meik Wiking said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "We take in to account how we’re doing in life through comparisons to everyone else, and since most people only post positive things on Facebook, that gives us a very biased perception of reality."</div> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="378" id="flashObj" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=4642546851001&playerID=2538956444001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89XEkLQHlpWPz_5DAA2-uG70&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=4642546851001&playerID=2538956444001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89XEkLQHlpWPz_5DAA2-uG70&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="640" height="378" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Leaderboard --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4237771986582754" data-ad-slot="1127966622"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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WARNING: Your boss can now read EVERY Facebook and WhatsApp message you send at WORK

<h2 style="text-align: justify;"> EMPLOYERS can now snoop through every private message you send via webmail accounts and chat software, including Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, EU judges have today ruled.</h2> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguR5gcG-TUJW5oTZ3vOTCCngJUcix0_Kl6LYAw9aPtQLMhKRN1-mw05zV5n6yhWojKKi4Z1WEkSQCOZ4WxqNACNazIIK6JK18K7NxB_I1JwdOi1UWDvVVwLMZo3qiKgzIUV9aBpiDlivZ4/s1600/WARNING-+Your+boss+can+now+read+EVERY+Facebook+and+WhatsApp+message+you+send+at+WORK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="WARNING: Your boss can now read EVERY Facebook and WhatsApp message you send at WORK " border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguR5gcG-TUJW5oTZ3vOTCCngJUcix0_Kl6LYAw9aPtQLMhKRN1-mw05zV5n6yhWojKKi4Z1WEkSQCOZ4WxqNACNazIIK6JK18K7NxB_I1JwdOi1UWDvVVwLMZo3qiKgzIUV9aBpiDlivZ4/s640/WARNING-+Your+boss+can+now+read+EVERY+Facebook+and+WhatsApp+message+you+send+at+WORK.jpg" title="WARNING: Your boss can now read EVERY Facebook and WhatsApp message you send at WORK " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Employers can read private messages sent over the internet by workers during office hours</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If you send messages to your friends and family via WhatsApp, Facebook, or any other online chat client – you should probably make sure its safe for work.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, has ruled that employers are allowed to read private messages sent via chat software and webmail accounts during working hours.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The move comes after judges sitting in the ECHR in Strasbourg ruled a company was well within its rights when it read an employee's Yahoo Messenger chats.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Bogdan Barbulescu – a Romania worker – was sacked in 2007 after his employer discovered he was accessing private messages during work hours.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsv4Iwa-uGMb1tdWPgUhaxDpqiM1fd6Oe8q-MFVvZm-ma5fopr9IC377Rzm4RaCexUSiXEpF44jmQqr-5mktNyFNCDje3E8qhG_IMBB66fPsdNzbHGUd2P7sVArKUY_Xj8Mn2WbkDa3xzN/s1600/WARNING-+Your+boss+can+now+read+EVERY+Facebook+and+WhatsApp+message+you+send+at+WORK++2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="WARNING: Your boss can now read EVERY Facebook and WhatsApp message you send at WORK " border="0" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsv4Iwa-uGMb1tdWPgUhaxDpqiM1fd6Oe8q-MFVvZm-ma5fopr9IC377Rzm4RaCexUSiXEpF44jmQqr-5mktNyFNCDje3E8qhG_IMBB66fPsdNzbHGUd2P7sVArKUY_Xj8Mn2WbkDa3xzN/s640/WARNING-+Your+boss+can+now+read+EVERY+Facebook+and+WhatsApp+message+you+send+at+WORK++2.jpg" title="WARNING: Your boss can now read EVERY Facebook and WhatsApp message you send at WORK " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ruling affects all EU countries that have ratified the ECHR, including Britain</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Mr Barbulescu had asked the court to rule the employer had breached his right to confidential correspondence when it accessed his messages – he used the app to chat to his fiancee and brother as well as professional contacts.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He lost his case in Romania's domestic courts and had appealed to the ECHR.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But judges have ruled Mr Barbulescu breached company rules – which prohibited the use of the messaging app for personal conversations – and therefore his employer had every right to check what he was up to.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This ruling now applies to every country that has ratified the European Convention on Human Rights – which includes Great Britain.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In a statement, the ECHR judges said: "The employer acted within its disciplinary powers since, as the domestic courts found, it had accessed the Yahoo Messenger account on the assumption that the information in question had been related to professional activities and that such access had therefore been legitimate. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "The court sees no reason to question these findings."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In passing down the ruling, the judges also said that unregulated snooping on employees would not be acceptable, and called on a set of polices to be drawn up by employers that would clearly state what information they could collect and how.</div> <script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script>

WARNING: Your boss can now read EVERY Facebook and WhatsApp message you send at WORK

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After reading this, you'll probably NEVER trust Facebook again

<div style="text-align: justify;"> FACEBOOK has been accused of conducting another bizarre experiment with its users' trust, and it could completely change your view on the hugely-popular social network.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdaEb8Q_Q3q63X98Ce5-qoa81BKrq9ZJLpRPjLjtyddYbOi3KhOj8-XtdlzhSKzzQU29bkTcVjMA7i5oIcEn9aYTXLkJKoIX9aSFFeHRR3P5vipy_urXWWVI60H7uY9i-tawnKH2wcgw/s1600/After+reading+this%252C+you%2527ll+probably+NEVER+trust+Facebook+again.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="After reading this, you'll probably NEVER trust Facebook again" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdaEb8Q_Q3q63X98Ce5-qoa81BKrq9ZJLpRPjLjtyddYbOi3KhOj8-XtdlzhSKzzQU29bkTcVjMA7i5oIcEn9aYTXLkJKoIX9aSFFeHRR3P5vipy_urXWWVI60H7uY9i-tawnKH2wcgw/s640/After+reading+this%252C+you%2527ll+probably+NEVER+trust+Facebook+again.jpg" title="After reading this, you'll probably NEVER trust Facebook again" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook wanted to test the loyalty of its user to breaking point </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, with more than 1.50 billion monthly active users.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The US social network, which was launched by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, is now valued at a staggering £197 billion.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But details of an experiment to test social media users' loyalty to Facebook has now emerged online.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Californian social network is believed to be preparing for the eventuality that Google one day removes Facebook's apps from its Play Store marketplace for competitive reasons.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As a result, Facebook tried to test the loyalty and patience of its Android users to the limit.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The US firm secretly rolled-out a slew of artificial errors within the Android app that would automatically crash the mobile app for hours at a time.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The experiment was designed to test at what point a Facebook user would give-up and ditch the Facebook app from their device all-together.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Speaking anonymously to The Information, a source familiar with the one-time test, which is believed to have taken place a few years ago, said Facebook was never able to reach this threshold.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "People never stopped coming back," the source said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3NJnvoJbtorQwhFKGvwTHjyjMBSoQkLDvc6JgP_gX2ZswDajJ31z2g3D6YKeUccPRIpUFs87FmM2MRfBwTpRCS5RwDlflGE87lSgtcbahkSQN3YRSTTSNdMwTrZqDpervGoIhUxhpZ4/s1600/After+reading+this%252C+you%2527ll+probably+NEVER+trust+Facebook+again+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="After reading this, you'll probably NEVER trust Facebook again" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3NJnvoJbtorQwhFKGvwTHjyjMBSoQkLDvc6JgP_gX2ZswDajJ31z2g3D6YKeUccPRIpUFs87FmM2MRfBwTpRCS5RwDlflGE87lSgtcbahkSQN3YRSTTSNdMwTrZqDpervGoIhUxhpZ4/s640/After+reading+this%252C+you%2527ll+probably+NEVER+trust+Facebook+again+2.jpg" title="After reading this, you'll probably NEVER trust Facebook again" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg founded the site in 2004, which is now valued at £197 billion</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwf0-aS6CubmJ5qwmxr4pQ-hpw6fHMv_W3DLjdchVpb53F_Go02o8bB0whMaJS8eJWOlAxt5JpuDWx_wx-XNZz3ET-r436JyTA34bO_2Aqrccsv_X926B89hoLa-4Zaxa-vwHFGXG3MH0/s1600/After+reading+this%252C+you%2527ll+probably+NEVER+trust+Facebook+again+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="After reading this, you'll probably NEVER trust Facebook again" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwf0-aS6CubmJ5qwmxr4pQ-hpw6fHMv_W3DLjdchVpb53F_Go02o8bB0whMaJS8eJWOlAxt5JpuDWx_wx-XNZz3ET-r436JyTA34bO_2Aqrccsv_X926B89hoLa-4Zaxa-vwHFGXG3MH0/s640/After+reading+this%252C+you%2527ll+probably+NEVER+trust+Facebook+again+3.jpg" title="After reading this, you'll probably NEVER trust Facebook again" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Android users were logged out of the app to test whether or not they would delete the app</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook wanted to see whether users would abandon the social network or simply switch to the far-inferior mobile website while their Android app was artificially broken.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Former Facebook data scientist JJ Maxwell defended the move, saying tests like these are "hugely valuable" to the company and "their prerogative," <i>The Verge</i> reports.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Admittedly, Facebook is not alone – many technology firms quietly test new features on users. Google famously cycled between 41 different shades of blue on its homepage, to see which promoted the best response from its users.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But tweaking a shade of blue is very different to testing the loyalty of your users by deliberately crashing their access to the service.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Especially when you state your company mission is to "connect the world" and you have a feature <a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=451019" rel="nofollow">– dubbed Safety Check –</a> to allow users to <a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=451019" rel="nofollow">log-in and signal to one another that they are safe in a time of disaster</a>. It's criticial to ensure people can stay connected. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">   </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNewGfbBT8FOaakxq6It7IZ4ZyuEirj02QIG2ME-JHilyuuilxfkebOGlLlZEmgTSge9W8u6B-4HmJ2LaCO4w3dlkhsxgHK4U0DKzvLh5wZ8HA9CA2iCP8tbMw6kxi34uboll02QaRR6k/s1600/After+reading+this%252C+you%2527ll+probably+NEVER+trust+Facebook+again+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="After reading this, you'll probably NEVER trust Facebook again" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNewGfbBT8FOaakxq6It7IZ4ZyuEirj02QIG2ME-JHilyuuilxfkebOGlLlZEmgTSge9W8u6B-4HmJ2LaCO4w3dlkhsxgHK4U0DKzvLh5wZ8HA9CA2iCP8tbMw6kxi34uboll02QaRR6k/s640/After+reading+this%252C+you%2527ll+probably+NEVER+trust+Facebook+again+4.jpg" title="After reading this, you'll probably NEVER trust Facebook again" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook promises to 'connect the world'</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The latest revelation follows the controversial 2014 experiment which manipulated users' emotions using the Facebook News Feed.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Devised by the social network's on-staff data scientist, Facebook scientifically tweaked the News Feed of hundreds of thousands of users.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Some were sent an onslaught of upsetting or negative posts, while others were given a barrage of positive posts to another group.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A number of critics highlighted the potential dangers of this type of manipulation, following the publication of two separate studies from the University of Houston which linked Facebook to depression.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Entitled "Seeing Everyone Else's Highlight Reels: How Facebook Usage is Linked to Depressive Symptoms," the study provided evidence that Facebook users felt depressed when comparing themselves to others.<br /> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="378" id="flashObj" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" 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justify;"> <br /> But Facebook data scientist and co-author of the study Adam Kramer said: "The reason we did this research is because we care about the emotional impact of Facebook and the people that use our product. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "We felt that it was important to investigate the common worry that seeing friends post positive content leads to people feeling negative or left out. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "At the same time, we were concerned that exposure to friends' negativity might lead people to avoid visiting Facebook."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The type of data manipulation used during this controversial experiment is completely sanctioned by Facebook's Terms of Use.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The news comes after <a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=451019" rel="nofollow">Facebook changed its News Feed algorithm</a> to account for the amount of time you spend reading posts, statuses, comments or browsing a friends' photos.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As a result, <a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=451019" rel="nofollow">if you <i>linger</i> on a particular person's status</a>, or read through the comments under a certain kind of video <a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=451019" rel="nofollow">– Facebook will populate your timeline with similar content</a>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The changes mean you no longer have to comment or hit the Like button for Facebook to begin to learn who you are interested in hearing from online.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=451019" rel="nofollow">Using time as a metric could prove to be a more accurate way of determining your level of interest</a> in a particular type of post.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> However – monitoring how long you spend reading an ex-partner's statuses, or lingering on their photos could easily be perceived as a little creepy.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But its not all bad news, <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-didnt-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg.html">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last month announced that he and his wife Priscilla Chan would donate 99 per cent of their Facebook shares</a> – currently valued at a staggering $45 billion, some £30billion – to "advancing human potential" and "promoting equality."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The hugely successful couple, who recently welcomed their first child Max, <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-didnt-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg.html">will donate the majority of their wealth over the course of their lives</a>.</div> <ul> <li><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><i>NewsNewsBlog.blogspot.com</i> has reached out to Facebook for comment on this story</b></div> </li> </ul> <script 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Bizarre glitch causes Facebook to congratulate people on 46 years of friendship

<div style="text-align: justify;"> FACEBOOK has started to congratulate users on 46 years of friendship, which is strange because the people who are receiving the message are A LOT younger than 46.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXhNR4N9B78EikRzxe6cxSLpjJ-EVOKodcKL6s4r1Jm4Wq7j29lQ9VV6YhtYJNU6i44d2KR7k0a1lLauUFpfVaM-4bLBCrV6bjja-UHupCllO-Ms6Pzi78r6PTRQx3R5QBFafruMeSWXo/s1600/Bizarre+glitch+causes+Facebook+to+congratulate+people+on+46+years+of+friendship.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bizarre glitch causes Facebook to congratulate people on 46 years of friendship" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXhNR4N9B78EikRzxe6cxSLpjJ-EVOKodcKL6s4r1Jm4Wq7j29lQ9VV6YhtYJNU6i44d2KR7k0a1lLauUFpfVaM-4bLBCrV6bjja-UHupCllO-Ms6Pzi78r6PTRQx3R5QBFafruMeSWXo/s640/Bizarre+glitch+causes+Facebook+to+congratulate+people+on+46+years+of+friendship.jpg" title="Bizarre glitch causes Facebook to congratulate people on 46 years of friendship" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook's servers tripped up during the transition into 2016 </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook is experiencing a <em>baffling</em> glitch.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The hugely successful social network is congratulating users on 46 years of friendship.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Users, many younger than 46-years-old, flagged the strange glitch on Facebook and Twitter.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The message looks like any standard "Friends on Facebook" post, except it incorrectly claims the two tagged friends have known one another for 46 years.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We feared the Y2K bug, but we were 16 years too early. "46 years of friendship on Facebook" 😱 <a href="https://t.co/zRobqtNgYj">pic.twitter.com/zRobqtNgYj</a></p>— Ashley Mayer (@ashleymayer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ashleymayer/status/682579992958644224">December 31, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We feared the Y2K bug, but we were 16 years too early. "46 years of friendship on Facebook" 😱 <a href="https://t.co/zRobqtNgYj">pic.twitter.com/zRobqtNgYj</a></p>— Ashley Mayer (@ashleymayer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ashleymayer/status/682579992958644224">December 31, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This is especially bizarre given that Facebook itself has only been operating in the UK for ten years.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A glitch inside Facebook means the "Friends on Facebook" posts always reports the same number.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A spokesperson for Facebook has confirmed: "We've identified this bug and the team's fixing it now so everyone can ring in 2016 feeling young again."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The reason for the bug is unknown, but one possible explanation is that the error could originate from a Unix glitch in Facebook's servers.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In a nutshell, it relates to how computers keep time, measuring how many seconds have elapsed since January 1st 1970 – which was 46 years ago today.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The minor bug is not unlike the Y2K bug that people were convinced would crash computer systems across the globe a decade and a half ago.</div> <script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script><div class="p402_hide htmlappend"><section class="text-description"><div class="fb-page" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/NewsNewsBlog" data-width="640" data-small-header="false" data-adapt-container-width="true" data-hide-cover="false" data-show-facepile="true" data-show-posts="false"><div class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/NewsNewsBlog"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewsNewsBlog">News News Blog</a></blockquote></div></div></section></div>

Bizarre glitch causes Facebook to congratulate people on 46 years of friendship

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WhatsApp NOT working: Facebook-owned app goes DOWN during New Years' Eve OUTAGE

<div style="text-align: justify;"> A MAJOR WhatsApp outage has left users across the globe unable to send or receive text messages on New Years’ Eve. Online reports of the Facebook-owned app being DOWN have SURGED.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhILZxQoZC3FuoiGKbFpjb5ZINxR-1sNEBswLHRwGyZqcC-BgRTpUxn6IKsWZ_tMFQZDHLu5ss58LmJ5kguHEGO-08-CKAM9kbD4a77h9bkjCkfMmNvtglHKI4L2IRBnyraPiW_fn2bxO8/s1600/WhatsApp+NOT+working-+Facebook-owned+app+goes+DOWN+during+New+Years%2527+Eve+OUTAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="WhatsApp NOT working: Facebook-owned app goes DOWN during New Years' Eve OUTAGE" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhILZxQoZC3FuoiGKbFpjb5ZINxR-1sNEBswLHRwGyZqcC-BgRTpUxn6IKsWZ_tMFQZDHLu5ss58LmJ5kguHEGO-08-CKAM9kbD4a77h9bkjCkfMmNvtglHKI4L2IRBnyraPiW_fn2bxO8/s640/WhatsApp+NOT+working-+Facebook-owned+app+goes+DOWN+during+New+Years%2527+Eve+OUTAGE.jpg" title="WhatsApp NOT working: Facebook-owned app goes DOWN during New Years' Eve OUTAGE" width="596" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fans flocked to social media to complain about the WhatsApp outages across the globe</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> No, it's not just you. WhatsApp really is down.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The cross-platform messaging app is believed to have experienced a series of technical difficulties tonight – leaving well-wishers unable to send text messages in time for the New Year.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/whatsapp-is-most-popular-messenger-in.html">The world’s most popular messaging app</a> first began to experience problems at around 4:30PM UK time.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Since then, reports of issues across the globe have surged as users flocked to social media to complain about the WhatsApp outages.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WhatsApp was rated the worst app for protecting users’ data, earlier this year.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Independent website DownDetector.uk, which tracks "when services go down or have outages", reported a spike in the number of people complaining about WhatsApp not working properly at around 6:00PM UK time. Most WhatsApp users were complaining about messages not being received.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5NnxjYyo-TwcOjA7hF97I5GkvMs9pQOr3mzso27Lc0lgH2p1waYES6XC2EC88cLf6PLVbBqeJ1oyPIsfLGgtkz44-vk5hLQCEBi2h-NKXeL48YL4RKmOW1nsrNv58PJrcIOUYCP8zv0o/s1600/WhatsApp+NOT+working-+Facebook-owned+app+goes+DOWN+during+New+Years%2527+Eve+OUTAGE+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="WhatsApp NOT working: Facebook-owned app goes DOWN during New Years' Eve OUTAGE" border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5NnxjYyo-TwcOjA7hF97I5GkvMs9pQOr3mzso27Lc0lgH2p1waYES6XC2EC88cLf6PLVbBqeJ1oyPIsfLGgtkz44-vk5hLQCEBi2h-NKXeL48YL4RKmOW1nsrNv58PJrcIOUYCP8zv0o/s640/WhatsApp+NOT+working-+Facebook-owned+app+goes+DOWN+during+New+Years%2527+Eve+OUTAGE+2.jpg" title="WhatsApp NOT working: Facebook-owned app goes DOWN during New Years' Eve OUTAGE" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WhatsApp users have been left unable to send and receive messages for New Years’ Eve</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The news comes hours after the BBC website, online radio and iPlayer on-demand service experienced a number of outages.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A spokesperson for WhatsApp told the MailOnline: "Some people have had trouble accessing WhatsApp for a short period today.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "We're working to restore service back to 100% for everyone and we apologise for the inconvenience."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So Whatsapp is down. Gonna have to go back to texting like a savage 😭</p>— nif (@60ShadesOfCray) <a href="https://twitter.com/60ShadesOfCray/status/682639898994688000">December 31, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Whatsapp down for anybody else, or just me? It's no where near midnight yet!</p>— Danny Moore (@dan_moore92) <a href="https://twitter.com/dan_moore92/status/682600882320584704">December 31, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thank you whatsapp for going down and providing some relief from groups one cannot exit</p>— Zarrar Khuhro (@ZarrarKhuhro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZarrarKhuhro/status/682605422742745088">December 31, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trust WhatsApp to go down on an important night when everyone is organising plans</p>— Nairn Milne (@NairnMilne) <a href="https://twitter.com/NairnMilne/status/682621686861135872">December 31, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Fans of the Facebook-owned messaging app flocked to Twitter to share the news.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> One user posted: “So Whatsapp is down. Gonna have to go back to texting like a savage.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Thank you whatsapp for going down and providing some relief from groups one cannot exit,” another added.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> One Twitter user joked: “#Whatsapp helping drunk people tonight by taking down its servers #NoRegretfullTexts”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Trust WhatsApp to go down on an important night when everyone is organising plans,” another social media user jeered.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> WhatsApp currently boasts more than 900 million users worldwide.</div> <script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script><div class="p402_hide htmlappend"><section class="text-description"><div class="fb-page" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/NewsNewsBlog" data-width="640" data-small-header="false" data-adapt-container-width="true" data-hide-cover="false" data-show-facepile="true" data-show-posts="false"><div class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/NewsNewsBlog"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewsNewsBlog">News News Blog</a></blockquote></div></div></section></div>

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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTOg2nBz0P2SwYD6NtyRKx2dRaDG0F2Apwd7FS-kOiskYG4MCUSqXVToWBeYLdJKRto4JnoqnODcgnCwra57L3TcA7WDeXsjRtw0fAeZemNvA5mkUPhU-F3igNCRl8kFoZl3mCJbbDvZZ6/s1600/Facebook+finally+supports+THIS+major+new+iPhone+feature++2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook finally supports THIS major new iPhone feature " border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTOg2nBz0P2SwYD6NtyRKx2dRaDG0F2Apwd7FS-kOiskYG4MCUSqXVToWBeYLdJKRto4JnoqnODcgnCwra57L3TcA7WDeXsjRtw0fAeZemNvA5mkUPhU-F3igNCRl8kFoZl3mCJbbDvZZ6/s640/Facebook+finally+supports+THIS+major+new+iPhone+feature++2.gif" title="Facebook finally supports THIS major new iPhone feature " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook has updated its iOS app to support the new photo format </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Apple is extremely proud of the new photo format, which can be viewed on any device running iOS 9 or OS X El Capitan and higher – but only captured only the latest iPhones.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Developers have slowly started to support Live Photos, including Tumblr and now, Facebook.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The US social network has now rolled support for the new photo format, so you can share your moving photographs with your Facebook friends.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> To upload your latest Live Photo to Facebook – simply tap the Photo shortcut on the News Feed and select a Live Photo from your Camera Roll.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX0C37xR9tl-nBiuEj78-3v0jZ1yiRFe0L4wW9_VxcQrSKQhgBrs4meuLy6PaTqnfuH8kWrMIB16Lc5NxvwUszdqsGYHef_CaY6tiAkGDI2QY-02IX_Lu6Gn817Hw5JQGvczlRLt8lbWbS/s1600/Facebook+finally+supports+THIS+major+new+iPhone+feature++3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Facebook finally supports THIS major new iPhone feature " border="0" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX0C37xR9tl-nBiuEj78-3v0jZ1yiRFe0L4wW9_VxcQrSKQhgBrs4meuLy6PaTqnfuH8kWrMIB16Lc5NxvwUszdqsGYHef_CaY6tiAkGDI2QY-02IX_Lu6Gn817Hw5JQGvczlRLt8lbWbS/s640/Facebook+finally+supports+THIS+major+new+iPhone+feature++3.jpg" title="Facebook finally supports THIS major new iPhone feature " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new update is rolling out to a small number of users worldwide</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> You can tell whether an image is a Live Photo by the small concentric circle logo in the corner.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Before you hit Post, tap on the lower right hand corner of the photo where it says “Live” - this will ensure you upload in the Live format.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Add a caption, as you normally would, and then click Post.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Unfortunately, only iPhone and iPad users running iOS 9 and the latest version of the Facebook app will be able to experience your Live Photo on their News Feed.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If you have the required hardware and software, simply press and hold on the Live Photo to see it in motion and sound.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook is slowly rolling out support for Live Photos to a small percentage of its 1.39 billion mobile users to begin with, before a broader roll out kicks in next year.</div>

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Star Wars lightsaber to your Facebook profile picture with one click" width="596" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook users can pick between the blue lightsabers used by the Jedi, or the Sith's red lightsabres</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> STAR WARS: The Force Awakens hits cinemas this week and to celebrate Facebook has allowed its users to customise their profile pictures with lightsabers.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook is celebrating the release of the seventh Star Wars film by allowing users to add a bit of the Force to their Facebook profile pictures.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The news comes after <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-give-google-star-wars-force.html">Google let Star Wars fans customise its Maps, Gmail, Chrome web browser, and Android mobile operating system</a> with images from either the light or dark side of the Force. <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/star-wars-fans-need-to-type-this-into.html">Oh, and they added this nifty search Easter Egg, too</a>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Facebook tool went live on the hugely popular social network this week.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Awaken the Force within by adding Finn's lightsaber to your profile picture," the post reads.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook is catering to both Jedi and Sith, allowing social network users to pick between a blue or red lightsaber.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> And better still – the red lightsaber is the infamous three-pronged weapon used by Kylo Ren in the trailers last year.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" 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allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> How to add a lightsaber to your profile picture –</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> • <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StarWars/photos/a.184244804960462.62918.169299103121699/1068138193237781" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Follow this link</a>, close the photo viewer and tap the <strong>Try It</strong> button at the bottom of the movie poster.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> • On the right hand side of the screen you'll see two options which will change the lightsaber from red to blue.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> • It’s also worth setting the amount of time you want your profile pic to keep the Star Wars theme.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This isn’t the first time Facebook has added the option to change users profile pics.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The social network<a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-change-your-facebook-profile.html"> added the French flag to pictures after the shocking terror attacks in Paris.</a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens</em> hits UK cinemas on December 17th 2015.</div>

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