A poorly explained and understood announcement by Facebook recently has led to unprecedented growth in the user bases of both Signal and Telegram, rivals to the Facebook-owned WhatsApp. In the week after the Facebook announcement, which notified users of WhatsApp that they would lose access to the platform after February 8th unless they accepted the […]
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A recent announcement revealed some big plans on the cards for Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp, some which users will no doubt be pleased about, and others, not so much. New Group Privacy Settings First announced in April of this year, new group privacy settings will be rolling out to other countries in the near future, […]
In a move that appears to be quite widely derided, Facebook has decided that it is going to forcibly remind everybody who owns Instagram and WhatsApp, by officially rebranding them. The wildly original new names for the products will be: “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook.” Just in case you forgot that Facebook owned […]
In a recent update on their website, Facebook-owned WhatsApp, arguably now the most popular messaging platform in the world, announced that as of December 7th this year, they will begin taking severe measures against spamming on their platform. This action will not be limited to blocking or deleting spam messages / or accounts, but will […]
At the end of last month, Facebook announced that it would be getting what will probably be the biggest ever redesign of the platform in 15 years. The new look was officially revealed at the annual Facebook Developers conference, (F8) in California. The new design will remove the ubiquitous blue menu bar, and replace it […]
With the continuing proliferation of so-called Fake News, it is becoming more and more important to ensure that we can differentiate between them. And while on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, fake news is often spotted and called out, it has proven a little more difficult to do on platforms which are not […]