It is no news that Facebook doesn’t allow users to download photo and videos from its platform. Uploading photos and videos may be straightforward, but downloading them is nearly impossible. This has lead to the development of several means of downloading media contents from Facebook. Most of the methods available today, to download photos and videos … Continue reading How to Download Facebook Videos without Browser Extensions
A group of hackers used a bug earlier this week to scrape the phone numbers and email addresses of six million Instagram accounts and are now selling that information on the web. The hackers mainly targeted celebrities and verified users, including Selena Gomez, who’s account was hacked two days ago. The hackers used this glitch … Continue reading Selena Gomez and 6 million other Instagram Accounts Hacked
Tsu.co is a social media website that rewards its members for sharing posts, photos, videos and the like. Users who get others to join via referrals see cash benefits in the like. Naturally, when you have an opportunity to make free money doing what you do everyday, you do it right? But, what would be … Continue reading You can no longer mention Tsu.co on Facebook
Let’s take your attention on the same-sex marriage legalized in the US away a little bit and bring it to a smarter move that can take your business to a new all-time high. uniXclusive has introduced a student discount card that allows students to acquire goods and services at a cheaper rate (less than what … Continue reading Why Smart Businesses should embrace uniXclusive Discount Card Partnership Program
A new study by the research firm Frank N. Magid Associates shows that the popularity of Facebook for teenagers in the US between 13 and 17 have dropped down to 88%. The study had also found that a decline in popularity for all age groups has lowered to 90% this year, as opposed to the … Continue reading Facebook is dropping in Popularity with Teens Again, Study Shows
After securing $50 million in outside funding back in September, Reddit had promised it would find a way to let the community own 10 percent of those shares. Today, it is revealing some details as to how: Reddit Notes. Details are still vague, but Reddit will host a random lottery to give away around 950,000 … Continue reading Reddit plans on giving back to the communities and users with Reddit Notes
Facebook has faced allegations in the past about using its users private information for marketing reasons. Questions has been raised on what user information Facebook itself gets to see – If you were ever in doubt on how Facebook handles your privacy, the Manager of privacy and public policy at Facebook, Matt Scutari has made it … Continue reading We use your private information like everyone else; Facebook privacy lovers are out of luck
It’s one thing to say your social network will never be like Facebook, it’s another to enshrine that promise in legal documents. Ello, a social site whose claim to fame is an anti-ad manifesto, is doing just that by filing to become a public benefit corporation. A benefit corporation is a company that chooses to … Continue reading Ello vows never to be like Facebook and makes its ad-free promise a legal one
Telegram, the security-focused messaging app, now lets you add friends without necessarily knowing their phone number (See step to step guide on how to add username in Telegram). An update to the iOS and Android apps today has introduced the option to register a username, although all users must still bind their account to a … Continue reading You can now Add Friends by Username in Telegram Messaging App
A new social website has sub-merged, though it isn’t exactly “new.” We’re sure you’ve heard of the site “Ello” that recently appeared, and the rise and fall of Diaspora*, and now a new social network (a social discovery network to be exact) has merged claiming to be the alternative to Facebook: WeeShare! WeeShare! is a … Continue reading The alternative networking site to Facebook: WeeShare! – The World’s Social Network.
Reddit did two things last night that, on the surface, seemed pretty contradictory. It publisheda post by CEO Yishan Wong offering an explanation for why the site does not generally take down “morally objectionable or otherwise inappropriate” subreddits. At around the same time, Reddit took down /r/TheFappening and related subreddits, where many of the images … Continue reading Reddit Takes Down Groups Hosting Celebrity Nudes, Walks A Blurred Line On Free Speech
Every one of us are connected through some On-line medium in this ERA Advanced Internet world. The introduction of smartphones, mobile computing, advance internet facilities such as Google Glass, internet browsers, etc., has made it incredibly easy and efficient to communicate with one another when it all boils down to social networking. With every positive technology … Continue reading The Future of Social Networking: What is it Like?
As +Brian Gardner rightly said “the social media makes you look better, and that’s the problem”: We all like to appear slicker than we actually are, just to get a few likes and comments on Facebook. Whether you are using Facebook as a business entity (page) or as an individual you can backdate your new status update, … Continue reading How to Backdate your Posts and Photos on Facebook
