Facebook has admitted that they secretly conducted a emotional contagion study to see how using the social media site effects moods and behaviour. The study took place over the week of January 11-18 back in 2012 and was designed to measure the tendencies of a group of individuals who were emotionally connected. To do this, … Read more
First it was Google, then it was Yahoo and now Facebook has released their workplace diversity statistics only to find that the company is largely made up of white men- what a surprise? It seems that all of Silicon Valley wants the world to know that they lack workplace diversity as now Facebook has released … Read more
Many Facebook users faced an outage for 30 minutes recently which has been estimated to have cost the company a loss of $500,000. Facebook has over a billion users so last Thursday when some users lost access for around half an hour, the company began loosing revenue to a tune of $500,000. As soon as … Read more
Facebook is updating its advertising strategy to bring you more re-targeted ads. Don’t let Zuckeberg fool you on this one, Facebook is changing their advertising strategy, not because they love you and want to protect you, but because they have found a new way to increase profits. Facebook will now be able to tap into … Read more
What’s with the blue dinosaur popping up on your Facebook feed? It is Zuckerberg’s way of reminding you to make your profile more private and more secure. Dubbed Zuckasaurus, after CEO Mark Zuckerberg, this friendly blue dinosaur icon has been popping up on Facebook feeds to remind users to check their privacy settings. Facebook has … Read more
What to know the relationship status of one of your Facebook friends? Well now you can with a new “Ask” button feature. Over the past few months, Facebook has been rolling out the “Ask” button feature which allows friends to ask further questions on your personal information that has not been included on your page, … Read more
After Facebook’s failed attempt to purchase SnapChat for $3 billion the social media giant is now taking matters into it’s own hands, creating an app to compete with it. News has surfaced that Facebook has been working for several months now to create a video chat app known internally as Slingshot. The app will allow … Read more
Facebook has purchased a new fitness tracking app, Moves made by the Finnish tech group, ProtoGeo. The new acquisition by the social media giant is the latest of many as the company aims to prove that it is much more than just a social media hub. While it has not been disclosed how much Facebook … Read more
WhatsApp has become one of the fastest growing apps in the world, adding 50 million active users in the last two months. Over 500 million people now use WhatsApp and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, who acquired the messaging app is expecting this number to reach 1 billion in the coming years. “Thanks to all … Read more
Facebook has added a new feature to their Paper app which allows users to receive notifications, image replies and more. The new app was the first to be launched by the Facebook group (besides the Facebook app of course) and is now offering some similar features such as birthday and event notifications. Other features that … Read more
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