Category: Facebook
Police investigated over social media breaches
Hundreds of police officers in England and Wales have been accused of breaches social media guidelines that include making racist and threatening comments, posing images of colleagues in compromising positions […]
Tech industry ice-bucket challenge round-up
Today might mark peak ice bucket. The campaign to raise awareness of ALS has certainly worked, and is said to have raised several million dollars for a good cause. Perhaps […]
Facebook testing a “Satire” tag on shared links – no, this isn’t a joke
Facebook doesn’t think its users are too bright. At least, that’d be a reasonable conclusion to draw following the news that the company is testing a “[Satire]” tag that would […]
WATCH: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg poor a bucket of ice water over his head
Yes, you read that right. It appears that erstwhile “Neknomination” phenomenon is being revived for a good cause. But rather than ask people to down drinks irresponsibly, the ALS Association […]
Facebook for Android adds Wearable support
Android Wear just became even more useful. The new smartwatch platform has just won the support of Facebook – which will be pushing notifications to watches from version 9 of […]
Now Facebook will pay users to experiment on them
Facebook appears to have learnt its lesson from the recent outcry over experiments that it carried out on its users. Sky News reports that Facebook is offering actual money to […]
William Shatner is not a fan of Facebook Mentions
It’s Facebook, Jim, but not quite as you like it. Canadian actor William Shatner — variously famous as eccentric lawyer Denny Crane on Boston Legal, beat cop TJ Hooker, womanising […]
Facebook adds a “save for later” button
Facebook has added a button that will let users save an item on their feed to read later – brilliant for if you come across an interesting sounding link whilst […]
Facebook is testing a ‘buy’ button
Amazon recently rolled out a “buy now” feature for its followers on Twitter, and now it seems that Facebook is looking at a similar feature for its website. Facebook said […]
Social media 'influences TV viewing'
Have you ever started watching a TV show because everybody you know on Facebook and Twitter is already watching it and won't stop talking about it? Well, you're not alone. In news that will surprise nobody, a study by internet…
