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The delete messages or the unsend message feature has been on the rise on several social media and popular texting Apps recently. So following the suite of WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat and others, Facebook has decided to introduce the unsend feature on Messenger as well. The feature will be available via a new update and it will let users delete their messages within 10 minutes of sending it. Read More
Facebook’s Oculus VR headset is a very popular device in the AR community and Facebook has a lot of investment riding on this venture. Now, the company has revealed plans to come up with it’s own AR glasses where Facebook’s head of Augmented Reality Ficus Kirkpatrick said “Yeah! Well of course we’re working on it. We are building hardware products. We’re going forward on this . . . We want to see those glasses come into reality, and I think we want to play our part in helping to bring them there.” Read More
The Virtual Reality Industry is growing at a slow pace and is expected to grow from a $4.5 billion business in 2018 to $19.0 billion of revenue by 2021. Currently, Sony is leading the VR race with over 2 million units of PlayStation VR sold. Facebook sits just behind with their Oculus VR headsets. Read More
All of us spend our share of time on social media, be it Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat. But we also know the fact that the time we spend here is too much. Now, Facebook has taken this issue seriously and will be letting users know about the time they spend on Facebook. This update will come up on iOS 12 and Android P respectively. Read More
Apple introduced “Live Photos” on iPhone 6s around 3 months back and now Facebook will be supporting this feature. The social networking platform has rolled out an update that allows iPhone 6s and 6s Plus owners to upload and view Live Photos from the Facebook iOS App. Read More
A lot of users noticed a drastic decrease in their battery level after using the Facebook App on their iOS devices. No, your phone is not at fault for this one, it’s Facebook itself. The social networking giant has finally acknowledged the problem and introduced an updated version of the App today. Read More
Facebook is all set to launch a dislike button after a lot of requests poured in. Mark Zuckerburg has today confirmed during a townhall meeting that Facebook will finally have a dislike button on all posts. While the idea of having a dislike button sounds quite interesting, it will be quite demotivating for people to post something really personal to share amongst friends and have them dislike it. It sort of creates a negative vibe for the social media platform. For fun & games, it should be extremely cool – but it does come with an emotional downside. Read More
Everyone who uses Facebook has at least a few different groups they network with. What you share with your friends isn’t always fit for viewing by your family. Photos of your Thanksgiving Dinner isn’t something you’d necessarily want to share with your cycling group. And although using the “Groups” feature isn’t that difficult on the Facebook App, Facebook has made it even easier to access Groups for iPhone users with its new App, Facebook Groups. Read More
In an update to the Messenger App, Facebook has introduced Android Wear Smartwatch compatibility. Once you update, it will automatically install the companion App for your paired Android Wear device, and you’re all set. Read More
Facebook Messenger for iOS is now available for iPad in addition to iPhone and iPod. The App has been updated with version 7.0, providing different interfaces for iPad and iPhone/iPod. Users would no longer have to contend with the stretched iPhone version of the Messenger App on iPad. The iPad version is similar to iPhone’s with the advantage of the much larger display. It sports a split screen view with the contact list on the left and the conversation pane on the right of the screen. Read More