Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Feb 12, 2015

Adding a Legacy Contact

Facebook Heir? Time to Choose Who Manages Your Account When You Die

IF you’ve wondered what will happen to your digital presence after your die, Facebook now has answers.You can finally decide what happens to your Facebook account when you die.What’s the point of maintaining a social network after death? Facebook legacy contacts will be able to manage accounts in a way that can turn the deceased person’s Facebook page into a kind of digital gravestone.  Read More About it Here. 




Feb 11, 2015

Facebook Launches Free Mobile Internet Service In India

Last year, the founder of the Social Network giant highlighted the future of universal Internet access, the dream that  Mark Zuckerberg wants to fulfill — Making Internet access available to everyone across the world just like a service as essential as of 911                                                       in the case of an emergency.

Jan 23, 2015

Best free Android apps of 2015


lg g2 homescreen google apps de teaserSo, you've just cracked open the box and peeled the plastic off your brand spanking new Android smartphone. But there's not much going on in the way of Android apps straight away. Sure, Google has you covered with the essentials, , but what else do you need? This is where our list of the best free Android apps comes in,until it is your one stop shop for the absolute best-in-class Android apps. And it won't cost you a cent. Here are some apps you must have in 2015!


Jan 22, 2015

WhatsApp Comes To The Desktop. The Much Awaited Update *_*

whatsappAre you one of the 600 million people on WhatsApp? Do you grow tired of having to type all of your messages through your phone? Good news! There’s now a desktop version. It’s a web app rather than a native client — and for now, at least, it seems to only play friendly with Google Chrome. But if you’re ready to dive in,                                                           you can find the new web-ready version of WhatsApp right Here

Jan 18, 2015

Facebook Unveils Facebook At Work

About six months ago, we reported that Facebook was working on a new product aimed squarely at the enterprise market under the working title, “FB@Work.” Now that product is officially coming to light: today the company is launching new iOS and Android apps called “Facebook At Work,” along with a version of Facebook at Work accessible via its main website, which will let businesses create their own social                                                          networks amongst their employees.

Feb 5, 2014

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook to help solve complex problems



Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook to help solve complex problems






 Facebook is on road to help users solve "bigger" and "complex" problems, founder and CEO of the social networking giant Mark Zuckerberg said. 

Facebook, which completes 10 years today, has 1.23 billion users globally with 757 million of them logging onto the website at least once everyday. 

In India too, Facebook has a huge following. About 93 million users log onto the website (at least once a month), while 41 million access it once a day. 

At the end of December, 75 million Indians were estimated to have accessed Facebook from their mobile phones, while 31 million logged in daily from their phones. 

"I'm even more excited about the next 10 years than the last. The first ten years were about bootstrapping this network. Now we have the resources to help people across the world solve even bigger and more important problems," Zuckerberg said in a note. 

He added that currently only one-third of the world's population has access to the Internet and the next decade presents opportunity and responsibility to connect the remaining two-thirds population. 

"Today, social networks are mostly about sharing moments. In the next decade, they'll also help you answer questions and solve complex problems," he said. 

Facebook, which started off as an effort to connect the school community, has grown to become the world's largest social network, beating the likes of MySpace and Orkut. 

Sharing his insights on the 10-year journey, Zuckerberg said that while he was excited to help connect his school community, "one day someone needed to connect the whole world". 

"While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today," he said.





At the end of December, 75 million Indians were estimated to have accessed Facebook from their mobile phones, while 31 million logged in daily from their phones. 
"I'm even more excited about the next 10 years than the last. The first ten years were about bootstrapping this network. Now we have the resources to help people across the world solve even bigger and more important problems," Zuckerberg said in a note. 

He added that currently only one-third of the world's population has access to the Internet and the next decade presents opportunity and responsibility to connect the remaining two-thirds population. 

"Today, social networks are mostly about sharing moments. In the next decade, they'll also help you answer questions and solve complex problems," he said. 

Facebook's targeted ads set to appear in apps other than Facebook

Facebook's targeted ads set to appear in apps other than Facebook





If you've ever been creeped out by those eerily targeted ads on Facebook, get ready for more of the same in other mobile apps as well. The popular social network has announced today that it's testing a new ads platform with a select few advertisers and partners that will push those ads beyond Facebook's walls. It's a lot like Google's AdSense network, except Facebook is focusing on mobile apps, and not the web. Sriram Krishnan, who works on the mobile and ads platform for Facebook, said in a blog post that "we'll be extending Facebook's rich targeting to improve the relevancy of the ads people see, provide even greater reach for Facebook advertisers, and help developers better monetize their apps." What does this mean for you? Well, it likely means that you might end up seeing those behaviorally targeted ads in pretty much any app that signs up for Facebook's ad network. And here we thought those autoplay video ads were annoying enough.

Feb 4, 2014

Few Facebook Users Share Daily

Few Facebook Users Share Daily, Survey Says

Small Portion of Site's 1.2 Billion Users Share Details Every Day, According to Pew Study

A new Pew Research survey on Facebook IncFB +2.31% 's users, released 10 years after the social network's founding, sheds new light on how relationships are changing in the age of social media.
While there are more people than ever using Facebook, only a small percentage of users are sharing details about their lives every day.
Of Facebook's more than 1.2 billion users, only 10% update their status daily, while only 4% update it more than once a day, according to the Pew survey. About 15% of users comment on photos more than once a day.
The survey suggests that a significant portion of Facebook is a one-way conversation buoyed by Internet voyeurs who relish the ability to document their lives with their friends or the public.

Engagement, or the amount of time each user spends on Facebook, has become a key metric for investors because it is directly tied to the number of ads Facebook can sell. Each action taken by Facebook users equals another data point for Facebook. Analysts say Facebook's future business success relies on its ability to leverage that data with more accuracy as its user growth slows.
Those super sharers are annoying some users, according to the survey. Some 36% said they disliked it when people share "too much information about themselves."
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Washington, on Sept. 18, 2013. Reuters
Facebook doesn't disclose exactly how users are interacting with the site, other than whether they used the service daily or not. Last week, the company said daily active users were up 22% year-over-year. Facebook also said average revenue per user increased 24% from the third quarter to $2.14.

To be sure, even before the advent of online social
 networks, there were people who shared too much, and others who kept to themselves. And just like in the real world, all of those people play an important role in social circles. Of the respondents, 44% said they click on the "like" button on content posted by their friends. Even that kind of low-level sharing is invaluable, Facebook says.The Pew study was based on telephone interviews in the fall of last year with 1,802 adults, all of whom were 18 or older.
The Pew survey reported a quarter of adults say they share nothing at all on Facebook. But even those users are still shown lucrative advertising needed to keep the social network profitable.
The survey also shows how technology has allowed social networks to grow in size, beyond anything that would have been possible in the pre-social media age.
The average adult on Facebook, according to the study, has 338 friends. That number may not be surprising today, in an age when private citizens can have Twitter TWTR -0.15% followers in the tens of thousands, but it underscores a radical idea. A decade ago, the concept of being in constant touch with hundreds of friends would have seemed impossible, if not incredibly annoying. Now, it seems normal.
As much as Facebook has become a routine part of the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people, the Pew study shows there is still significant unease among users.
Of those interviewed, 27% said they disliked "other people seeing posts or comments you didn't mean for them to see." Others felt pressure to get "likes" and were "tempted" to share too much information.
For Facebook to achieve its goal of becoming a utility that connects the world, one challenge will be convincing a higher percentage of the population to feel comfortable about sharing ever more intimate details about their lives.
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