Facebook’s New Emoticon Feature Encourages Users To Share Their Feelings
Noticed that smiley face button on the bottom left-hand corner when you’re trying to put out a status update on Facebook? Besides creepily asking you “What’s on your mind?” Facebook wants to know your feelings and what you’re doing through its new emoticon feature that adds smiley faces to your statuses. The emoticon feature is [...]
Facebook Home Android Platform Replaces Home Screens With Status Updates
Even though Facebook won’t be producing its own phones anytime soon, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of apps for the Android called Facebook Home that will make the social networking site front and center on home screens. In his introduction of the new platform, Zuckerberg said: “Today, our phones are designed around [...]
Facebook Introduces Facebook Home Feature For Androids
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook’s newest feature for Androids called Facebook Home at a live press conference in the live stream above.
Facebook Photo Project ‘Are You Really My Friend?’ Creator on Her Progress & Her Idea Being Stolen
Last we left off with Tanja Hollander in early 2012, Hollander was well on her way to making a name for herself and her art project “Are You Really My Friend?” The photography project is centered around the goal of Hollander photographing each of her 600 Facebook friends in their homes to take a look [...]
Facebook Product Engineer Talks Facebook Future And The Dislike Button In Reddit AMA
Today Facebook Product Engineer Bob Baldwin sat down for a Reddit AMA to answer Redditors’ questions about all things Facebook. During his time on the Reddit forum, Baldwin was asked questions that ranged from his feelings about the current direction the company is taking to his personal development experiences. Baldwin told commenters he would be [...]
Facebook Phone May Debut At Thursday Press Conference
Whenever Mark Zuckerberg announces a press conference, you know that something big is on the horizon for Facebook. This time, he’s inviting the media to “Come See Our New Home on Android” at Facebook headquarters on April 4. Even though Facebook has been mum on what the press conference is about besides their name-dropping Android, [...]
Facebook Charts Out Profile Photo Campaign for Gay Marriage
This week, many Facebook users changed their profile pictures to the white equal sign on a red background in support of same-sex marriage. The Human Rights Campaign, which supports LGBT rights, encouraged people to change their profile pictures as the Supreme Court heard two cases regarding the legality of same-sex marriage. Now Facebook has crunched [...]
Facebook Games Sees 24 Percent Increase In Users
If you thought that Facebook games like “Farmville” were a dying trend, think again. Facebook told Bloomberg this week that the social networking site is experiencing a 24 percent increase in the number of users playing games like “Farmville 2” and other offerings by independent developers on the network. This means that 250 million users [...]
Facebook Survey Says Mobile Users Check for Updates 14 Times a Day
Facebook mobile users check their smartphones for updates an average of 14 times a day, according to a survey by the social networking site and IDC on their mobile users. The study surveyed 7,446 Android and iPhone users in the United States during March and asked them questions about how they used their mobile phones. [...]
Facebook Users To See Targeted Ads Inside Their News Feeds
Facebook users will see ads in their news feed in the future thanks to a plan by the company that will allow more businesses to run ads based on users’ browsing history. The company launched Facebook Exchange (FBX) last fall so advertisers can post retargeted ads to users. However, advertisers were only limited to posting [...]
