The new mantra: “more friends, less politics”. It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Facebook. A series of outages made headlines last week, with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going down for a significant period of time. But perhaps more importantly, the social media giant is facing increased scrutiny over the potentially harmful impact Facebook and Instagram […]
WhatsApp will incorporate Instagram’s ‘view once’ feature for images and video to the social networking app soon. The feature will allow you to send pictures and videos that can only be viewed once. It will also allow you to verify if the recipient has opened the media. The media will disappear from the chat once […]
Facebook is making it even easier to buy stuff while you scroll past photos of your high school lab partner’s dog. Yes, Instagram Shops and Facebook Marketplace are already displayed prominently on the apps’ bottom navigation tabs. But now, you can shop on WhatsApp too, along with other updates. Today on a Live Audio Room, CEO Mark […]
Instagram for kids? What could possibly go wrong?! A report from BuzzFeed says that parent company Facebook is working on a new version of Instagram for child and tween users. Currently, Instagram users have to be 13 or older. Vishal Shah, Instagram’s vice president of product, reportedly announced the initiative in a Facebook post for employees Thursday. […]
The internet loves to tell you how it never forgets anything. But at the same time, there’s no guarantee that your favorite viral comedy skit video will be on that Instagram or Twitter page the next day. Sometimes it’s a good idea to download your favorite videos from social networks, either for keepsakes or for […]
Every video on Instagram is muted by default until the user taps on it to enable the sound but, according to TechCrunch report, the app will now enable sound for all subsequent videos once the sound is turned on. The audio will remain turned on until another video is muted manually by the user or […]
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