Facebook Acquired Karma, The Social Gift App

Facebook has been quite keen on buying a number of start-ups ever since the company first unveiled its plans to go public. Now that Facebook is public, the social network still continues scoring other ventures and start-ups. The latest in the series is the social gift-sending app called Karma.

Facebook Adds New Controls – Lets You Manage Notifications From Apps, Comments And Groups Better

Facebook notifications have been bit of an annoyance for a lot of users. While Facebook definitely has ample options to manage them, tweaking these notifications in fine details is too much of a work for the users and so they keep popping up and pestering the users. Now, the social network has shipped out a number of new user controls which enable a user to better manage the notifications he receives.

Lawsuit Against Facebook Demands $15 Billion For Tracking User Activity

Facebook has been lambasted and criticized numerous times for its privacy policy. However, this may enter the legal realm now that a number of Facebook subscribers have consolidated a total of 21 cases into a single lawsuit against the social network. The suit is demanding Facebook to pay a whopping sum of $15 billion for tracking user activity without permission from the users.

Facebook Rolls Out New Pages Manager App For iPhone

General Motors Spent Millions Of Dollars On Its Facebook Pages, Doesn’t Get Any Results

Social media has become critically important for business organizations because it is a novel way to engage the users and get them know a certain brand or business well enough. Facebook, being the king of digital social media, is considered vital for business advertising and marketing. Now, it seems that General Motors spent a huge budget on its Facebook presence but couldn’t make much out of it.

The Open-Source Diaspora Social Network Coming This Year

We have long been hearing of the social network, Diaspora. The network gained a lot of traction in the open-source world when its idea became known two years ago. The idea behind it was to give the users more freedom and control over their social interactions, quite like the philosophy that governs the open-source world.

Woman Intends To Bring Facebook Trolls To Justice Through Legal Action

Being trolled online has become somewhat of a norm. People consider creating fake accounts abusing someone’s identity as a casual indulgence, which is indeed a very dangerous attitude. Specifically, with the boom of social networks, the trend has gained traction. In what may turn out to be the first case of its kind, a woman who has been trolled on Facebook now aims to bring these trolls to the realm of legal action.

Facebook Updates Data Use Policy To Make It More Understandable

Social networks have been under fire recently because of the poor implementation of user privacy, at instances. Facebook has been actively working to aid the users in guarding their privacy in the best way possible. The social network has now updated its Data Use policy so that the users can understand more clearly what the policy means.

Get Your Facebook Status Promoted Through Facebook ‘Highlight’ By Paying $2

Imagine that you are a really boring person with status updates which no one really cares to read. And that you wished you could make people notice your status updates oftener. Well, if are not getting any wittier or interesting, Facebook may have the right solution for you. It is called the new ‘highlight’ feature.

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Facebook Launches App Center: Get All Apps From One Place

High School Principal Resigns Over Inappropriate Use Of Social Media

Social media has come about to play a huge role in our lives, so much so that nearly every other person is somehow there on one or other of the social networks online. But these online interactions have also come with their problems and risks. For instance, one can easily create a fake identity to fool others.

Facebook Smartphone Users More Dedicated Then Facebook Computer Users

Mobile platform has become increasingly important for nearly everyone in the tech world. With billions of users hooked up to the mobile platform, it is definitely overtaking the regular computer platform to become the top priority. A recent report by ComScore now shows that Facebook users who use it on their smartphones spend lot more time on it than such Facebook users who log in from its regular version from a computer.

‘Hangouts On Air’ Being Offered To Google+ Users

Google had offered the ‘Hangouts on Air’ feature to a limited number of Google+ users. And now, the company has rolled out the feature to the entire user base of its social network. This feature is really cool and very useful in that it allows you to broadcast an event live from your YouTube channel as well as from the Google+ stream.

According To Survey, Users Uncomfortable With Facebook Timeline

One of the major changes that have been added to Facebook is the Facebook Timeline. Timeline essentially overhauled the very interface of a user profile. While it was embraced with open arms by many for its sleek looks, others had been suspicious because of privacy concerns as Timeline seemed to be making public a lot of things they wouldn’t want to be public.