In this day and age it seems many of us live our lives on Facebook, not only using it as our digital rolodex but also keeping a running tally of who our friends are and what they are up to. That's all well and good, but while Facebook tells you when someone wants to be your friend it is much more coy when someone goes the other way, and wants to unfriend you.
In its ongoing effort to boost Facebook's credentials as a video sharing service, the social network has begun testing a brand new floating video player, allowing users to watch their favorite cat snippets and scroll through their News Feed at the same time.
After occasionally teasing us with a photo or two in our News Feed, Facebook has finally released Moments for iOS and Android - a smart photo sharing app that is looking to re-examine how we, as smartphone users, share snaps with our friends.
You may remember that back in March, Facebook announced that its Messenger platform would be opened up to afford third-party developers with the ability to build and deploy applications for use within the app. It seems that another milestone has been reached in the maturity of that platform with the availability of Doodle Draw, the first "true game" that has been made available for Messenger.
Here’s how you can use animated GIFs on Facebook. This GIF support is official, and it’s very easy to get along with it.
Here’s how to permanently disable or turn off Facebook Messenger location logging on iOS and Android for more privacy.
Facebook is looking to add a bit of certainty to its Messenger app, as the social media giant launches a new caller ID feature for new Messenger conversations. From now on, the next time a non-friend messages you on Facebook, you will be shown a brief publicly available information on that particular contact.
A few years ago, before the big IPO, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook were continually - and correctly - lambasted for their decidedly below-par mobile efforts. For a company that had a following then well into the hundreds of millions - now in the billions, of course - Facebook on iOS and Android were a major let down, but in recent times, things have dramatically improved. Facebook has, at times, partaken in the sport of throwing ideas against the wall and seeing what sticks - with varying degrees of success - and now, has launched an all-new dialer app for Android called Hello.
Facebook Messenger is hugely popular and even manages to get people to use Facebook even when they don't use the main features of the site. With everyone seemingly having a Facebook account, being able to instantly send messages between your friends is a big deal, and Facebook knows that.
As a part of its consistent dedication to improving its network, Facebook has announced a new photos based feature called "Scrapbook". Scrapbook is a small, but very handy little feature addition that has been created to assist parents in the collection and curation of photos of their little ones, making sure they are all in one place and can be shared easily with friends and family.