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Zynga Will No Longer Require Players to Use Facebook

This is exactly what I've been waiting to hear from Zynga! As you may recall, Zynga and Facebook changed their relationship status in November of 2012. It marked the beginning of changes between the two companies. To make a long story short, it appeared that there was potential that there would come a day when people who did not have

Is the New Pope Using Social Media?

We live in a world where the Pope can Tweet. Pope Benedict XVI was on Twitter. His handle was @Pontifex which sent out Tweets in English. There was also @Pontifex_ es (which was in Spanish and was the one I was following). All told, there were 8 different language versions of @Pontifex on Twitter. Pope Benedict XVI was the first

Facebook Revamps its News Feed

Facebook introduced an update to News Feeds today. The idea behind News Feeds is to have a personal newspaper with all the content you are interested in one place. When it was first introduced according to Facebook, the News Feed was mostly text, with some images. Now News Feeds are primarily visual with images and videos becoming increasingly important. Facebook

Facebook’s Announcement: Big News or Much To Do About Nothing?

Today Facebook announced the new Graph Search. This is not a keyword search like Google it is more of an asked a question search. For example you might ask; "what disaster movies do my friends like".  Facebook will then come back with an answer to that query. It will only give you information that has been shared publicly and with

Time to De-Clutter Your Social Media

Happy New Year! Now is a time when many people make New Year's Resolutions. This year, instead of making one that you know you won't follow through with, try something that you can easily achieve. Clean up your social media! Social media can be fun, but it can also be a time waster. One way to make it work for

This Message Will Expire in Ten Seconds

Facebook has a new app called Poke. The name was inspired by the Facebook feature called Poke that has been a part of Facebook since 2004. The functionality of the app, however, is something that people are comparing to SnapChat. If you log into your Facebook account you can select a friend to Poke. I've never entirely understood the purpose

Facebook adds new features to its Android app

This morning Facebook quietly pushed a fairly major update to it's Android app. The company has been largely taken to task over it's mobile app due it's lack of functionality and poor performance. This new update certainly doesn't fix all of the problems and it won't make customers suddenly happy, but there are a few nice new functions added. First up