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Facebook Acquired the tbh App

Facebook Acquired the tbh App

The tbh app is popular with teenagers. This probably explains why I had not heard of it before TechCrunch reported that Facebook had acquired tbh. According to TechCrunch, tbh has had 5 million downloads and 2.5 million daily active users…

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Facebook

Facebook to Add More Staff to Monitor Facebook Live

When I first heard about Facebook Live, I thought it would be a good thing for people who like to play video games and livestream it in a way that made it easy for their Facebook friends to watch. Unfortunately,…

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Music
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Creators of Rocksmith Respond to Facebook Trolls

It’s pretty much a given that if you do anything online that attracts an audience, you’ll run into internet trolls whose sole purpose is to harass you. This problem is as old as the internet itself, and it’s only gotten…

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Shawn Thorpe
Facebook

Facebook Announced New Ways to Watch Facebook Video

Facebook announced some updates that will give Facebook users new ways to watch Facebook video. It appears that the idea is to give users more flexibility on how and when they watch videos on Facebook. Previously, Facebook users would have videos…

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Privacy

WhatsApp Wants to Share User Data with Facebook

WhatsApp updated its terms and privacy policy for the first time in four years. Some of those changes are likely to turn off users. In short, WhatsApp wants to share user data with Facebook for the purpose of using it…

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Facebook
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Facebook’s Recent Changes Are Bad For Low-Vision Users

Nothing seems to get the internet’s collective ire up more than changes to Facebook. The social network has changed its layout and functionality many times over the years. Whenever it does this, my News Feed lights up with plenty of…

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Shawn Thorpe
Facebook

Facebook Will Allow Videos in Comments

Facebook is rolling out a new feature that will allow you to upload a video into comments and replies on posts. Apparently, the ability to respond to something with a link, photo, sticker, emoji, or a well written comment wasn’t…

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