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Blizzard and Facebook Team Up to Empower Streamers

Blizzard announced that it is working together with Facebook to give gamers new ways to connect and share their gaming experiences, and to bring more high-demand content to Facebook's global platform. The collaboration between the two companies will begin later this month with the integration of Facebook Login in Blizzard's PC games. (The console games are unaffected by this collaboration).

Facebook and Twitter are Making Images More Accessible

It has been said that adding an image to your post in social media is a good way to get more people to look at it. People who are blind or visually impaired might not be able to see those photos. Facebook and Twitter have made changes that are designed to make the images more accessible. Facebook posted a blog

Facebook Realizes Users Don’t Like Hoaxes

What do you want to see in your News Feed? Facebook is currently focusing on viral stories in an effort to show you more posts you are actually interested in (and less stuff that you don't want to see). One thing Facebook has figured out is that people don't enjoy seeing News Feed posts that are hoaxes. Facebook defines hoaxes

One Billion People Used Facebook in One Day

Today, Mark Zuckerberg took to his verified Facebook account to announce that Facebook had passed an important milestone. For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day. Part of his statement read: “We just passed an important milestone. For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day. On Monday, 1

Facebook Gives You More Control Over What You See

Facebook has made some changes that will let you improve your News Feed experience. Surprisingly, it is going to let people select what they want to see first. Pick the friends who create posts that you actually want to see. Product Manager Jacob Frantz wrote a post on Facebook Newsroom about this change. Part of it says: We're always working

Is Your Facebook Feed an Echo Chamber?

Facebook recently did some research in order to discover exactly how much individuals could be, and are, exposed to ideologically diverse news and information in social media. People are increasingly turning to social media for news. Is it your selection of friends, or Facebook's algorithms, that have the most influence on what you see in your News Feed? The Facebook

Atlas Lets Advertisers Track you Online and Offline

There is an old saying that goes something like “You aren't paranoid if they really are out to get you.” Many people have expressed concern about the amount of information that Facebook has and whom they might share it with. Now that Facebook has launched Atlas, it is clear that your information really is being given to corporations. Facebook just