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Facebook, the social network old-timer, turns 20
1Feb By adminNo Comments
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Facebook, the social network old-timer, turns 20

[ad_1] Founded 20 years ago as a simple hangout spot for young people, Facebook has since become a battle-hardened behemoth that -- despite perceptions of being for boomers and parents -- continues growing and growing. "I will never forget the day that I ran up to my high school's Mac lab and signed up for Facebook," Insider Intelligence analyst Jasmine Enberg told AFP. "You simultaneously felt that you were part of this small, exclusive community where your parents, grandparents and teachers weren't -- but also part of something much larger." Launched as thefacebook.com by Mark Zuckerberg and three friends on February 4, 2004, the site was originally restricted to Harvard College students. It became available to students at other US universities before opening to anyone in 2006. Face...
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Facebook’s algorithm doesn’t alter people’s beliefs: research
28Jul By adminNo Comments
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Facebook’s algorithm doesn’t alter people’s beliefs: research

[ad_1] Do social media echo chambers deepen political polarization, or simply reflect existing social divisions?A landmark research project that investigated Facebook around the 2020 US presidential election published its first results Thursday, finding that, contrary to assumption, the platform's often criticized content-ranking algorithm doesn't shape users' beliefs. The work is the product of a collaboration between Meta -- the parent company of Facebook and Instagram -- and a group of academics from US universities who were given broad access to internal company data, and signed up tens of thousands of users for experiments. The academic team wrote four papers examining the role of the social media giant in American democracy, which were published in the scientific journals Science ...
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Facebook says not dead yet, has 3 billion users
8May By adminNo Comments
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Facebook says not dead yet, has 3 billion users

[ad_1] Facebook says it is not dead. Facebook also wants you to know that it is not just for “old people,” as young people have been saying for years. Now, with the biggest thorn in its side — TikTok — facing heightened government scrutiny amid growing tensions between the U.S. and China, Facebook could, perhaps, position itself as a viable, domestic-bred alternative. There's just one problem: young adults like Devin Walsh have moved on. “I don't even remember the last time I logged in. It must have been years ago,” said Walsh, 24, who lives in Manhattan and works in public relations. Instead, she checks Instagram, which is also owned by Facebook parent company Meta, about five or six times a day. Then there's TikTok, of course, where she spends about an hour each day scrolling, letti...
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Facebook warns about 400 password-stealing apps! Camera, beauty, VPN apps on the list
10Oct By adminNo Comments
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Facebook warns about 400 password-stealing apps! Camera, beauty, VPN apps on the list

[ad_1] Facebook users have been warned against 400 malware apps available on Play Store and App Store. Check the full list here. Meta has warned around one million Facebook users about a bunch of 400 malicious apps that are even available on Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store. These apps are designed to steal passwords and personal account details of Facebook accounts under false guises. The malicious apps worked by masquerading themselves as photo editors, mobile games, VPN services, business apps or health trackers, Facebook said in a report.Most of these 400 dangerous apps include Photo Editor tools, which comprise around 42.6 percent of the total malicious apps. Apart from this, 15.4 percent are Business Utility apps, 14.1 percent are Phone Utility apps, 11.7 percent are ga...
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