How to see if Cambridge Analytica grabbed your Facebook data

How to see if Cambridge Analytica grabbed your Facebook data

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. That’s what we’re all mad about now. Or maybe the more cynical among us are just rolling their eyes. Either way, aren’t you a little bit curious about whether Cambridge Analytica accessed your personal Facebook data? Soon we’ll be able to find out ourselves. Here’s how.

How to delete sent messages on Facebook Messenger

How to delete sent messages on Facebook Messenger

Users have been crying out this functionality for ages. Now, Facebook has finally granted their wish. Messenger now offers the possibility to delete sent messages. If you have made a mistake when sending a message, if you sent it in the wrong conversation or if you just want to delete a spelling error, now you can right your wrongs. In this article, we explain how to do it.

How to limit data usage on the Facebook app

How to limit data usage on the Facebook app

Facebook is one of those apps that people love to hate. Nobody likes to admit it but many of us spend an unhealthy amount of time browsing through the social network, eavesdropping on the fabulous lives of our acquaintances and scrolling past Buzzfeed quizzes and fake news. If being addicted to a social network wasn’t bad enough, the Facebook app has the tendency to not only kill your battery life, but also drain your data.

Facebook might rebrand as a ‘metaverse’ company. What does that even mean?

Facebook might rebrand as a ‘metaverse’ company. What does that even mean?

Post Views: 57 The Verge said that this rebrand (which could happen at the annual AR/VR-focused Facebook Connect conference on Oct. 28) could be related to the company’s ongoing efforts to build out the “metaverse,” defined by Facebook as a “set of virtual spaces where you can create and explore with other people who aren’t…

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

Post Views: 56 “These kinds of name changes have always been a part of the technology landscape,” says linguist Anthony Shore, founder of naming company Operative Words. “Anytime companies outgrow and diversify from where they were, it makes it likely that they will have to change their original name, or the name of their holding…

How to delete Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp—and take your data with you

How to delete Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp—and take your data with you

Post Views: 58 So much has happened with Facebook lately that it’s hard to keep track. Since Frances Haugen, a former data scientist for the company, made public thousands of documents (known now as The Facebook Papers) and addressed a Senate subcommittee at the beginning of October, the world has been privy to more and…

Facebook changes its name as it pushes toward a digital reality future

Facebook changes its name as it pushes toward a digital reality future

Post Views: 54 It also means that the company will report on their business as two different operating segments: one for their family of apps, and one for their work on future platforms (Reality Labs will be the name for that segment). The company intends to trade under a new stock ticker, MVRS, starting December…

One of Facebook’s first moves as Meta: Teaching robots to touch and feel

One of Facebook’s first moves as Meta: Teaching robots to touch and feel

Post Views: 55 A defining feature of this metaverse will be creating a feeling of presence in the virtual world. Presence could mean simply interacting with other avatars and feeling like you are immersed in a foreign landscape. Or, it could even involve engineering some sort of haptic feedback for users when they touch or…