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

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

Post Views: 232 “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: 200 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: 207 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: 387 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…

Facebook archived more than a billion user faces. Now it’s deleting them.

Facebook archived more than a billion user faces. Now it’s deleting them.

Post Views: 195 On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it was ending its Face Recognition system on the app and rolling back the technology in the coming weeks. In a press release, Jerome Pesenti, VP of artificial intelligence at Meta (the new name for Facebook’s parent company), said that the shutting down of the Face Recognition…

Facebook is making a big change in how it serves ads

Post Views: 185 According to the Facebook for Business help center, detailed targeting allows organizations to “refine” the audience of users that Facebook shows their ads to based on demographics, interests, and behaviors. This follows another recent privacy-related change Meta made when it announced last week that it was deleting Facebook’s massive archive of user…

It’s time to purge the worst people in your social media feeds

It’s time to purge the worst people in your social media feeds

Post Views: 225 Instagram has a way for you to see who you’ve interacted with least often: Tap your profile button (bottom right), then Following, and Least Interacted With. You’ll see the people you don’t often chat with or whose photos you rarely like and comment on. Simply tap Following to sever your Instagram connection…