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Instagram launches Emoji sliding scale – a new way to poll your friends and...
Instagram has launched a new feature which they're positioning as a fun new way to interact with your friends and followers on Instagram. The emoji slider sticker for Stories gives your friends the new...
Instagram may soon offer a soundtrack for your Stories
According to code found hidden within the Android version of the Instagram app it appears that you may soon have the option to add soundtracks for your Instagram Stories.
The code, which was initially found...
WhatsApp update brings with it ability to watch Facebook and Instagram videos
WhatsApp is updating its iOS App to allow users the ability to watch Facebook and Instagram videos directly within WhatsApp. Additionally, with picture-in-picture, users can keep watching the video even as they move between other...
Facebook Messenger brings their own AR effects to messaging with World Effects
After Google launched their Augmented Reality (AR) Stickers for Android yesterday, Facebook has today launched their own AR tools for Messenger.
Called 'World Effects', the AR tools build on the native camera implementation in...
Facebook rolls out Artificial Intelligence to help users at risk of suicide
Many of us have seen a call for help before, but as social media becomes more and more pervasive, it's little surprise that these calls for help might materialise online. We've heard of suicide...
Facebook rolling out the Discover tab for Messenger to Australians
Australians as a whole love Facebook. As a percentage of our population we are amongst the highest users of Facebook in the world. This extends to Facebook Messenger with 13 million Australians...
1.3 billion people are now using Facebook’s Messenger each month
There are so many messaging apps around that many of us need multiple apps installed to talk to everyone we know -- not everyone prefers the same one. Even with that it seems...
[Report] Facebook is working on a video chat device
It would seem that Facebook is working on a video chat device for your home from its experimental projects team housed in 'Building 8' at their head office inCalifornia according to a report from...
Facebook’s new feature, ‘Groups for Pages’ unlocks fan clubs
Facebook overnight has announced that it is globally launching 'Groups for Pages', which enables the 70 million Pages that exist on Facebook to create fan clubs and groups centred around super-fans of a Page....
New Features arriving on Facebook Messenger
Facebook Messenger is one of the biggest messaging platforms on the planet, in use by over 1.2 billion users monthly. It stands to reason that a platform operating on this scale will continually upgrade...
Facebook launches AMBER alerts with Australian police agencies
It is hard to escape it but Facebook is a very public, powerful and accessible tool. I have seen it be used to find a stolen car in only a couple of hours so...
Facebook Messenger reaches a huge milestone
Reactions for Facebook Messenger were launched in late March, and the feature allows users to 'react' with an array of emoji, images and animations to show their love for a message or simply acknowledge it...
PSA: WhatsApp is down; try not to panic
Have you messaged anyone on WhatsApp this morning and found that your message is stuck at "pending"? You're not alone. Facebook-owned WhatsApp is down, and it seems it has been for a few hours...
Instagram has announced that Android now has an offline mode
At the Facebook annual developer conference, F8, subsidiary Instagram has announced a new offline mode for Android users.
The feature allows most of the functions available online will be available offline with the changes made...
Facebook introduces Personal Fundraisers for social fundraising
We've all seen the power of social networking to bring people together, especially around big issues, and fundraising is no exception; we've seen the likes of GoFundMe explode thanks to the power of the...